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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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And Isidorus in his .v. book of Etymologies, maketh .vii. parts of the night,1 for he addeth these three, Vesperum, Crepusculum, and Matutinum, that is, the eventide, the twilight, & the morning. The second watch may be understand the middle watch, as touching our history. For there are .2. watches between the first and the last: wherefore howsoever it be, the second must needs occupy the middle place.2 But the inventer of these guards or watches in hosts (as Pliny writeth in his .7. book & .56. chap.) was Palamedes, which by this place we see cannot be so, forasmuch as the acts of the Judges are of far more antiquity, then was Palamedes, unless peradventure he spake only of the watches of the Grecians. ⟨image 146⟩The use of watches flourished in the old time, not only in hosts, but they were had in use also, for the safe custody of many other things. For at Rome there were watchmen,3 which in the night time went up and down the City, to give warning of fires, and therefore both in the Digest, and in the Code, the title is: De officio praefecti vigilium. This industry also was translated unto Shepherds,4 which we may see even by the Gospel: For in Luke the .ii. chap. the Angels, when Christ was borne came unto the Shepherds, which kept watch over their flock. We read also, that both Ethnics and Christians used watches in holy services.5 At Rome there were holy services unto the Goddess Bona, which were done in the night season. And in the old Testament we read, that godly women abode all night at the tabernacle, for doing injury unto whom, the children of Ely were accused.
And Isidorus in hys .v. booke of Etimologies, maketh .vii. partes of the nyght,1 for he addeth these three, Vesperum, Crepusculum, and Matutinum, that is, the euentide, the twylight, & the morning. The second watch may be vnderstād the midle watch, as touching our history. For ther are .2. watches betwene the first and the last: wherfore howsoeuer it be, the second must needes occupy the midle place.