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<HEAD>THE QUAKERS WEDDING, 
<DATE>October, 24. 1671.</DATE></HEAD>
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<L>_O <HI>Times! O Manners!</HI> Whither's <HI>Levy</HI> fled,</L>
<L>That <HI>Law</HI> and <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> &s;eem Aboli&s;hed?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Red-Nos'd Dragon</HI> with his Complices,</L>
<L>To <HI>Fundamental Truths</HI> Antipodes,</L>
<L>That Coccatrice this cur&s;ed Egg has hatch'd</L>
<L>And taught us wor&s;e than ever to be Matcht.</L>
<L>They publi&s;h (then) at whipping-po&s;ts the <HI>Banes,</HI></L>
<L>And well I think de&s;erv'd'um for their pains.</L>
<L>But we can Marry now, hand over-head,</L>
<L>And not have &s;o much as a Form to plead.</L>
<L>We are not now unto the <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> packt,</L>
<L>(Though then there was &s;mall <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> in the <HI>Act</HI>).</L>
<L>But we can Marry of our own accord,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Jack</HI> and <HI>Gill,</HI> but leaping cro&s;s a Sword.</L>
<L>But again&s;t parties coupled on this wi&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>We&s;tminster-Weddings</HI> will in judgment Ri&s;e,</L>
<L>That they &s;hould &s;tumble, and pretend &s;uch Light,</L>
<L>They Marry <HI>wrong,</HI> and call't a <HI>Marriage-Rite.</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Libertine</HI> comes in the <HI>Levits</HI> room,</L>
<L>And is at once the Par&s;on and the Groom.</L>
<L>He babbles like a Brute, and by and by,</L>
<L>He takes the Bride, and goes to <HI>Multiply.</HI></L>
<L>The Bride? I do recall what I have &s;aid,</L>
<L>'Tis not a Bridal, but a Brothel bed;</L>
<L>They for Conjunction <HI>Copulative</HI> would pa&s;s,</L>
<L>When the Conjunction a <HI>Disjunctive</HI> was.</L>
<L>For having Lain together all their Life,</L>
<L>They are, but as they met, not Man and Wife.</L>
<L>And for a mitigation of their Cares,</L>
<L>They may have many <HI>Children,</HI> but no <HI>Heirs.</HI></L>
<L>And, what a Marryed-Man could never yet,</L>
<L>He may a <HI>Ba&s;tard</HI> of his <HI>Wife</HI> beget.</L>
<L>For wanting Licence, and Certificate,</L>
<L>He leaves his I&s;&s;ue illegitimate.</L>
<L>The Sons and Daughters of the Common Earth,</L>
<L>An Off-&s;pring out-Law'd in their very Birth.</L>
<L>What made, them <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>Gentiles</HI> to Invite?</L>
<L>Sure they could never hope a Pro&s;elyte.</L>
<L>How Heaven approv'd the Juggle? you may tell</L>
<L>When Thunder, Lightning, and a Tempe&s;t fell</L>
<L>Confu&s;ion waited on both Men and Meat,</L>
<L>Their <HI>Marriage,</HI> and their <HI>Fea&s;t,</HI> were both a <HI>Che<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></L>
<L>A Wedding, and no Wedding brought before y<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>The Devil doubtle&s;s was the <HI>Directory.</HI></L>
<L>Some <HI>Hellebor</HI> re&s;tore 'um, to recant,</L>
<L>This fordid <HI>League,</HI> and &s;encele&s;s <HI>Covenant.</HI></L>
<L>O that &s;uch Vilene&s;s &s;hould affront the <HI>Sun,</HI></L>
<L>Would make a Corner blu&s;h to &s;ee it done!</L>
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<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t, almo&s;t mad as they, the People ran,</L>
<L>To &s;ee a <HI>Sinner</HI> take a <HI>Publican.</HI></L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Steven<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Rowland Reynolds,</HI> at the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Bible</HI> in the <HI>Poultry,</HI> 1671.</P>
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