The Quakers wedding, October, 24. 1671. Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05971 of text R220415 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S5509). 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 B05971 Wing S5509 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[90] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[175] 99885018 ocm99885018 182844 2264214800

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05971) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182844) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[91]; A4:2[176]) The Quakers wedding, October, 24. 1671. Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for Rowland Reynolds, at the Sun and Bible in the Poultry, London, : 1671. Signed: Stevenson. Verse: "O Times! O Manners! Whither's Levy fled ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Quakers -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. Marriage -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo The Quakers wedding, October, 24. 1671. Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1671 1 478 4 0 0 0 0 0 83.68 D The rate of 83.68 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE QUAKERS WEDDING , October , 24. 1671. O Times ! O Manners ! Whither 's Levy fled , That Law and Gospel seem Abolished ? ●he Red-Nos'd Dragon with his Complices , To Fundamental Truths Antipodes , That Coccatrice this cursed Egg has hatch'd And taught us worse than ever to be Matcht . They publish ( then ) at whipping-posts the Banes , And well I think deserv'd'um for their pains . But we can Marry now , hand over-head , And not have so much as a Form to plead . We are not now unto the Justice packt , ( Though then there was small Justice in the Act ) . But we can Marry of our own accord , Like Jack and Gill , but leaping cross a Sword . But against parties coupled on this wise , Westminster-Weddings will in judgment Rise , That they should stumble , and pretend such Light , They Marry wrong , and call 't a Marriage-Rite . The Libertine comes in the Levits room , And is at once the Parson and the Groom . He babbles like a Brute , and by and by , He takes the Bride , and goes to Multiply . The Bride ? I do recall what I have said , 'T is not a Bridal , but a Brothel bed ; They for Conjunction Copulative would pass , When the Conjunction a Disjunctive was . For having Lain together all their Life , They are , but as they met , not Man and Wife . And for a mitigation of their Cares , They may have many Children , but no Heirs . And , what a Marryed-Man could never yet , He may a Bastard of his Wife beget . For wanting Licence , and Certificate , He leaves his Issue illegitimate . The Sons and Daughters of the Common Earth , An Off-spring out-Law'd in their very Birth . What made , them Jews and Gentiles to Invite ? Sure they could never hope a Proselyte . How Heaven approv'd the Juggle ? you may tell When Thunder , Lightning , and a Tempest fell Confusion waited on both Men and Meat , Their Marriage , and their Feast , were both a Che●● A Wedding , and no Wedding brought before y 〈…〉 The Devil doubtless was the Directory . Some Hellebor restore 'um , to recant , This fordid League , and senceless Covenant . O that such Vileness should affront the Sun , Would make a Corner blush to see it done ! Whilst , almost mad as they , the People ran , To see a Sinner take a Publican . Steven 〈…〉

LONDON , Printed for Rowland Reynolds , at the Sun and Bible in the Poultry , 1671.