Her @3Justice@1 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 @3Pope@1 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 @3Golden Legend@1; 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SURFACES AND MASKS; 6 by CLARENCE MAJOR DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |