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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A Bottle-Definition of that Fall'n Angel, call'd, a WHIG.
What is a Whig? a cunning R**gue,That once was in, now out of vogue:
A Rebel to the Church and Throne,
Of Lucifer the very Spawn:
A Tyrant, who is ne'er at rest
In Power, or when he's Disposess'd:
A Knave, who foolishly has lost,
What so much Blood and Treasure cost:
A Lying, Bouncing Desperado,
A Bomb, a Stink-pot, a Granado;
That's ready Prim'd, and Charg'd, to Break,
And Mischief do for Mischief's sake:
A Comet, whose portending Phiz
Appears more dreadful than it is,
But now propitious Stars repel
Those Ills it fasly did fortel,
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And, since the Parliament proves right,
Will turn to Smoke, which shone of late
So bright and flaming in the State.
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