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] |
The Life and Death of Peter Viretus, who dyed Anno Christi 1571.
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The Life and Death of Peter Viretus, who dyed Anno Christi 1571.
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Who having not the wisedome to oppose
Brave Viretus by arguments; thought fit
To labour with a diabolick wit
To work his ruine; first by poyson they
Contriv'd his fall; but poyson scorn'd to bey
Their base desires, which made them rage and swell,
Into a madnesse, till advis'd by Hell
To a more speedy way, which soone took place
Within their hearts; being destitute of grace
They thought it good to imploy a Papist, whose arme
Was ready to performe what might prove harme
To harmelesse Viretus, and with a knife
(As they suppos'd) depriv'd him of his life:
But God (the great abhorror of such crimes)
Preserv'd rare Viretus for better times.
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