 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
When Dagobert King Clothair's Son did Chase
In Dionysu's Church, (which too did grace
Rush to, and Elutherius martyres bright)
An hunted hart, they savde it from his sight,
And after this he sanctuaries there,
Flying away to shield off's Fathers speare
They bid him build their tombs in greater State
That people might them better venerate
And for reward they promise him they would
His Fathers Anger from him back with hold.
Hence out he goes and battlements all ore
Saint Denyse then with solid silver store.
But now it being to be Consecrate
A Leper lodging in it did this relate
He saw Christ, Peter, Paul, and Denyse too
With Rustick, and Eleuthery come through
And bad him tell the Priests it and they take
His Leprosy and to a stone it glew
To be a witness that the thing was true.
Some think this was a trick that by the Priests
They for its Consecration be not fleec'de.
In Dionysu's Church, (which too did grace
Rush to, and Elutherius martyres bright)
An hunted hart, they savde it from his sight,
And after this he sanctuaries there,
Flying away to shield off's Fathers speare
They bid him build their tombs in greater State
That people might them better venerate
And for reward they promise him they would
His Fathers Anger from him back with hold.
Hence out he goes and battlements all ore
Saint Denyse then with solid silver store.
But now it being to be Consecrate
A Leper lodging in it did this relate
He saw Christ, Peter, Paul, and Denyse too
With Rustick, and Eleuthery come through
And bad him tell the Priests it and they take
His Leprosy and to a stone it glew
To be a witness that the thing was true.
Some think this was a trick that by the Priests
They for its Consecration be not fleec'de.
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |