A reply to a young cockscomb, who sides with a couple of old fools: or, An answer to Hopkins and Sternhold's petition to the Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28916 of text R229255 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. 5KB 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 B28916 Wing R1057 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.121.g.9[109] ESTC R229255 ocm99888277

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 eng Hopkins, John, d. 1570 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A reply to a young cockscomb, who sides with a couple of old fools: or, An answer to Hopkins and Sternhold's petition to the Parliament. . n/a 1699 2 708 1 0 0 0 0 0 14.12 C The rate of 14.12 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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A REPLY TO A Young Cockscomb . Who sides with a Couple of Old Fools : Or , An Answer to HOPKINS and STERNHOLD's Petition to the PARLIAMENT . YE scoundrel Old Bards , and a Brace of dull Knaves , What a plague makes you mutter and talk in your Graves ? Sure ye drank in your Porridge like a couple of Sots , And have mix'd the Spoon-meat with the Belch of the Pots ; Or the Worms had by this time , if they had any Conscience , Stopp'd the Tongues of those Fools who made David's speak Nonsence . Ye write , and be damn'd t' ye ! Ye traffick in Metre ! Why , a Bawdy house Tongs has a Voice that is sweeter : A White-Friars Sinner , or a Saint by Duck-Lane , A● Crowders-well Sonnet , or a Pye-corner Strain , Has Raptures and Flights , full of Judgment , and taking , When compar'd to the Things ye call Psalms of your making . Shame on ye for Coxcombs , away with this Riot , And rot on like the rest who lie by ye in quiet ; Nor dare to presume to petition and squabble , When there 's none takes your Part but the ignorant Rabble . As for David , for God's sake , how dare ye to name him , When your wretched Translations so damnably shame him . Poor Psalmist ! he frets , and he storms , and he stares , Bemoans his Composures , and renounces his Pray'rs , Blushes more at the Dress which his Penitence hath on , Than when told of his Faults by the Prophet Old Nathan . So chang'd are his Lines , and so murther'd each Sentence , So debauch'd his GOD's Praise , and so lame his Repentance , That to know the good King by the Words ye create him . Is a Thing much more hard than it is to translate him . Let me tell ye , grave Dons , I 'll be bold to assure ye , It is well that this Warriour lies buried in JURT ; Had he laid near the Place , which at present contains Of ye two sorry Sinners the stupid Remains , 't is a Pound to a Penny , but his Ashes would fly on , And handle your Skulls like the Bear , and the Lyon . But for fear I should dwell on the Subject too long , And the Dulness I laugh at be seen in my Song ; Lest the Muse should turn Jade , and , by Sympathy led , Take part of the Scandal sh' has flung on the Dead , I 'll no more of your Canting , and Whining , and Chiming , Your Elizabeth-Phrase , and your Farthingal-Rhiming , Brought in use as a Covert to Nonsense , I 'll tell ye , As that Righteous Queen's Dress was to hide a great Belly . But though the loud Rabble should never deny ye , Confirm'd in their purpose , and resolv'd to stand by ye , Though the Poor Ones should murmur , and doat on your Sense , For want of due Thinking , and for want of the Pence ; Though the stiff Parish-Clerks , with their Bands and their Gowns , Read the New Psalms with Hums , and with Ha's , and with Frowns , 'Cause the Levites their Masters by chance are afraid Innovation should turn to a Practice , and Trade , And by those means the Godly Wiseacres be driven From their Desks , and their Pulpits , their Sloth and their Heaven : Though the Stationers strive all they can to decry 'em , And Took swears that thousands of Old Ones lie by 'em : Though the late Version fails of the Spirit and Force Of DAVID's Rejoicings , or DAVID's Remorse ; Yet I 'm not such a Cockscomb ' stead of New Psalms , to learn Old , Or to quit TATE and BRADY for Hopkins and Sternhold .

London , Printed for John Wells , in St. Paul's Church-yard , 1699.