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 24 PADY FROM CORK.

ken and tied with tugs and tedders, horſe locks and cow chains; then cut and caſtrate yard a teſticles quite away, if you will not believe, put in your hand and feel how every female's made ſmooth by the ſhear-bone, where nothing is to be ſeen but what is natural. Then made our eſcape to the deſart or wild wilderneſs of Aarbia; where we lived amongſt the wild aſſes, upon wind ſand, and ſapleſs ling. Afterwards put to ſea in the hull of an old houſe; where we were tolled above and below the clouds being driven thro' thickets and groves by fierce, courſe, calm and contrary winds; at laſt was caſt away upon Saliſbury plains, where our veſſel was daſh'd to pieces againſt a cabbage flock. And now my humble petition to you good Chriſtian people, is for one hundred of your beef, one hundred of your butter, another of your cheeſe, a caſk of your biſket, a tun of your beer, a keg of your rum, with a pipe of your wine, a lump of your gold, a piece of your ſilver, a few of your halfpence or farthings, a waught of your butter milk, a pair of your old breeches, ſtockings or ſhoes, or even a chaw of tobacco for charity's ſake.

A CREED FOR ROMISH BELIEVERS.

I BELIEVE the Pope of Rome; to be the right heir and true ſucceſſor of Peter the Apoſtle, and that he has a power above the kings of the world, being ſpiritual and temporal, endowed with a communication far beyond the grave, and can bring up any i, e, or departed ſhoul he pleaſes, even as the a devil in its woman of Endor brought up Samuel to ſtead Saul, by the ſame power he can, aſſiſted by the enchantments of old Manaſſah, a king in Iſeral. I believe alſo in the Romiſh prieſts, that they are very civil chaſte gentlemen, keep no wives of their own, bat partakes a little of other mens wives in ſecret confeſſion, I acknowledge the worſhiping of images and relicks of ſhaints departed to be very juſt; but if they hear and do not help us, O they are but a parcel of ungrateful wretches,

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