Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands.Parton, James
History
Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands.
Parton, James
Caricature -- History
GODFREY'S GHOST, INTRODUCED BY ----.
"_Repent great S{r} and be for ever blest,
in Heaven with me that happy place of rest._"
ANGEL, IN A "ROMAN SHAPE."
"_O Chariety! who mercy craves for those:
With Bluddy hands that ware his Cruell foes._"
WHITEBREAD'S GHOST, WITH A SWORD THROUGH THE BODY.
"_I am perplexed with perpetuall fright;
but who is this apeares this dreadful night._"
HARCOURT'S GHOST, WITH A SWORD THROUGH THE BODY.
"_'Tis Godfrey's Ghost I wish all things be well
that we may have our Pope of Rome in hell._"
A BISHOP.
"_Let us depart and Shun their cruell fate,
and all repent before it is to late._"
CARDINAL.
"_Come let us flie with all the Speed we may,
Ye Devil els will take us all away._"
Below the picture are the verses subjoined:
NUNCIO.
"Horrors and Death! what _dismal Sights_ Invade
His Nightly Slumbers, who in _Blood_ does Trade.
The Ghostly Apparitions of the Dead;
The _Bless'd_ by Angels; _Damn'd_ by _Demons Lead_;
'Tis sure, _Romes_ Conclave _must_ Amazed stand,
When _Souls_ Complaining, thus against _them_ band;
Who _All_ but _One_ to please Ambitious ROME,
Have Gain'd _Damnation_ for Their Final DOOM.
Hear how _They Curse Him_ all, but _He_ who fell.
Great _Brittains Sacrifice_ by Imps of Hell;
Who shew'd _Their Bloody Vengeance_ in the _Strife_,
To Murther _Him_, who Business had for _Life_."
POPE.
"_How do_ my Eye-Balls _Roul_, and Blood _run back_,
_What Tortures at this sight my Conscience Rack_;
_Oh!_ Mountains _now fall on me, some Deep Cave_
Pitty me once, _and prove my speedy Grave_.
_Involv'd_ in Darkness, _from the Seated_ Light,
_Let Me abscond_ in _Everlasting Night_.
Torment _me not_; _you Shades, before my time_,
_I do confess_, your Downfalls _was_ my Crime;
To _Satiate my_ Ambition _and_ Revenge,
_I push'd you on to this Immortal Change_.
_But Ah! fresh Horrors, Ah! my Power's grown weak_,
What art thou Fiend? _from whence? or where? O Speak_;
_That in this Frightful Form, a_ Dragon's _hew
Presents_ One _Sainted, to_ my _Trembling View?"_
FIEND.
"By Hells Grim KING'S Command, on _whom_ I wait,
I've brought your Saint his Story to relate;
Who from the black _Tartarian_-Fire below,
So long beg'd Absence as to let you know
His Torments, and the Horrid Cheat condole,
You fix'd on him to Rob him of his Soul."
POPE.
"_O! spare my Ears, I'll no such Horrors hear;_"
COLEMAN.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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