The mad-men's hospital: or, A present remedy to cure the Presbyterian itch. A poem. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B26429 of text R13111 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B26429 13585982 Wing M241 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 1872.a.1.[41*] ESTC R13111 ocm99882762

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 eng Presbyterianism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Religion -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. eebo The mad-men's hospital: or, A present remedy to cure the Presbyterian itch. : A poem. n/a 1681 2 644 1 0 0 0 0 0 15.53 C The rate of 15.53 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Mad-men's Hospital : Or , A present Remedy to Cure The Presbyterian Itch. A POEM . 1. OH , Happy Soyl ! unhappily possess'd , Your Natives now , invade your sacred Peace ; And that Religion we all profess'd , Must now by Extirpation surcease : Our Laws are broken , Birthright's ta'en away ; Banish'd or Murder'd , Innocents betray . 2. This Hell-bred change , hath Reformation brought , By bold Interpretation of Text : What was believ'd , and our Forefathers taught , By new Dark-Lanthorn-Lights is now perplext : New Government's set up , the Rabble see A way to Rule the Church , and Monarchy . 3. Oh , treble damn'd ! Rebels to God and King ! Who first put Arms into the Roundheads hands , Taught them to know their Brutish strength ; who bring A right of Levelling to all mens Lands : Like Hounds unhunted , left to their own Chase , Seize all that cross their way , Noble or Base . 4. They love the King , as School-Boys Masters love , Let them do what they will ; how good a man , Correct them , he 's a Tyrant , none above Them , they admit , then govern them that can : Break up the School , a Commonwealth their cry's , Learning hath fool'd the World , and taught us Lies . 5. Thus is this wilful and presuming Age , Where Reason's blinded with Opinion , For current Truth , upheld by th' Peoples Rage , They spurn at Truth , and true Religion : Those Beast-like Rights , which greater Beasts perswade , Are the false Opticks of their cheating Trade . 6. Poor Countrymen ! the whole Worlds hate or scorn , Led by a creeping Will o' th' Wisp's false Fire ; Like him to malice , and to mischiefs born , Leads you to perish in a poyson'd Myre : Pride made a Devil , what is 't made thee so ? Malice ; so coupled , both together go . 7. But tell me yet , Mad-men have Intervals , What end do you propose ? suppose your Plot Should take effect , that Palaces , and Halls , The King , the Duke , Lords , Papists , and who not Should in one ruine fall ; what will succeed ? Cutting of Throats , make one another bleed . 8. For Jesus Christ will not descend to Reign , You ( in his Members ) crucifie him here ; In time compleat , when he will come again , 't will be to your Confusion and Fear : Order supports the World , nothing can stand Without it ; Beasts have Order and Command . 9. Those very Sects , who now together joyn , Will then divide , and each their Claim advance : This is the Truth I hold ; that Lordship's mine ; 't is false , 't is not , 't is for the K. of France : For when that one anothers Bloud we draw , 't is time a third should come , to give us Law . Y' are on a Precipic● and one step more , Y' are lost ; Return , for Judgment 's at your door . 10. Recipe . Take but one grain of Faith , from the Rock pure , And fix it fast to the right Anchor-stock , Mixt with the Oyl of Charity ; 't will cure , Apply'd to the Heart side ; Probatum hoc : This never fail'd , lasts while the World endures , Close kept ; and all Mankinds diseases cures .

LONDON : Printed by N. T. 1681.