...aspect of horror : some were starved, some frozen, some buried alive in the drifting snows, some " Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks." But why proceed further? To recount Popery's cruelties, even a tithe of them, is impossible. Her history...

...Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones Lie, scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worship't Stocks and Stones. Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy Sheep and in...

...forgiven; for she loved much'. 5-8. Cf. Milton's Sonnet XVIII: 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont', 5-8: in thy book record their groans Who were thy Sheep...ancient Fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that roll'd Mother with Infant down the Rocks. 9. incestuous gloom: gloom begetting gloom. 1 1 . Crescent...

...memorable by Milton, whose indignant sonnet is one of the greatest in the language. It runs as follows: "Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them 'who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget...

...escape from folly or for the slightest gain in wisdom? Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly (1511) 16 Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. John Milton, On the late Massacre in Piedmont (1645) 17 Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints,...

...persecutions of the Duke of Savoy (immortalized in the words of the English poet, Milton: Avenge oh Lord thy slaughtered saints whose bones lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold') so that today the Waldensians and Methodists (united since 1989) count some thirty thousand members....

...finest fulfilment, when he called on the Lord not only to avenge his "slaughtered Saints" but also In thy book record their groans Who were thy Sheep...Ancient Fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that roll'd Mother with Infant down the Rocks . . . Cromwell himself was determined to give practical outlet...

...has interpreted in his sublime sonnet : — ' ' Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose hones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Even them...kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in...

...aehorns, and from the water colde Arte riche become with making many роме. to Milton's Avenge О Lord thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stoeks and stonesj . | 41 Henry HatparJ Earl af Surrey: Poems, cd. Kmrys Jones (Oxford, 1464), 30-1,...

...streams. Sonnet 15 On the Late Massacre in Piedmoot Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints, whose bones0 Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old When ,ill our fathers worshipped stocks and stones,0 Forget not: in thy book record their groans0 Who were...