The Quakers wedding, October, 24. 1671. Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685. 1671 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B05971 Wing S5509 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[90] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[175] 99885018 ocm99885018 182844 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05971) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182844) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[91]; A4:2[176]) The Quakers wedding, October, 24. 1671. Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for Rowland Reynolds, at the Sun and Bible in the Poultry, London, : 1671. Signed: Stevenson. Verse: "O Times! O Manners! Whither's Levy fled ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Quakers -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. Marriage -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2008-08 SPi Global Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE QUAKERS WEDDING , October , 24. 1671. O Times ! O Manners ! Whither 's Levy fled , That Law and Gospel seem Abolished ? ●he Red-Nos'd Dragon with his Complices , To Fundamental Truths Antipodes , That Coccatrice this cursed Egg has hatch'd And taught us worse than ever to be Matcht . They publish ( then ) at whipping-posts the Banes , And well I think deserv'd'um for their pains . But we can Marry now , hand over-head , And not have so much as a Form to plead . We are not now unto the Justice packt , ( Though then there was small Justice in the Act ) . But we can Marry of our own accord , Like Jack and Gill , but leaping cross a Sword. But against parties coupled on this wise , Westminster-Weddings will in judgment Rise , That they should stumble , and pretend such Light , They Marry wrong , and call 't a Marriage-Rite . The Libertine comes in the Levits room , And is at once the Parson and the Groom . He babbles like a Brute , and by and by , He takes the Bride , and goes to Multiply . The Bride ? I do recall what I have said , 'T is not a Bridal , but a Brothel bed ; They for Conjunction Copulative would pass , When the Conjunction a Disjunctive was . For having Lain together all their Life , They are , but as they met , not Man and Wife . And for a mitigation of their Cares , They may have many Children , but no Heirs . And , what a Marryed-Man could never yet , He may a Bastard of his Wife beget . For wanting Licence , and Certificate , He leaves his Issue illegitimate . The Sons and Daughters of the Common Earth , An Off-spring out-Law'd in their very Birth . What made , them Jews and Gentiles to Invite ? Sure they could never hope a Proselyte . How Heaven approv'd the Juggle ? you may tell When Thunder , Lightning , and a Tempest fell Confusion waited on both Men and Meat , Their Marriage , and their Feast , were both a Che●● A Wedding , and no Wedding brought before y 〈…〉 The Devil doubtless was the Directory . Some Hellebor restore 'um , to recant , This fordid League , and senceless Covenant . O that such Vileness should affront the Sun , Would make a Corner blush to see it done ! Whilst , almost mad as they , the People ran , To see a Sinner take a Publican . Steven 〈…〉 LONDON , Printed for Rowland Reynolds , at the Sun and Bible in the Poultry , 1671.