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The Dramatic Writings of John Bale, Bishop of Ossory
The Dramatic Writings of John Bale Bishop of Ossory Author:John Bale General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Priv. print. for subscribers by the Early English drama society. Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama ... more » Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: [Reduced Facsimile of Title-page of " The Temptation of Our Lord/' from a unique Copy now in the Bodleian Library.] A Brief Comedy or Interlude concerning the Temptation of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, by Satan in the desert. Compiled by John Bale, Anno M. b. xxivm. Jesus was ted from thence of the spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was at last an httngered. -- Matthew IV. (nttrlocutoreg Jesus Christus Satan Tentator Angelus Primus Angelus Alter Baleus Prolocutor THE TEMPTATION OF OUR LORD PRFATIO. BALEUS PROLOCUTOR. After his baptism, Christ was God's son declared By the Father's voice, as ye before have heard ; Which signifieth to us that we, once baptised, Are the sons of God by His gift and reward. And, because that we should have Christ in regard, He gave unto him the mighty authority Of his heavenly word, our only teacher to be. Now is he gone forth into the desert place With the Holy Ghost, his office to begin; Where Satan, the devil, with his assaults apace, With colours of craft, and many a subtle gin, Will undermine him; yet nothing shall he win But shame and rebuke in the conclusion final: This tokeneth our raise, and his unrecurable fall. [doth call, Learn first, in...« less