...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,...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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 and in their Ancient Fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that roll'd Mother with Infant down the Rocks . . . Cromwell himself was determined to...

...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...

...Waldensians in the 1650s inspired John Milton's poem, 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont', which begins 'Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints, whose bones lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold . . .'. '"' He belonged to the family Durfort, co-seigneurs of Saverdun. See Duvernoy, p. 49 n. 8,...

...piled stones ? In contrast, his sonnet 'On the late Massacre in Piedmont' thunders an imperious anger: Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the alpine mountains cold. While Sonnet XX, on his own blindness ("When I consider how my light is spent..."), works through to...

...rises above its topical subject to a vision of Truth Forget not: in thy book record their groans 5 Who were thy Sheep and in their ancient Fold Slain by the bloody Ptemontese that roll'd Mother with Infant down the Rocks. Their moans The Vales redoubl'd to the Hills,...