338 7 e H 13'TORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VIII. tam bouncing prieft, at the colt and charges of Martin Mar-Prelate, gent; .È.h"beth, in quarto. 8, . The Ccbler's Book, which denies the church of England to be a true. L. of Whit- church, and charges her with maintaining idolatry under the name of gift, P.296. decency, in the habits, fonts, baptifmby women, gang-days, faints eves, bifhopïng of children, organs, wafer- cakes, &c. Ha' ye any more work for the Cooper? In printing of which the prefs was difcovered and feized, with feveral pamphlets unfinifhed ; as, Zb,d. p. 288. Eßiflo [Epifco] Ma/lix, Martin's Dream, Paradoxes, The Lives and Doings of Englifh Dialogues, Popes, M:fcellanea, Itinerarium, or, Vfitations, Parice Lechones, Lambethifms. The two laft of thefe were imperfeét ; but to complete the Itinerarium, the author threatens to furvey all the clergy of England, and note their intolerable pranks: And for his Lambethifms he would have a Martin at Lambeth. Other books were publithed of the fame nature; as, ADemon firation of Difcipline; the Counter-Pòifon, &c. The writers on the church-fide came not behind their adverfaries in buffoonry and ridicule, as appears by the following_ pamphlets printed at this time. Ludicrous Pappe with an Hatchet, alias, AFig for my God-fon: or, Crack me this pamphlets an nut, that is, a found box of the ear, for the ideot Martin to hold his the church peace. Written by one that dares call a dog a dog. Imprinted by John fide. Ath. Oxon. Anoke, and are to be fold at the fign of the Crab-Tree-Cudgel, in Thwack- V. L p. z6o. Coat-Lane, Pafquil's Apology-. In the firft part whereof he renders a reafon of his long filence, and gallops the field with the treatife of reformation. Printed where I was, and where I (hall be ready, by the help of God and my mufe, to fend you a may-game of Martinifm. Anno 1393, quarto. An fdibsondfor a Parrot : or, An Alms for Martin Mar- Prelate, &c, By Cuthbert Curry -Knave, quarto. The return of the renowned Cavaliero Pafquil to England, and his meeting with Marforius at London, upon the Royal Exchange, London, 2589, againft Martin and Martinifm. A Counter Cuff given to Martinjuniòr, by the Pafquil of England, Ca- valiero. 1589, oEtavo. Re arks It is fad, when a controverfy about ferious matters runs thefe dregs: Ridicule. and perfonal.refieEtion may expofe an adverfary and make him afhamed5
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