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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_Ralph._ There's no fear on't, but he'l be taught to groan better
when he comes to groan for himself. One would have thought he
should have practised the Art of Groaning more accurately before
he went to groan upon such an Occasion as this--He should have
groaned as if he had been groaning for his Life, that had taken
such a part upon him--but it seems he rather fell a braying then a
groaning, and so discover'd himself--for upon the noise, as some
Report, or at least, as the Goblin deserv'd, one of the Watch
coming up to him, and perceiving by his shoes, that he had no
Cloven-Feet, _Can't ye be quiet_., quo he, _in your Grave_? _I'le
make ye quiet_; and with that, gave him such a Palt o'th Pate and
the Thigh, as quickly chang'd the colour of his Ghostly Habit.
_Ralph._ I' good faith, the Watchmen did more then all the
Committee could do--for they only strove to make him a faigned
Goblin, but the Watchman made him a real _Raw-Head and
Bloody-Bones_.--A Catastrophe that such an enterprize justly
deserv'd.--But what became of poor Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones?
_Will._ The now real Goblin was forc'd to confess his name, and the
names of his Associates, and to chear up the Watch with Drink and
Money for the fright he had put 'em in, and so they let him go, to
groan forth his own Lamentations to the Gulls that set him at Work.
_Ralph._ Well, I will say nothing of the Speech one way nor other,
but sure it was an act neither generous nor christian-like, to
raise up an Impostor to disturb the silence of a Gentleman's Grave
that had paid his last debt to Justice.
_Will._ Barbarous and papistical, which is as much as needs be said
of it.
FINIS.
London: Printed by J. Grantham, MDCLXXXIII.
294.
The true Englishman speaking plain English. By Edward Fitzharris.
1681.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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