> >Q1. What is the 'red Cowe' that is lost?]
> >
> > They mumble with their lippes, with rich Copes & kels,
> > And chaunting with their chastes lyke Owles in a frost,
> > They duck & they sence, and they trumpe up their Bels
> > And sprynkle water fast, but the red Cowe is lost,
> > Candles are illuminate and set on every post,
> > Before a gorgious Idol freshe figured and gylt,
> > And though it maye be suffered, yet thereby hath ben lost
> > Many a Christian man, and many a soule spylt.
I might be well off the mark here, but then this is a bit like trying
to answer a riddle! Are there not etymological relations between
"red" and "gold"? If so, the "red Cowe" might possibly refer to the
Golden Calf. That might, at least, be thematically consistent here.
Whatever the relics might be, it is at least possible that they all
refer to a single relic collection.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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