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A New-years-gift for Towzer being a strange and monstrous beast sent from Pluto by his embassador Belphegor to R.L.S., having twelve heads and on every head a thousand horns : with a description of the beast and an explanation of the several names of the heads of the monster.
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1682
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Wing N813; ESTC R31743
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is a kind of a Gygantine Head erected with as much Pride and Gravity as a Bon of Spain he is still belching out Lyes Stories Untruths mixed with many Fables Romances De Quevedoes with some Blasphemies intermixed There is in it a great Talkative Devil which will not leave chattering from one end of the Week to the other and yet hardly speaks one word of truth in all that time The next head is called Observator near of Kin to the Knight of the Craving Fob which is a far more cogent argument for plaguing the world with his Pamphlets than all the Loyalty he boasts of and this I assure you the Beast Towzer is not a little proud of carrying it alof in the air tho it has but the braines of a Butter-fly Twice a week this head speaks he has not spoken above 82 times in all his life but then he claws away the Whiggs and the Protestant Dissenters and is almost continually crying between whiles Bew Waw Waw 41 41 have a care of 41. This Observator has very little but sharpe eyes he can see through a Milstone and spye a mote no bigger then the claw of a Flea in a Dissenters Conscience This head has a Divelish swallow ten thousand Non-conformists will not fill his Gorge and swarmes of Presbyterians are no more to him then a few Sprats in a Whales belly He keeps a continual Watch upon the motion of a Whigs tayl they can scarce piss for him and nothing can be done in Town or Countrey but he observes it he holds this head sa high as the Dragon on Bow and is something like him often varying his point yet hard as Iron not to be wrought upon by sence or reason Old Nick allows this head a pension of Silver Sops to make him long winded or else they say he had long since lest yelping Upon his Tongue lies a thick foame of Malice and Revenge which is a kind of Man-bane and is as poysonous as Aconite There is a certain laughing fellow with his two men Jest and Earnest that with sponges wipes it from his mouth which they squeeze into a Dialogue to poyson the people The name of the next head is Puss Flogger he seemes to be somewhat younger then the rest yet some say it is at least 40 years old and that it was given him by the women but of late Towzer having worried the St. Gyles's Catts who came a Catterwawling to him when he was grown past Action they give him that name It has a very Tyrannical look and something like Bonner when he whipt the man in his Coale hole Speak to him and he presently spits in your face and shews a row of sharpe teeth like sawes and cryes Put the Laws in Execution whip the Dissenting Catts Claw ' um away with Ropes and Halters Fire Faggot Against the Popish Successor come he has got a petition drawn ready printed by N. T. to be general Whipmaster of the Hereticks The next head was named by Towzâ—rs own self all the other heads put on it the title of Guide to the iâ—feriour Clergy This has a kind of a Pedants face very proud self conceited foolish and ridiculous and upon it a square Cap he nods gravely if he sees a young Gown man speakes sentences and if he be a Tantivy gently lickes him over the face He draws Rules with his mouth and barks continually of the Church of England but when he gapes he showes Rome in his Throat and a Pope Cardinals in Procession Then the 6th head eminently shews it self above the rest called the Popish Masquerader This is a very Divel in a Dublet with a black Maske before his face with a Canker'd tongue â—olling out of its mouth with a thousand little State flyes sucking its venom which they disperse buzâ—ng in Sam 's Coffee House on his forehead is writ in Capital Letters A Church of England Christian he has a great Roman nose which snoute he thrusts out of his Masque If he sees a Jesuit he barks A Divine If he sees a Non-conformist Minister he falls a howleing Rebel Traytor Divel with such Hellish hideous roars that he out does Cerberus He has three forked Tongues one pâ—aâ—e in Mode and Figure of the Church of England established by Law The other hisses with a gentle note against Rome hardly to be heard the other howles curses and Banns Calvin and his adherents He is often given to belching of Presbyterian Plots and the sight of a certain Doctor makes him disgorge I know not how many things call'd Shams to cover a Popish Plot. He is still slavering at the mouth and they say he wants wormeing which none dares undertake unlesse the Devill would hold his Tongue with a pair of pincers for it cuts like a saw being harder then a file sharp as a razor with this he licks up a Mans good name and grinds it with Slander He often chews the Cud like a clean beast and ruminates on a word till it becomes trite True-Protestant he sends up with Hyckups and gâ—pes sometimes as if he had the Pip He has six sets of Teeth with which he grinds the Protestant Pamphleteers to powder A sett of Protestant Bookselleâ—s and a packet from Rome with a Protestant Observator in sippits is an Oglio he much feeds on till he surfeits and then the next day he is sure to vomit nothing but Ink gall and vineger Sometimes he grins but 't is alwayes at some unlucky accident or at a Lye of the Loyal Intelligences makeing which he will with his foreteeth dissect most artificially His mouth is as good as a Microscope it will magnifie a gnat to the bigness of a Pegasus and shred you out an Address till 't is heardly to be fathom'd He is apt to bark in his sleep and if any body awakens him he falls on howling disturbs the whole Town again Nothing will quiet him but the name of a Parliament and then he shrinkes his head into his belly and turns into the Netherlands The next is a Peâ—t-head with a whimsical face something like that usually Car'vd at the end of a Violin or a base Viol and he is called Fidler he is always makeing of mouths in Symphony he observes his Crochets and sometimes sings a Santas beyond Ela. He prickes up his ears shakes his horns if he heares the name of old Nol. He is given to play too much of one Time Forty One which he squeeks out with a hideous noyse and turning up his nose like a Bull after he has smell to the tayle of a Cow He has all the motions of a Jack pudding and his Chaps make as good Musick as the gridiron tongs He loves to be a â—irâ—d and pointed at tho his voyce is grown very hearse of late in singing Absolom Achitophel He loves much to have a Fidleing Dialogue in his Mouth and naturally whisles Questions and Aâ—swers The Title of the next is Crâ—câ—