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
Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93102.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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A Piece of much Antiquity, but had never plagued the Nation with so prolix a Date, if the least grain of Wit had grumbled in its Entrailes; It is the Countrey mans Chronicle, who believes its Narrations to be as Canonicall as the Scriptures; A dull, drossie, dirty piece; it's strange if once in six weeks you find three lines of sense: the fellow that writes it, is no doubt of the humour of the Samseans, in Epiphanius, who were neither Jewes nor Gen∣tiles, not Christians, but preserved a commodious correspondency withall: He is very impartial in his Intelligence, which shall ex∣cuse him from further Castigation. The next is on Tuesday.