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SOme alive will be deposed for the truth of this strange accident, though I forbeare the naming of place or per∣sons.
A Carelesse Maid which attended a Gentlemans Childe, fell asleepe whilest the rest of the family were at Church; An Ape taking the Childe out of the Cradle, carried it to the Roofe of the
House, and there (according to his rude manner) fell a dancing and dandling thereof, down head, up heeles, as it happened.
The Father of the Childe returning (with his Family) from the Church commented with his own eyes on his Childs sad condition. Bemone he might, help it, he could not. Danger∣ous to shoote the Ape, where the Bul∣let might hit the Babe; All fall to their Prayers as their last, and best refuge, that the innocent Childe (whose pre∣cipice they suspected) might be preser∣ved.
But when the Ape was well weari∣ed with its own Activity, he fairly went down, and formally laid the Childe where he found it in the Cra∣dle.
Fanaticks have pleased their Fancies these late years, with turning and tossing and tumbling of Religion, upward, and downward, and backward, and forward, they have cast and contrived it into a
hundred Antick-postures, of their own imagining. However, it is now to be hoped, that after they have tired them∣selves out with doing of nothing, but only trying and tampering this, and that way, to no purpose, they may at last returne and leave Religion in the same Condition wherein they found it.