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A Dialogue between a Loyal Addressor, and a Blunt Whiggish Clown.
Ungrateful VVreth! Can'st thou pretend a Cause'
To fear the loss of Liberty and Laws?
Has not the King been at a vast Expence,
To raise the Gallant Troops in thy Defence?
Did he not promise in a Proclamation,
To rule by Law at's Coronation?
Clown.
To fear the loss of Liberty and Laws?
Has not the King been at a vast Expence,
To raise the Gallant Troops in thy Defence?
Did he not promise in a Proclamation,
To rule by Law at's Coronation?
But has he not already dam'd the Test?
And sure that Princes VVord is but a jest,
VVho Rules an Army, and Obeys a Priest:
Nor can his Solemn Oath make us much safer;
His Sword is Steel, his God is but a VVafer.
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