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 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
Under Constantine, Heracles, Constance the Emperours.
The Brittains Keeping on march fourteeth day
Till th'twenti'th first their Easter, make a fray
Austin Romes Legate, Englands Reformator
Doth disapprove it: and begins to vapor.
Romes Easter, and her Ceremonies he
Would have by Scotts, and B[r]itains tended bee.
The Bishops of the Scots, and Picts, Digame
And so Columban did refuse the same.
And with these Reformators did deny
Communion in food, and Curtesy.
They gaind some ireland Scots hereby, yet still
The Scots and Picts in Scotland hate this Skill.
The English for a while will not thus gad,
For Finian, Aidan, Colman, Hilda, Chad
And other pious learned persons would
Not thus admit them to be had to fold.
Till Oswy, at the Synod in Strenshalch
Heard Peter who the Keyes of Heaven's vault
Taught other wise, he tackt about to Rome
Lest Peter keep him out, when he presume
At Heavens gate to knock. And now the rest
That still opposd, were fain to fly, oppresst.
Till th'twenti'th first their Easter, make a fray
Austin Romes Legate, Englands Reformator
Doth disapprove it: and begins to vapor.
Romes Easter, and her Ceremonies he
Would have by Scotts, and B[r]itains tended bee.
The Bishops of the Scots, and Picts, Digame
And so Columban did refuse the same.
And with these Reformators did deny
Communion in food, and Curtesy.
They gaind some ireland Scots hereby, yet still
The Scots and Picts in Scotland hate this Skill.
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For Finian, Aidan, Colman, Hilda, Chad
And other pious learned persons would
Not thus admit them to be had to fold.
Till Oswy, at the Synod in Strenshalch
Heard Peter who the Keyes of Heaven's vault
Taught other wise, he tackt about to Rome
Lest Peter keep him out, when he presume
At Heavens gate to knock. And now the rest
That still opposd, were fain to fly, oppresst.
A feud a rose in Spain did them invade.
Some onely once, some thrice did dip, its said,
In baptism, untill a Councill sit
The fourth at Tolet fixt it once to dip.
Some onely once, some thrice did dip, its said,
In baptism, untill a Councill sit
The fourth at Tolet fixt it once to dip.
Toleto's Bish, and Sevills quarrell do,
For Chiefdom, and to Rome the matters go
The Pope takes the Archbishops Seat away
From Sevill, and to Tolet it Convay.
For Chiefdom, and to Rome the matters go
The Pope takes the Archbishops Seat away
From Sevill, and to Tolet it Convay.
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |