Iter Lancastrense: A Poem, Written A.D. 1636

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Chetham society, 1845 - English poetry - 84 pages
 

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Page 24 - Ful many a fat partrich had he in mewe, And many a breme, and many a luce in stewe.
Page 92 - That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society be audited annually, by three auditors, to be elected at the general...
Page 24 - Wel loved he by the morwe a sop in win. To liven in delit was ever his wone, For he was Epicures owen sone, SJB That held opinion, that plein delit Was veraily felicite parfite.
Page xcii - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page x - A TREATISE OF THE CORRUPTIONS of SCRIPTURE, COUNCILS, and FATHERS, by the Prelates, Pastors, and Pillars of the Church of Rome, for the Maintenance of Popery.
Page lxxxii - For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of : for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel...
Page lxxviii - ... continually. When I went several times to visit and comfort him in the year 1630, he would tell me, ' they had broken his heart, that had locked up his library from him.
Page 68 - English translation of it, rather than my own, from p. 132 of the " Historic of that most famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Jesus, St. George of Cappadocia, asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church, and opposition of the present, by Peter Heylyn ; printed in London for Henry Seyle, and to be sold at his shop the signe of the Tyger's head in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1631.
Page lxxvii - This untrusty fellow, imitating, it seems, the said James, took one copy secretly for himself, when he wrote another for sir Robert ; and out of his own transcript sold away several copies, till at last one of them came into Wentworth's hands, of the North, now lord deputy of Ireland, He acquainted the lords and others of the privy-council with it. They...
Page xxxviii - Dr. Thomas James, in a letter to Usher, gives the following character of him : " A kinsman of mine is at this present, by my direction, writing Becket's life, wherein it shall be plainly shewed, both out of his own writings, and those of his time, that he was not, as he is esteemed, an arch-saint, but an archrebel ; and that the papists have been not a little deceived by him. This kinsman of mine, as well as myself, should be right glad to do any service to your lordship in this kind. He is of strength,...

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