Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PERSIAN PROSECUTION, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: For isdegerdes dead, gorones reigns
Last Line: Sustain and overcome all hellish jawes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


For Isdegerdes dead, Gorones reigns,
His kingdom, and his Cruelties mentatins
Against the godly and he also dies
And hands them both unto his son likewise.
The Cruelties they mannaged were sore.
To hear the same may make one shake all ore.
They fley'd the skin off of the hands of some
Off of the backs of others as they come,
Off of the Heads of others: and begin
Upon the brow and to the neck unskin,
Then leave them in this wise. Some naked quite
They Cover ore with reeds split down aright
Fitting the Cutting reeds upon the flesh
And bind with Cords from head to foot this dress.
This done they drew with violence away
From ery part, that their sharp Edges may
Thus drawn upon the flesh, cut, gash and Wound
Thereby to make their tortures more abound.
They many close in filthy Valts up shut
And many Dormice caught and to them put,
And having tide the martyres hands and feet
That so they might not fright them when they Creep
Upon them. And the bats by hunger greate
Being compelled do peck them up as meat.
And so by little bits greate torments rise
While being peckt and eate to Death: each dies.
And thus these Saints did for Christ's holy Cause
Sustain and overcome all hellish jawes.




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