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[This Pamphlet is not stuft with Triviall Bables]

This Pamphlet is not stuft with Triviall Bables,
Or vaine prodigious undisgested fables:
This is no Mercury (with scoffs and jeeres)
To raise debate, and set us by the eares,
As if poore England had not yet endur'd
Sufficient plagues, but she must be assur'd,
By New, New, Newes, of New frights, and new foes,
And future mischiefes worse than present woes:
I bring no tidings of such consequence,
To breed Feares, Jealousies, or give offence,
Nor am I fraught with wonders, woundes, and scarres,
Or any thing relating to the Warres:
It is so writ that no man can accuse
Me of detraction, scandall, or abuse;
My lines are all from feare and horror free,
And here and there as true as true may be:
Yea much more true, I may be bound to sweare
Then many bookes have beene this twice foure yeare,
Or any Mercury writ heretofore,
Or old Currantoes, in the daies of Yore.
Then stroke your beards, or wipe your mouthes (at least)
And read, and heare what I have here exprest.