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and tied with tugs and tadders, horse-locks, and cow chains: then cut and castcate yard and testicle quite away if you will not believe, put in your hand and feel how every female's made smooth by the sheer-bone, where now thing is to be seen but what is natural. Then made o escape to the desert wild wilderness of Arabia; where we lived among the wild asses, upon winds sand, an sapless ling. Afterwards put to see in the hull of an o house, where we were tossed above and below the clouds being, driven through thickets and graves by fierce, coarse calm and contrary winds: at last, was cast upon Salisbury plains, where our vessel was dashed to pieces, again, a cabbage stock. And now my humble petition to you, good Christian people, is for one hundred of your beef, on hundred of your butter, another of your cheese, a cask o your biscuit, a tun of your beer, a keg of your rum, wit a pipe of your wine, a lump of your gold, a piece of you silver, a few of your halfpence or farthings, a waught o your butter-milk, a pair of your old breeches, stockings; o skoes, even a chaw of tobacco for charity's sake.

A CREED FOR ROMISH BELIEVERS.

I BELIEVE the Pope of Rome to be the right bei and true successor of Peter the Apostle, and that he has a power above the kings of the world, being spiritua and temperal: endowed with a communication from beyond the grave and can bring up any departed devil in its. Endor brought up Samuel to Saul; by th stead. same power he can, assisted by the enchantments of old Manasseh, a king, in Israel. I believe also in the Romish Priests, that the are very civil chaste gentlemen, keep no wives of their own but partake a little of other men's when in secret confession I acknowledge the worshipping of images, and relicks of shaints departed to be very just; but if they hea and not help us, they are but a parcel of ungrateful wretches.
 * i.e. or a shoul* he pleases, even as the woman o

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