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The heu and cry, or A relation of the travels of the Devil and Towzer through all the earthly territorys, and the infernal region, together with many of their most memorable adventures in search after the lost Heraclitus / written by N.N. ...
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THE HEU and CRY OR A. RELATION of the TRAVELS OF THE Devil and Towzer Through all the Earthly Territorys and the Infernal Region together with many of their most memorable Adventures in search after the lost HERACLITUS Written by N. N. M. A. and Chaplain Errant to his Excellency The Guide to the Inferiour Clergy Per varios Casue per tot discrimina rerum Tendimus in Stygium London Printed for Roger Câ—…gger To his Honoured PATRON the GUIDE to the INFERIOUR CLERGY Honoured Sir TO whom should I dedicate this Relation but to your self who â—ear one of the greatest parts in it This besides those many Obligations I have received from you hath emboldned me to lay this Book at your Feet Many 't is like of the Credulous World will censure me for relating a meer Fiction But if they are so hard of belief as to mistrust the truth of your having been in Hell allready they are not certainly so damnably sottish but that they think the Devil will have you in a short time and then this may pass for a Propâ—ecy That our dear Friend HERACLITUS is gone alas it is too true and you and he having liv'd the same lives and acted alike by most men you are doom'd to the same destiny You have written many tedious Observaters for the publick good and I â—â—ite this Relation for the same end Ah! how will it revive the Cockles of the Hearts of our Tory Friends to hear the Devil and you keep such Correspondence ah say they now our cause must needs Flourish when our two great Polliticians agree so well But I care not what the men of the World say of my Relation let it pass for a meer Romance if they please let it be the Continuation of Quevedo's Visions which you know you Translated out of a Language you understood never a word of and then why may not I compleat it with a Relation I never heard nor saw any thing of And to conclude I assure you if ever you take another Ramble it shall be Faithfully Related by Your most Humble Servant and Chaplain N. N. A Relation of the Travels of Towzer and Satan in search after the lost Heraclitus through all the Earthly Territorys and the Infernal Region c. IT was then when Discord newly sprang up did Flourish in its Verdure when Rogue and Whore were Epithets for Man and Wife and Fool and Knave for Neighbours when Babels Bricklayers had Invaded England and had made as many Dissentions in it as they had Bricks to build their Edifice 't was then I say this Son of Discord call'd Heraclitus Cadet to the Family of Prince Belzebub came by his Fathers Commission to Plague our Common-Wealth The History of his Life would be too tedious to Trouble the Reader with And I only design to Relate his Departure How the Devil it came about I know not but upon a certain day the Wight stept aside and was never more heard of various was the talk both of City and Court Town and Country what was become of the famous Heraclitus some said he liv'd a Fool went out in a stink and if he were quite Deceased dy'd a Knave others and those were but few had a little more Favourable Conjectures of him and said he was only stept aside to Barn-Elms Epsom Wells or some such place and was caught in a Net they call a Petticoat others said he was drunk at the Prentices Feast and was yet asleep this was again Contradicted by others because as they said he told the World in a Printed Pamphlet a little before he went away he had a Design to Vanish which made most think he was in Debt and so gave his Creditors warning of his Rupture This News was soon carryed to his Infernal Highness which cast him into such a Melancholy you would wonder he straitwayes puts all his retinue of Hellish-long-tails into Mourning mounts his Fiery Chariot and ascends and without any Ceremony drives away to Councellor Towzer after a little Consultation it was agreed upon by these two Politicians first To take a Journey over the whole Surface of the Earth and if he were not to be found there they were resolv'd to seek Hell too but they would find him Being agreed upon by both parties I was sent for from my Devotion for by the way you must understand I use to say my Prayers and tell my Beads sometimes to attend his Excellency My Patron that hath so many Names in the World some call him the Guide to the Inferior Clergy others call him Towzer and some call him Rogero del Bombardo I who am allwayes Ambitious of Hoâ—oâ—r hearing his Worship Satan was in the Company went away with as much Alacrity as if I had been Invited to a Christning to drink burnt Claret and sup white Broath I put my hat under my Arm set my Gown in Pimblico Entred the Room and made a plaguy long Scrape with one of my hind Legs upon the Boards of the Chamber and then told my Patron I was come to wait on his Worship My Patron bid me come nearer but to say true I did not much care for 't for the Old Gentleman call'd Belzeebub sate just by his Side in a great Turky Chair Heavens I was in such a Fright I thought verily I should have defil'd the case in the presence Chamber but if I had there was such a Stink of Assa-Foetida and Brimstone it would have drownded such a puny Scent as this At length my Patron open'd his reverend Chaps and told me he had design'd to take a long Journey with that Gentleman and I must go with him to perform the Office of a Chaplain I told him I was his Humble Servant But yet methought I did not Care much for Mr. Devils Company I lik'd him so ill at first Sight for he Star'd at me most damnably with a couple of Eyes as big as a pair of great Coach-wheels and his Teeth look't just like the Spoaks But knowing him to be one that delighted in all kind of Wickedness and my Patron to have a very good hand at it and to say true I did not much come behind my Patron neither so Consideratis Considerandis I thought we three might be very good Company Then I made a very Reverend low Conge to Mr. Devil and told him I would wait on him and my Patron Towzer whither soever they went Towzer was all this while fitting himself for his Journey getting all the necessaries for so tedious a Ramble then he steps into his Closet and brings out a woundy great Pouch which he told me I was to hang by my side on my Cirsingle and then bid me withdraw which after the usual Ceremonies between men of such breeding as we three were I did But I had a months mind to know what was in the Inside of this Pouch when I came out into the Entry I made bold to open it and the first thing I laid my hands on