EBBA 36972
British Library - 1872.a.1
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THE
Protestant Dissenters
LETANY.
Occasioned by a late Pamphlet falsly call'd,
The Loyal Letany
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FRom Rom's Tiranizing o'r Kingdomes and Kings
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From Religion that Murther and Massacre brings
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From TREASON styl'd Merit and such dreadful things,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From Poysoning of Princes i'th bles'd Sacrament
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From Eighty Eight's Torments that Spain did invent
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From Blowing up Parliaments by Hell's consent
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Lib. etc.
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From whipping of Monarchs to please a base Monk
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From those who at Villanies never yet shrunk
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And from the vile Strumpet with Saints blood made drunk
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Lib. etc.
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From Piedmont, Bohemia and Waldences fate
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From such as do strive to raise War and Debate
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And with burning of Martyrs themselves Recreate
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Lib. etc.
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From Damn'd Inquisitions and Massacring Knives
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From deflowring our Daughters and Ravishing our Wives
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From ripping up Wombs to destroy Infants Lives
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Lib. etc.
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From Firing of Cities to quench them with blood
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From Adoring of Pictures and Statues of Wood
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From praying to Saints and Blaspheming of God
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Lib. etc.
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From Marean dayes and a Smithfield Rounds Sweat,
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From the Stakes and the Faggotts that there would be set
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If the Pope and the Papist the upper Hand get.
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Lib. etc.
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From Jesuits who still in close Ambush do lye,
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From such who known truth to the last do deny,
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And in hopes of Saintship do most Perjur'd dye.
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Lib. etc.
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From Godfrey's sad usage, and that which was meant
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To conforming Protestants, and those that discent,
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From three Nations bleeding to give Rome Content.
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Lib. etc.
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From Bosom friends that our lives would betray,
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From such as their Dearest Relations wou'd slay;
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From those the Pope's Curse can Compell to obey
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Lib. etc.
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From such as their trust with their Conscience do sell,
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From TORY'S whose work's to perswade us, Rebell:
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And from all those who of Popery smell.
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Lib. etc.
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From evil Counsellors, if such there be,
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From those that wou'd Conscience-chain which shou'd be free,
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From all Superstition and Idolatry
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Lib. etc.
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From Plotts and Sham-Plotts good Subjects to wrong
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From those who to wade in our blood do think long
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From Mass and from turning our Prayers to a Song.
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Lib. etc.
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From fashions of France and their murthering Arms,
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From Secret Impoysonings, and Mischevious Charms,
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From Roman Locusts, with which England Swarms.
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Lib. etc.
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From all the Devices the Pope can contrive,
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From those that do seek to devour us alive:
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From all those Villains that by Murther trive.
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Lib. etc.
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From our Worship being turn'd into noise and loud Cants,
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From Bowing to Pictures and praying to Saints,
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From making a God of what each Block-head Paints.
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Lib. etc.
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From smiling upon us and cutting our Throats,
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From such as a Saintship for Treason Rome Votes:
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From those who from side to side still shifts their Coats.
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Lib. etc.
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From Romish Merchants Extortioning Jews,
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Who deceiv'd us of Coyn to maintain the Popes Stews,
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And from those the Oath of Supreamacy refuse.
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Lib. etc.
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