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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In Monstrous and Uncrowning Strokes,
To please Republican-Good-Fo'kes;
He oft attacks the QUEEN with Spight,
And grants the People equal Right;
He questions Her PREROGATIVE
Extended farther than they give:
And if She ever Higher mount,
They'll call Her to Severe Account.
As, he does heartily declare,
He wishes that She falsely were
For a most Innocent and just Affair;
Leave for a Person's coming over
From France to Rochester or Dover,
To settle some Domestick Matters
Here, or beyond the Irish Waters.
What ails this mighty furious Man?
She with her brought no Warming-Pan.
Ay; but She might have here detected
What he had long ago Projected:
As if the Lady of Tyrconnel
Might have their Practices undone All;
Their Secret Historyes Betray,
Confound th'Intrigues of Mary Gray.
But now he may be out of Pain,
For She's long since return'd again;
Without Impostor or a Bastard
Fobbed upon this jealous Dastard:
Altho' th'Imaginary Whore
Had justly laid it at his Door;
Chimera-Brat of his own Getting
For want of Royal Parents fitting;
When he threw-up his Nose in Air,
And, Stallion-like, could Smell a Mare,
Had not at all conceiv'd a Son and Heir.
To please Republican-Good-Fo'kes;
He oft attacks the QUEEN with Spight,
And grants the People equal Right;
He questions Her PREROGATIVE
Extended farther than they give:
And if She ever Higher mount,
They'll call Her to Severe Account.
As, he does heartily declare,
He wishes that She falsely were
For a most Innocent and just Affair;
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From France to Rochester or Dover,
To settle some Domestick Matters
Here, or beyond the Irish Waters.
What ails this mighty furious Man?
She with her brought no Warming-Pan.
Ay; but She might have here detected
What he had long ago Projected:
As if the Lady of Tyrconnel
Might have their Practices undone All;
Their Secret Historyes Betray,
Confound th'Intrigues of Mary Gray.
But now he may be out of Pain,
For She's long since return'd again;
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Fobbed upon this jealous Dastard:
Altho' th'Imaginary Whore
Had justly laid it at his Door;
Chimera-Brat of his own Getting
For want of Royal Parents fitting;
When he threw-up his Nose in Air,
And, Stallion-like, could Smell a Mare,
Had not at all conceiv'd a Son and Heir.
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