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unto ſhaint Patrick's palace, and then they may go down the back ſtairs unto the garden of Eden now called Paradice; ah! my dear ſhoy this is the real ſundamental truths of our Romiſh Religion and a deep doctine it is, but your Preſbyterian, and Engliſh churchmen will wot believe it and by ſhaint Patrick neither can I, until I ſee more of it came to paſs.

Tom. And what manner of liver does your prieſts order you to live in the world to come ?

Pady. Arra dear ſhoy if I had money enough to buy pardons from our prieſts, I might commit all the lies forbidden in our holy books, as he gives them a toleration to lie and cheat all the world, but those of our own profeſſion.

Tom. What Pady are you not to do as much juſtice to a proteſtant as a prieſt.

Pady. O my dear ſhoy the moſt juſtice we are commanded to do to proteſtant, is to whip and torment them till they confeſs themſelves in the Romiſh Faith, and then cut their throats that they may die believers.

Tom. And what buſineſs do you follow after at preſent Pady. Arra dear ſhoy, I am a mountain ſailor and my ſuplication is as follows.

PADY'S HUMBLE PETITION, OR SUPPLICATION.

GOOD Chriſtian people, behold me a man, who has com'd through a world of wonders a hell fell of hardſhips, dangers by ſea, and dangers by land, and yet I am alive, you may ſee my hand crooked like a ſnals foot and that is no wonder at all conſidering my ſuffering's and ſorrows; oh! oh! good people I was a man in my time who had plenty of the gold plenty of the ſilver, plenty of the clothes, plenty of the butter, the beer, beef and biſcuet. And now, now, I have nothing, being taken by the Turks, and relieved by the Spainards, lay ſixty ſix days at the ſiege of Gibraltar, and got nothing to eat but ſea wreck and raw muſſels; then put to ſea for our ſaftey, caſt upon the Barbarian coaſt, among the woefal wicked Algerines where we were to-