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This done, friends take their bodies and with mourning
Do carie them towards the town, returning
With heavie hearts, them to this chappell bring,
But no Soule Masse nor Dirigé durst sing.
Yet this good Priest did lay them on the altar,
And all night read the pistle, and the psalter,
With heart devote, and sad; from th'evening vapers,
Placing upon the altar burning tapers
Unto the dawning: exequies thus ended.
Their bodies to the Earth are recommended.
This Chapell some time stood by our theater,
Where I my self sprinkled with holie water,
After these dayes did often heare the Messe
Albeit I knew not what it did expresse,
But this I saw, a man with a shaven crown,
Raz'd beard, and lips, who look't like a baboun,
Perfum'd with odours, and in Priestlie vestures,
Did act this mimik toy with thousand gestures;
A misterie indeed, nor which no fable
Acted on stage to make you laugh more able.
After these innocents were martyred thus
As you have heard, Churchmen were odious,
And, when occasion serv'd, so did they finde,
For, so soone as did blow a contrare winde,
The houre was come, and then our Knox did sound,
Pull down their idols, throw them to the ground.[1]
The multitude, even as a spear, did rush then
In poulder beat; and cald them all Nehushtan.
Our blak Friers Church and place, white friers, and gray
Prophan'd, and cast to ground were in one day.
Do carie them towards the town, returning
With heavie hearts, them to this chappell bring,
But no Soule Masse nor Dirigé durst sing.
Yet this good Priest did lay them on the altar,
And all night read the pistle, and the psalter,
With heart devote, and sad; from th'evening vapers,
Placing upon the altar burning tapers
Unto the dawning: exequies thus ended.
Their bodies to the Earth are recommended.
This Chapell some time stood by our theater,
Where I my self sprinkled with holie water,
After these dayes did often heare the Messe
Albeit I knew not what it did expresse,
But this I saw, a man with a shaven crown,
Raz'd beard, and lips, who look't like a baboun,
Perfum'd with odours, and in Priestlie vestures,
Did act this mimik toy with thousand gestures;
A misterie indeed, nor which no fable
Acted on stage to make you laugh more able.
After these innocents were martyred thus
As you have heard, Churchmen were odious,
And, when occasion serv'd, so did they finde,
For, so soone as did blow a contrare winde,
The houre was come, and then our Knox did sound,
Pull down their idols, throw them to the ground.[1]
The multitude, even as a spear, did rush then
In poulder beat; and cald them all Nehushtan.
Our blak Friers Church and place, white friers, and gray
Prophan'd, and cast to ground were in one day.
The
- ↑ Knox preacheth, idols are throwndownthrown down and religious places.