Behold Romes monster on his monstrous beast! Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A95879 of text R212106 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.8[29]). 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 2017 A95879 Wing V294 Thomason 669.f.8[29] ESTC R212106 99870758 99870758 161080 2240941488

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A95879) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161080) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f8[29]) Behold Romes monster on his monstrous beast! Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. and are to be sold by William Peake at his shop neere Holborne Conduit, next the Sun Tauerne, Imprinted at London : [1643] In verse; title from first line of verse. Signed at end: Iohn Vicars. Publication date from Wing. An engraved allegorical plate representing "Romes monster"; with explanatory verses by John Vicars. Annotation on Thomason copy: "sept: 26 1643". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Anti-Catholicism -- England -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A95879 R212106 (Thomason 669.f.8[29]). civilwar no Behold Romes monster on his monstrous beast! Vicars, John 1643 1 445 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

depiction of monstrosity and skeletons.

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BEhold Romes Monster on his monstrous Beast ! To fulnesse of his foulenesse ( now ) encreast ! How He in Papall Pride doth ride along , And how his sonnes and shauelings thrust and throng To see his sacred hollow-Holinesse His Babylonish Blasphemies expresse . His Barrell-Bellied Beast on stilts doth stalke , And with 7 hideous Heads doth proudly walke . The heads , 7 Hell-spawn'd deadly sins doe show . Wherein Romes Rabble rankly rise and grow . Foure faithlesse Feet , Deceit , Debate and Pride , With ill-got-Gaine , his steps on stylts do guide ; To raise him vp aloft , in supreame Seate , Like Saturnes Sonne , ruling all Princes great . His long-cloud-threatning fierce aduanced Tayle , The very starres ( Gods Saints ) doth sore assayle : Whereby is showne , Romes bloody Inquisition , Wasting Gods Saints , hasting their owne perdition , Then Babels Bishops , Iesuits , Friers bace , About the Beasts Posteriours flocke apace , And from his Barrell-Breech , the Dregs and Lees Of Romes all-rotten Reliques , deere Decrees , They fill full-Cups of Romish Fornication ; Which , by the Princes of Romes domination , So fill'd , are swill'd , and They made drunke thereby , And in Destruction sleeping , snorting die . As ( thus ) prowd Babels Baud doth prowdly prance , In Blood and Blasphemy Her-selfe t' aduance Gainst God and his deere Saints ; Heau'ns indignation Poures-downe the Vials of dire Desolation Vpon Romes Whore , and with his nosthrils breath , Sends his obsequious Seruant , Sergeant Death , Her to arrest , with his death-wounding Dart ; Who shoots his shaft and reaues and cleaues his heart . Whom ( as She in her hight of Pride did sit ) He , with his Rope of wrath , puls to the Pit Of Desolation and Destruction dire , To burne in Hels all-euer-burning fire . Thus is prowd Babel fallen , and in her fall , Fallen are hir Vassals , Sathans Vessels all : Euen now , this worke begins , for , Rome looks sickly , Euen so Lord Iesus come , oh Lord come quickly ; To right the wrongs of thy distressed Saints . To send an end to all their woes and plaints . Most humbly , heartily prayeth , IOHN VICARS .

Imprinted at London , and are to be sold by William Peake at his shop neere Holborne Conduit , next the Sun Tauerne .