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<DATE>2008-04-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080310.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The TRUE Spirit and Elixir OF CANT.</HEAD>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">T the Sign of the <HI>Groaning-Board</HI> in <HI>Plot-Alley</HI> in <HI>Equity|-<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;treet,</HI> there lives an Eminent <HI>Scotch</HI> DOCTOR, Student <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> in <HI>Schi&s;m</HI> and <HI>Sedition,</HI> and a Well-wi&s;her to the <HI>Good Old</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> vi&s;ius all &s;ick per&s;ons, writes all manner of Lives, and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">y at very rea&s;onable Rates.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> &amp; A&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Satan,</HI> he can infallibly cure the &s;ound <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> which he calls a Popi&s;h Di&s;ea&s;e: <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> and <HI>Elixir</HI> of CANT takes away all nau&s;eous Ceremo|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> the <HI>Ring</HI> in Marriage, the <HI>Cro&s;s</HI> in Bapti&s;m, the <HI>Surplice,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">ds <HI>the Altar,</HI> and <HI>Kneeling at the Sacrament.</HI> He cuts <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">of <HI>Je&s;uits, extempore;</HI> and pretends to love them as the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">es Holy-water. This incomparable <HI>Elixir</HI> of CANT <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">ny thing but <HI>De&s;pair,</HI> as &s;everal tender Con&s;ciences can <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> There are &s;everal Antichri&s;tian Quacks that pretend to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">able Spirit of CANT; but there is no per&s;on prepares it <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">le to this <HI>Anti-Canonical</HI> DOCTOR, as may be te&s;tified <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> following per&s;ons who frequented his Church for &s;everal <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI> viz. Adam Weatherly,</HI> Waterman upon the <HI>Thames; Timothy <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> Scavenger upon the Land; <HI>Simon Soft,</HI> Gold-finder in the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;e; <HI>Nehemiah Scruple,</HI> Pin-maker at <HI>Wakefield; Hanah <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">&s;e,</HI> at the Brandy-&s;hop at <HI>Wapping; Catharine Con&s;tance,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="6 letters">bles Wife of <HI>Queenhith; Elkanah Edifie,</HI> at the <HI>Wheelbarrow</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> again&s;t the Coach and Hor&s;e in <HI>Puddle-Dock.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>to be heard every</HI> Sunday-<HI>morning at his</HI> Conventicle <HI>in</HI> Equity-|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;treet, <HI>from Nine of the clock till Twelve; and from Two till <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> Five in the Afternoon. There is likewi&s;e a Back-door for tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> that are &s;crupulous of coming there.</HI></P>
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<P>Printed for Information of <HI>Di&s;temper'd Prote&s;tants,</HI> 1684.</P>
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