Poems on Affairs of State

[Volume I.] From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the Abdication of K. James the Second.

II.

Vol. II. From The Reign of K. James the First, To this Present Year 1703.

III.

VOL. III. From the Year 1640. to the Year 1704.

IV.

VOL. IV. From 1620. to this present Year 1707.

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Algernoon Sidney fills this Tomb;
An Atheist, by declaiming Rome:
A Rebel bold, by striving still
To keep the Laws above the Will;
And hindring those would pull them down,
To leave no limits to a Crown:
Crimes damn'd by Church and Government,
Oh! whither must his Soul be sent?
Of Heaven it must needs despair,
If that the Pope be turn-key there;

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And Hell can ne'er it entertain,
For there is all Tyrannick Reign,
And Purgatory's such a Pretence
As ne'er deceiv'd a Man of Sense:
Where goes it then? Where 't ought to go,
Where Pope and Devil have nought to do.

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