The Confinement of the seven bishops This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A34263 of text R33377 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C5804A). 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. 2 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 A34263 Wing C5804A ESTC R33377 13285549 ocm 13285549 98795 2248535438

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A34263) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 98795) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1547:33) The Confinement of the seven bishops 1 broadside. s.n., [London : 1689] In verse. Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Poetry. eebo The confinement of the seven bishops· [no entry] 1689 1 367 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. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE CONFINEMENT Of the SEVEN BISHOPS . WHere is there Faith , or Justice to be found ? Sure , the World Trembles , Nature's in a sound , To see her Pious Sons , Design'd to Fall , A Victim , for Religion , Truth and All. The Charms of Piety , are no Defence , Against the New found Power , that can Dispence With Laws , to Murder Innocence : Surely , unless some Pittying God look down , And stop the Threatning Torrent , it will drown Divinity it Self . — The Bishops Prisoners are , we tamely see ; The Reverend Prelats forc'd to Bow the Knee To Anti-Christ : No , Mighty Monarch , know , Tho' we must pay to Caesar what we Owe ; There is a Power Supreme , by which You Live , Whose Arm is longer , and Prerogative Larger by far , than Yours , whose very Word Can blast Your Hopes , and turn Your two edg'd Sword ; Can make this Titular Vice-gerent know , Vertue , like Palm's Deprest , do's higher grow . Tho' Roab'd in all the Grandure of the State , Courtiers , like Radient Stars about You wait , Midst of Your Glorious Joys , when You put on That Awful Presence , which becomes a Throne : Belshazzer like , Three Words upon a Wall , 'T will Dash Your Joys , and make Your Glory Fall : His Holyness , That Patriot of Strife , Tho' he can grant You Pardon , cannot Life . Arise then , Mighty Sir , in God-like Mean ! As of thy Valor , Let thy Truth be Seen , Free from Mistrust , Let all Your Words be clear By Action ; Let Your Promises appear , Protect the Church , which brought You to the Crown ; You know 't is Great , and Honourable to Own , A Kindness done ; But to Reward with Death , The Happy Instruments , That gave You Breath , Is mean ; and might a Catholick Conscience sting , To cut the Hand of that , Anoints You King.