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All error and profanity:
A blasphemous supremacy
Over the church usurped he;
And granted an indulgency,
The eby to ruin Pre bytry.
My sceptre he did bravely sway,
And punish d those that did gainsay,
By tortures that were most severe,
By prisoning and loss of gear:
And cruel murders many a way,
Because they from my laws did stray:
But kindness he did ever bear
To all the Popish far and near:
No Pope in Rome did ever dwell,
That could this noble prince exce',
For in a word he did advance
My kingdom more than Rome or France;
Neither Spain nor Germany
Had so much true zeal for me.
He reigned long but at the last,
His brother York gave him a cast.
He poison'd him and made him die,
And sent him home to my country;
To Tophet, that's both wide and large,
Which he chas'd for his heritage
Great Middleton tha' man of might,
My service he did never slight:
To work he furiously did go
The covenants to overthrow;
He like Nehushan did them treat,
Like almanacks that's out of dare
He did rescind their force and power,
And solemnly did them abjure.
He nullified all acts and laws
