 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
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But Death him Crops: Basil did him Succeed
But how we se not: yet a Popish weed.
And then rose Stephen Quintus all enguild
In Superst[it]ion, he first Statutes boild
Up of the Church of Rome, till necessary
For all Unto Salvation, (Sir be wary.)
And though he sits like God in his esteem
Death breaths upon him, he's no longer seen.
But how we se not: yet a Popish weed.
And then rose Stephen Quintus all enguild
In Superst[it]ion, he first Statutes boild
Up of the Church of Rome, till necessary
For all Unto Salvation, (Sir be wary.)
And though he sits like God in his esteem
Death breaths upon him, he's no longer seen.
Formosus then came in, a tumult which
Rusht in the Church: and off their hands did twitch
That were ordaining Sergius and made
Them on Formosus forthwith to be laid.
Who provd as ranck as any of the Crew
Then Boniface twenty Six dayes up grew
But by a Cup of poison fell perhaps.
And then on Stephen Sext the Miter flaps,
Who calls a Synod and their Statutes nulls.
His buri'd Corps some from his grave out pulls
Strip of the Papall Robes, in laicks vest
And him with laiks bury, yet's molest,
For two years hence he is tooke up; and they
Cut off two fingers, he was wont to lay
Upon the heads of such he Consecrates
And into Tyber's Cast. Fish are Popes mates[.]
Rusht in the Church: and off their hands did twitch
That were ordaining Sergius and made
Them on Formosus forthwith to be laid.
Who provd as ranck as any of the Crew
Then Boniface twenty Six dayes up grew
But by a Cup of poison fell perhaps.
And then on Stephen Sext the Miter flaps,
Who calls a Synod and their Statutes nulls.
His buri'd Corps some from his grave out pulls
Strip of the Papall Robes, in laicks vest
And him with laiks bury, yet's molest,
For two years hence he is tooke up; and they
Cut off two fingers, he was wont to lay
Upon the heads of such he Consecrates
And into Tyber's Cast. Fish are Popes mates[.]
Romanus him succeeds a three months bird.
Then Theodore in't ninteen dayes just flurd.
What strange Confusion's here? What shapes of pride?
Stephen, and this Formosus at once Slide
Into the Chair which 'fore the Cushion they
Desert, four more their bums upon it lay.
Its well perfumd I doubt not, all on't sit
Did in this Century or Pens do slip,
But what a Crew of Lucifers here trod
Their Dam, Soaring above the Stars of God.
But all the while Patience wares Glories blush
To See such towring Pride Such and so flush.
And other rich Examples out might stare
Of Haughtiness to shew beyond Compare
The glorious Robes Patience hath got upon her,
But these Sufficient are to shew her Honour.
Then Theodore in't ninteen dayes just flurd.
What strange Confusion's here? What shapes of pride?
Stephen, and this Formosus at once Slide
Into the Chair which 'fore the Cushion they
Desert, four more their bums upon it lay.
Its well perfumd I doubt not, all on't sit
Did in this Century or Pens do slip,
But what a Crew of Lucifers here trod
Their Dam, Soaring above the Stars of God.
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To See such towring Pride Such and so flush.
And other rich Examples out might stare
Of Haughtiness to shew beyond Compare
The glorious Robes Patience hath got upon her,
But these Sufficient are to shew her Honour.
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