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. |