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 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
A Wonder 'tis Gods Patience should Contain,
While lying Wonders wollow out in grain,
But now behold these file do Patience Steel
Untill her Shine aboute the World doth wheele.
While lying Wonders wollow out in grain,
But now behold these file do Patience Steel
Untill her Shine aboute the World doth wheele.
At Maurien in France a woman pray'd
Full three years Constantly as it is said,
That John the Baptist would her bless ev'n so
As on her one of's members to bestow.
But all this while the baptist heard her not
Then sweare she doth, she will not eate a jot
Till she had gain'd her suite. Hence seven dayes pass
She doth in pray're and Fasting, now it was
The Baptist loath she should, poor heart so dy,
Bit off his Thumb, most shining White (Fy, fy)
And slips it on the Altar, which she spies
And takes it then rejoycing: out soon highs,
Declares the thing: three Bishop hast thereto
To worship it, three drops of blood then flow
Dropt from it on the Altar Cloath, as each
Might have a drop, amazd, as goes the speech,
They stand, an yet enravisht are with joy,
And out they goe and up such Relicks Cry.
Full three years Constantly as it is said,
That John the Baptist would her bless ev'n so
As on her one of's members to bestow.
But all this while the baptist heard her not
Then sweare she doth, she will not eate a jot
Till she had gain'd her suite. Hence seven dayes pass
She doth in pray're and Fasting, now it was
The Baptist loath she should, poor heart so dy,
Bit off his Thumb, most shining White (Fy, fy)
And slips it on the Altar, which she spies
And takes it then rejoycing: out soon highs,
Declares the thing: three Bishop hast thereto
To worship it, three drops of blood then flow
Dropt from it on the Altar Cloath, as each
Might have a drop, amazd, as goes the speech,
They stand, an yet enravisht are with joy,
And out they goe and up such Relicks Cry.
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |