For no man; friends then Antichrist shall fall,
Then down with _Rome_, with _Babel_, down with all,
Down with the Devil, the Pope, the Emperour,
With Cardinals, and the King of _Spaine_’s great power;
[Sidenote: And hey then up goe we.]
They’l muster up, but I can tell you where,
At _Armageddon_, there, Beloved, there,
Fall on, fall on, kill, kill, alow, alow,
Kill _Amaleck_, and Turk, kill _Gog_ and _Magog_ too.
But who deare friends fed _Daniel_ thus forsak’n
[Illustration]
Truly (but there’s one sleeps, a would do well to awak’n.)
As ’tis in th’ English his name ends in Ock
And so his name is called _Habacuck_.
But in th’ originall it ends in Ock
[Sidenote: The Doctrine of Generation.]
For that deare sisters calls him have-a-Cock.
And truly I suppose I need not feare
But that there are many have a cocks here:
The Laud increase the number of have a cocks,
Truly false Prophets will arise in flocks;
But as a farding candle shut up quite
In a dark Lanthorn never giveth light;
Ev’n such are they. Ay but my brethren deare
[Sidenote: For Ministers may be Cuckholds.]
I am no such Lanthorn, for my horns are cleare.
But I shall now conclude this glorious truth
With an exhortation to old men and youth:
[Sidenote: _Use of Exhortation._]
Be sure to feed young _Daniel_, that’s to say
Feed all your Ministers that Preach and pray.
[Sidenote: _Motives_ 1.]
First, of all cause ’tis good, I speak that know so,
[Sidenote: 4.]
Fourthly, cause ’tis no evill for to doe so.
[Sidenote: 3.]
Thirdly, because ’tis very good, and twelfthly
[Sidenote: 12.]
Cause there’s nought better, unlesse I my selfe lye.
But now he smells the pyes begin to reak,
[Sidenote: Hunger a great enemy to Gospel duty.]
His teeth water, and he can no longer speak:
And now it will not be amiss to tell ye
How he was troubled with a woman’s belly;
[Sidenote: A crop-sick Sister.]
For she was full of caudle and devotion,
Which in her stomach raised a commotion,
For the hot vapours much did damnifie,
The woman went to walk in Finsbury:
So though a while she was sustain’d with ginger,
Yet at the length a cruel paine did twinge her;
And like as marble sweats before a shower,
So did she sweate, and sweating forth did poure
Her mornings draught of Sugar sops and Saffron
Into her sighing neighbours cambrick apron.
At which a Lard she cry’d full sad to see
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