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
"You must, and know your _own_ Damnation's near:
You must ere long be _Plung'd_ in Grizly Flame,
Which I shall laugh to see, tho, rack'd with pain
Thou _Grand Deceiver_ of the _Nations_ All,
Contriver of my _Wretched Fate_ and _Fall_:
Thou who didst push me on to Murther _Kings_
Persuading me for it on _Angels Wings_
I should _Transcend_ the Clouds, be _ever Blest_, )
And be of _Al_ that Heav'n cou'd yield, _possest_, )
But these I mist, got _Torment_ without _Rest_: )
For whilst on _Earth_ I stand, a _Hell_ within
Distracts my Conscience, pale with horrid Sin:
Instead of _Mortals_ Pardon, _One_ on High,
I must your Everlasting Martyr Fry;
Whilst Name of _Saint_ I bear on Earth, _below_
It _stirs_ the _flames_, and much Augments _my Woe_."
POPE.
"_Horrors! 'tis Dismal, I can hear no more,
O! Hell and Furies, how I have lost my Pow'r._"
SIR E. GODFREY.
"See Sir this Crimson Stain, this baleful Wound
See Murther'd me, with _Joys Eternal_ Crown'd;
Though by the _Darkest Deed_ of Night I fell,
Which _shook Three Kingdoms_, and _Astonish'd Hell_:
Yet rap'd _above_ the Skyes to Mansion bright,
There to Converse with Everlasting Light;
Thence got I leave to View thy _Wretched Face_,
And find my Death thy Hell-born PLOTS did race,
And next to the _Almighty Arm_ did _Save_
Great _Albion's_ Glory from its yawning Grave;
From _Sacred Bliss_ my Swift-_Wing'd Soul_ did glide,
Conducted _Hither_ by my _Angel-Guide_,
To let thee know thy Sands were almost run,
And that thy Thread of _Life_ is well-nigh Spun;
_Repent_ you then, Wash off the _Bloody Stain_,
Or _You'll_ be Doom'd to _Everlasting Pain_."
ANGEL.
"Come Worthy _of Seraphick Joys Above_,
Worthy _Our_ Converse, and _Our Sacred_ Love;
Who hast Implor'd the Great _Jehove_ for One )
Who _Shed_ thy Blood, to _Snatch_ thy Princes _Throne_ )
In this thy _Saviour's_ Great Examples shown: )
Come let _Vs_ hence, and leave _Him_ to his Fate,
When _Divine Vengeance_ shall the Business State."
POPE.
"_Chill Horror seizes me, I cannot flye;
Oh Ghastly! yet more Apparitions nigh?_"
WHITEBREAD.
"Thus wandering through the _Gloomy Shades_, at last
I've found _Thee_, Traytor, that _my Joys_ did Blast,
Whose _Dam'd Injunctions_, _Dire Damnation_ Seal'd,
And _Torments_ that were never yet Reveal'd:
Mirrihords of _Plagues_, _Chains_, _Racks_, Tempestuous _Fire_,
Sulpherian _Lakes_ that Burn and ner Expire,
Deformed _Demons_, Uglier far than Hell,
The Half what _We Endure_, no Tongue can _Tell_;
This for a _Bishoprick_ I Undergo,
But _Now_ would give Earth's _Empire_ wer't _not so_."
POPE.
"_Retire, Good Ghosts, or I shall Dye with Fear._"
HARCOURT.
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