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R25952 SInce Constantine the Great, whose bounteous Hand, / Impow'rd Romes Prelates with such vast Command, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 134453 A BULL / SENT BY / POPE PIUS / To encourage the Traytors in England, pronounced against Queen Elizabeth, of ever glorious Memory; shewing the / wicked designs of Popery. A BULL SENT BY POPE PIUS To encourage the Traytors in England, pronounced against Queen Elizabeth, of ever glorious Memory; shewing the wicked designs of Popery. A BULL SENT BY POPE PIUS To encourage the Traitors in England, pronounced against Queen Elizabeth, of ever glorious Memory; showing the wicked designs of Popery. 1678-1678

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SInce Constantine the Great, whose bounteous Hand, Impowrd Romes Prelates with such vast Command, Ambition swells them, and they scarce think fit, The World should hold the Seat whereon they sit. Kings have their Footstools been, Imperial Crowns Pounded to Attoms by their fatal frowns; The unhingd Nations topsie-turvy turnd, Clandestine Tumults, peaceful Cities burnd; With direful Plots unrippd the Seams of State, Murderd their Kings, and Thrones laid desolate. This blustring Monarchs Wings did Treason raise, First from a Monk to gain an Abbots place; From thence a Prior, next a Hat all red, Declares with pride the blood himself has shed. This poor distressed Monk thus drawn froms Cell, At last storms Heaven, and breaks the Gates of Hell; Eaths Pillars shakes, confines the terrene World, In his conceit the Globes on Rockets hurld; And arrogates more power than he who made Man out of Dust, And all this Structure laid: To cloak which monstrous pride, Saint Peters Hood Is worn by him, though smeard with Martyrs Blood, Whose sacred Eyes nere viewd a Martyrs doom, Except his own when Crucified at Rome; But his Successors, far more great than good, Are fleshd with slaughter, drunk with steeming blood. These but the shade of that Succession be, Yet dare pretend more Sanctity than he; He nere dispersd hornd Bulls, nor breathd a Curse Against the Lords Anointed; no, nor worse, Sent Villains out to murder peaceful Kings, Indulgd with Pardons tippd with Poyson Stings: To silence all that dare defend, we will Insert their own prepostrous Popish skill. Tis sure theyll not deny, or if they do, The Nation knows their Negatives untrue. A dreadful Sentence blown by Papal breath, Against the great renownd Elizabeth; The glory of her Sex, whose Virgin Zone Environd with mercy her establishd Throne; A Bull more fierce than those that Basan bred, To push the Royal Crown from off her Head ( Discharge her Subjects, and Commotions raise, To set the Nation in a Roman Blaze: From Pius Quintus, and his daring Crew, This Curse was sent, let Christians take a view.
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I. Pius Romes Bishop, serving God on high, To be rememberd to Eternity. 2. Christ has appointed me Supreme, that none Without my leave shoud dare to mount a Throne: Princes my Vassals are, their powrs from me; I Kings depose, and set their Subjects free. 3. Since Peter Rules the Church, my Powr is good; He signs my Warrant, and I wear his Hood. 4. I take all pains, and spare no labour, yet The wicked do to such a number get; They disanul the Dictates I Command, And whats unjust, my sacred Rites withstand. 5. First, Englands Queen has tane the Mass away; No Sacrifice, no Prayers, nor Fasting-day; No choice of Meats, nor Law for single Lives, Against my will the Clergie take them Wives.
6. She has Usurpd the Kingdom, and maintains Herself Supreme, and wrests from me the Rains Of Ecclesiastick Government; the Land Is almost drawn from my Pontifick Hand: Obedience is denyd, my Prelates sent To strong Confinements, or to Banishment. 7. She has removed all that stood for me, And so displacd the chief Nobility: Of such Inferiour Men her Councils made, As know not me, yet dare my Right Invade. 8. My Rebels too of Flanders she receives; Those I Command to dye, she still Reprieves. 9. For these, and such like Crimes, we think it fit Our Curse on her, and all that prompt her, light; All those that durst our sacred Will controul, From our dread Curse must Ransome back her Soul. 10. By Deprivation here we put an end To all the Rights, or Claims she coud pretend Unto the Kingdom, whatsoere they be; To all her Power, and late Authority. 11. We charge her Subjects, and command that none Shall dare tobey her, or defend her Throne; Tis sure damnation to em if they will Yield Homage to her, or her Laws fulfill. 12. All that the sacred Bond of Oaths have signd, Or their Allegiance dos their Conscience bind, We freely here discharge, and hold it true, That from this time theres no obedience due: For why, she is desposd by our consent, And quite suspended from her Government. 13. Unquestionable is my Power, for I Am Prince of Nations, and Enthrond on high Above the Powers, on me the Kingdoms wait; I Kings set up, and excommunicate: I Princes can deprive, and with my frown Root Kingdoms up, and tumble Nations down: I can discharge all Subjects Oaths, as well I curse them can, and give them up to Hell. My Power is boundless, and Im like that God That Rules on high, I bear his mighty Rod. Thus haughty Man presumes, that is but Dust, To blaspheme Heavn: Thus Man that is unjust Confronts his Maker, and conspires to be His equal, both in Power and Majesty; Assumes that greatness to himself alone, That Saints, nor Angels dare not think upon. Thus he deceives the World, and draws aside The simple Soul, a Sacrifice tos pride; And trains him up in cruel Massacres, To murder Kings, and burn their Palaces; Lay Cities low in Dust, no Treason spare, Embroil the Nations in a Civil War; Hatch bailful Plots, as secret as the shade, And with deceit all guild their hellish Trade. From such Dire Men good God protect our Land, And save our King with thy preserving Hand; Give him the power and strength, that he may still Tread on the Necks of all that seek his ill.
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