He dranke whole butts Till he burft his gutts, But mine were ne'er the wyder. Poore naked Tom is very drye: Harke, I hear Acteons horne! The huntsmen whoop and hallowe: Ringwood, Royfter, Bowman, Jowler, All the chafe do followe. was written about the beginning of the feventeenth century by the witty bishop Corbet, and is printed from the 3d edition of his poems, 12mo. 1672, compared with a more ancient copy in the editor's folio MS. VOL. II. A a AM A M I mad, O noble Feftus, When zeal and godly knowledge Have put me in hope To deal with the pope, As well as the beft in the college? 5 Boldly I preach, hate a crofs, hate a furplice, Come hear me pray nine times á day, And fill your heads with crochets. In the house of pure Emanuel * Where my friends furmise I dazel'd my eyes With the fight of revelation. They bound me like a bedlam, They lash'd my four poor quarters ; Whilft this I endure, Faith makes me fure To be one of Foxes martyrs. Boldly I preach, &c. 10 15 Thefe injuries I fuffer 20 Through antichrift's perfwafion: Take *Emanuel college Cambridge was originally a feminary of Puritans. Take off this chain, Neither Rome nor Spain Can refift my ftrong invasion. Boldly I preach, &c. Of the beafts ten horns (God bless us!) I have knock'd off three already; If they let me alone I'll leave him none: But they fay I am too heady. Boldly I preach, &c. When I fack'd the feven-hill'd city, I met the great red dragon; I kept him aloof With the armour of proof, Though here I have never a rag on. Boldly I preach, &c. 25 პი I made her ftink, And spill the drink I have seen two in a vifion With a flying book* between them. Five times in a year, And been cur'd by reading Greenham †. Boldly I preach, &c. I obferv'd in Perkins tables The black line of damnation; Those crooked veins So ftuck in my brains, 45 50 In *Alluding to fome vifionary expofition of Zech. ch. v. ver. 1. or, if the date of this fong would permit, one might suppose it aimed at one Coppe, a strange exthufiaft, whoje life may be seen in Wood's Athen. vol. 2. p. 501. He was author of a book intitled, "The fiery flying Roll" and afterwards published a Recantation, part of whofe Title is, "The fiery flying Roll's wings clipt," &c. + See Greenham's works, fol. 1605. particularly the tract intitled, A fweet comfort for an afflicted confcience. See Perkins's works, fol. 1616. vol. 1. p. 11; where is a large half-feet folded, containing " A furvey, or table declaring the order of "the causes of falvation, and damnation, &c." the pedigree of damnation being diftinguished by a broad black zig-zag line. |