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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I'll give you now some Honest Verse on
His fam'd Profession, Parts, and Person;
According to the good Old Story
Distinguishing a Whig from Tory.
One of whom is Masculine,
The t'other a Canting Femine,
Will Fetch and Carry any Matter
That may the easy Church bespatter;
He'll duck, dive, fish in troubled Water,
Like any Anabaptist-Prater,
Who in a Puddle sometimes Preaches
Regeneration above Breeches.
Their Practices are much the same,
One dips, and t'other drowns the Game:
For equally their Flock's deceiving,
They damn Men either Dead or Living.
But in Opinions still they differ,
VVho should be Obstinately Stiffer,
Against good Discipline and Union,
To overthrow the Church-Communion:
And yet 'tis hard to say however,
VVhich is the Arranter Deceiver.
Rather than stop Division's Gap,
Dansel would sure turn Anabap;
Or th'Anabap. turn Independent,
To get o'er England the Ascendant.
So Rogues unite and Rogues agree
By Diabolick Mystery,
To set the Honest Men at War all,
That they may rob them in the Quarrel.
His fam'd Profession, Parts, and Person;
According to the good Old Story
Distinguishing a Whig from Tory.
One of whom is Masculine,
The t'other a Canting Femine,
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That may the easy Church bespatter;
He'll duck, dive, fish in troubled Water,
Like any Anabaptist-Prater,
Who in a Puddle sometimes Preaches
Regeneration above Breeches.
Their Practices are much the same,
One dips, and t'other drowns the Game:
For equally their Flock's deceiving,
They damn Men either Dead or Living.
But in Opinions still they differ,
VVho should be Obstinately Stiffer,
Against good Discipline and Union,
To overthrow the Church-Communion:
And yet 'tis hard to say however,
VVhich is the Arranter Deceiver.
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Dansel would sure turn Anabap;
Or th'Anabap. turn Independent,
To get o'er England the Ascendant.
So Rogues unite and Rogues agree
By Diabolick Mystery,
To set the Honest Men at War all,
That they may rob them in the Quarrel.
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