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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. We cannot doubt of it: for that office was also assigned unto her, and for that cause they have called 1it Fluona, by reason of the Flux and issue of blood. But our Priests have now given that office unto the virgin Mary, and do cause the women to be purified after their delivery, when that they are risen from their bed as the Jews did. As though Jesus Christ had not been yet come, and as though we were under the Ceremonies of the law ⟨image 156⟩Theophilus, Durand also witnesseth that in that same feast the Romans from five year to five year, the first day 2of February did purify all the night the Townes with Tapers & Torches lighted in the honour of Februa the Goddess, the Mother of God Mars, whom they accounted for the God of Battle, to the end he we ulde give unto 3them victory. And they call also that feast Ambuibales, because of the processions, in which they carry yt hosts and 4Sacraments that they do sacrifice with, and in like manner the sacrifices which they make by the Townes & Villages, and round about the same, and by the fields, as we do in the Rogation week and on Christmas day. Furthermore, 5men did sacrifice that same very time unto Pluto who for that cause, as witnesseth Isidorus, was named Februus, and they did in like manner do sacrifice unto other 6infernal Gods, for the souls of their ancestors, and offered unto them hosts. Watching all night, singing Vigils with Tapers and Torches burning, to the end they should have pity and compassion of the poor souls that be dead. The women also, celebrated the feast of Candlemas in the honour of the Goddess Ceres, and of her daughter Proserpina, because that Pluto, yt God of hell, for her beauty had ravished at the beginning of that month, & that her mother Ceres seeking for her by hills & valleys, being lighted in the night with torches & lamps in Aetna yt hill of Sicily, as yt poetical fables do witness.