In Imitation of Hudibras The Dissenting Hypocrite, or Occasional Conformist; with reflections On Two of the Ring-Leaders, &c. Viz. I. Their Works and Writings. II. Their Professions and Principles. III. Their Qualifications and Parts. IV. Their Persons and Practices [by Edward Ward] |
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Thus the People's Minds debauches,
From Meanest sort to those keep Coaches;
Corrupts the fond Seditious Town,
A meer Fanatick Adder grown
Against the Churche's peaceful Charms:
Deaf t'all but Whiggish loud Alarms.
No Papers FOR the Church will take;
But what's of the Dissenters Make,
Goes down with lushious greedy Swallow,
And their Unhallow'd Works All hallow.
Whoop! All the Clergy's Deer are Fallow;
All Rascal, Straying and Out-Lyers,
Old Liberty of Conscience-Plyers;
Who'd rather run the Risque of Jayls,
Than keep within the Churche's Pales:
Too narrow for such noble Souls,
Whose Boldness Heav'n and Earth controuls.
Their Notions Machiavilian, Hobbish,
Draw Multitudes, because they're Mobbish:
Their Cunning Canting Rebels urges,
And Captivates like merry Burges,
The Simple, who admire the Pranks
Of Spir'tual Juglers, Mountebanks,
That tell 'em of Soul-saving Physick
To Cure Consumptions or a Ptysick
In Body, or in Mind and Purse;
Which makes the Patients ten times worse.
For such Religious Quacks kill more
Than Ars'nick Wine, or Hellebore
E'er cur'd of Phrenzy and Distraction
Among the Melancholy Faction.
Thus with ill Principles they Poyson
All those they'd have to make a Noise on
The Dangers of a Persecution,
By the last fatal Revolution;
For fear of losing their blest Station,
The Benefits of Toleration:
When there was never more Occasion.
But yet their Railing breaks no Bones,
Like Furioso fighting Iones:
Tho' they ingross with their Abuses
Most Printers, Hawkers, Coffee Houses,
Who dare scarce deal with Loyal Books,
Against the Whigs, those Pow'rful Rooks;
That will have nothing now to do
With Jackdaws, or the Chatt'ring Jew
Who love Old England, not the New.
They would a New Religion make,
And burn the Old one at a Stake.
But still there's a Dissenting Crew
Would fill the Vacant Churches too;
Preach in our Pulpits with bold Faces,
Supply their Abdicated Places,
Could they our Priests turn out of Doors
For Sons of Babylonish Whores.
From Meanest sort to those keep Coaches;
Corrupts the fond Seditious Town,
A meer Fanatick Adder grown
Against the Churche's peaceful Charms:
Deaf t'all but Whiggish loud Alarms.
No Papers FOR the Church will take;
But what's of the Dissenters Make,
Goes down with lushious greedy Swallow,
And their Unhallow'd Works All hallow.
Whoop! All the Clergy's Deer are Fallow;
All Rascal, Straying and Out-Lyers,
Old Liberty of Conscience-Plyers;
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Than keep within the Churche's Pales:
Too narrow for such noble Souls,
Whose Boldness Heav'n and Earth controuls.
Their Notions Machiavilian, Hobbish,
Draw Multitudes, because they're Mobbish:
Their Cunning Canting Rebels urges,
And Captivates like merry Burges,
The Simple, who admire the Pranks
Of Spir'tual Juglers, Mountebanks,
That tell 'em of Soul-saving Physick
To Cure Consumptions or a Ptysick
In Body, or in Mind and Purse;
Which makes the Patients ten times worse.
For such Religious Quacks kill more
Than Ars'nick Wine, or Hellebore
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Among the Melancholy Faction.
Thus with ill Principles they Poyson
All those they'd have to make a Noise on
The Dangers of a Persecution,
By the last fatal Revolution;
For fear of losing their blest Station,
The Benefits of Toleration:
When there was never more Occasion.
But yet their Railing breaks no Bones,
Like Furioso fighting Iones:
Tho' they ingross with their Abuses
Most Printers, Hawkers, Coffee Houses,
Who dare scarce deal with Loyal Books,
Against the Whigs, those Pow'rful Rooks;
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With Jackdaws, or the Chatt'ring Jew
Who love Old England, not the New.
They would a New Religion make,
And burn the Old one at a Stake.
But still there's a Dissenting Crew
Would fill the Vacant Churches too;
Preach in our Pulpits with bold Faces,
Supply their Abdicated Places,
Could they our Priests turn out of Doors
For Sons of Babylonish Whores.
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