A Letter from Dr. Robert Wild to his Friend Mr. J. J. Upon Occasion of his Majesty's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience: Together with his Poetica Licentia, And a Freindly Debate Between a Conformist and a Non-Conformist |
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No, not one word, can I of this Great Deed,In Merlin, or old Mother Shipton read!
Old Tyburn take those Tycho Brahe Imps,
Astrologers who would be 'counted Pimps
To the Amorous Planets; they the minute know
When Jove did Cuckold poor Amphytrio.
Ken Mars, and Madam Venus winks and glances,
Their close Conjunctions, and their mid-night Dances;
When costive Saturn goes to Stool, and vile
Thief Mercury doth pick his Fob the while;
When Lady Luna leaks, and makes her man
Throw't out o'th Window into th' Ocean.
More subtle than the Excise-men here below,
What's spent in every Sign in Heaven they know.
Cunning Intelligencers! they'l not miss
To tell us next year the success of this;
They correspend with Dutch and English Star,
As Dow—did with CHARLES and Oliver.
The Bankers might have, had they to them gone,
What Planet governed the Exchequer, known.
Old Lilly though he did not love to make
Any words of it, saw Sir Robert take
Fiue of the Smyrna Fleet, and if the Sign
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When Sagitary took his aim to shoot
At Bishop Cosin, he espy'd him do't;
And with such force the winged-Arrow flew,
Instead of one Church-Stag, he killed two;
Glocester and Durham whom he espy'd,
Let Lean and Fat together go he cry'd.
Well Willy Lilly, thou knew'st this as well
As I, and yet wouldst not their Lordships tell.
I know thy Plea too, and must it allow,
PRELATES should know as much of Heaven as thou:
But now Friend William, since 'tis done and past,
Pray thee, give us Phanaticks but one Cast,
What thou foresaw'st of March the Fifteenth Last;
When swift and sudden as the Angels flye,
The Declaration came for Liberty;
When things of Heaven burst from the Royal Breast,
More fragrant than the Spices of the East.
I know in next years Almanack thou'lt write,
Thou saw'st the King in Council over-night,
Before that morn, all sit in Heaven as plain
To be discern'd, as if 'twere Charles Waine,
Great C, A, B, A, and great L were chief
Under C. R. to give poor Fan's relief.
Thou sawest Lord Arlington ordain the man
To be the first Lay-Metropolitan.
Thou saw'st him give induction to a Spittle,
And Institute our Brother TOM-DOE-LITTLE.
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Some Detriment to Priests thou did'st espye;
And though by Sol in Libra thou didst know
Which way the Scale of Policy would go;
Yet Mercury in Aries did decree,
That Wool and Lamb should still Conformists be.
But hark-you Will, Star-poching is not fair;
Had you amongst the Stars found this March-Hare,
Bred of that lusty Puss the Good old Cause,
Religion rescued from Inforcing Laws;
You should have yelpt aloud, hanging's the end,
By Huntsmen's Rule, of Hounds that will not spend.
Be gone thou and thy canting-Tribe, be gone;
Go tell thy destiny to Fools, or none:
Kings Hearts and Councils are too deep for thee,
And for thy Stars and Dœmons scrutinie,
King CHARLES Return was much above thy skill
To fumble out, as 'twas against thy will.
From him who can the Hearts of Kings inspire,
Not from the Planets, came that Sacred Fire
Of Soveraign Love, which burst into a Flame;
From God and from the King alone it came,
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