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Abel redevivus

or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and learned Men (whose names ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.) And now digested into one Volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtve [by Thomas Fuller]
 

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The Life and Death of John Rogers, who died Anno Christi 1555.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Life and Death of John Rogers, who died Anno Christi 1555.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.


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Though this grave Father was enfor'd to flye
His envious Countrey for security,
Yet his undaunted courage would not move,
That alwayes stood (as Sentinell) to love.
'Twas not a prison could affection swage;
He, like a Bird sung sweetest in a cage,
When first the Bible, with great paines and care,
He into English did translate so far,
That knowing men did admire the same;
And justly did extoll his lasting fame.
Who did contemne the fury of all those,
Who both to us and him were mortall foes.