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A10279 Visions, or Hels kingdome, and the worlds follies and abuses, strangely displaied by R.C. of the Inner Temple Gent. Being the first fruits of a reformed life; SueƱos. English Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Croshawe, Richard. 1640 (1640) STC 20561; ESTC S101544 51,980 226

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This said hee beganne his first worke and I departed very pensive apprehending in my selfe that that man must needs have heavy crimes upon his Conscience But the Divell seeing mee sad whispered in mine eare that it was an Atheist who neither beleeved in God nor the Divell O that an understanding man is really accursed replied I when he cannot tell how to make profit of that Talent which God hath given him Not farre off I saw abundance of People drawing a fiery Cheriot through a burning Lake with rings thrust through their tongues to which the harnesse was fastened and a Divell going before them with this Proclamation This is the punishment of swearers slanderers and lyers In the Waggon were easie beleevers and in a roome whose prospect looked upon them were beautifull Women tormented in quality of Witches at which mine heart melted but a Divell came to comfort mee saying Doe you not remember the evill they have done you Have you not often found by experience that they use a certaine kinde of Magicke that destroyes therefore their paine is agreeable to it I followed my devillish Conductour and saw Judas accompanied with false Stewards T●●tours and such O●ficers as himselfe some whereof had no ●●●●heads and others no face ● seemed to bee well pleased with them who related the exploits they had done in his imitation Going nearer I saw that their torment was like that of Titius on whose entrals a Vultur still gnawed for their Consciences were their greatest Tormentours I could not suppresse the desire I had to speake perjured disloyall traitour villaine above all example said I how durst thou bee so vile as to sell thy Master thy Lord and thy God Why answered Judas doe you complaine of that You should rather commend than condemne mee since you receive so great a benefit thereby T is for mee to bewaile that am excluded from the possession of so great a good as I have put into your hands But thinke not that I am Iudas alone Know that since the Lords Death there have beene and are worse than I more wicked and more unthankfull witnesse Heretickes and Schismatickes For if I did once sell my Master I was in part cause of the Redemption of Mankinde but they in selling him you and themselves have lost all the World And others who are not content to sell him onely but they scourge and crucifie him more ignominiously than the Jewes in their wicked lives And though I know that repentance now availes mee not yet I would have you on earth to looke into yourselves before you censure me since I was the first Steward condemned for sale and not for bargaine as is the use and practice of all my fellowes I would heare no more but making way saw a great bulke of building which seemed like some inchanted Castle in which were many Venereous Divels tossing Whores and Thieves from scalding oyle into frozen ice to heate and coole their appetite One of the Females stepping to the threshold where I and my Guide stood Gentlemen said shee I pray you tell us whether this bee justice to condemne People both for giving and taking A Thiefe is condemned because hee takes from another and an Whore because shee gives For my part I maintaine that there is no injustice in us for if it be justice for every one to give of his owne and that we doe no other wherefore are we damned Wee found her question too difficult to bee derided and therefore sent her to Lawyers and Counsellours who were not farre from her but remembring that I had heard her speake of Thieves I asked where Seriveners were because as I came I overtook none by the way I beleeve said my Divell that you met not any Why Are they then allsaved No said he but they come neither on foot nor horsebacke but flying on wings a million in a flocke in respect of which lightnesse they are tormented in an upper Chamber I past by and not farre from thence went unto a place in which many Soules were shut up some whereof were very silent and others clamorous One told me it was the empalement of Lovers at which I was something grieved seeing that Death doth not kill the sighes with the body Some talked of their passions and endured a torment of loving distrust and others attributed their losse to their desires and imaginations wherof the force of the one and the colours of the other did present pictures to bee a thousand times fairer than persons and substances The most part-of them were disquieted and molested with a torture called I thought as a Divell ●old me and asking what that was Hee smiling replied 't is a torment agreeable to their offence for when Lovers see themselves deceived in their hopes either in the pursuit or possession of their Mistresses they say alwayes I thought that shee did love mee I thought shee would have beene the raising of my fortune I thought that shee would have been faithfull to me so that the cause of their 〈◊〉 proceeds not from any other thing but I thought Next to Lovers were Poets who endured the same punishment because their passions were not much different These men are of very jeasting humours said the Divell for whilest that others mourne and bewaile their sins they sing theirs and publish them every where For if they have but once laine with a Cloris Phillis Silviae or Melita by the meanes of one song they will walke her through a kingdome dockt like a Chimisticall Goddesse They will give her golden haire a Chrystall forehead eyes of Emralds or Diamonds teeth of Pearle lippes of Purple and Rubies with words of Muske and Amber and yet for all these riches of which they are so prodigall they cannot get credit for a meane sute among Brokers a course shirt among Sempsters nor a crackt beaver at the second hand Fearing too long a stay I went on to see the devout Impertinents who make prayers and requests to God full of absurd extravagancies O that they gave testimony of much griefe Their tongues were chained in everlasting silence and their bodies made crooked and bending to the Earth condemned to heare for ever the fearfull cries of a wheazing Divell who thus reproved them You brazen-fac't abusers of Prayer and the long sufferance of GOD presumptuous who dare treat with the Divine Majesty with lesse respect than you would doe with a Merchant with whom you traffique how many times have you made these execrable petitions Lord take my Father out of this World that I may enjoy his goods Let my Brother die within few dayes that I may succeed him in dignity Grant that I may finde a Mine of Gold at my feet That I may bee fortunate in play That my Sonne and Daughter may be richly married That the King may cast his favour upon me And adde unto these rash demands Doe this Lord and I promise to give money towards the marriage of Orphants to build Almes-houses and