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<HEAD>The true Portraiture of a prodigious <HI>Mon&s;ter,</HI> taken in the <HI>Mountains</HI> of <HI>Zardana<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI></HEAD>
<P>The following De&s;cription whereof was &s;ent to <HI>Madrid,</HI> Octob. 20. 1654. and from thence to <HI>Don
Olonzo de Cardines,</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador for the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> now re&s;ident at <HI>London.</HI> Its &s;tature was like
that of a &s;trong well &s;et man, with 7 heads, the chief of them looking forward, with one eye in its
front; the other heads have each two eyes in their natural &s;cituation, the ears of an A&s;s; with its princi|pal
head it eates, drinks, and cryes with an extraordinary and terrible voyce; the other heads are al|&s;o
moved to and fro: It hath &s;even Arms and Hands of a Man, very &s;trong in each of them: From
the middle downward it is like a Satyr, with Goats feet, and cloven; it hath no di&s;tinction of Sex.</P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Summer time.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>BEhold the Wonders of the Lord</L>
<L>In this &s;ame Creature pictur'd here,</L>
<L>Who&s;e uncouth &s;hape is full enough</L>
<L>To terrifie your hearts with fear.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Picture which you here do &s;ee</L>
<L>Is of a Mon&s;ter fierce and &s;trange,</L>
<L>The which was taken in high <HI>Spain</HI></L>
<L>As he about the Woods did range.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And after brought unto <HI>Madrid,</HI></L>
<L>As a Pre&s;ent for to &s;hew the King:</L>
<L>But when he did behold the &s;ame,</L>
<L>He counted it a miraculous thing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Seven Heads in all this Mon&s;ter hath,</L>
<L>And Nature did them &s;o contrive,</L>
<L>That every head hath mouth and eyes,</L>
<L>And it's remaining &s;till alive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One head is bigger then any o'th re&s;t,</L>
<L>Who&s;e mouth for widene&s;s doth exceed;</L>
<L>And that one head doth &s;erve for all</L>
<L>The Mon&s;ters body for to feed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So with one mouth &s;ix heads are fed,</L>
<L>And all the Carkas in like &s;ort;</L>
<L>The like was never known nor &s;een,</L>
<L>As they that &s;aw him doth report.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His eyes do goggle to and fro,</L>
<L>Like to great &s;aucers as 'tis &s;aid;</L>
<L>And when he glows on any Folkes,</L>
<L>It makes their very hearts afraid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His grinning teeth both &s;harp and long,</L>
<L>Like to a Ma&s;tiffs teeth appears;</L>
<L>And on his &s;even deformed heads</L>
<L>Grows fourteen long di&s;gui&s;ed ears.</L>
</LG>
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<PB REF="1">
<HEAD>The Second Part,</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>SEven armes and hands he al&s;o hath,</L>
<L>With fingers well proportion'd all,</L>
<L>And on his Legs doth upright go,</L>
<L>Like to a man both &s;trait and tall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Body from the Arm-pits down</L>
<L>Unto the knees over-grown with hair,</L>
<L>Is like unto a Satyre wilde.</L>
<L>Or el&s;e &s;ome ugly &s;av<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ge Bear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The skin of him is Pi&s;tol proof,</L>
<L>As is for certain verify'd</L>
<L>A &s;word can do his fle&s;h no harm,</L>
<L>Hair grows &s;o thick on every &s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His feet indeed are cloven feet,</L>
<L>Iu&s;t in the manner of a Goat;</L>
<L>But of a mighty length and breadth.</L>
<L>Of which the people takes much note.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His voyce is extraordinary,</L>
<L>And terrible for men to hear;</L>
<L>For when it cryes it makes a noy&s;e,</L>
<L>As if his throat would rend and tear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But here the &s;trange&s;t wonder comes,</L>
<L>He never was known to &s;peak at all;</L>
<L>But once before the King of <HI>Spain,</HI></L>
<L>When he was pre&s;ent in the Hall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then in the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Tongue he &s;pake,</L>
<L>Quoth he, look to thy &s;elf O King,</L>
<L>Thy Super&s;tition at the la&s;t</L>
<L>Not vengeance on thy head will bring.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As <HI>Germany</HI> hath been de&s;troy'd,</L>
<L>By Famine, Fire, and the Sword;</L>
<L>So will it be with thee O King,</L>
<L>Except the mercies of the Lord.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Do thee reclaim from what thou art,</L>
<L>From Pride and foul Idolatry;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Nations that are now thy friends,</L>
<L>Shal then become thy Enemy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy Mines of Silver and of Gold,</L>
<L>Shal quite be taken from thee away;</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;ouldiers brave and bold</L>
<L>Shal afterwards the &s;ame injoy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All Chri&s;tian Princes are in Arms,</L>
<L>Again&s;t each others for to fight:</L>
<L>The bad again&s;t the good doth &s;trive,</L>
<L>To overcome them with their might.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now the Power of <HI>Rome</HI> mu&s;t do<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>The Triple Crown goes to decay;</L>
<L>Whereto the King made no Reply,</L>
<L>But &s;hook his head and went away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which being done, the Mon&s;ter cea&s;t</L>
<L>His word, and never &s;pake no more:</L>
<L>Nor was it known by any one,</L>
<L>That ever he &s;pake word before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But in <HI>Madrid</HI> the Mon&s;ter &s;till</L>
<L>For certain doth remain alive,</L>
<L>And multitude of people comes,</L>
<L>Onely to &s;ee him they do &s;trive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore the King of <HI>Spain</HI> hath &s;ent,</L>
<L>As by the &s;ubject may appear,</L>
<L>This News to his Amba&s;&s;ador,</L>
<L>Which now in <HI>London</HI> liveth here.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But to conclude, let none &s;uppo&s;e,</L>
<L>Nor think this News to be a Lye;</L>
<L>For there are many <HI>Engli&s;h-men</HI></L>
<L>That &s;aw him, and will ju&s;tifie</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;ame for truth which here is pen'd,</L>
<L>Being Eye-witne&s;s to this thing;</L>
<L>And was in pre&s;ence when the Mon&s;ter</L>
<L>Made his &s;peech unto the King.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Another Mon&s;ter fierce and &s;tout</L>
<L>Since this appeared, hath been &s;een,</L>
<L>Like a red Dragon range about</L>
<L>The mighty Hils and Dales of <HI>Spain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From whence the&s;e Mon&s;ters fir&s;t did come</L>
<L>There is no man alive doth know:</L>
<L>But &s;ure the Lord above doth &s;ome</L>
<L>Strange things to us by them fore&s;hew.</L>
</LG>
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<P>THe News of this Satyrical Mon&s;ter being noy&s;ed abroad throughout all Spain, France, and Italy,
made a de&s;perate fear, and general di&s;temper, among&s;t all the Popi&s;h Prelats, Cardinals, Ie&s;uites,
Monks and Fryers; yea, the very Pope him&s;elf trembled to hear this &s;trange Report. There is a Prophe|&s;ie
in the 13. of the Revelation, of a great Red-Dragon, and a Bea&s;t with &s;even heads that &s;hould ari&s;e
out of the Sea, that &s;hould continue 42 moneths, which was to come to pa&s;s before the great and terrible
day of Judgment; which by the appearing of the&s;e &s;trange Mon&s;ters is neer at hand now.</P>
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<P>LONDON: Printed for <HI>Iohn Andrews,</HI> at the White Lyon in the Old-Bayly. 1655.</P>
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