Ringwood, Royfter, Bowman, Jowler, The man in the moone drinkes clarret, Eates powder'd beef, turnip, and carret, Will fire the bufhe at his backe. 4 50 XVIII. THE DISTRACTED PURITAN, MAD SONG THE SECOND, was written about the beginning of the feventeenth century by the witty bishop Corbet, and is printed from the 3d edition of his poems, 12mo. 1672, compared with a more ancient copy in the editor's folio MS. A M A MI mad, O noble Feftus, When zeal and godly knowledge Have put me in hope To deal with the pope, As well as the best in the college? Boldly I preach, hate a crofs, hate a furplice, Mitres, copes, and rochets; Come hear me pray nine times a day, And fill your heads with crochets. * Emanuel college Cambridge was originally a seminary of Puritans. Take off this chain, Neither Rome nor Spain Can refift my strong invasion. Boldly I preach, &c. Of the beafts ten horns (God bless us!) 25 I have knock'd off three already; If they let me alone I'll leave none : But they fay I am too heady. Boldly I preach, &c. When I fack'd the seven-hill'd city, ༣༠ Alluding to fome vifionary expofition of Zech. ch. v. ver. 1. Or, if the date of this fong would permit, one might fuppofe it aimed at one Coppe, a ftrange enthufiaft, whose life may be seen in Wood's Athen. vol. 2. p. 501. He was author of a book intitled, "The fiery flying Roll" and afterwards published a Recantation, part of whofe Title is, "The fiery flying Roll's wings clipt," &c. + See Greenbam's works, fol. 1605. particularly the tract intitled, "A fweet comfort for an afflicted confcience." See Perkins's works, fol. 1616. vol. 1. p. 11; where is a large half-fheet folded, containing "A furvey, or table declaring the order of "the causes of falvation, and damnation, &c." the pedigree of dam nation being diftinguished by a broad black zig-zag line, |