A litany for the fast This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A48710 of text R214624 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2533A). 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 A48710 Wing L2533A ESTC R214624 99826734 99826734 31140 2240873481

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A48710) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31140) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1992:22) A litany for the fast 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London? : 1682?] Verse - "From merit unweildy, and overgrown worth;". Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Fasting -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo A litany for the fast. [no entry] 1682 1 330 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. 2007-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LITANY FOR THE FAST . FROM Merit unweildy , and overgrown Worth ; From such Honours and Loyalty , Faith and so forth , As three Princes betray'd , and now bullies the Fourth , Libera nos , Domine . From Duty that is such a Rarity thought , That while Honour and Conscience , not worth a Groat , This at the Price of a House and Crown-Lands must be bought , Libera Nos , &c. From who keeps the Vacant Commissions six Months Of Colonels and Captains , Premiers and Seconds ; And oh ! Terrible thus is an Army at once , Libera Nos , &c. From a Peace to be manag'd by such Plenipoes As thereby Forty Thousand per annum must lose , And who has no Passion for Money , God knows , Libera Nos , &c. From the Cause of a Court , and the Spawn of a Bawd , From Malice and Faction , Pride Envy and Fraud ; From a Cloven-Foot veil'd with a Petticoat Lord , Libera Nos , &c. From the Pest of a State , a Club-ridden Knave , Who a Nation does with their own money enslave , And has damn'd more than Thou in thy Justice can save , Libera Nos , &c. From Tremendous Cabals that do Fatally rise , From an Elightning Custard and Hot Mutton-Pycs , To bubble the State , and bully the Skies , Libera Nos , &c. From such Civil Law as insults Holy Writ , From the Number where Faction contracted does sit Into Five ; that 's Two Fools , Two Knaves and a Wit , Libera Nos , &c. From a People too good to be told of their Faults , From an Head of a City , whose Word goes for nought , Who'll endeavour to save St. Paul's-work , 't is thought , Libera Nos , &c.