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Thread #72550   Message #2312611
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Apr-08 - 10:20 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Summons to New England
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Summons to New England
Another quote, from An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992:

As the anonymous "Verses on the Puritan Settlement in America" (c. 1631) puts it,

Let all the parisidean [paradisean] sect
I mean the Counterfeit elect
All Zealous bankrupts punks devouts
Suspendent preachers Rabble Rout
Let them sell all out of hand
Prepare to go for new England
To build new babel strong and sure
Now called a Church unspotted pure.