. The Roxburghe ballads. Call you this Backing your Friends ? 170 qui meruit ferat: better than Swanbill corsets. They had been usedto back-biting of another sort, and deserved all they got in Pamphleteers had an uneasy time of it, amid turns and vagaries,for whatever was popular and rewarded to-day became libellousto-morrow ; either punished by parliament as breach of privilege,or by judges shown to be treasonable, involving fine, imprisonment,and pillory. While the Popish-Plot mania perverted reason, everyword whether spoken or printed against the perjurer Gates had beendangerous
. The Roxburghe ballads. Call you this Backing your Friends ? 170 qui meruit ferat: better than Swanbill corsets. They had been usedto back-biting of another sort, and deserved all they got in Pamphleteers had an uneasy time of it, amid turns and vagaries,for whatever was popular and rewarded to-day became libellousto-morrow ; either punished by parliament as breach of privilege,or by judges shown to be treasonable, involving fine, imprisonment,and pillory. While the Popish-Plot mania perverted reason, everyword whether spoken or printed against the perjurer Gates had beendangerous utterance. There were miscreants like Dangerficld lurkingready to hide treasonable documents in the houses of innocent men,who might be charged with a guilty knowledge ; and there werespies and libellers like Everard, false to both sides, who were paidto produce or to forge evidence against obnoxious persons. SirA\ illiam Waller the busybody was perpetually searching for incrimi-natory papers ; although he preferred portable property of value :very seldom accounted for, when once it had fallen into his clutches. 176 Sir Edmundbury Godfrey used as a Shuttlecock. After Colemans death, rumours float
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