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24 ines, where we were taken and tied with tugs an tadders, horse-locks, and cow-chains: then cut an castrate yard and testicle quite away, if you will n believe, put in your hand and feel how every female made smooth by the sheerbone, where nothing is be seen but what is natural. Then made our escap to the desert wild wilderness of Arabia; where w lived among the wild asses, upon wind, sand, an sapless ling. Afterwards put to sea in the hull of a old house, where we were tossed above and below th clouds, being driven through fierce, coarse, calm, an contrary winds; at last, was cast upon Salisbur plains, where our vessel was dashed to pieces again a cabbage stock. And now my humble petition you, good Christian people, is for one hundred your beef, one hundred of your butter, another your cheese, a tun of your beer, a keg of your run with a pipe of your wine, a lump of your gold an silver, a few of your halfpence and farthings, waught of your butter-milk, a pair of your of breeches, stockings, or shoes, even a chaw of tobacco for charity's sake.

A CREED FOR ROMISH BELIEVERS.

I believe the Pope of Rome to be the right hell and true successor of Peter the Apostle, and that h has a power above the kings of the world, being spiritual and temperal: endowed with a communication from beyond the grave, and can bring up any departed shoul* he pleases, even as the we devil in its man of Endor brought up Samuel to Saul by the same power be can, assisted by th enchantments of old Manasseh, a king i Israel. I believe also in the Romish Priests tha they are very civil chaste gentlemen, keep no wive of their own but partake a little of other men's whe in secret confession. I acknowledge the worshipping of images, and relics of shaints departed to b very just; but if they hear and not help us, O they are but a parcel of ungrateful wretches.

FINIS.