Poems on Affairs of State

[Volume I.] From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the Abdication of K. James the Second.

II.

Vol. II. From The Reign of K. James the First, To this Present Year 1703.

III.

VOL. III. From the Year 1640. to the Year 1704.

IV.

VOL. IV. From 1620. to this present Year 1707.

POEMS ON State-Affairs.

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VIII.

That Monster G---dy of prodigious size,
A Body fitted to his beastly Vice;
A Face to all more formidable far
Than Gorgon's Head, or to that Coward Warr;
In youth mean Cheats and Rooking was his Trade,
Now (starving) got Command—for Drink—not Bread.

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VIII.