Brachy-Martyrologia Or, A Brewery of all the greatest Persecutions Which have befallen the Saints and People of God From the Creation to our present Times: Paraphras'd, By Nicholas Billingsly |
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Encenas
, by his Parents sent to Rome
For educations sake; at last become
An able Scholar through the grace of God,
In Christ his School, the wayes the Romans trod
Renouncing quite: for which he's apprehended,
And clapt up; yet he constantly defended
The Christian faith: he with his life might go,
If he would but put on the Sambito;
Which he refus'd; nor any badge would wear
Save that of Jesus Christ; which was, to spare
No blood to seal up what he had profest:
So being burn'd, be in the Lord did rest.
For educations sake; at last become
An able Scholar through the grace of God,
In Christ his School, the wayes the Romans trod
Renouncing quite: for which he's apprehended,
And clapt up; yet he constantly defended
The Christian faith: he with his life might go,
If he would but put on the Sambito;
Which he refus'd; nor any badge would wear
Save that of Jesus Christ; which was, to spare
No blood to seal up what he had profest:
So being burn'd, be in the Lord did rest.
The Maj'r and Bishop of St. Angelo
Long arguing the case, which of the two
Should, at his proper cost, procure some wood,
For Galeacius burning; while they stood
Demurring, he bade them no more debate,
It should be fetch'd out of his own estate.
John Mollius, a Roman, did Christ own:
If he but named him, salt tears ran down
On his wet cheeks: he preach'd where e're he came
The word of truth, until he fed the flame.
One Francis Gamba, born in Lombardy,
Went to the slaughter with alacrity.
Algerius, a fine young man, acquaints,
By way of writing, the afflicted Saints,
How much his joy in prison did abound,
And how he Honey in a Lion found:
Exhorting them to patience; in the end
Writes From a delectable Orchard pen'd;
He's burned. Pope Pius the fourth dislives
At Naples, many Nobles, with their wives.
The City Venice after twelve years peace,
Was by the Pope disturb'd, to the encrease
Of Martyr'd Saints; who unto stones were bound,
And in the bottom of the Ocean drown'd.
Long arguing the case, which of the two
Should, at his proper cost, procure some wood,
For Galeacius burning; while they stood
Demurring, he bade them no more debate,
It should be fetch'd out of his own estate.
John Mollius, a Roman, did Christ own:
If he but named him, salt tears ran down
On his wet cheeks: he preach'd where e're he came
The word of truth, until he fed the flame.
One Francis Gamba, born in Lombardy,
Went to the slaughter with alacrity.
Algerius, a fine young man, acquaints,
By way of writing, the afflicted Saints,
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And how he Honey in a Lion found:
Exhorting them to patience; in the end
Writes From a delectable Orchard pen'd;
He's burned. Pope Pius the fourth dislives
At Naples, many Nobles, with their wives.
The City Venice after twelve years peace,
Was by the Pope disturb'd, to the encrease
Of Martyr'd Saints; who unto stones were bound,
And in the bottom of the Ocean drown'd.
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