The Poetical Entertainer Or, Tales, Satyrs, Dialogues, And Intrigues, &c. Serious and Comical. All digested into such Verse as most agreeable to the several Subjects. To be publish'd as often as occasion shall offer [by Edward Ward] |
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Tom Tell-truth:
OR, THE PLAIN-DEALER.
The Church and the Faction are strivingTo baffle each other's Design:
The Tories for J---s are contriving,
The Whigs for the H---r Line.
Whilst others by trimming and shamming
'Twixt both, do their Favours divide:
Which shews that they only are aiming
To answer the ends of their Pride.
The Tories are gaping for Places,
The Whigs are in hopes of the same,
But both are made Bubbles and Asses,
By some that I care not to name.
We blame both the French and the Dutchmen,
For breaking their Leagues and their Words;
But sure there's no Nation of such Men,
As Britain at present affords.
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Are only for Places of Trust;
And when they have got what they wanted,
All Parties are equally just.
Tho' at odds, by a joint Approbation,
They once pull'd their Sovereign down,
That they better might bubble the Nation,
By setting up one of their own.
Revolution will cause Revolution,
Till we rectify what is amiss;
For remember that young Canticusian
Brought the Turks to be Masters of Greece.
Even so did our L---s and our C---ns
Call over the Dutch to our Aid,
For fear that King James and his Romans
Should the Protestant Int'rest invade.
But had they been equally careful
Of a cursed Fanatical Crew,
Of whom we've more cause to be fearful,
They'd have given the Devil his due.
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