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)
Prohibited books -- England -- Bibliography
"Go, Empty Joyes,
With all your noyse,
And leave me here alone,
In sweet sad silence to bemoane
Your vaine and fleet delight,
Whose danger none can see aright,
Whilest your false splendor dimmes his sight.
(II.)
Goe and insnare
With your false ware,
Some other easie Wight,
And cheat him with your flattering Light;
Raine on his head a shower
Of Honours, favor, wealth, and power;
Then snatch it from him in an houre.
(III.)
Fill his big minde
With gallant winde
Of Insolent applause;
Let him not fear all-curbing Lawes,
Nor King nor People's frowne,
But dreame of something like a Crowne,
And climing towards it, tumble downe.
(IV.)
Let him appeare
In his bright Sphere
Like _Scynthia_ in her pride,
With star-like troups on every side;
Such for their number and their light,
As may at last orewhelme him quite,
And blend us both in one dead night.
(V.)
Welcome, sad Night,
Griefe's sole delight,
Your mourning best agrees
With Honour's funerall Obsequies.
In _Thetis'_ lap he lies,
Mantled with soft securities,
Whose too much Sunshine blinds his eyes.
(VI.)
Was he too bold,
That needs would hold
With curbing raines, the day,
And make _Sol's_ fiery Steeds obay?
Then sure as rash was I,
Who with ambitious wings did fly
In _Charles_ his Waine too loftily.
(VII.)
I fall, I fall;
Whom shall I call?
Alas, can he be heard,
Who now is neither lov'd nor fear'd.
You, who were wont to kisse the ground,
Where e're my honor'd steps were found,
Come catch me at my last rebound.
(VIII.)
How each admires
Heav'n's twinkling fires,
When from their glorious seat
Their influence gives life and heat.
But O! how few there ar',
(Though danger from that act be far)
Will stoop and catch a falling star.
(IX.)
Now 'tis too late
To imitate
Those Lights, whose pallidnesse
Argues no inward guiltinesse:
Their course one way is bent.
The reason is, there's no dissent
In Heaven's high Court of Parliament.
London, printed 1641.
86.
The Saint's Beliefe. By John Turner. 1641. A folio broadside.
On May 18th, 1641, the House of Commons ordered that this
publication be referred to the Committee for printing as concerning
the printer; and that the Stationers' Company be strictly required
to use all their endeavours to suppress those copies; and that John
Turner, who names himself the author, be sent for as a delinquent
for his boldness in causing a new belief to be printed without
authority, during the sitting of parliament.[61]
The accompanying folding page contains an exact reprint, line
for line, of this eccentric paper, of which a copy exists in the
British Museum Library.
THE
SAINTS
BELIEFE.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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