Room for a ballad, or, A ballad for Rome being a continuation of the Catholick ballad inviting to popery, upon the grounds and reasons that could ever yet be produced. Pope, Walter, d. 1714. 1675 Approx. 8 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A55426 Wing P2915 ESTC R30115 11245094 ocm 11245094 47099 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Anti-Catholicism. 2003-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2003-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Room for a Ballad . OR , A Ballad for Rome . BEING A Continuation of the Catholick Ballad inviting to Popery ; Upon the best Grounds and Reasons , that could ever yet be produced . To an Excellent Tune , called , The Powd●● plot . Wonder not , that the Scarlet Whore appears With her Devices , in Red Characters ; Since through the World 't is sadly understood , That Popery is always Writ in Blood. FRom Infallible Rome , once more I am come , With a budget of Catholick ware ▪ Shall dazle your Eyes , and your Fancies surprize , To embrace a Religion so rare . Oh! the Love and Good-will , of his Holiness still , What will he not doe for to save ye : If such pains and such Art , cannot you Convert , 'T is pitty but Old Nick should have ye . Now our Priests are run down , and our Jesuits aground And their Arguments all prove invalid : See here he hath got , an unheard of New Plot , To Proselite you with a Ballad . Then lay by your Jeers , and Prick up your Ears , Whilst I unto you do display ▪ The advantage and worth , the Truth and so-forth Of the Roman Catholick way . If you did but behold , the Faith and the Gold , Of which Holy Church is possest ; You would never more stray , in th' Heretical way , But flye to her Lap to be blest . The Pope is the Head and doth Peter succeed , ( Pray come away faster and faster ) He succeeds him 't is true , but would you know how 'T is only in denying his Master . He 's Infallible too , what need more ado , And ever had Truth in possession : For though once Mob Ioan , Ascended the Throne , The same was no breach of Succession . Our Church and no other , is the Reverend Mother Of Christians throughout the whole Earth ; Though Older they be , perhaps far than she , Yet they must owe unto her their Birth . Our Faith is so great , so sound and Compleat , It scorneth both Scripture and Reason ; And builds on Tradition , sometimes Superstition , And oft-times Rebellion and Treason . Our strict purity , is plain to each eye , That Catholick Countreys views ; For there to suppress , the sins of the Flesh , Sodomy is in use and the Stews . The second Part , to the same Tune Our Zeal has been felt , where ever we dwelt , On all that our Doctrine deny : 〈◊〉 have a Suspition , we make Inquisition , ●nd straight the poor Hereticks Fry. 〈◊〉 they may Plead , or their Scriptures Read , We value them all not a pin : 〈◊〉 best Argument , that we can invent , 〈◊〉 with Fire and Sword to begin . ●rost Godly way , whatever they say , Since it their Salvation obtains , ●●kes them Orthodox , with blows and with knocks 〈◊〉 hammers Faith into their brains . God we can make , of a thin Wafer Cake , ●nd eat him up when we have done : 〈◊〉 Drop of the Cup , Lay-men must not sup , For the Priests Guzles that all alone . We have terrible Bulls , and Pardons for Gulls , Holy Water to Scar-crow the Devil ; ●ith Consecrate Swords , take them on our words , They shall make the Great Turk be Civil . We have Saints great store , and Miracles more , With Martyrs a great many from Tyburn ; ●●●ty Nuns that dwell , mew'd up in a Cell , As Chast as Night walkers of Holbourn . We have Holy Blood , we have Holy wood , A Ship-load or some such matter : We have Holy Bones , and some Holy Stones , VVould make an Old Ladies Chops water . We have Holy men , seen but now and then , Monks , Abbots , and Capuchin Fryars , With Merits so great , they can buy one a Seat In Heaven , or else they are Lyars . 〈◊〉 all you that would sure Salvation procure , And yet still live as you list : 〈◊〉 but mutter and Pray , and say as we say , And your Catholicks good as e're P — . We are brisk and free , and always agree , Allowing our selves to be jolly ; 〈◊〉 the Puritan tricks , of dull Hereticks , VVe count but Fanatical Folly. ●●●aring and Whoreing , Drinking and Roaring , All those are but Venial Transgressions : ●●e Murthering of Kings , and such pretty things , Are easily ▪ Absolv'd in Confession . 〈◊〉 short Pennance , doth wipe away Sin , And there is an end of all trouble ; Which having dispatcht , you may fall too 't agen , And safely your wickedness double . Bring a good round Sum , Sins past and to come , Shall presently be forgiven ; But this you must know , before you do go , The Excize runs high upon Heaven . For we have the Price , of every Vice , Assest at a certain Rate ; So near at a word , we do them afford , Not a Penny thereof we can Bate . But if you 're content , a while to be pent , And in Purgatory purged ; A smaller Spell , shall preserve you from Hell , And keep you from being Scourged . Though you have liv'd a Devil , in all kind of Evil , Bequeath but a Monastery , And Angels your Soul , without Controul , To Abraham's Bosome shall Carry . Nor need you to fear , who have bought Lands dear , That were Holy Churches before ; Wee 〈…〉 for Life , but for your Souls health At your Death you must them Restore . Thus Popery you see ▪ will kindly agree , If you will it but Embrace , But if you delay , there 's so many i' th way , ' That you will hardly get a good Place . The Critical Time , is now in the Prime , See how Holly Mother does smile , And spreading her Arms , to preserve you from harms , So gladly would you Reconcile . To which purpose behold , do but tell out your Gold And all Things in readiness be ; For the next Year , his Holiness ( we hear ) Doth intend a Jubilee . † You that Pardons would have , or Indulgence crave , To ROME , to ROME be Trudging , And do not contemne , good Advice from a Friend , Nor take his Ballad in dudgeon . FINIS . Printed for Benjamin Harris , at the Stationers Armes in Swithins-Alley near the Royal Exchange . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A55426-e10 † A Time when the POPE useth to grant General Pardons , &c. Formerly kept only every Fiftyth Year : But now that his H●linesses Market might the oftner Return , It is observed every Twenty-fifth Year , which happens to be the approaching Year , 1675. And I wish that all Factious or Designing Prists , and Poplings would be packing thither to observe It , that we might be rid of them , having more occasion for their Room then their Company .