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[What think you of this Age now]
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What think you of this Age now,When Popery's in Request;
And he's the loyal'st Subject,
Slights not the Laws the least?
When a Torying they do go, do go, do go,
When a Torying they all go.
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What think you of a Whiggish Plot,And of their Evidence,
When all the Laws cannot protect
The Peoples Innocence?
When a swearing they do go, do go, do go,
When a swearing they do go.
3
What think you of a General,That did betray his Lord,
For which he does deserve to swing
In Ketch's Hempen Cord?
Such a Rogue you ne'er did know, did know, did know,
Such a Rogue you ne'er did know.
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What think you to be try'd, Sir,By Proclamation Laws,
And zealously destroy a Prince,
T'advance the Popish Cause?
And to Mass to make us go, us go, us go,
And to Mass to make us go.
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What think you of the Chancellor?Besure he'll do the Work;
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Altho it were the Turk?
And for In'trest he'll do so, do so, do so,
And for Int'rest he'll do so.
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In Lime-street now we do say Mass,T'advance the Popish Cause,
And set the Mayor to guard it
Against his Oath and Laws?
To the Court you must bow low, bow low, bow low,
To the Court you must bow low.
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And what think you of provingA Popish Army awful,
And bantering the Church with
Arguments unlawful?
But a fiddling let him go, him go, him go,
But a fiddling let him go.
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What would you give to be, Sir,In contrite Prance's Place,
And sentenc'd to a Pillory
For one small Mite of Grace?
When recanting he did go, did go, did go,
When recanting he did go.
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What think you of our Penal Laws,That made the Pope to bow?
If damn'd Rogues had not betray'd us,
They'd been as penal now.
But their Opinions were not so, not so, not so,
Their Opinions were not so.
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Yet fear we not, that bug---ing Dog,That sits in Porph'ry Chair,
That swears he is infallible,
'Cause he's St. Peter's Heir?
'Tis a Lye we all do know, do know, do know,
'Tis a Lye we all do know.
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