An Ansvvere to a Romish Rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new Ballad wherein are contayned Catholike questions to the Protestant. The which Ballad was put foorth without date or day, name of Authour or Printer, Libell-like, scattered and sent abroad, to withdraw the simple from the fayth of Christ, vnto the doctrine of Antichrist the Pope of Rome. Written by that Protestant Catholike, I. R. [i.e. John Rhodes] |
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 | An Ansvvere to a Romish Rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new Ballad |  |
A merry song, and a very song.
Sospitati pickt our purse with Popish illusio,Purgatory, scala cœli, pardons cum Iubilio,
Pilgrimage-gate, where Idoles sate with all abominatio,
Channons, Fryers, common lyers, that filthy generatio,
Nunnes huling, pretty puling, as Cat in milke-pannio:
See what knauerie was in Monkerie, and what superstitio:
Becking, belling, ducking, yelling, was their whole Religio,
And when women came vnto them, fewe went sine filio.
But Abbeyes all are now downe fall, Dei beneficio,
And we doe pray day by day, that all abominatio may come to desolatio.
Amen.
| An Ansvvere to a Romish Rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new Ballad | |