The Complete Works in Verse and Prose Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...thenceforth held their peace: ) and also at the demaund of the Emperor Tiberius, who that Pan should be, anfwer was made him by the wifest and 45 best learned, that it was the sonne of Mercnrie and Penelope: yet I thinke it more properly ment of the death of Christ, the only and verie Pan, then fuffering for his flocke. I as I am, feemeth to imitate the common prouerbe, 50 Malim inuidere mihi omnes, qu m miserescere. Nas, is a fyncope, for nehas, or has not: as nould for would not. Tlw with them, doth imitate the Epitaph of the Men of the lay, Lay men. Enanter, least that. 7 5 Souenance, remembrance. Miscreance, difpaire, or misbeleefe. Cheuisaunce, fometime of Chaucer vfed for gaine: fometime of other for fpoile, or bootie, or enterprife, and fometime for chiefedome. 80 Pan himselfe, God, according as is faid in Deuteronomie, that in diuifion of the land of Canaan, to the tribe of Leui, no portion of heritage should be allotted, for God himfelfe was their inheritance. Some gan, ment of the pope, and his antechristian 85 prelates, which vfurpe a tyrannicall dominion in the Church, and with Peters counterfeit keyes, open a wide gate to all wickednesse and infolent gouernment. Nought here fpoken, as of purpofe to denie fatherly rule and gouernance (as fome malicioufly of late 90 haue done, to the great vnrest and hinderance of the Church) but to display the pride & disorder of such, as in stead of seeding their sheep in deed seed of their sheepe. Sourse, wellspring and originall. q 5 Borrow, pledge or suretie. Tlie Giant, is the great Atlas, whom the poets seign e to be a huge Giant, that beareth heauen on his shoulders: being in deed a maruellous high mountain in Mauritania, that now is Barbarie, which to mans seeming pearceth 100 the cloudes, and se...