The vveepers: or, the bed of snakes broken.: Wit vitiated, and made a pander to wickednesse; instanced in a pack of knaves (calling themselves servants to the late King) worthy the anger of the present age; and the wonder and indignation of all posterity. Six cupping-glasses, clapt to the cloven feet of the six dæmons, who govern the times by turns from Munday to Saturday annually. / By S.S.

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Title: The vveepers: or, the bed of snakes broken.: Wit vitiated, and made a pander to wickednesse; instanced in a pack of knaves (calling themselves servants to the late King) worthy the anger of the present age; and the wonder and indignation of all posterity. Six cupping-glasses, clapt to the cloven feet of the six dæmons, who govern the times by turns from Munday to Saturday annually. / By S.S.
Author: Sheppard, S. (Samuel)
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Bucknell, at the signe of the Golden-Lion in Duck-lane,; 1652.
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Subject terms: Congregationalists; Great Britain -- Politics and government
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MUNDAY. BRITANICVS-DIVRNALL.

THis Well goes with two Buckets, and it were losse of time to tend the pouring out of either. This Novel-Britanicus is but the little Toe on the left foot of that Gigantick Paper-spoiler, who (like the Dragon in the Apocalyps) vomited an Hue and Cry after the late King: This fellow because Hair is no Embleme of Wit, affects baldnesse to admiration. He is never constant to one Habite: and therefore you may (perhaps) not erre in calling him Changeling, Prag, Mock—Prag—tanicus—any thing: The River in Athenaeus is his Embleme, whose upper waters were sweet and grateful, but towards the bottome brackish. But I leave him, con∣cluding him witty and a Scholar: but then followes the