A free admonition without any fees, to warne the papistes to beware of three trees Birch, William, fl. 1562-1571. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A16159 of text S121710 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 3077). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A16159 STC 3077 ESTC S121710 99856880 99856880 22520 2240866649

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A16159) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 22520) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 175:3) A free admonition without any fees, to warne the papistes to beware of three trees Birch, William, fl. 1562-1571. 1 sheet ([1] p.) By Iohn Awdely, for Henry Kirkham, dwelling at the middle north doore of Paules, at the signe of the blacke Boy, Imprinted at Londo[n] : The. xij. of December. 1571. Signed: q[uod] G.B., i.e. William Birch. Verse - "If that you be not past all grace,". Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Slightly mutilated. eng Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. eebo A free admonition without any fees, to warne the papistes to beware of three trees. Birch, William, 1571 1 665 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2006-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-06 Sampled and proofread 2006-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A free admonition without any fees / To warne the Papistes to beware of three trees . IF that you be not past all grace , O Papystes heare mee speake , Let reason rule , and truth take place , Crase you from that you seeke . Can you God or his woord deface ? Can you the truth wythstand ? Can you our noble Queene displace , And yet lyue in England ? Take heede beware the Deuyll is a knaue He wyl you sure begile : Incruelty he would you haue To scrue hym here awhile . Wyth lying and hipocrisy , His kyngdome to mayntayne : Contemning truth and equity , This is hys subtile trayne . Let cursed Cain example be , That slew Abel his brother : Whom neither God with Maiesty , Could moue to leaue his murder Nor yet the godly lyfe of hym , That gaue hym none offence , Tyll he had heaped vp hys synne , In practesyng his pretence . Let Core and Dathan come from hell Where now they do remayne , That they their minds at length maitel Wherfore they ther remain . Namely , for that they did rebel , And would not be perswaded , But would be Lordes in Israel , Tyll hel had them deuoured . What could make Absalon meeke & tame And to desist from rage ? His father Dauids worthy fame , Or yet his counsel sage ? No , no , these things wil not preuail With hym that feares not God , The force of doctrine ther doth fail , Tyl God strike with his rod . And as the Deuil in these did rage , To worke his wycked wyll , That nothyng coulde theyr furye swage Tyl they did it fuifyl . So that the law of God and Man , They sought to ouerthrow , Euen so of late I truly can The lyke vnto you show . When Kyng Edward of worthy fame Had Antichrist put downe , And to the glory of Gods name , Had placed truth in her roome : The denshire dolts like Rebels ranck , In rusty armour ranged , But hangd wer som , their carions stanck , The world was quickly changed . And then dyd Ket the tanner stout In Norffolke play his part , Assemblyng such his Rebels rout , That Innocents might smart . But hanged he was , this was his end , And so ende all the sort , That Rebels are , and wyll not mend , A rope be their comfort . Such blessings as the Nortons had , And such as Felton found , God send them all that are so bad Wyth heeles to blesse the ground . If that you lyke not for to haue , This blessyng in a rope , Leaue of you Rebels for to raue And cursse your Dad the Pope . Which makes you oft such Crowes to pul Then leaues you in the mire , In sending you to such a Bull , This is but symple hire . Behold the end of thys attempt That last here was begun , Loe God your doyng doth preuent , The Rebels race to run . Synce God by grace doth guyde hys flock That none can them anoy , If you be grafted in this stocke , He wyl you not destroy . Feare God , flee syn , the truth embrace , And seeke your Prince to please , Obey the lawes and call for grace , So shall you lyue at peace . God saue our Queene Elizabeth . qd G. B. EINIS .

Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely , for Henry Kirkham , dwelling at the middle North doore of Paules , at the signe of the blacke Boy . The. xy . of December . 1571.