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The D. of B's Litany.

From a proud sensual Atheistical Life?
From arming our Lackeys with Pistol and Knife;
From murd'ring the Husband, and whoring the Wife,
Libera nos Domine.
From going Ambassador only as Panders;
From re-killing dead Kings by monstrous Slanders,
And betraying the Living in Scotland and Flanders,
Libera nos, &c.
From a wild rambling no-where Abode,
Without Day or Night, not at Home nor Abroad;
From a Prince to unhorse us in Dover Road,
Libera nos, &c.
From crowning the Herse of our Babe of Adultery,
Interr'd among Kings by a Lord of the Prelacy,
Whom we got cashier'd for carnal Arsery,
Libera nos, &c.
From selling Land, twice ten Thousand a Year;
All spent, no Mortal can tell how, or where;
From reforming of Kingdoms like a sanctify'd Peer,
Libera nos, &c.
From monstrous sucking till both Tongues have blister'd;
From making our Boast of giving three Glysters;
By giving our Claps to three cheated Sisters,
Libera nos, &c.
83

From transposing Nature on our Bongars,
On Kynaston acting both Venus and Mars,
From owning twenty other mens Farce,
Libera nos, &c.
From wretched Pasquils 'gainst Shadwel and Dryden;
From casting Nativities with Learned Heydon,
And casting of Dollars at Antwerp and Leyden,
Libera nos, &c.
From trembling at Sea, when not a Gun roar'd,
And then stealing on Shore by breaking our Word,
With D--- if ever you catch me on Board,
Libera nos, &c.
From being still cheated by the same Undertakers,
By Levellers, Bawds, Saints, Chymists, and Quakers,
Who make us Gold-finders, and themselves Gold-makers,
Libera nos, &c.
From damning whatever we don't understand;
From purchasing at Dowgate, and selling the Strand;
From calling Streets by our Name, when we have sold the Land,
Libera nos, &c.
From borrowing our own House to feast Scholars ill,
And then be unchancellor'd against our Will,
Nought left of a College, but our College-hill,
Libera nos, &c.
From judging the Judges in a sensless Speech;
From following Sh---y that wriggling Leech,
Because by turns both—the same Bitch,
Libera nos, &c.
From mortally hating all those that love us;
From mimical acting all those above us,
Till our Master at last is forc'd to remove us,
Libera nos, &c.
From cringing to those we scorn and contemn,
In hopes to be made the Citizens Gem,
Who now scorn us more than we e'er did them,
Libera nos, &c.
84

From beginning an execrable trayt'rous Health,
To destroy the Parliament, King, and himself,
To be made Ducal Peer of a new Commonwealth,
Libera nos, &c.
From changing old Friends for rascally new ones;
From taking Wildman and Marvel for true ones;
From wearing green Ribbons 'gainst him gave us blue ones,
Libera nos, &c.
From lodging at Court before we are sent for;
From selling six Palaces for less than they rent for,
And buying three Hillocks for the three Kings of Brentford,
Libera nos, &c.
From learning new Morals from Bedlam Sir Payton,
And Truth and Modesty from Sir Ellis Layton;
From making our Heirs to be Morrice and Clayton,
Libera nos Domine.
 

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