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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Those were Dissenters horrid Crimes
In Older Reigns and Former Times;
And if those Notions now revive,
How should this Kingdom ever Thrive?
Th'Occasional Communicants
May run their tolerated Rants:
But why such Liberties pursue?
What Scotland will not yet allow,
Why should they claim as their just Due,
A Toleration here, and not there too?
The Scots are playing fine Vagaries,
As They were Govern'd by the Fairies;
They've made their New Associations,
Against true English Innovations,
And all Episcopal Invasions.
They strongest Covenants now have made
To follow their old Solemn Trade
Of Basket-making, and Rebelling,
Rather than Change their settled Dwelling.
But if no Law these Whigs controuls,
Implacable and restless Souls;
The fatal Wound again will Fester;
Our honest Lands all they'll Sequester;
And to support their growing Babel,
They'll turn St. PAUL's into a Stable;
Or bring about, as Drunken Sin does,
A Reformation of Glass Windows.
In Older Reigns and Former Times;
And if those Notions now revive,
How should this Kingdom ever Thrive?
Th'Occasional Communicants
May run their tolerated Rants:
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What Scotland will not yet allow,
Why should they claim as their just Due,
A Toleration here, and not there too?
The Scots are playing fine Vagaries,
As They were Govern'd by the Fairies;
They've made their New Associations,
Against true English Innovations,
And all Episcopal Invasions.
They strongest Covenants now have made
To follow their old Solemn Trade
Of Basket-making, and Rebelling,
Rather than Change their settled Dwelling.
But if no Law these Whigs controuls,
Implacable and restless Souls;
The fatal Wound again will Fester;
Our honest Lands all they'll Sequester;
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They'll turn St. PAUL's into a Stable;
Or bring about, as Drunken Sin does,
A Reformation of Glass Windows.
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