Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
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_Peace thou prophane wretch, hold, villain, hold,
For now with Heaven and Earth thou art too bold,
And I must tell thee, another Winter old
Thou shall not be, thy life and soul are sold:
When flat on th' Altar Thou thyself didst lay,
Remember that thou gav'st thy Soul away
To me; and swor'st for ever thou'dst be mine,
Might'st thou but compass thy Hellish Design,
To imbrue thy Hands in Innocent Blood,
And murder all who had the face of good:
Devils and Hell thou hast in this outdone,
By thy damn'd Perjury ith' face oth' Sun.
Hence then begone to Hell, away, away,
For in this place thou shalt no longer stay.
[Spoken by an old Acquaintance.]
Why how now Doctor, vanish'd fled and gone,
What none but Monsieur Devil and You alone?
Are all you Papists come to this damn'd end,
Thus to be hamper'd and ridden by a Fiend?
Unpitied ly; blaspheme and groan thy last,
Belch forth thy unhallow'd Soul, and blast
Hell itself, with thy unsanctified Breath,
And groveling ith' shades of Eternal Death,
I leave thee. Ha, ha, ha, ha, poor Doctor,
Good Night little good Mr. Devil's Doctor._
In contemptum dicti domini regis nunc, legumque suarum, ad magnum
opprobium scandalum defamationem et infamiam præfati Titi Oates,
in magnam perturbationem pacis dicti domini regis et populi sui
inquietudinem, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum consimili casu
delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam et
dignitatem suas &c.[216]
The result of the prosecution does not appear.
I have not been able to meet with a copy of the original verses,
which, no doubt, would be printed in the form of a broadside; but
they are reprinted in a little book entitled "A Collection of 86
Loyal Poems, all of them written upon the two late plots, viz., The
Horrid Salamanca Plot in 1678, and the present fanatical conspiracy
in 1683." Collected by N[athaniel] T[hompson.] 1685.
256.
The true Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country.
No. 83, From Friday, April 16, to Tuesday, April 20, 1680.
Ditto----No. 84, From Tuesday, April 20, to Friday, April 23, 1680.
These periodicals, copies of which are preserved in the British
Museum Library, were printed and published by Nathaniel Thompson
and William Badcock, and a prosecution was thereupon instituted
against them. They were tried and found guilty, and a fine of
£3 6s. 8d. set on each of them. The following is a copy of the
information:--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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