The Parallel, or, A comparison betwixt the Prince of Darkness, and the children of light, the true Protestants, and the father of lies This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A55809 of text R7719 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P340). 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 A55809 Wing P340 ESTC R7719 12589084 ocm 12589084 63819 2240962475

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A55809) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63819) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 967:12) The Parallel, or, A comparison betwixt the Prince of Darkness, and the children of light, the true Protestants, and the father of lies 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Walter Davies, London : 1682. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Broadside. In verse. eng Protestantism -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides eebo The parallel, or a comparison betwixt the Prince of Darkness, and the children of light, the true Protestants, and the father of lies. [no entry] 1682 1 432 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. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Parallel , Or a Comparison betwixt the Prince of Darkness , and the Children of Light , the True Protestants , and the Father of Lies . O All all you the Zealots of Country and Town , That in godly disguises walk up and Down ; Whom Ambition , or Folly , or Madness inspire , To Sing , Curse ye Meroz , in Protestant Quire . That Invite one another by Tickets in Print , To dispute it by Claret and Arguments Dint ; By Gammons and Pasties , and Joles , to Define Whether Crown should descend in the right or wrong Line . Whether Princes may Reign , unless Rebels permit , Unless Coopers and Tapsters , and Vpstarts think fit . Come hither , and Patiently hear what you Are , For of all things , you know not your own Character , And did you but know your selves to be such , Neither Pope nor the Devil could fright you , so much As your own Images , your selves would fright : So Cruel , so Arbitrary , so full of spite , That in each Lineament , of a Professor , You would Curse , and Cry out , of a Popish Successor . A Whig is old Lucifer in Masquerade , Old Satan and He , are both of a Trade : Both put on the shape of an Angel of Light , To Cheat and Cajole in a Garment of White ; Only this differs , in Devil and Saint , One is the Life of Sin , the other Paint : The Devil can Cant and Whine , Pretend and Snevil , And Whigs are but Jack-Puddings to the Devil , He on the high Rope with a Pole does go , And in Chalk Jumps makes a more skilful show ; While they with Hob-nail-Impudence pretend , Their Masters Feats , without a Pole to mend . He Apes the Saints , and They the Devil Ape , They change and barter one anothers Shape ; Only he cleaverly his Pranks does Play , Conceals his Art in Sanctified Array . They in Satanick dress the Devil out-doe , And are the grosser Hypocrites o' the two . In Treason and Sedition both conspire , Both dress the Plots i' the same Hellish-fire . And may they both , defeated of their Aim , If neither Satan , nor his Imps Reclaim , Fry both together in that Rebels Flame .

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