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A Dialogue betwixt the Devil and the ignoramus doctor
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Wing D1355; ESTC R29360
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A Dialogue betwixt the DEVIL AND THE Ignoramus Doctor Devil BEhold from the Infernal Lake I 'm come To fright thy Soul to its Eternal doom To tell thee Villain that thy Reign 's expir'd And now be sure thou shalt no longer hir'd Be by me no nor any of the damn'd To drench in Innocent Bloud this mournful Land Hence then be gone and do no more pursue Villanies Hell could ne'er act but by you Now Heaven stops my power and I thy hand And now I tell thee Doctor thou art damn'd Doctor O Spectre I spare a while my dreadful doom Go back and tell the damn'd I come I come Only let me compleat the Ils I 've begun Then Heaven farewell and unto You I come Dev. The Bloud o' th' Innocent aloud does cry Revenge Revenge on cursed Doctor Ti No more o' th' Innocent shall bleed nor die Dr. Well the time 's come the fatal day 's at hand That I for ever ever must be damn'd O curs'd Revenge what Mischiefs I have done Abjur'd the Father and Blasphem'd the Son The sacred Spirit of Truth at once have I Banish'd and that my Vengeance I might buy I 've caus'd the best of Innocents to dye See where their Ghosts appear in Purple ray'd Victims by Perjury alone betray'd See how they shake their Heads and bleed afresh Their wounds gape wide in their new murder'd flesh And these most frightful Visions come ' cause I Th' bloudy Villanous Murderer stand by 'T is true that I the cruel Murderer am And thousands more by Perjury to trepan I solemnly did vow and often swear And none t' escape from th' Peasant to the Peer Nay Sacred Prelates Princes Queens and Kings Should have made up my Bloudy Offerings Ten Thousand more of Innocents had dy'd ' Cause I King Queen and Duke had Sacrific'd Cities and Towns I 'd Fir'd if not withstood And quench'd the Flames with Innocent Blood Let me but live in this world three years more This Island then shall swim in Christian gore I 'le subvert Governments and murder Kings Sow discord among Friends I 'le do such things Shall make the World believe there is not that Villanous thing I have not power to act I 'le make the World believe let me but stay That Light is Darkness and that Night is Day That I the Saviour of the Nation am And that Christ was of no avail to Man Then I the Sacred Gospels will destroy Swear they 'r but fictious Stories and a Lye Perswade them that the Bible's but a Farce No more to be esteem'd then is my A So I 'le improve the Art of Perjury That none who are not skill'd in Villany Shall live thus will I fit this Isle for Hell And then adieu the World and Heaven farewell Thus I a Learned Doctor will commence And by th' People be ador'd for Nonsence And with Sedition I their Souls will influence Devil Peace thou prophane wretch hold Villain hold For know with Heaven and Earth thou art too bold And I must tell thee another Winter old Thou shalt not be thy Life and Soul are sold When flat on th' Altar Thou thy self didst lay Remember that thou gav'st thy Soul away To me and swor'st for ever thou d'st be mine Mightst thou but compass thy Hellish design To imbrue thy hands in Innocent blood And murder all who had the face of good Devils and Hell in this Thou hast outdone By thy damn'd Perjury i th' face o th' Sun Hence then be gone to Hell away away For in this place thou shalt no longer stay Spoken by an old Acquaintance Why how now Doctor vanish'd fled and gone What none but Monsieur Devil and You alone Are all your Projects come to this damn'd end Thus to be hamper'd and ridden by a Fiend Vnpitied lye blaspheme and groan thy last Belch forth thy unhallow'd Soul and blast Hell it self with thy unsanctify'd breath And groveling i th' shades of Eternal death I leave thee Ha ha ha ha poor Doctor Good Night little good Mr. Devil's Doctor FINIS