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The bishops downefall

or The Prelats Snare. By E. E. [i.e. Edmund Elys]
Elys, Edmund (ca. 1634-ca. 1707)

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THE Bishops downefall OR, THE PRELATS Snare.

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Deare Muse awake, In these tempestuous times
Rouse, up the rage of thy invective rimes,
Vnto the world proclaime the plots of those
That would Christ from his sacred throne depose,
I meane the prelates, whose insulting pride
Begot these evills and would more beside.
Let no distracted feares possesse thy heart,
With humble boldnesse to the world impart,
The joyfull tydings and what cause we all
Have to triumph in these proud prelates fall
Not as they'r men wee do their downefall pray
But as they'r foes to Christ our King wee may.
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