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How various, and Innumerable
Are those, who live upon the Rabble?
'Tis they maintaine the Church, and State,
Imploy the Priest and Magistrate,
Beare all the Charge of Government,
And pay the Publique Fines, and Rent;
Defray all Taxes, and excises,
And Impositions of all Prices;
Beare all th' expence of Peace, and war,
And pay the Pulpit, and the Bar:
Maintain all Churches, and Religions,
And give their Pastors exhibitions.
And those, who have the greatest Flocks,
Are Primitive, and orthodox.
Support all Schismatiques, and Sects,
And pay 'em for tormenting Texts.
Take all their Doctrines of[f] their Hands
And pay 'em in good Rents, and Lands;
Discharg all Costly Offices,
The Doctor's and the Lawyers fees,
The Hangmans wages, and the Scores
Of Caterpiller Baudes, and whores;
Discharge all Damages, and Costs
Of Knights, and Squires of the Posts,
All Statesmen, Cutpurses, and Padders,
And pay for all their Ropes and Ladders;
All Pettifoggers, and all Sorts
Of Mercats, Churches, and of Courts;
All Sums of Money payd or spent,
With all the charges Incident,
Layd out, or thrown away, or given,
To purchace this world, Hell, or Heaven.
For should the world but take account
To what it's Charges do amount,
One third at least of all the Sum
Is spent upon the world to Come.

Nothing make's Hell s' intollerable
As the bad Company and Rabble.

All Mankind is but a Rabble
As silly and unreasonable
As those that Crowding in the Street
To see a Show or Monster meet;
Of whom no one is in the Right,
Yet all fall out about the Sight;
And when they chance t' agree, the choyce is
Still in the most and worst of Voyces;
And all the Reasons that prevayle
Are measur'd not by weight but tale.

Non live so happy and at ease
As those who mortifying profes.

The two wicked Elders Susanna would grope
While she sent out her mayd to fetch her some sope;
But when they could not make her a whore
They swore she had swiv'd with another before.

A Thief, whose Destiny's forespoke,
And sentenc'd by his hanging Look,
As soon as he's condemn'd to dye,
Looks handsome in the Rabble's eye.