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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56893	The visions of dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, knight of the Order of St. James made English by R.L.; Sueños. English. 1667	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1667 (1667)	Wing Q196; ESTC R24071	131,843	354

us Upon this our Grave Counsellours finding us so resolute e'en gave us over and told us as before that In the other world we should meet with our Reward Now taking This to be the other World these honest men told us of we are inquiring after the Rewards they promis'd us Abominable Scoundrels said an Officer of Iustice there at hand How many of your reprobated Companions have squander'd away their Fortunes upon Whores and Dice exposing not only their Wives and Children but many a Noble Family to a shameful and irreparable Ruine And let any man put in a word of wholsome advice their Answer is Tush Tush Our Wives and Children are in the hands of Providence and let him provide for the Rooks that feeds the Ravens Then was it toldye you should find your Reward in the other World and the time is now come wherein ye shall receive it Vp up then ye cursed Spirits and away with them At which word a Legion of Devils fell on upon the miserable Caitiffs with Whips and Firebrands and gave them their long expected Reward And at every lash a voice was heard to say In the other World you shall receive your Reward These Wretches in the mean while damning and sinking themselves to the pit of Hell still as if they had been upon Earth and vomiting their customary and execrable Blasphemies Just as this storm blew over there drew neer a multitude of Bayliffs Serjeants Catchpoles and other Officers of Prey with the Thieves Devil bound hand and foot and a foul Accusation against him Whereupon Lucifer with a fell countenance took his seat in a flaming Chair and call'd his Officers about him So soon as the Prince had taken his place a certain Officer began his Report Here is before thee quoth he a Devil most mighty Lucifer that stands charg'd with Ignorance in his Trade and the shame of his Quality and Profession instead of damning men he has made it his business to save them The word save put the Court in such a Rage that they bit their lips till the bloud started and the fire sparkled at their Eyes and Lucifer turning about to his Atturney Who would ever have imagin'd said he that so treacherous a Rascal could have been harbour'd in my Dominions It is most certain my gracious Lord reply'd the Atturney that this Devil has been very diligent in drawing people into Thefts and Pilferies and then when they come to be discover'd they are clapt up and hang'd or some mischief or other But still before Execution the Ordinary calls them to shrift and many times the toy takes them in the head to confess and repent and so they are sav'd Now this si●ly Devil thinks that when he has brought them to Steal Murther Coin and the like he has done his part and so he leaves them whereas he should stick close to them in the Prison and be tempting of them to despair and make away themselves But when they are once left to the Priest he commonly brings them to a sight of their sins and they ' scape Now this simple Devil was not aware it seems that many a soul goes to Heaven from the Gallows the Wheel and the Faggot and this failing has lost your Highness many a fair Purchase Here 's enough cry'd the President and there needs no more Charge against him The poor Devil thought it was high time to speak now when they were just upon the point of passing his Sentence and so he cry'd out My Lord said he I beseech you hear me for though they say the Devil is deaf it is not meant of your Greatness so there was a general silence and thus he proceeded I cannot deny my Lord but Tyburn is the way to Paradise and many a man goes to Heaven from the Gallows But if you will set those that are damn'd for condemning others against those that are sav'd from the Gallows Hell will be found no Loser by me at the foot of the Accompt How m●ny Marshal's-me● Turn-keys and Keepers have I sent ye for letting a Coiner give them the slip now and then with his false Money alwaies provided they leave better Money instead on 't How many false Witnesses and Knights of the Post that would set their Consciences like Clocks to go faster or slower according as they had more or less weight and swear ex tempore at all Rates and Prices How many Sollicitors Atturneys and Clerks that would draw ye up a Declaration or an Inditement so slily that I my self could hardly discover any Errour in 't and yet when it came to the Test it was as plain as the nose on a mans face that is to say again Provided they were well paid for the Fashion How many Iaylers that would wink at an Escape for a Lusty Bribe And how many Atturneys that would give ye Dispatch or Delay thereafter as they were greas'd Now after all this what does it signifie if one Thief of a thousand comes to the Gallows he only suffers because he was poor that there may be the better Trading for the Rich and without any design in the world to suppress stealing Nay It often falls out that they that bring the Malefactor to the Gibbet are the worse Criminals of the two But they are never lookt after or if they should be they have tricks and fetches enough to bring themselves off so that it fares in this case as it did with him that had his house troubled with Rats and would needs take in a company of Cats to destroy them The Rats would be nibbling at his Cheese his Bacon a crust of Bread and now and then a Candles End But when the Cats came down went a Milk-bowl away goes a Brace of Partriges or a Couple of Pigeons and the poor man must content himself to go supperless to Bed In the Conclusion the Rats were troublesome but the Cats were intolerable And then there 's This in 't suppose One poor fellow hangs and goes to Heaven I do but give him in truck for two hundred at least that deserve to be hang'd but 'scape and go to Hell at last Beside A Thief upon a Gibbet is as good as a Roasted-Dog in a Pigeon-house for ye sh●ll immediately have two or three thousand Witches about him for s●ips of his H●lter an Eye-Tooth or a Collop of his Fat which i● of Soveraign use in many of their Charms But in fine let me do what I will my services are not understood My Successor it may be will discharge his Duty Better and indeed I am very well content to lay down my Commission for to say the Truth I am in Years and would gladly have a Little Rest now in my old age which I rather propose to my self in the Service of some Pretender then where I am Lucifer heard him with great Patience and in the End gave him all the satisfaction imaginable strictly charging the Evil Spirits that had abus'd him to do so