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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried thorough the lattice: why is his chariot so long a coming? why stay they the wheels of his chariots? 29 Her wise and noble Ladies answered her. She also comforted her self. 30 Have they not found, & they divide the spoils? every man hath a maid or two: Sisera hath a pray of divers coloured garments: a pray of sundry colours made of needle work, of divers colours of needle work on both sides, for the chief of the spoil.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a windowe, and cried thorough the lattece: why is his chariot so long a commyng? why staye they the wheeles of his chariots? 29 Her wise and noble Ladyes aunswered her. She also cōforted her selfe. 30 Haue they not founde, & they deuide the spoyles? euery man hath a mayde or two: Sisera hath a pray of diuers coloured garmētes: a praye of sondry colours made of needle worke, of diuers colours of nedle worke on both sides, for the chief of the spoyle.
In the last part of the song, to the end we might manifestly see, to how great a confusion and ignominy the enemies of God came unto, and from how great a hope they fell, the person of the mother of Sisera is brought in, and the words both of her, and of other noble women which were together with her, are set forth. She might have said in few words: The mother waited, that her son should return with glory and laden with spoils, whom the wretched woman knew not to have so miserably perished. But if she should so have said, the oration would have been slender and cold. Wherefore to make it of efficacy and vehement, the talk of the women is put here. Which manner also was very much used among the Ethnic writers, and it is read also in Isaiah the .14. chap. where is expressed the talk of kings and princes which were dead,1 with which they received the king of Babylon being miserably destroyed and descending down unto them. Neither do the holy writers lye when they feign such things, forasmuch as they write not to deceive, but to declare the thing more openly. The motherly affection, & vehement natural love of the parents towards the children is here expressed, which for the long absence of their children are very much careful, and are many ways afflicted. It is said therefore that the mother of Sisera, whilst he desired to return, being troubled even herself oftentimes, looked out at the windows or through the lattices beyond the windows, to see if she could see him returning. And this she did not without crying and lamentation, suspecting by this his long tarrying that evil had happened unto him. But the women which stood by had a great deal better hope, for they interpreted the tarrying of Sisera in the good part. Terence in Adelphis hath notably well written. It is much better,