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On the Duke of Bucks,
by Mr. Dr---n.
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I sing the Praise of a worthy Knight,Whose King James (that never could fight)
For his but more for his A--- made a Knight.
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This Knight soon after a Duke became,And got at the Island of Rhee such Fame,
That since all English men curse his Name.
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This Idol Duke to that Greatness did swell,That Honours and Riches before him fell,
Till Felton the Brave sent his Soul to Hell.
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And now you shall hear how his mighty SonWith the very small Sin of Incest begun,
And to Treason and B---ry went on.
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For first, old Richmond can tell when and where,For the Treasons the Papers of old Oliver,
And Keniston's A--- knows the B---r.
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Now he who nobly and bravely begins,Must afterwards know when such Glory he wins;
Adultery and Murder are but trivial Sins.
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I come to his Farce, which must needs be well done,For Troy was not longer before it was won,
Since 'tis more than ten Years since this Farce was begun.
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With Help of Pimps, Plays, and Table Chat,And the Advice of his own Canonical Sprat,
And his Family Scribe, Antichristian Mat.
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With transcribing of these, and transversing those,With transmitting of Rhyme, and transversing Prose,
He hath drest up his Farce with other Mens Clothes.
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His abusing the Living and robbing the Dead,His inserting fine things which other Men said,
Makes this new way of writing without Tail or Head.
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But where the Devil his own Wit doth lie,They must have very good Eyes that espy,
Unless in the Dances and Mimiquery.
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I confess the Dances are very well writ,And the Time and the Tune by Hains are well set,
And Littleton's Motion and Dress has much Wit.
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But when his Poet John Bays did appear,'Twas known to more than half that were there,
That the greatest part was his Grace's Character.
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For he many Years plagu'd his Friends for their Crimes,Repeating his Verses in other Mens Rhymes,
To the very same Person ten thousand times.
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But his Grace has tormented the Players moreThan the Howards or Flocknoes, or all the Store
Of damned dull Rogues that e'er plagu'd them before.
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When in France and in Spain, and in Holland, 'tis knownWhat Wonders our mighty Statesman has done,
'Twill make them all tremble to hear his Renown.
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For he that can libel the Poets, and knowsHow to mimick the Players in Gestures and Clothes,
With ease may destroy all his Majesty's Foes.
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Now the Church he contemns as much as a Quaker,The Kingdom he'l ruin if the Parliament forsake her,
For he serves his King as bad as his Maker.
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For he that forsook him in all his Distress,Kill'd the Husband, and kept the Adulteress,
Like Judah would sell him, and sell him for less.
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He hath mimick'd the King and Duke o'er and o'er,That merciful King that hath pardoned more
Than all our Kings e'er pardon'd before;
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That King that if e'er he committed a Crime,That to Church and to State may prove fatal in time,
It was in extending his Mercy to him.
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Now God grant his Majesty never may find,What's fatal, to be to a Buckingham kind,
For his Father was ruin'd by the first of the Line.
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