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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The very Kingdom's Nutmeg-Grater;
Would Monarchy, with Sweet Surmises,
E'en crumble into Whiggish Spices,
That should, in Frolick, Season High
The next ensuing Calves-Head-Pye;
To which he would with bolder Face
Than Cromwell's Chaplain e'er, say Grace.
What signify our Cramping Laws
Which Gospel-Liberty o'eraws?
For tho' it teach profound Submission
To Pow'rs of Lawful Acquisition;
We've had Good Kings and Princes many,
But Whigs were never True to any:
That Scripture is Obscure, Perplext;
They're not included in the Text.
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Who lately ran away to Holland,
With his own Scripture-Canon blest;
For fear, It our Divines should wrest,
Because he durst not stand a Learned Test.
Pryn, Burton, and their Writers All,
Were Wiser far than Great St. Paul.
Th'Apostles did not understand
The Constitution of this Land;
Or else, he thinks, they had not Paid
Obedience Passive to Crown'd Head;
But made Rebellion a Successful Trade:
Their Corn by his own Bushel measures
Against our Royal injur'd Cæsars;
Who are Renown'd to Turks and Tartars,
For dying their vile Subjects Martyrs.
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