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Plinius
secundus
C O V N T E R- B U F F
TO
LYSIMACHUS NICANOR,
A pretended Jesuite.
I CANNOT now but give my grief a tongue,
Since innocence, and vertue suffer wrong;
Since calumnie, and falshood strive to wound
Our Mother’s breast, and purpose to confound
That Covenant, the Popish hyrelings’ foyle, 5
Heaven’s herauld sent to blesse North-Britain’s soyle :
A band of truth and power, the Prelats’ baine,
Which with our dearest bloud we will maintaine,
As sworne, God’s purer worship to defend,
Our King to serve, our straying faults to mend. 10
Illustrius Trajan, though a pagane prince,
After much bloud of Christians, did dispence
With the remainder of that Heaven-blest band,
Who through a Red sea fraungh’d their long’d-for land,
Whiles by Proconsull Plinie he was inform’d, 15
That Christians in their lives were more reform’d,
Nor then was vented forth, by false report,
And that, in sober way, they did resort
Plinius
secundus
C O V N T E R- B U F F
TO
LYSIMACHUS NICANOR,
A pretended Jesuite.
I CANNOT now but give my grief a tongue,
Since innocence, and vertue suffer wrong;
Since calumnie, and falshood strive to wound
Our Mother’s breast, and purpose to confound
That Covenant, the Popish hyrelings’ foyle, 5
Heaven’s herauld sent to blesse North-Britain’s soyle :
A band of truth and power, the Prelats’ baine,
Which with our dearest bloud we will maintaine,
As sworne, God’s purer worship to defend,
Our King to serve, our straying faults to mend. 10
Illustrius Trajan, though a pagane prince,
After much bloud of Christians, did dispence
With the remainder of that Heaven-blest band,
Who through a Red sea fraungh’d their long’d-for land,
Whiles by Proconsull Plinie he was inform’d, 15
That Christians in their lives were more reform’d,
Nor then was vented forth, by false report,
And that, in sober way, they did resort
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| Description | Edited with introduction, notes and glossary by William Tough. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood & Sons, 1898. Contents: V. 1. Introduction. Early miscellaneous poems. Sonnets. Dido and Æneas. A spirtuall hymne. Doomesday. Fancies farewell. The trve crucifixe for true Catholickes. Sonnets. -- v. 2. A counter-buff to Lysimachus Nicanor. Caledons complaint. The cry of blood. Some psalmes translated. The historie and descent of the house of Rowallane, [in prose] Notes. Glossary. |
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| Description | A collection of over 100 Scottish texts dating from around 1400 to 1700. Most titles are in Scots, and include editions of poetry, drama, and prose by major Scottish writers such as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and George Buchanan. Edited by a key scholarly publisher of Scotland's literary history, and published from the late 19th century onwards by the Scottish Text Society. Available here are STS series 1-3. |
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