A select collection of old plays . GRIM, The Collier of Croydon: A&us primus, Scena prima* A place being provided for the devils confiftory, enter St*Dunftan with his beads, book, and crojierftajf, &c. St. Dunft. jSj^f®_^^tj[ja N V Y that always waits on virtues train,And tears the graves of quietfleeping fouls,H Hath brought me, after many-hundred years,To mew myfelf again upon the then (who lilt) that I am Englifh born,My name is Dunftan ; whilft I liv*d with men,Chief primate of the holy Englifh church :. 254 Grim, the Collier of Croydon* I was begotten in Weft Saxony : My father
A select collection of old plays . GRIM, The Collier of Croydon: A&us primus, Scena prima* A place being provided for the devils confiftory, enter St*Dunftan with his beads, book, and crojierftajf, &c. St. Dunft. jSj^f®_^^tj[ja N V Y that always waits on virtues train,And tears the graves of quietfleeping fouls,H Hath brought me, after many-hundred years,To mew myfelf again upon the then (who lilt) that I am Englifh born,My name is Dunftan ; whilft I liv*d with men,Chief primate of the holy Englifh church :. 254 Grim, the Collier of Croydon* I was begotten in Weft Saxony : My fathers name was Heorfton, my mothers Cinifrcd. Endowed with my merits legacy, I flourifhd in the reign of feven great kings ; The firft was Adelftane, whofe niece Elfleda, Malicious tongues reported, I defiled : Next him came Edmond, then Edred, and Edwin : And after him reignd Edgar, a great prince, But full of many crimes, which I reftraind ; Edward his fon, and laftly Egelred. With all thefe kings was I in high efteem, And kept both them, and all the land in awe ; And, had I livd, the Danes had never boafted Their then beginning tionqueft of this land ; Yet fome accufe me for a conjurer, By reafon of thofe many miracles Which heaven for holy life endowed me with. But whofo looks into the golden legend, (That facred regifter of holy faints) Shall find me by the pope canonized, And happily the caufe of this report ^ght rife by reafon of a vifion, ^fhich I beheld in great king Edgars days, Being that time abbot of G
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