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The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise
The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take great pleasure in the reading thereof. Translated out of French into English, by John Brooke of AsheThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take greate pleasure in the reading thereoff. Translated out of French into English, by Iohn Brooke of Ashe
London: printed by Thomas East, 1579
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hillarius. Let us consider all the matter word by word, and thou shalt see, whether that in the feast of 1Candlemas we do not celebrate the Februales, Lupercales, Proserpinales, and Florales, of the Paynims. First the ⟨p. 149⟩name of the Purification agreeth very well with the name of February and of the Februales, which do also signify 2purifications. Afterwards that purification is celebrated in the honour of the virgin Mary, in whose name, men do bless, consecrate, and be are Candles, Tapers of War and Torches. The Paynims had all the same, 3or the like in their Lupercales in that same time andmoneth, and in the feast of the God else luno, the which they called Februla, Februalis, & Februata, which signifieth purified or purificative, because that the purifications were made in her feast, and chiefly the same of the women, the which the Lupercal Priests do purify, beating them upon hands and back, with scourges and whips made of Goats skill, and with the cloak of Juno, with which they do cover them, chiefly for to make them bear children. But I am certain, that for to do such miracles, the gowns and cloaks of the Priests and Monks have more virtue, then the same of luno, and I believe that the women which have been covered with it, shall be barren by nature, except they return more fertile and fruitful.
Hillarius. Let vs consider all the matter worde by worde, and thou shalt sée, whether that in the feast of 1Candlemas we doe not celebrate the Februales, Lupercales, Proserpinales, and Florales, of the Panims. First the ⟨p. 149⟩name of the Purisication agréeth very wel with the name of February and of the Februales, which doe also signifie 2purifications. Afterwardes that purification is celebrated in the honour of the virgin Mary, in whose name, men doe blesse, consecrate, and be are Candells, Tapers of War and Torches. The Panims had all the same,