Trivial poems and triolets. Written in obedience to Mrs Tomkin's commands, By Patrick Carey |
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[The parliament ('tis sayd) resolu'd] |
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[The parliament ('tis sayd) resolu'd]
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The parliament ('tis sayd) resolu'd,That, sometime ere they were dissolu'd,
They'd pardon each delinquent:
And that (all past scores to forgett)
Good store of Lethe they did gett,
And round about that drincke went.
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If soe; 'tis hard. For th'haue forgottAll thought o'th' act 'tis true, but not
One crime that can bee heard on:
Soe that 'tis likely they'l constrayne
Malignants to compound againe,
In lieu o'th' noys'd out pardon.
3
This comes of hoping to sitt still:By this wee find, 'twas not good will,
But feare, that caus'd their pitty.
How sweet, how fayre, they spoke of late!
What benefitts both church and state
Should reape from each committy?
4
The country for itt's fayth was prays'd;Noe more the great tax should be rays'd;
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Our everlasting parliament
Would now giue up itt's gouernment;
A new mould should bee fitted.
5
Th'Act of Obliuion should come out,And wee noe longer held in doubt;
Religion should bee stated:
Goldsmithe's, and Haberdasher's Hall,
Noe longer should affright us all,
Nor Druery-house bee hated.
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Feare made them promise this, and more,But now, they thincke the storme is o're,
Not one word is obserued:
The souldier, full of discontent,
To Ireland for's arrears is sent;
The tax is still conserued.
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Th'Act of Obliuion's layde aside;Seets multiply and subdiuide,
'Gainst which noe order's taken:
And for th'new representatiue,
Fayth (for my part) I'de eene as liue
The thought on't were forsaken.
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Th'except gainst this, th'except gainst that;They'l haue us choose, but onely what
Shall square with their direction:
They doe soe straightly wedge us in,
That if wee choose not them again,
They'l make uoyd our election.
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Cromwell! a promise, is a debt.Thou made'st them say, they would forgett,
O make them now remember!
If they their priuiledges urge;
Once more this house of office purge,
And scoure out euery member.
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