An epitaph upon the Solemn League and Covenant. Condemned to be burnt by the common hangman. E. H. 1661 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A43791 Wing H19A ESTC R213808 99826081 99826081 30473 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. A43791) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30473) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1760:11) An epitaph upon the Solemn League and Covenant. Condemned to be burnt by the common hangman. E. H. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for Philemon Stephens the younger, at the Kings Arms over agains the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, London : 1661. Verse - "So young? and must thou, like an old witch, burn?". Signed: E.H. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Solemn League and Covenant (1643). -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. 2006-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2006-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion AN EPITAPH UPON THE Solemn League and Covenant . Condemned to be burnt by the Common Hangman . SO young ? and must thou , like an old Witch , burn ? And none but Gregory celebrate thine Urn ? Thou art , though old enough , scarce yet adult , And infancy sometimes reprieves a mulct . But juster Laws , here , no demurres allow , Nor hadst thou benefit of thy Clergy now . Alas , gude Covenant ! but most forlorn , For thou art damn'd ; some , as yet , but forsworn . Before , thou wast but tinder for the pipe , Guarded Pye-bottomes , or some worse thing wipe . In Bonesires , now , Comrades with pitch and tar , Yet , didst live , with Nols Nose , a Salamander . Thou 'rt water proof , if tears could drown'd , thou ne're Hadst liv'd to see this Clymacterick year . This fiery Furnace proves thee , if unsmutcht With flames , thou 'rt Saint ; Imposture , if thou 'rt toucht . Oh for some juice of onions ! or some Quack With Mountebanck receipts to skreen thy wrack ! Ha's ne're a zealous Cheat , now , some ( left ) shift ? No help at maw ? to save at a dead lift ? What ? ne're a Scottish mist to dampe thy bl●ze ? No Exorcist ? for aid thy Sire to ra●se ? No Charm in Goggle-eye ? no canting tone ? To fence thee from these flames ? alas ! there 's none . My Bennyson go with thee , and that Scot That brooding hatcht thee in his Rebel plot . May Cleavelands Plagues light on thee , till , poor fool , This sheet do preach thee to thy Pennance stool . Shall England with a Scot Priest ridden be ? No , trayn your Meggye's to your Cavalry . Pit●y your Cheverran lungs , ride with a Hanck , Take a sob with your Halties , or your Brancks . You 've rid us almost out of breath , but now The Reasty jade does her old burthen throw . The Scot was Englands sit-fast , but , now , when Will yow ( dismounted thus ) get up agen ? If e're you do — but Heavens forbid the evil ! For , Horse a beggar , he 'le ride to the Devil . Your long Grace cannot cater a Dinner now , We are uncheated , feed on Poddillow , Your Sowins , and your long-kale , the time 's come That Scots must keep Lent all the year at home . Chymists , from the grosse flesh , the Spirits call , But , Scots to get flesh , are spiritual . Magisher Artis venter , th' Covenant Was th' issue of your hungry weambs and want : So , this just Execution will become To Jockye , Sacriledge and Martyrdome . Yow coyn'd this League for Cash , this Judas kisse Was the damn'd Prologue of your avarice ; Thus Curres do bite and fawn at the same season , The Scotch Hail master spells in English , treason . And 'larums us , as those that knew Argyle , Stood on their Guard when he begun to smile . We now shall hear each snivelling John an●Oak Whining , the cause ! thus Toads , when hungry , croak . Your long-wind sermon tones is ventriloquie , 'T is famine opes the yawning mou●h of Jockye . I wrong yow not , sure now , yow humbled are , Before , no Prelate , Proud , like Presbyter . I do believe yow do Repent and Fast , Good reason , for the Possets do not last , And the back-sliding sister-hood does now , Weary of Rochet-Jack , the Courtier wooe . No Bodkins , now , nor thimbles , as of old , Cull'd charity , like water heat , most cold . The Prentice-rabble that did club of late For this League , now , its Doom , do antidate . Thou wast , poor sheet , the only Vestery Our Heteroclite Sects did all agree To shrowd them with , these fig-leaves cast away , The●'le be no Adamites , so nak'd as they . Oh Brethren of New-England ! crosse the Main , Come and rethump the Pulpits o're again : We 're , as yow were , when Hugh came first , some reason To bo-peep with a Text , to guise a treason . But , hold , sure your inventi●n's barren , cheats In jugling never use ( discover'd ) feats : Except they do remove their stage , to try For fresh acceptance in new Company ▪ The Knapperdolling 's ( thus ) in Germany Unmaskt , to England and to Scotland fly . And , here , their forgeries , again , retriev'd , Their next flight for New England is believ'd , Scarce Cicatrih'd , yet are the German Scars , These sad mementoes of Phanatique warres : Yet , Britain's ulcer's , still malignant be , But Cancers are best cur'd with cauterie , May our Rebellious Leprosies at last Be expiated with this Holocaust . By E. H LONDON , Printed for Philemon Stephens the younger , at the Kings Arms over against Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet . 1661.