A47584:799
The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
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.
About the beginning of October they returned to Edinburgh; and at the day appointed the Q. was received in the Castle: whereat preparations were made for her entry into the Town, in Farces, in Masking, and other Prodigalities: fain would our fools have counterfeited France: Whatsoever might set forth her glory, that she heard, and gladly beheld. The Keys were delivered unto her by a pretty Boy, descending, as it were from a Cloud: The Verses of her own Praise she heard, and smiled; But when the Bible was presented,1 and the Praise thereof declared, she began to frown; for shame she could not refuse it, but she did no better, for she gave it to the most pestilent Papist within the Realm, to wit, To Arthur Arskeme. Edinburgh since that day have reaped as they sowed:2 They gave her some taste of their Prodigality: And because the Liquor was sweet, she hath licked oft of that Bust or Box, oftener then twice since. All men know what we mean; The Queen cannot lack, and the Subjects have.
About the beginning of October they returned to Edinburgh; and at the day appointed the Q. was received in the Castle: whereat preparations were made for her entry into the Town, in Farces, in Masking, and other Prodigalities: fain would our fools have counterfeited France: Whatsoever might set forth her glory, that she heard, and gladly beheld. The Keyes were delivered unto her by a pretty Boy, descending, as it were from a Cloud: The Verses of her own Praise she heard, and smiled; But when the Bible was presented,1 and the Praise thereof declared, she began to frowne; for shame she could not refuse it, but she did no better, for she gave it to the most pestilent Papist within the Realme, to wit, To Arthur Arskeme. Edinburgh since that day have reaped as they sowed:2 They gave her some taste of their Prodigality: And because the Liquor was sweet, she hath licked oft of that Bust or Box, oftner then twice since. All men know what we mean; The Queen cannot lack, and the Subjects have.
- 1Note the disposition of a misled soul.