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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B090035.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Balaams ASSE Cudgeld: Or the Cry of TOWN and COUNTREY AGAINST Scandalous and Seditious Scriblers.</HEAD>
<L>WHat ailes the <HI>A&s;&s;e?</HI> How comes the <HI>Bea&s;t</HI> to whine?</L>
<L>Ha's a been bred among King <HI>Pharaohs</HI> Kine?</L>
<L>Has the wet &s;pring &s;poil'd all the Corn and Gra&s;&s;e?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hat all the Countrey cannot keep an <HI>A&s;&s;e?</HI></L>
<L>He cries for <HI>bread,</HI> as if Duke <HI>Humphrey</HI>'s Gho&s;t</L>
<L>This twenty years and more had been his <HI>Host;</HI></L>
<L>Will no man tic him up, but let him range,</L>
<L>Thus to di&s;turb the <HI>City</HI> and the <HI>Change,</HI></L>
<L>But this is a <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ligious A&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and cryes</L>
<L>"<HI>O give him Bread of Life, or el&s;e he dyes.</HI></L>
<L><HI>A &s;ubtle A&s;&s;e,</HI> for well 'tis under&s;tood</L>
<L>He even thinks as much of Heavenly Food</L>
<L>As the poor <HI>Taylor,</HI> when he wants a <HI>Roul</HI></L>
<L>To fill his belly, thinks upon his <HI>Soul.</HI></L>
<L>You <HI>A&s;&s;e in boots,</HI> if <HI>Cromwell</HI> or the <HI>Rump</HI></L>
<L>Had giv'n thee but a <HI>Living,</HI> had been plump,</L>
<L>Thou would'&s;t have ble&s;t 'em, and have been the man,</L>
<L>For maintenance to ki&s;&s;e the <HI>Alcoran.</HI></L>
<L>I know not where a <HI>Homily</HI> is read</L>
<L>But, friend, a Homily is dainty bread.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Brewers grains</HI> out of a na&s;ty <HI>Tub,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> fitter food for &s;uch a Swine or Cub.</L>
<L><HI>Lawn Sleeves</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;&s;ocks</HI> cannot plea&s;e the Gizard</L>
<L>Of this &s;editious &s;candalizing <HI>Wizard;</HI></L>
<L>Yet he pretends Canonical to be,</L>
<L>But <HI>Bell</HI> and <HI>Dragon</HI> is as much as <HI>he.</HI></L>
<L>Tis not the <HI>Soul</HI> of this <HI>&s;editious &s;inner</HI></L>
<L>That makes him bite, his belly wants a dinner;</L>
<L>And there's a rea&s;on for it I can tell ye,</L>
<L>Sometimes <HI>ill manners</HI> makes an <HI>empty belly.</HI></L>
<L>To throw <HI>Seditious Scribles</HI> to the view</L>
<L>Of &s;uch a <HI>&s;ick</HI> and <HI>giddy-headed crew,</HI></L>
<L>As we have now among&s;t us, who by flirts</L>
<L>Change their Religions oftner than their &s;hirts,</L>
<L>Does argue <HI>one</HI> that doth employ his pate</L>
<L>To bring <HI>confu&s;ion</HI> on the <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State.</HI></L>
<L>The naked <HI>Indians</HI> would have &s;corn'd to be</L>
<L>So rudely barbarous to their <HI>Bramini.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The A&s;&s;e, that State malevolence doth brew,</HI></L>
<L><HI>De&s;erves a Bridle and a Halter too.</HI></L>
<L>Are the&s;e the <HI>men of God?</HI> Doth this behaviour</L>
<L>Adorn the <HI>Go&s;pel</HI> of our <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Saviour?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Religious Renegados!</HI> Who to patch</L>
<L>Their broken de&s;perate fortunes, daily watch,</L>
<L>Another opportunity, to bring</L>
<L><HI>A &s;econd ruine</HI> on the <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>King.</HI></L>
<L>You clo&s;ely jerk at learned <HI>Laud,</HI> but &s;ee</L>
<L>All <HI>Laud is given to God,</HI> all &s;hame to thee:</L>
<L>Had he but &s;een thy <HI>Crocodilian tears,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Hang-mans</HI> Cat had eat thy <HI>A&s;&s;es</HI> ears.</L>
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<L>God &s;ave <HI>King CHARLES,</HI> and keep him from the &s;leight</L>
<L>Of &s;uch <HI>Reformers</HI> as in <HI>Forty Eight.</HI></L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Rob. Chamberlain.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for the Author. 1661.</P>
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