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cause_n	great_a	know_v	lord_n	3,918	5	3.5901	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36189	Dr. Pierce, his preaching confuted by his practice sent in a letter by N.G. to a friend in London.	Dobson, John, 1633-1681.	1663 (1663)	Wing D1753; ESTC R32797	1,439	8

Dr. Pierce HIS PREACHING Confuted by HIS PRACTICE Sent in a Letter by N. G. to a Friend in LONDON Dear George I Send thee a Copy of the Lampoon upon the President of Maudlins that you may see at what distance his Court-preaching stands with his College-practice For there he twitted the Romanists with I know not what Novelties both of Doctrine and Practice cunningly brought into the Church whilest here by a tyrannical and arbitrary way of Governing he puts down all the good old Customs which seemed fit to be preserv'd by his Predecessors some whereof were as good and others better then himself and under pretence of Reformation hath innovated more in a year and half than the Romanists had done in many Ages What his Innovations are I need not say here in Prose thou wilt find in great part they are told in Verse whereof but five or six Stanza's were proclaim'd on Act-Monday by Mr. Brookes of Christs-Church than whom in many years there has not been a more couragious or a more comical Terrae-filius But his most execrable Novelty was his imperious way of Proceeding against Harry Yerbury who for all his Degree and his Sufferings for the King 1648 his great Ingenuity and civil Carriage was not onely put out of Commons like a Boy for I know not what Peccadillo's call'd Verba brigosa but cast out of the College like any Dog for but appealing to the Visitor from such Correction Now to scare our own Governours from presuming to deal with us as the Statute-monger of Maudlins dealt with him be sure to publish this Ballad as far and wide as thou canst so thou be'st but so honest as to hush up the Name of Thy affectionate Servant N. G. NEar to the Ford o're which an Ass Or an Ox at least did pass And where the once-bless'd Magdalen A sinner is possess'd agen The man that sets up Innovation By th' primitive Rule of Reformation And preach'd down Popery too in hope To be in time Himself a Pope Makes new Religious Modes to grow Which from the Beginning were nothing so Demyes and Fellows too they say Are in the Chappel brought to pray As often as the Organs blow But from the beginning it was not so The Founder's Laws are so set up That Scholars when they dine and sup Must bandy Latine to and fro But from the beginning it was not so The tree which Walnuts forth did shoot Is voted down both branch and root And where Bowls ran there Turnips grow But from the beginning it was not so Demyships which were bought and sold Cannot now be had for Gold And things call'd Merits currant go But from the beginning it was not so Fellowships eke are nothing worth Which eightscore Pieces did bring forth And a Gratuity too I trow But from the beginning it was not so A Belly-full now for a Feast must suffice Whilst by an abatement of Plum-broth and Pies Men are taught to be temperate but yet we know That from the beginning it was not so Depraved manners now must be Reform'd by Easter-scrutiny Where none must his Accuser know But from the beginning it was not so In time of Term 't is lately said That weekly Preachments must be made Whether the Preacher will or no But from the beginning it was not so Gold is now wrested from the Fists Of all the late Spurroyallists Sent Pris'ners to th' Tow'r as though From the beginning it had been so The Grammar-school hath also cause To say New Lords do make new Laws Though Busby's followers needs must know That from the beginning it was not so Amongst the other Modern fashions All men are brought to Disputations Both great and small from top to toe But from the beginning it was not so If a good Fellow be Maudlin drunk Speak Verba brigosa or keep a Punk He straight must out of Commons go But from the beginning it was not so If thereupon he make Appeals For having fasted all those Meals He never must have Commons moe But from the beginning it was not so FINIS