Excerpt from Specimens of the Early English Poets, Vol. 2 of 3: To Which Is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, With a Biography of Each Poet, &C To make exclamation, By way of declamation, In' his debellation, With a popish fashion, TO subvert our nation. But this dawcock doctor And purgatory proctor Waketh now for wages; And as a man that rages, Or overcome with ages, Disputeth per ambages, To help these parasites And naughty hypocrites With legends of lies, Feigned fantasies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.