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PADY's HUMBLE PETITION,

OR,

S U P P L I C A T I O N.

Good Christian people behold me! a man who has com’d thro’ a world of wonders, a hell full of hardship?, dangers by Tea, and dangers by land, and yet I am alixe, you may ſee my hand crooked like a fowl’s foot, and that is no wonder at all, considering, my ſufferings and ſorrows—- Oh! oh! oh! good people, I was a man in mv time, who had plenty of the gold, plenty of the ſilver, plenty of the clothes, plenty of the butter, the beer, the beef and biſket:-— And now, now I haxe nothing; being taken by the Turks, and relieved by the Spaniards; lay ſixty ſix day’s at the ſiege of Gibraltar, and got nothing to eat but ſea-wreck and raw mussels! then put to ſea for our ſafety; cast upon the Barbarian coast, among the woeful wicked Algerines, where we were taken, and tied with lugs and ladders, horse-locks and cow-chains, then cut and castrate, yard and testicles, quit away.-—If you will not believe, put in your hand and feel how every female’s made ſmooth by the ſheer-bone, where nothing is to be ſeen but what is natural; then made our escape to the desart wild wilderness of Arabia, 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 was tossed 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