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&c. than he proves players go to Hell. But Mr. Prynn, your iniquity is full, it runs over, and judgment is come; it is not Mr. Attorney that calls for judgment against you, but it is all mankind; they are the parties grieved, and they call for judgment.

1. "Mr. Prynn, I do declare you to be a schism-maker in the church, a sedition-sower in the common-wealth, a wolf in sheep's cloathing; in a word, 'omnium malorum nequissimus.' I shall fine him 10,000 l. which is more than he is worth, yet less than be deserveth ; I will not set him at liberty no more than a plagued man or a mad dog, who, though he cannot bite, lie will foam; he is so far from being a sociable soul, that he is not a rational soul; he is fit to live in dens with such beasts of prey as wolves and tygers, like himself. Therefore, I do condemn him to perpetual imprisonment, as those monsters, that are no longer fit to live among men, nor to see light. Now for corporal punishment, my lords, whether I should burn him in the forehead, or slit him in the nose? He that was guilty of murder was marked in a place where he might be seen, as Cain was. I should be loth he should escape with his ears, for he may get a perriwig, which he now so much inveighs against, and so hide them, or force his conscience to make use of his un-lovely love-locks on both sides. Therefore, I would have him branded in the forehead, slit in the nose, and his ears cropt too. My lords, I now come to this ordure; I can give no better term to it, to burn it, as it is common in other countries, or otherwise we shall bury Mr. Prynn, and suffer his ghost to walk: I shall, there-fore, concur to the burning of the book; but let there be a proclamation made, That whosoever shall keep any of the books in his hands, and not bring them to some public magistrate to be burnt in the fire, let them fall under the sentence of this court: for if they fell into wise men's hands, or good men's hands, that were no fear; but if among the common sort, and into weak men's hands, then tenderness of conscience will work something. Let this sentence be recorded, and let it be sent to the library of Sion, (meaning a college in London) whither a woman, by her will, will allow Mr. Prynn's work to be sent.

2. "For Mr. Buckner, I believe that he had no intention at all this work should come abroad; he is said to be a conformable man to the church of England: I shall hardly censure him, he deserveth admonition.

3. "For Sparkes, I concur in all things. The feodary had his office taken away from him by this court; I see, therefore, no reason but that he may be barred from printing and selling of books, and kept wholly to binding of books.

The sentence against Mr. Prynn was executed the seventh and tenth days of May following.

He submitted to his fate with great firmness and resolution.