I ragguagli di Parnasso, or, Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries : with the politick touch-stone / written originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini ; and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth.

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I ragguagli di Parnasso, or, Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries : with the politick touch-stone / written originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini ; and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth.
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Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.
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London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley ... and Thomas Heath ...,
1656.
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Political science -- Early works to 1800.
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"I ragguagli di Parnasso, or, Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries : with the politick touch-stone / written originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini ; and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28504.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

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The XCII. ADVERTISEMENT.

Apollo having a notorious hypocrite in his hands, punisheth him severely.

SO implacable is the hatred which Apollo bears to hypocrisie, as till he published that severe Edict against them, of which you were fully informed by our late dispatches, he promised great rewards to those who would discover such devils to his Judges. And having had certain notice of one of them some six daies ago, his Majesty made him sud∣denly be laid hands on; and causing him to be brought before him▪ at the very first sight he knew him to be a compleat hypocrite; wherefore having stript him of all appearances, fictions, and a number of falshoods, and lastly pluckt from off his back his glittering cloke of feigned ho∣nesty, wherewith he was wholly covered, and shewed him to his Ver∣tuosi

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who were there about him in his naked tearms of devillish hypo∣crisie, and then to the terror of others who trade in such wickedness, gave order that he should be close tied to the Gate of the Delphick Temple, which was suddenly done. Never was there any monster seen, any wild beast, or any infernal hag, more horrid and dreadful then he, who made use of counterfeit goodness to cover real vice. For then in this lewd companions eyes, who had formerly a commiserating countenance, an incredible intense malignity was discovered, a tyran∣nous pride in his speech, which was formerly all humility; and in all his actions, wherein he first seemed to be content with a little, and to be scandallized with having much, such a voracity of possessing the whole world, as he publickly affected that all humane kinde should be reduced to beg bread of him. Besides, so envious a genius was discovered in him, as he desired nothing more, then that the Sun should shine upon none but himself and his affairs; which was so apparent a truth, as that his monstrous leanness was seen to proceed more from other mens pro∣sperity, then from his own misery. In fine, he was so horrid and fright∣ful a spectacle, as the people durst not come into the Temple for fear of coming near him. The chief Literati of this State did then much wonder how it was possible that these fraudulent hypocrites, with one only grain of musk of appearing sanctity, could make the noisom jakes of their stinking and most abominable wickedness appear so odoriferous to blockish men, as with a little Orpine of affected goodness, they can cover over such wicked vices. And the wonder was greater, to consi∣der where the eyes and judgement of lasie men were, when bewitch'd with the cunning of such raskals, they flock like fools after them, whom they should fly from, as from the Plague.

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