Anonymous

“ But then for fear of biding out,
She knocked hard and made some din.
⁠To knock and cry she did not spare
Till father Adam did her hear;
Who is't that raps so rudely there,
Heaven cannot well be won by weir. ”

“ If weakly I can but believe,
For from this place I'll never go.
⁠But Peter said how can that be?
How dar'st thou look him in the face?
Such horrid sinners like to thee,
Can have no courage to have grace ”

“ СOurteous Reader, what was Papal or heretical, in the former Copy is left out in this Edition: for there is nothing that can offend the wise and judicious, not being taken up in a literal sense, but by way of allegory and mystical, which thus may edify.
The whole Dialogue is nothing but that which is recorded in scripture for our example, wherefore I appeal from the censorious, and capricious critics, who start at straws and leap over blocks; and whose nature is, with the Wasp, to suck nothing but venom out of the sweetest flowers ”

“ O'er death and hell victoriously,
With lasting spirits laid in store.
FINIS.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”