An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . have some elegancies for our tongueObserved, as they are used now, amongOur ablest linguists, who mint for the CourtWords fit to be proclaimed ; and do resort^\here lords and ladies couple and trade lip learning, both in prose and by these few, the docible may seeHow rich our language is ! religious, we ! Time was, aPcRiTAN was counted suchAs held some Ceremonies were too muchRetained and urged : and would no Bishops grant,Others to rule, who government did want. Time was, a Protestant was only takenFor su
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . have some elegancies for our tongueObserved, as they are used now, amongOur ablest linguists, who mint for the CourtWords fit to be proclaimed ; and do resort^\here lords and ladies couple and trade lip learning, both in prose and by these few, the docible may seeHow rich our language is ! religious, we ! Time was, aPcRiTAN was counted suchAs held some Ceremonies were too muchRetained and urged : and would no Bishops grant,Others to rule, who government did want. Time was, a Protestant was only takenFor such as had the Church of Rome forsaken ;Or her known falsehoods in the highest point:But would not, for each toy, true peace disjoint. Time was, a P a p i s T was a man who thoughtRome could not err, but all her Canons oughtTo be canonical; and, blindly led,He from the Truth, for fear of Error, fled. But now these words, with divers others other senses than they had before :Which plainly I do labour to relate,As they are now accepted in our Stale. -00. y^ Purita?i. (So nicknamed, but indeed the sound Protestant.) Puritan is such another thing As says, with all his heart, ^ GOD save theKing And all his issue! and to make thisgood, Will freelv spend his money and his blood ; And in his factious and fond mood, daresay,- Tis madness,for the Palsgrave, thusto stayAnd wait the loWng leisure of kind Spain IWho gets at first, only to give againIn courtesv, that faithless hereticsMay tastethe Faith and Love of Hope too ! ^ For a Puritan is heThat doth not hope these Holy Days to see;And would a wasted countr}, on conditionScorn to receive \ although the High CommissionOf England, Spain, and Rome would have it favours hed not take from a true foe I A Puritan is he, that rather hadSpend all. to help the States he is so mad !),Than spend one hundred thousand pounds a yearTo guard the Spanish coasts from pirates fear:The whilst, the Catholic King might force
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