The Narrative This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A52623 of text R32297 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing N164). 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. 3 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 A52623 Wing N164 ESTC R32297 12623727 ocm 12623727 64599 2248577458

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A52623) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 64599) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1532:7) The Narrative 1 broadside. Printed for Anthony Jackson, London : 1681. In verse. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng eebo The narrative. [no entry] 1681 1 442 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 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE NARRATIVE . COme prick up your Ears , if they are not gone For this Deponent has lost his own ; His Neck goes next 't is Forty to one . Which no body can deny . Now this Deponent doth depose , That he was once , one of the Kings Foes . But now , he thanks God , he 's none of those , Sure our Deponent will lye . Next he swears ' there was Harry the Eight , Who was divorc'd from 's first Wife Kate , And that he cut off anothers Pate , Which no body can deny . Even so , quoth he , I can witness bring , That the Queen did consent to the death of the King , But we are inform'd , there was no such thing , Sure our Deponent will lye . He swears that before the Tower of Babel , Cain knock'd on the head his brother Abel ; Here he swears to a Truth and not to a Fable ; Which no body can deny , Even so , quoth he , this bloody work , Was carry'd on by his Brother of York , But his Highness is neither a Jew nor a Turk , For our Deponent will lye . He swears that once in Noah's time , There was a great Flood which brought a great , stream And all were drown'd that could not swim , Which no body can deny . And now , ( God help us ) we 're all in a Fright , He swears we might have been ruin'd quite , Our throats should all have been cut in the night . Sure our Deponent will lye . Farther he swears , that St. Peter from Heaven Had such an absolute power given , That who he pleas'd were condem'd or forgiven ; Which no body can deny . Even so , he swears that Commissions went out From the Pope , to raise both Horse and Foot , That whom they pleas'd they might slash and cut , Sure our Deponent will lye . Some where or other St. Paul does aver , That an Oath puts an end to all bustle and strir , By which he confirms , that 't is lawful to swear , Which no body can deny . There was foolish swearing in former days , But our Deponent hath alter'd the case , For ' has made more mischief than ever there was , Sure our Deponent will lye .

LONDON : Printed for Anthony Jackson , 1681.