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A26526
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The swearers, or, Innocence opprest and sacrific'd, in consequence of indulgence to perjurious prostitutes; Dog and the sheep. English.
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Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
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1681
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Wing A733; ESTC R19322
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THE SWEARERS OR INNOCENCE Opprest and Sacrific'd In Consequence of INDULGENCE To Perjurious Prostitutes LONDON Printed in the Year 1681. THE SWEARERS OR INNOCENCE Oppress'd and Sacrific'd c. IT shall be as little my Bus'ness as it seems Necessary or Practicable to draw a Panegyrick upon the Perfections of those Matchless Worthies Religious Spyes of Jerico who in Confidence that a Good Intention Hallows and Justifyes a Dubious Action to the Eminent Jeopardy of their All in Present and Future have Generously descended to Become Say and Do All Things to All Men according to the very Letter that by All Means they might Gain Something And Thus under the Double Capacity of Secret Friends and Once Open Enemies and Traytors to the Establish'd Protestant Religion and the Laws of the Kingdom equally to their proper Glory and the Benefit of their Country have wrought about a Great and Mighty Deliverance a New Reformation or rather Salvation in This our Brittish Israel render'd a Single Puff of Breath the Absolute Disposer of the Lives and Fortunes of all the Wicked in the Land with the Strong-Feeble Chosen Ones in the Psalmist bound Princes in Chains and Nobles in Links of Iron and Advanc'd themselves to the most Just and Statutable Pitch of Terror Complyance that can be imagin'd As to This Topick let it then suffice to say That tho the Late House of Commons at Oxford in Token of the Esteem they had for the Person and Services of the Reverend Chief of the Evidence Royal and to enable him to Purchase of Col. D. or any Other Lay up and Take his Ease with the Rich Man in the Parable were only hinder'd 'tis said by their Suddain and in This Respect Unhappy Dissolution from Voting him persuant to Frank Promise and Engagement Forty Thousand Pounds Yet will not I beat it out of my Thought that any thing less than a Still-higher Elevation in This World or the Abundances of Another can be sufficient to Ballance the Bulk of such Unpresidented Deserts as are Conspicuous in the Web and Woof of That Illustrious Fraternity whose Former Littleness and Human Frailties ought not to be Objected to their Disadvantage for Fear of involving the after a Sort Parrallel Circumstances even of the Blessed Apostles themselves in the Drift of the Reflection BUT now on the Other side upon casting back our Eye to Past Ages and particularly to the Reign of the Roman Emperour Tiberius we shall scarce meet with any thing else then the Agonyes Cryes Shreeks Tortures Scatter'd Limbs and Mangled Bodyes of Fathers Brothers Masters Nearest Relations Princes Nobles Gentlemen c. Who through the Trecherous and Perjurious Practises of a Mercenary and Miscreant Brood of Delatores Enformers or Swearers Glanc'd at in the Title-Page that utterly Ruin'd Trust and Confidence among Men Poyson'd the Fountains of Earthly Comfort Violated the Bonds and Dictates of Society and Good Nature Placed the People in a worse condition then the very Beasts that Perish Ran them into a State of War by advancing in every body a common Diffidence of his Neighbour turn'd the City of Rome into one General Shambles and were encourag'd and supported in all This Villany by that Jealous Politick and Bloudy Tyrant breath'd out their Last under the hand of the Executioner and in the utmost Extremities of Cruelty and Torment Nay upon a View of Later Doings and nearer Home too we may find even the very Swagg-Belly'd Dutch exercising unspeakable Villanyes Massacres and Barbarityes against the Poor English in Amboyna in the Indies and by the Affidavits of a Pack of Leathern-Conscienc'd Prostitutes labouring to wash their Hands of the Innocent Blood when they had done WHEREFORE Effectually to Brand these Hellish Enormities of Old and to Complement our Present Condition which tho' indeed Property at least has no reason to commend the Knights Errant in the Temple-Walks yet through Mercy Faints not I hope under any such Insupportable Oppressions nor is fairly liable to the Infamy of the like Odious Imputations I have ventur'd because Virtue never shines Brighter then while Opposed to its Contrary Vice with much good Will and and Meaning to submit to the Modest and Prudent use of my Country-Men Honest Aesop's Eighty-First Fable Of the Dog and the Sheep the Matter entirely his Own only for better Content long since by Mr. John Ogilby English'd and Meeter'd in the Stanza's Following ROUGH with a Trundle-Tayl a Prick-Ear'd Cur That had Nine Warrens of sterv'd Fleas in 's Fur On whom was Manginess entail'd and Itch From his Syre Isgrim and a Cat-Ey'd Bitch With These Endowments Rich And some Bold Vices Now we Virmes call He brought to th' Judgment-Hall His Accusation ' gainst a Guiltless-Sheep That he the Staff of Life from him did keep A Loaf he Lent him of the purest Wheat At the High Tribunal-Seat At once he Charg'd and at once Claim'd the Debt THE Sheep denyes that e're he had to do With This strange Dog whom no Good Shepherd knew Since he no Bond could Prove defires Release Then bawls the Cur Behold my Witnesses Let Them the Truth Confess The Vulture Fox and Squint-Ey'd Kite appear Who God nor Conscience fear To whom he promis'd Equal Shares before For which as They Enstructed were they Swore They saw when He deliver'd him the Bread Refusing Bond and Kindly said Without such Things Brethren should Brethren Aid THE Beasts had Salvage Laws Who could not Pay Convicted at the Cred'tor's Mercy Lay Such was the Poor Sheep's Case None could exhort The Dog to save the Honour of the Court Since Cruelty was his Sport But at the Sheep with open Mouth he flew And in th' whole Benche's View Sucks his Warm Blood and Eats his Panting Heart And to each Witness Quarters out Their Part. When One did say Thus Innocence we see Was never yet from Danger Free As th' Evidence so must the Sentence be MORAL WHILE Oaths Evidence shall sway the Cause Men of small Conscience little Fear the Laws What Trade are You A Witness Sir Draw near There 's Coyn go Swear what I would have you Swear THE END An ADVERTISEMENT THere have been Newly Published by James Vade at the Cock and Sugar-Loaf near St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street several small Treatises Relating to the Times that are generally pronounced worthy the Perusal of all True English-men Good Protestants and Loyal Subjects and bear the Titles following The Field of Blood Or Rebellion Blazoned in all its Colours in a Lively Representation grounded upon Fact of Inhability in a Prince Exorbitant Ambition in the Nobility and Licentious Insolence in the Commons The Keepers of the English Libertyes drawn to the Life in the Qualifications of Persons by Them declar'd capable to Serve in Parliament An Answer to a Popish Libel Entitled A Vindication of the English Catholicks discovering the Chief Falsities and Contradictions in the Narrative of Titus Oats A Paradox against Liberty An Heroick Poem By the Lords in the Tower A Seasonable Memento both to King and People upon This Critical Juncture of Affairs The Nations Interest with Relation to the Pretensions of his R. H. the Duke of York Discuss'd and Asserted A Paradox against Life An Heroick Poem By the Lords in the Tower The Impâ—stor Expos'd in a Dissection of a Villanous Libel entitled A Letter to a Person of Honour concerning the Black Box. The Mystery and Method of His Majesty's Happy Restauration laid Open to Publick View by John Price D. D. He has also now in the Press and just ready an Excellent Ode by a Barrister at Law under the Title of A Vote for Moderate Counsels as the Readiest way to Heal our Breaches and bring Happyness to King and People