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A Cawdle for a Sick Jesuit.
From
Rome's Infallibility take a Grain,
Two Drams of Inquisition fetch from Spain;
Of Dr--- Honesty one Mite engage,
Dr--- the Glory of the British Stage!
O're Flaming Coals in [OMITTED] let 'em blow it,
Till the all-conquering [OMITTED] dissolve the Poet.
Add, that the Fire and Brimstone be not dull,
Two Grains of VVit drain'd from an Irish Scull,
VVith Conscience galling for those senseless Gulls,
To see th'untimely Fate of twenty Bulls.
From Statute-Shelfs pull down the Acts, and drain
The Twenty Fifth of old Queen Bess's Reign;
Set those on Coals of Purgatory-Fire,
The space the Devil napping catch'd the Frier;
'Twill cure all Maladies, tho conceal'd in Closet,
And 'tis the true Catholic-Cordial Posset.
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