Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 253 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running verse poetry from Samuel Daniel's *Albions England* (Chapter 49, Book 9, page 229). The text is a sustained anti-Catholic polemic in early modern English verse, attacking papal authority, Catholic conversion practices, and papal indulgences. It references specific historical figures including "Earle Ferdinando Stanley" and critiques papal claims to spiritual authority, portraying the Pope as corrupt and manipulative. The passage defends Protestant faith against Catholic theology, with particular venom directed at papal pardons and the seduction of converts. No illustrations appear on this page.
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‘y | ge ofhis Giiniags ysirny pat Mould shéireforth bi hisname, Then lett this popith Scripture,Popes,atleaft you Conuerts frame: Of which Conuerting Chraito-fers \ veethenceforth thalbefaid: ‘Ifnot,apply and perifh in your Luciferring Vraid, | “8 Ye know I know,that but in Chrift may no Redemption be: Pc | So your great friend, our Garduer,on his death-bed couldagree: _ Butto the Vulgars open not, gaintt Rome,that gap,quoth he, So miferable is your hate w ho, feeingwill not fee, That Christofer care Christo-fer was “Ad ieift leffe that yee, | ‘ Well anfwered once a King of ours the Pope,that bod him free a Two Prelates,térming them his Sonnes: The King feem'dto agree, Butfent their compleat Armor: looke are thefe thy Sonnes,quoth he. Falfe Heskertoo not falfely {pake,reporting iately this, . That fach as Papifts would feduce,and of fedacing nis, co ae » Aremarked dead :For he to whom he fo did fay, feare f, 7 Earle Ferdinando Stanley, {0 diffenting,fo did trie _ As other Peeres,heere,and elf- where, jhaue found the like no Ves. ca Nor preached he the Pope amis that: did to him applie if This Tex,to witt: 7 isis the Heire come on and ler him die. 2 Th Inbertrance let vs inioye : Nought feeke they els for why ? . Thoie badbe good that giue,thofe good be bad chat Giftes deny,*. 4 From Aunanias literall faule they Confciences would tye: Thefe death-eide Bafilifques therefore in eucrie Senfe doe flic. Be of Religion iumpe with them,inall! their Toyesafite, A Perer-Penny if with hild, knocks all the reft awrye, Hell, Heauen,Bulls Pardons ,Pope,and to be Pope, doth mony bays Yea,too blafohemous sthey incroch vpon the Daitic, Though of thefe Luesfers have been that perith through a Flie. Each fiane gainft God, how vile fo-eare,will Popes with Pardons fic: __ Croffebut the Pape pardon thou him ‘he will nor pardant it. j For Faith his common Plea is fword toa fireagaintt his foes: a Butwho,but foolesjbeleene that Faith exacted is by bloes ? | Than thofe three Mightic acts Fift Charles with Ferdinand, . m 2: ‘. e ey ' ° ~ : * DP ey : , * " i ee we | domiebootaee