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&c. vash picking quarrels vid dem, vid deir depredations, and deir Guarda Costa's and fat not; aue, aue, aue, by my shoul dey vill fall on at last, and take courage, and swinge dem bravely: dey are making great preparation, arming fleets, and ships, and putting out land forces; dey are very powerful armies, de whole vorld, ah! and by de Holy Shaint Bridget, Europe itshelf is no able to vidstand dem. Dey vill tell you of dear man's of War, and deir Haddocks, and deir Vernons, and de devil know fat, vill sink, and stop and destroy our ships, leave dem upon de bottom of de seas, and never let dem put deir leg upon Irish ground more: dat dey king of Spain feared for dish, and vill pay de convention and not fight: by my shoul he vill fight and beat too,—'tish de cause of de Holy Shurch he's defending, and de gates of hell vill never prevail against him. Dere vill be shiftance enough I'll warrant you, all de Shaints, our Holy Moder Shurch, all de Scotch, and by my shoul, de Virgin Mary hershelf vill fight for us; den we vill succeed to be sure, posses our rights and estates again, and establish our holy religion through all Ireland, and I myshelf may be Lord of Trumney, and of Lavry's-Bog, before I vash die yet.
But after so long a digression, I must return to my explanation of Purgatory.
In de shecond plash for its situation; it ish shust, my friends, in de middle between heaven and hell; from hell on one side by a small paper vall only, but from heaven upon t'oder by a strong vall of adament, vid gates of brass, of which Peter keep de key, who vash himself a true Catholic for he vash once Pope, and all our Popes ever
