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A Strappado for the Diuell

Epigrams and Satyres alluding to the time, with diuers measures of no lesse Delight. By MISOSUKOS[Greek], to his friend PHILOKRATES[Greek] [by Richard Brathwait]

Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)

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An Embleme writte vnto a Gentleman, who entreated the Author to distinguish twixt Rome and roome.

You mou'd me sir, next time I chanc't to come,
For to distinguish betwixt Rome and roome,
Which I haue done: and to the full I hope,
Rome being as farre from roome, as Peter Pope.
For wheresoere I am, wheresoere I come,
I must haue roome, yet that I hope's not Rome.
So whensoere I see Saint Peters chaire,
I doe inferre, Saint Peter has beene there.
But that Saint Peters heyre is now at Rome,
Though he be there, Ile say it's not his roome.
Peter Romes piller, Cater piller he,
Whose roome I loue more then his company.

For we read that in the second yeare of Claudius reigne, Peter the Apostle came to Rome, and there remained 30. yeares after, yet some dissent from this opinion, &c.