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 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
At Sals'bury John Hunt, and Richard White
Whose grave reproofe with Such a touch did light
On Doctor Blackstone who abused Such
As ancient Doctours were, yea very much
As made him Quake and tremble, and sit down
With hands and knees to fork up his Shaking Crown.
Were Sentenc't and deliver'd to be burnt
By Capon B, and Geffery (who Spurn'd
Away the truth,) his Chancellour, got too
De Combarendo-Writ-Heretico
Ith'hand of Mr. Mitchell th'Under Shreve,
Who made it Heretick, and did bequeath
It to fire, and four dayes thence doth dy
This Chancellour, While Hunt, and White (who ly
In low, darke Dungeon) in a flood of teares
Brake forth, they knew not why, as it appears,
When down they kneeld to prayre; in Such a wise
As did Constrain them prayerless up to rise.
But 'twas while Geffry lay dying, who
Must with the Bishop Cited hence also
Attend the firy Queen in flames to Hell.
Hence liberty did rise as they down fell.
Whose grave reproofe with Such a touch did light
On Doctor Blackstone who abused Such
As ancient Doctours were, yea very much
As made him Quake and tremble, and sit down
With hands and knees to fork up his Shaking Crown.
Were Sentenc't and deliver'd to be burnt
By Capon B, and Geffery (who Spurn'd
Away the truth,) his Chancellour, got too
De Combarendo-Writ-Heretico
Ith'hand of Mr. Mitchell th'Under Shreve,
Who made it Heretick, and did bequeath
It to fire, and four dayes thence doth dy
This Chancellour, While Hunt, and White (who ly
In low, darke Dungeon) in a flood of teares
Brake forth, they knew not why, as it appears,
When down they kneeld to prayre; in Such a wise
As did Constrain them prayerless up to rise.
But 'twas while Geffry lay dying, who
Must with the Bishop Cited hence also
Attend the firy Queen in flames to Hell.
Hence liberty did rise as they down fell.
Again, John Fatty whose Vile Wife Complain'd
Against him twice, in Lollards Tower Sustain'd
Intollerable pain as hanging in
The Stocks for fifteen dayes in torturing
By one sides leg and arm sometime, Sometime
Ev'n by the others, till his boy whose Crime
Replying to a Priest that to him said
Thy Father is an Heretick Speech made
My father is no Heretick: But harke
You are an Heretick you've Balams marke
Brought Boners Scourge upon him till in red
Gore blood he was all o're, and then was had
Unto his Father in this plight to See
This needs must grievous to his bowells bee.
Hence now the Father's set at liberty.
But yet [the] Child in fourteen dayes did dy.
Against him twice, in Lollards Tower Sustain'd
Intollerable pain as hanging in
The Stocks for fifteen dayes in torturing
By one sides leg and arm sometime, Sometime
Ev'n by the others, till his boy whose Crime
Replying to a Priest that to him said
Thy Father is an Heretick Speech made
My father is no Heretick: But harke
You are an Heretick you've Balams marke
Brought Boners Scourge upon him till in red
Gore blood he was all o're, and then was had
Unto his Father in this plight to See
This needs must grievous to his bowells bee.
Hence now the Father's set at liberty.
But yet [the] Child in fourteen dayes did dy.
Again in Drapers Hall Dick Wilmot and
One Thomas Fairfax were with Cords so tan'd
That Wilmot could not ly in bed for Sores
For Six night[s] going Cause they hate Rome[s] whore [.]
One Thomas Fairfax were with Cords so tan'd
That Wilmot could not ly in bed for Sores
For Six night[s] going Cause they hate Rome[s] whore [.]
Then Thomas Green after he'd felt their Power
In Boners Colehouse, and in Lollard Tower
Some months in manacles, and Stocks full Sore
Was sorely Scourgd, and let goe out of Doore [.]
In Boners Colehouse, and in Lollard Tower
Some months in manacles, and Stocks full Sore
Was sorely Scourgd, and let goe out of Doore [.]
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |