This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...Fancie, a lad that all in feathers wons,1 And loose Desire, and Danger linkt with Doubt; 1 Appears: but see Notes and Illustrations, Vol. 1. pp 88--86. a. And thousand wanton thoughts still budding new: But lazie Ease usher'd the idle crue; And lame Disease shuts up their troops with torments due. 28. Next band by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...Fancie, a lad that all in feathers wons,1 And loose Desire, and Danger linkt with Doubt; 1 Appears: but see Notes and Illustrations, Vol. 1. pp 88--86. a. And thousand wanton thoughts still budding new: But lazie Ease usher'd the idle crue; And lame Disease shuts up their troops with torments due. 28. Next band by Asebie was boldly led, And his foure sonnes, begot in Stygian night: First Idololatros,1 whose monstrous head Was like an ugly fiend, his flaming sight Like blazing starres; which rest all different: For to his shape some part each creature lent, But to the great Creatour all adversly bent. 29. Upon his breast a bloudie Crosse he scor'd, Which oft he worshipt; but the Christ that di'd Thereon, he seldome but in paint ador'd; Yet wood, stone, beasts, wealth, lusts, fiends deifi'd: He makes meer pageants of the2 saving Rock, 1 Idolatrie, either by worshipping the true God by false worship; as by images, against the second commandment: or giving away his worship to anything that is not not God, against the first. G. 2 Psal. 62. F. Puppet-like trimming his Almightie stock: Which then, his god or he, which is the verier hlock? 30. Of giant shape, and strength thereto agreeing, Wherewith he whilome all the world opprest; And yet the greater part his vassals being, Slumbring in ignorance, securely rest: A golden calf--himself more beast--he bore; Which brutes with dancings, gifts, and songs adore: ' Idols art lay-men books, ' he round had wrote in ore.1 31. Next Pharmacus,2 of gashly2 wilde aspect; Whom hell with seeming fear, and fiends obey: Full eas'ly would he know each past effect, And things to come with double guesse foresay, By slain beasts' entrails, and fowls marked flight: Thereto he tempests rais'd by many a spright, And charm'd the Sunne and ...
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