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The Court of Conscience or Dick Whippers Sessions

With the order of his arraigning and punishing of many notorious, dissembling, wicked, and vitious liuers in this age. By Richard West
 
 

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Loyall Subiect.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Loyall Subiect.

In trew obedience and loyalty,
With tendrest care of Princes will performing:
To peoples good and Princes royallty,
Pretended mischiefes still thou art reforming.
Most ready th'art to shew and eke to doe,
Thy best endeauour to giue Cæsars due.
With might and maine continuall vigilancie,
Still prest to armes and ready in pursewing
The trayterous hart full stuft with arrogancie,
To that corrupt harts downefall and vndoing.
Ready to boult and prudently to sift,
Their secret treason and their Crafty shift,
To patefie the Erronious sectes and schismes,
Which are so blazd and sowne in many places:
Heretecall vnfaithfull Atheismes,
And treasons toward Kings imperiall graces,
Vpholding state of land and Iustice seat,
Thou dost abandon each disloyall feate.
In this high court or session for reproofe,
Of domyneering ill disordred mate:
Thou art elected one in the behoofe,
Of heauenly throne and high celestiall state,
To giue thy Censure with vnfained heart,
Gainst malefactious knaue for his desart.