%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Father PETER's Birth, Character, and Last Will. / Quo teneam nodo mutantem Protea vultum? Martin, L. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/26/2014 33244

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R180399 IN cloudy times and place, where Priest-craft rul'd the State, / And Men (as some to Vertue) to Vice seem'd born by Fate; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 645 1: 645 Father PETER's Birth, Character, and Last Will. / Quo teneam nodo mutantem Protea vultum? Father PETER’s Birth, Character, and Last Will. Quo teneam nodo mutantem Protea vultum? Father PETER's Birth, Character, and Last Will. Quo teneam nodo mutantem Protea vultum? Martin, L. ?-?

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IN cloudy times and place, where Priest-craft rul'd the State, And Men (as some to Vertue) to Vice seem'd born by Fate; Where Sinn and Error (tho in others) a meer privation was Of Good, and nothing but defection of habitual Grace: In them 'twas Vertue, and Perfection, that professed An Elaborate, Super-fine, and Curious Wickedness; Whose duty was to force, and Chymist New Discoveries; And Sin refine, and improve (like other Sciences.) Here Man and Beast, did with New Incest joyn, And Witch and Devil, with Lustful Reeks were lim'd, (as Dog and Bitch) here our Romanticque Boar Was bullied forth (not born) of De'l and Whore; He huffed, and puffed, and thrust his sweaty Loyns With Cyclops Force into the craving hungry Groin: He swinged the brawny Members with such Stroke, (As a young Stallion upon a Mare new broke) The Female Brute conceiv'd the Monster in her Wombe, Grows ripe in Vice, by help of Sin Original, and Sires Bumb; (As an Excentrique monstrous Creature takes for his Growth,) Full Sixteen Months his Mother groanes in's bringing forth: But growing fond and lustful in the Incestuous Womb, By sodomittical Act he fixeth his Point in his Mothers Bumb. The Hydra breaks forth, wracking his Mothers Loynes, (Looks sad as mourning Purple, or religious in lowry time) For national Sinns: The Beast grew under most sacred Smock, And blessing of his Holiness, and Prayers of Cardinal Flock: His Mother finding him without Grace, and grown most spract, At Lying, Swearing, Canting, and the lucky Knack. Of Calculating Births, gets the fam'd in those Doctrines, To instruct the forward Child, and gull him on with Necktarines, And plain Pulse Pottage, his first Food or Pap, Good to strengthen his Witt (as the learn'd of old) or brawn his Back: For craving Whore. The Pupil grew most Excellent, His Doctors Banters in Aquine and Ipnatian Cant: (As a second fam'd Drake he steers new Ways) In Vice most fine and Subtle, A new World discryes, And fixeth the Pillars of unpassable Iniquities: Knew what was what; What lucky Star did reign, When the young Priestling from under Cushion-pains Should Comet in our Sphere, By Algebra and Astronomick Rules? What 'tis that makes us Statesmen, Buffoons, and what Fools, Knew the predestinated Minute of his Birth and Father, Whether the Tile-man's Wife, or other sanctify'd Quean was Mother? Knew, after the Conjunction, on which Majestick side The Queen repos'd herself; foresaw the Tide Of our English State to a hair; or whether a young Laird, Or Lady should grace Jemmys Circumcis'd Yard. Though the Question was as difficult, and nice and wise, As whether Adam was Navel'd, a Crablouse has Stones, or Mole has Eyes: A Prince
A Prince by help of prolifick Warming-pan is born, Portentous with Hair and Teeth (as Lewis) and his Toes with Corns, As Caesars Horse was Foal'd; Te Devil was sung At Whitehall; and Ave-Ignatius by the Pope of Rome. The Babe is Dipp'd and Chrism'd, and has for his Godfather The blessed Vicar of Rome, who sits in Peters Chair; 'Twixt Heav'n and Hell (as Solomon in the Air) Our Virtuoso triumphs with fresh Lawrels crowned, Blesseth his Stars that fatally has Heir'd the English Crown; Proves by unanswerable Dilemma, that the King's a God On Earth, and may dispence with Law and Sin, as Heav'ns Lord; Proves by strict Logick and Mathematick Features, That a Beggar is a Prince, a Church, a Stew, or Theatre; But Orange cool'd the Heat, and brought in those That Kidnapped Jesuitism, Spaded their Religion, and their Whores: Yet this Hieroglyphick diversyfies and Saints it on; He rogues, defrauds, and buggers by Romes Commission: But now grown sick, he humbly requests the Queen In verbis Conceptis to form and observe his last Theme. His WILL. Imprimis. I Desire that my Body may be decently Interr'd, With my dear Queen, under our Lady Marys Goard: For truly I think my Body better than my Soul; For the one shall perish, but the other Immortal howl In Flames Eternal; my Soul to God, perhaps my Maker, Though I much doubt it, as whether Peter was the Father Of our Church or Utrecht; Or whether Pope Joan was not a Mother? For truly my Soul, of late, I have often Mortgag'd, As Knaves their Land, and of Equity 'tis the Devil's Cabbage. Item, One Thousand Pound unto my dear fair Nun, Who keeps the Vestal, and my Flames in Rome. Item, I give Five thousand Pound unto the Pious English King, Because his Coffers I have drain'd, and now again I pay him in his own Coin: As for the Residue, I give not one Peters Penny to the Heretick Crew. Yet I had almost forgot my Holy and Dear Queen, Who has been kind (as by the young Prince it seems) To me, Groom of her Linnen Stole, and the late Tenant Of her fair Body, and Chastity, and Father with a Why-not. Item, Unto the healthy, hopefull, Idol Prince, In whom I claim a share, by Justice and strict Sense Of Sw----ing I give him a Thousand Italian Crowns, To be paid to him (that is, never) when He enjoys the English Crown. Item, One Thousand Pound to Erect my fair and goodly Tomb In Monumental Brass, in via sacra, in Old Rome; Who have done more by Fraud, and Cheats, and Lying, Than Famed Alexander, or Caesar by their Killing. In witness whereof, I Sign and Seal it in the presence Of Pope, Devil, and Cardinal, with a crooked Ninepence.
By L. MARTIN of the Inner- Temple, London, Gent.