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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If we should grant their vast Petitions,
Not all the Spanish Inquisitions
Have Christians, Jews tormented more
Than they'd afflict us with their Pow'r:
Full Pow'r obtain'd made Ipudibras
So Rude, so Rampant as he was,
To Ride his Royal Sov'reign like an Ass.
A King may give, and give and grant,
Till He Himself an Alms may want;
May want a Lodging, to his Sorrow,
When Whigs his Throne, Crown, Sceptre borrow
By Force of Arms and Curs'd Rebellion;
Whose Word no Prince again can rely on.
What made the Scots Just Charles sell?
He gave an Inch, They took an Ell.
'Tis true they Sold him in their way,
But English Whigs did for him Pay;
The Bargain struck, an Union wrought,
One Sold him, and the Other Bought:
Had Scots e'er such a Market seen,
If English Chapmen had not been?
Such fatal Condescensions make
Crowns totter, and Great Kingdoms quake,
Or put their Councils in Confusion,
For the next sudden Revolution.
Not all the Spanish Inquisitions
Have Christians, Jews tormented more
Than they'd afflict us with their Pow'r:
Full Pow'r obtain'd made Ipudibras
So Rude, so Rampant as he was,
To Ride his Royal Sov'reign like an Ass.
A King may give, and give and grant,
Till He Himself an Alms may want;
May want a Lodging, to his Sorrow,
When Whigs his Throne, Crown, Sceptre borrow
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Whose Word no Prince again can rely on.
What made the Scots Just Charles sell?
He gave an Inch, They took an Ell.
'Tis true they Sold him in their way,
But English Whigs did for him Pay;
The Bargain struck, an Union wrought,
One Sold him, and the Other Bought:
Had Scots e'er such a Market seen,
If English Chapmen had not been?
Such fatal Condescensions make
Crowns totter, and Great Kingdoms quake,
Or put their Councils in Confusion,
For the next sudden Revolution.
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