Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

The example of Vincentius is as remarkable as any; he was first wracked, all his joints being stretched out of their place; then his body was indented with grievous and deadly wounds; then they tortured his flesh, by saking upon it with iron combs sharply filed; and then they laid his body upon a grate of iron, opening his flesh with iron hooks, they seared it with fiery plates, sprinkling it with hot burning salt; then they drew him into a dungeon, where the floor was spread with the sharpest shells that could be gotten, they laid his body upon them, and so left him without all succour.

The example of Vincentius is as remarkable as any; he was first wracked, all his joynts being stretched out of their place; then his body was indented with grievous and deadly wounds; then they tortured his flesh, by saking upon it with iron combs sharply filed; and then they laid his body upon a grate of iron, opening his flesh with iron hooks, they seared it with fiery plates, sprinkling it with hot burning salt; then they drew him into a dungeon, where the floor was spread with the sharpest shells that could be gotten, they laid his body upon them, and so left him without all succor.

Take an example of a woman or two; one Blandina was miserably whipped, tortured by wild beasts, tormented, and scorched upon a gridiron, and then put into a net, and cast unto the wild Bulls to be gored, and so slain. We read of one Eulalila a young Gentlewoman, famous for her godliness and constancy, who was pulled away from the seat of her Persecutors by the hair of her head, then one joint was pulled from another, and the flesh from the bones by cushes and claws of wild beasts; then they harrowed her flesh with an iron hurdle, they burnt her body on every side before and behind with flaming torches, and at last cast her into fire, and consumed her body unto ashes.

Take an example of a woman or two; one Blandina was miserably whipped, tortured by wilde beasts, tormented, and scorched upon a gridiron, and then put into a net, and cast unto the wilde Bulls to be gored, and so slain. We read of one Eulalila a yong Gentlewoman, famous for her godliness and constancy, who was pulled away from the seat of her Persecuters by the hair of her head, then one joynt was pulled from another, and the flesh from the bones by cushes and claws of wilde beasts; then they harrowed her flesh with an iron hurdle, they burnt her body on every side before and behinde with flaming torches, and at last cast her into fire, and consumed her body unto ashes.