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 | Poems on Affairs of State |  |
He being gone, in steps a certain Lord,
Who had seen all, and heard too ev'ry Word:
Great Sir, said he, Who can tell what to say?
If you by Popish Counsels mean to sway,
Curs'd be that Counsel, and the Men that do
Persuade you to your Ruin, and ours too!
A Thousand, Sir, Ten Thousand let your Brother
In's next Book write, if he dare write another.
Ten Gentry envies now what one has got,
For God's sake write us all in the next Plot;
All but your Papists, Sir, all but a few
(O shame to name it!) of our Clergy Crew.
Bate but these two, and let them take the Pole,
They'll hardly get another English Soul.
For one's damn'd Envy, and the other's Pride,
Have reconcil'd all England else beside.
Higher Huffs than his could ne'er this Nation awe,
On our side stand the People and the Law.
For don't mistake, Sir, it's by Law alone
Your Right's derived to our English Throne.
Set that aside, and make the Law a Sham;
No Sov'reign you, nor I no Subject am.
For self-same Laws give you your Dignity,
Give me my Life, my Fortune, Liberty.
Who had seen all, and heard too ev'ry Word:
Great Sir, said he, Who can tell what to say?
If you by Popish Counsels mean to sway,
Curs'd be that Counsel, and the Men that do
Persuade you to your Ruin, and ours too!
A Thousand, Sir, Ten Thousand let your Brother
In's next Book write, if he dare write another.
Ten Gentry envies now what one has got,
For God's sake write us all in the next Plot;
All but your Papists, Sir, all but a few
(O shame to name it!) of our Clergy Crew.
Bate but these two, and let them take the Pole,
They'll hardly get another English Soul.
For one's damn'd Envy, and the other's Pride,
Have reconcil'd all England else beside.
Higher Huffs than his could ne'er this Nation awe,
On our side stand the People and the Law.
For don't mistake, Sir, it's by Law alone
Your Right's derived to our English Throne.
Set that aside, and make the Law a Sham;
No Sov'reign you, nor I no Subject am.
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Give me my Life, my Fortune, Liberty.
Pardon if, Sir, less decent this is said,
Than doth become a Member to his Head.
For this sound Doctrine is, tho cully Brother
And Clergy Wights would fain bring up another.
Within the Circle of the Law, great Sir,
I stand, but out of it will never stir:
If to be King you'll be content, I will
Pay you Allegiance and Obedience still.
The Peoples Right and their brave English Laws
Do make the strongest Side and justest Cause.
'Tis not your keeping us from Parliaments
Can further or advantage your Intents.
For greater are the Chusers than the Choice,
England's Freeholders have a mighty Voice.
Those we'll unite, and those associate;
And if we can't defend our Lives and State,
We'll fairly fall, and Freemen to our Graves
We'll rather go by far, than to live Slaves.
Our Ancestors shan't curse us in their Tombs,
(Nor shall our Children in their Mothers Wombs)
They left us free, and We ours free will leave,
Or Death our Hopes and us shall both deceive.
Than doth become a Member to his Head.
For this sound Doctrine is, tho cully Brother
And Clergy Wights would fain bring up another.
Within the Circle of the Law, great Sir,
I stand, but out of it will never stir:
If to be King you'll be content, I will
Pay you Allegiance and Obedience still.
The Peoples Right and their brave English Laws
Do make the strongest Side and justest Cause.
'Tis not your keeping us from Parliaments
Can further or advantage your Intents.
For greater are the Chusers than the Choice,
England's Freeholders have a mighty Voice.
Those we'll unite, and those associate;
And if we can't defend our Lives and State,
We'll fairly fall, and Freemen to our Graves
We'll rather go by far, than to live Slaves.
Our Ancestors shan't curse us in their Tombs,
(Nor shall our Children in their Mothers Wombs)
They left us free, and We ours free will leave,
Or Death our Hopes and us shall both deceive.
Thus said, with threatning Looks he went away,
And I trudg'd too, as quite afraid to stay:
But as I went, I met with honest Nelly,
And when I more do hear, I more will tell ye.
And I trudg'd too, as quite afraid to stay:
But as I went, I met with honest Nelly,
And when I more do hear, I more will tell ye.
| Poems on Affairs of State | |