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A14497 Virgils Eclogues translated into English: by W.L. Gent; Bucolica. English Virgil.; Lathum, William.; Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540. 1628 (1628) STC 24820; ESTC S119264 75,407 208

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of none the fed Oxe c. Heerein hee intimates the great consternation and dismay of the Shepheards that is of the Apostles of Christ and the cessation of the doctrine of the Gospell by the death of Christ so that there neither were any to teach nor the auditors that were would harken to what was taught the mindes of all were so perversly alienate from the meanes of savation As tho then or at that time The Lybian Lyons c. Even Lyons that is most fierce and salvage Beasts and farthest from all sense of humanity did lament the death of Christ Many to weet of the Iewes and Gentiles as the Centurion and Pilate and others who returning to Ierusalem testified their griefe by smi●ing their breasts The Woods and Mountaines c. Perchance heerein the Prophecy of the Sybil hath allusion to the renting of the stones the opening of the graves and the earthquake at the time of our Saviours giving up the Ghost Armenian Tygres c. Christ was the authour of a new and everlasting Religion and thereby did bend the stubborne and untamed neckes of the most fierce Tygres inforcing them meekely to submit unto the yoake of his lawes and commandements By Tygres heere is meant such worldly Tyrants as live altogether like these brute creatures rather then men and yet Iesus Christ by the inward working of his grace can bring this impossible-seeming worke to passe Daphnis to Bacchus c. Servius saith that these words have relation to the history of Caesar because hee first did institute the sacrifice and feasts to Liber that is to Father Bacchus But saith Vives I doe not remember to have read this in any other authour neither is it likely or probable forasmuch as there were in Rome feasts to Bacchus before Caesars time But I will hould my order in glossing which I have propounded to my selfe hee seemes therefore especially to mention the sacrifices to Bacchus for that antiquity did beleeve that they were available for the purging of soules and for that reason gave him that title of Liber which signifies free because hee doth free the minde from cares and molestations As the Vine is honour c. Christ is the head and glory of all spirituall creatures Bestrew the ground c. After Christs resurrection did follow a renewing and repaire of all things and new joy was declared to the Shepheards namely to the Apostles whom God appointed as Shepheards of his Flock Such Daphnis wills c. The tombe of Christ is the perpetuall remembrance of his death which the Church hath evermore in sight for what is a tombe but a monument of death And fixe this Epitaph c. This shall bee the superscription of the death of Christ. Epicedion is a mournefull song made before the body bee interred And Epitaphion a funerall song after buriall I Daphnis in the woods c. Write not upon him as on other dead mens tombs Heere hee lyes interred For Christ now liveth not in earth onely but is acknowledged above the starres and deerely loved of men and Angells Well knowne unto the starres c. The Sonn of God descended from heaven to become man after hee beeing man ascended from earth to heaven Therefore Christ as hee was man began first to bee knowne upon earth and so from thence the knowledge of him reached up into heaven Of a Flock so faire c. Christ beeing most faire pure and good nay beauty purity and goodnesse it selfe doth admit none into his Kingdome and unto his pasture but those who are faire pure and good Iddio fa suoi al suo essempio God frames his to his owne sample patterne And hee makes onely them such who doe with all readines commit themselves unto him to bee by him reformed and refined Christ hath chosen out Angels and holy men These are the Cattle of the Shepheard who is incomparably more faire and beautifull then any the best creatures in whose lipps grace is diffused Poet divine c. If a song upon Caesars death beeing otherwise bitter to the friends of Octavian and hurtfull to many to none profitable was so acceptable to a Shepheard how pretious ought the remembrance of Christs death to bee to us from whence redoundeth everlasting salvation to all mankinde Queme please a Saxon word Spencer For mee did Daphnis allgates love c. This cannot bee meant of Virgil who I verily thinke saith Vives was never knowne to Iulius Caesar nor scarce ever seene For Virgil was but a Childe at the time of Caesars murther neither did Cicero ever see or heare any of Virgils workes seeing Cicero outlived Caesar not above two yeares and therefore it is a meere fiction which I know not who writes in the life of Virgil as likewise many other things are taken upon report from the hearesay of others that Cicero protested of him in these words Magnae spes altera Romae Therefore they are spoken in the person of Menalcas who was elder then Virgil Allgates also Now lovely Daphnis c. The Sybil hitherto sung the death of Christ here shee prophecies of his ascension and of the eternity of his kingdome in heaven Christ in his humanity beeing received up into heaven doth rejoyce to behould all things subdued unto him according to that which heerein wee are taught in the holy Scriptures And sees the clowds and starres c. All things both in heaven and earth The ioyous Groves and pleasant c. By Christs ascension into heaven abundant great joy hath flowed downe upon the Apostles first by the sending of the holy Ghost then after upon all men in generall for by his ascension hee hath ledd our captivity captive and given gifts unto men The Woolfe from ravin c. The peace of Christ is hereby meant which subdues all Tense and motion of the superiour over the inferiour of the wilde beast against the tame of the crafty against the simple charity making an equality every where and causing all things to bee safe and secure For Daphnis ioyes in sweete c. Charity is the speciall commandement of Christ and Peace his Inheritance The Mountaines c. The holy Ghost saith Saint Paul is diffused in our hearts by Iesus Christ and beeing fullfilled with this joy wee come truly to understand Iesus Christ who he is and acknowledge him to bee God For no man saith that Iesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost and the Gospell Blessed art thou Simon Bar-tona because flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee but my Father which is in heavē By the Mountaines is meant the Bishops and chiefe learned men of the Church and other where by Rockes is meant the inferiour sort by shrubbs is meant the common people All doe openly professe and adore the divinity of Christ. A God a God hee is c. To the afflicted minde for the sad and lamentable death of Christ it is said VVhy doost thou weepe● Bee of good comfort for