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The ADVICE.
Would you be Famous and Renown'd in Story,
And after having run a Stage of Glory,
Go streight to Heaven and not to Purgatory:
This is the time.
And after having run a Stage of Glory,
Go streight to Heaven and not to Purgatory:
This is the time.
Would you surrender your Dispensing Power,
And send the Western Hangman to the Tower,
From whence he'll find it difficult to scoure.
This, &c.
And send the Western Hangman to the Tower,
From whence he'll find it difficult to scoure.
This, &c.
Would you send Father P*n, and Father L**,
Assisted by the Poet Laureat Squab,
To teach Obedience Passive to the Mob.
This, &c.
Assisted by the Poet Laureat Squab,
To teach Obedience Passive to the Mob.
This, &c.
Would you let Reverend Father Peters know
What thanks the Church of England to him owe
For Favours past, he did on them bestow.
This, &c.
What thanks the Church of England to him owe
For Favours past, he did on them bestow.
This, &c.
Would you with expedition send away
Those four dim Lights, made Bishops t'other day,
To convert Indians in America.
This, &c.
Those four dim Lights, made Bishops t'other day,
To convert Indians in America.
This, &c.
Would you the rest of that Bald-Pated Train
No longer flatter with thin hopes of Gain,
But send them to Saint Omers back again.
This, &c.
No longer flatter with thin hopes of Gain,
But send them to Saint Omers back again.
This, &c.
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Would you (instead of holding Birchen tool)
Send Pulton to be lash'd at Busbey's School,
That he in Print no longer play the Fool.
This, &c.
Send Pulton to be lash'd at Busbey's School,
That he in Print no longer play the Fool.
This, &c.
Would you that Jack of all Religions scare,
Bid him for Hanging speedily prepare,
That Harry H***s may visit Harry Care.
This, &c.
Bid him for Hanging speedily prepare,
That Harry H***s may visit Harry Care.
This, &c.
Would you let Ireland no more fear Macdonnel,
And all the Rabble under Philem O Neale,
And Clarendon again succeed Tyrconnel.
This, &c.
And all the Rabble under Philem O Neale,
And Clarendon again succeed Tyrconnel.
This, &c.
Would you court Ear-wiggs banish from your Ears,
Those Carpet-Knights, and interested Peers,
And rid the Kingdoms from impending Fears.
This, &c.
Those Carpet-Knights, and interested Peers,
And rid the Kingdoms from impending Fears.
This, &c.
Would you at once make all the Hogan Mogans yield,
And be at once their Terrour and our Shield,
And not appear by Proxy in the Field.
This, &c.
And be at once their Terrour and our Shield,
And not appear by Proxy in the Field.
This, &c.
Would you no more a Womans Council take,
But love your Kingdoms for your Kingdoms sake,
Make Subjects Love and Enemies to Quake.
This, &c.
But love your Kingdoms for your Kingdoms sake,
Make Subjects Love and Enemies to Quake.
This, &c.
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