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Conclusion.
If Speeches from Animals in Rome's first Age,Prodigious Events did surely presage,
That should come to pass, all Mankind may swear
That which two Inanimate Horses declare.
But I should have told you before the Jades parted,
Both gallop'd to VVhite hall, and there humbly farted;
Which Tyranny's downfal portended much more
Than all that the Beasts had spoken before.
If the Delphick Sybil's Oracular Speeches,
(As learned Men say) came out of their Breeches,
Why might not our Horses, since Words are but Wind,
Have the Spirit of Prophecy likewise behind?
Though Tyrants make Laws, which they strictly proclaim
To conceal their own Faults, and cover their own Shame;
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Will publish their Faults and prophesy their Fall;
When they take from the People the Freedom of Words,
They teach them the sooner to fall to their Swords.
Let the City drink Coffee, and quietly groan,
(They that conquer'd the Father won't be Slaves to the Son,
For Wine and strong Drink make Tumults encrease,
Chocolate, Tea, and Coffee, are Liquors of Peace;
No Quarrels or Oaths amongst those that drink them,
'Tis Bacchus, and the Brewer swear dam em and sink 'em.
Then C***s thy late Edict against Coffee recal,
There's ten times more Treason in Brandy and Ale.
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