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A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE SIXTH PEARLE. JUSTICE, by                    
First Line: Her justice next appears, which did support
Last Line: Are the maine pillers of romes hierarchy.
Subject(s): Catholics; Fables; Justice; Pearls; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Allegories


Her Justice next appeares, which did support
Her Crowne, and was her Kingdomes strongest Fort.
For should not Lawes be executed well,
And Malefactors curb'd, a very Hell
Of all Confusion and disorder would
Among all States ensue. Here to unfold
The exemplary Penalties of those,
Which to the Realme were knowne, and mortall Foes:
And as some putrid members par'd away,
Least their transcendent Villany should sway
Others to like Disloyalty; would aske
A larger Volume, and would be a Taske
Unfit for Feminine hands, which rather love
To write of pleasing subjects, then approve
The most deserved slaughtering of any;
Which justly cannot argue Tyranny.
For though the Pope have lately sent from Rome,
Strange Bookes and pictures painting out the Doome
Of his pretended Martyrs: as that they
Were baited in Beares skins, and made a prey
To wilde Beasts, and had Bootes with boiling Lead
Drawn on their Legges, and Hornes nail'd to their head;
Yet all our British world knowes these are fables,
Chimaera's, Phantasm's, Dreames, and very Bables
For Fooles to play with: and right Goblin-Sprights,
Wherewith our Nurses oft their Babes affrights.
His Holinesse these Martyrdomes may adde
To the Golden Legend; for they are as madde,
That first invented them, as he that write
That branelesse Booke: and yet some credit it.
For Cruelty and fond Credulity,
Are the maine Pillers of Romes Hierarchy.





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