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The Respondent:
or Litany for Litany.
From Kings that wou'd sell us to pay their old Scores,
From saving of Traitors, and shutting the Doors
Of the Senators House by advice of the Whores,
Good Lord deliver us.
From saving of Traitors, and shutting the Doors
Of the Senators House by advice of the Whores,
Good Lord deliver us.
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From tricking the People out of their just Rights,
From making Confusion and Plots our Delights,
And from dubbing Rogues, Justices, Judges and Knights,
Good Lord deliver us.
From making Confusion and Plots our Delights,
And from dubbing Rogues, Justices, Judges and Knights,
Good Lord deliver us.
From giving our Coin to uphold Subornation,
From contriving the Death of the best i'th' Nation,
And embracing the Doctrine of Equivocation,
Good, &c.
From contriving the Death of the best i'th' Nation,
And embracing the Doctrine of Equivocation,
Good, &c.
From abusing Grand Juries in Gazette's Sedition,
From publishing Lyes call'd the Country's Contrition
When none but the Popeling abhor'd the Petition,
Good, &c.
From publishing Lyes call'd the Country's Contrition
When none but the Popeling abhor'd the Petition,
Good, &c.
From being so cheap, when we swear what we'll do,
'Tis believ'd of none, should we chance to say true,
When our Credit abroad is not worth an old Shoe,
Good, &c.
'Tis believ'd of none, should we chance to say true,
When our Credit abroad is not worth an old Shoe,
Good, &c.
From assisting the Papists and French all we're able,
From calling their Murders and Plots but a Fable,
And declaring our Heir but a By-blow at Table,
Good, &c.
From calling their Murders and Plots but a Fable,
And declaring our Heir but a By-blow at Table,
Good, &c.
From shedding of Blood, and the Innocents kill,
From marching more Forces again to Edge-Hill,
To set up a Dagon, or Pleasure and Will,
Good, &c.
From marching more Forces again to Edge-Hill,
To set up a Dagon, or Pleasure and Will,
Good, &c.
From Churches Tantivy who rail at Dissenters,
From Pulpit Alarms, of War the Fomenters,
Who of Godliness ever have been the Tormentors,
Good, &c.
From Pulpit Alarms, of War the Fomenters,
Who of Godliness ever have been the Tormentors,
Good, &c.
From a plotting false Duke that delighteth in Blood,
Half Fool and half Knave, that never did Good,
But the Welfare of England hath ever withstood,
Good, &c.
Half Fool and half Knave, that never did Good,
But the Welfare of England hath ever withstood,
Good, &c.
From his having the Crown, while it is his main Scope
By Fire and Faggot to set up the Pope,
Whose Treasons deserve both a Hatchet and Rope,
Good, &c.
By Fire and Faggot to set up the Pope,
Whose Treasons deserve both a Hatchet and Rope,
Good, &c.
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From treating with Willoughby, Mordant, Cellier,
To carry on Plots against John Presbyter,
And then to come off like a Sow with one Ear,
Good, &c.
To carry on Plots against John Presbyter,
And then to come off like a Sow with one Ear,
Good, &c.
From posting to Town to have headed the Boys,
And the murd'ring Papists who were the Decoys,
To burn a few Rumps and some other such Toys,
Good, &c.
And the murd'ring Papists who were the Decoys,
To burn a few Rumps and some other such Toys,
Good, &c.
From fretting and fuming, and hunting about,
From little Will Waller, who gave us the Rout,
For which piece of Service we got him turn'd out,
Good, &c.
From little Will Waller, who gave us the Rout,
For which piece of Service we got him turn'd out,
Good, &c.
For coaching Le Marr, and his Mother Loveland,
From the Tower to St. James's, to Croydon the Strand,
To instruct the poor Fool the next way to be damn'd,
Good, &c.
From the Tower to St. James's, to Croydon the Strand,
To instruct the poor Fool the next way to be damn'd,
Good, &c.
From paying five hundred Pounds to our Fops,
And the perjur'd Rogues for Chimerical Traps,
And at last to speed worse than we did of our Claps,
Good, &c.
And the perjur'd Rogues for Chimerical Traps,
And at last to speed worse than we did of our Claps,
Good, &c.
From Mungrel
Christians at the next bloody Tryal,
Where the right Noble Buck--- at his Bay will defy all,
And the Truth it must out in spite of Denial,
Good, &c.
Where the right Noble Buck--- at his Bay will defy all,
And the Truth it must out in spite of Denial,
Good, &c.
From printing the Matter without our Directions,
In which it's presum'd there will be Reflections
On Knaves of all Colours, the Kingdom's Infections,
Good, &c.
In which it's presum'd there will be Reflections
On Knaves of all Colours, the Kingdom's Infections,
Good, &c.
From Buggery, Sodomy, Perjuries, Slanders,
From the Villains i'th' Tower, and all their Bystanders,
When all are as false as the saving of Flanders,
Good Lord deliver us.
From the Villains i'th' Tower, and all their Bystanders,
When all are as false as the saving of Flanders,
Good Lord deliver us.
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