De Wilkesio, et libertate. Ad Doctorem Thomam Wilson ... / Adjecta versione Anglica.

  • William Browne
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[1770]
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Credit: De Wilkesio, et libertate. Ad Doctorem Thomam Wilson ... / Adjecta versione Anglica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Scripto petito Corpus Habebitur, Vt Caufa Claufi Iudice candido Pendatur; ecce ! autem finiftra Inritum id inveniatur Arte ! Tandem perito Iudice fiftitur Coram, Salutis Vindice Publicae ; ^ui> Liberum Hunc dicens habendum, Carcere Liberat Innocentem. Sed fcribit, ardens indice libero, Monetque abuti hunc Peftore Regio j 4 Mendax quod auderet Minift er 4 Dicere, Principis Ore, falfum En ! Charta, ghcadragefima quae datur Et Quinta: certum fi Numerum petas, Vbique nuncfcriptum notabis, Perpetuamque iterare Vocem ! < Mentiri at hoc efl dicere Principem Id Iudice edente ore graviflimo, ‘Iam Poena Famoti Libelli 4 Carcere cum Pretio luenda.’ Mentitur Is, qui decipit Alterum : Mentitur haud, mendacia nonfua Dicens■> reo fidens Minijlro, Compofuit qui ea mente prava, The Habeas Corpus Writ, which lays Before a Judge the Pris’ner’s Cafe, Lo ! by moji bafe^fmifier courfe, Was here depriv’d of all its force. Another, at the lafi, placey And brought before a Judge his Cafe : Who, ftridly guarding Liberty, Spite of Crown-Lawyers, fet Him Free. But He writes, ivith a Patrio!s Xelet Which all True Englifimen mufi feel; c That B-dar’d, thro’ his Mafter’s Mouth, 4 To fpeak a Fa&, which was not Truth.*, Lo f The Account, He meant to give. Is marPd with Number Forty-Five : Which now is noted, as you pafs, By ev'ry Voice, and ev'ry Place ! A Judge, to whom Courtiers applyd, Said, 4 That This told the—-He 1/d 4 Therefore, within the Libcl s line, 4 Requir'd Imprifonment, and Fine! He onely Lyes, who means Deceit . Not He, who faultlefs tliall repete Another’s Lye, whofe faith depends On him, who made it for vile endr. 7
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