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Law
For how can a Lawyer though 'ere so infirm
Have Leasure to dy in the midst of a Tearm?
Have Leasure to dy in the midst of a Tearm?
That poore Rogues fate and thine are one,
Who being ready to bee hangd
Behold's the worke himself had don,
The Hemp he has so often bangd;
And when hee's dead wil hang in th' a[i]re
As sure as Mahomet's Sepulcher.
Who being ready to bee hangd
Behold's the worke himself had don,
The Hemp he has so often bangd;
And when hee's dead wil hang in th' a[i]re
As sure as Mahomet's Sepulcher.
Laws to their Executions Prefer
At best but th' Executioner.
At best but th' Executioner.
For when a Nation is a Slave,
What Crowns of Monarchs can be safe?
And still the less we wast our Right
W' Injoy the greater Freedom by't.
What Crowns of Monarchs can be safe?
And still the less we wast our Right
W' Injoy the greater Freedom by't.
For Constant Right's The Tru streit Line
To which such wonders some Assigne,
For Forfeiture in Law, or Reputation
Is Irrevocable as Privation,
From which it is as much Impossible
To be Redeemd, as Souls that are in Hel.
To which such wonders some Assigne,
For Forfeiture in Law, or Reputation
Is Irrevocable as Privation,
From which it is as much Impossible
To be Redeemd, as Souls that are in Hel.
As, in Utopia, Judges Hands
Are burnt for taking Bribes, with Brands,
To give the Court, and Hangman Reall
Security under Hand, and Seal.
Are burnt for taking Bribes, with Brands,
To give the Court, and Hangman Reall
Security under Hand, and Seal.
That use t' ingage Both Houses, in Contest
Against the Nations Publique Interest;
Trot up, and Down, the Hall, to meet, and Heard,
And cast up what Course next is to be steard.
Make Publique Tests to Sweare to, ex Officio
With many [a] subtle Politique Proviso,
T' establish Perjurers, that can forsweare,
And Honest Men, that cannot do 't, cashiere;
All urgent Busnes of the House Abridge
To nothinge else but breach of Priviledg.
Admit the Important, and the Necessary
No nearer minding then Præliminary
And vote the Sessions, more Compendious
To be against the Orders of the House.
Against the Nations Publique Interest;
Trot up, and Down, the Hall, to meet, and Heard,
And cast up what Course next is to be steard.
Make Publique Tests to Sweare to, ex Officio
With many [a] subtle Politique Proviso,
T' establish Perjurers, that can forsweare,
And Honest Men, that cannot do 't, cashiere;
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To nothinge else but breach of Priviledg.
Admit the Important, and the Necessary
No nearer minding then Præliminary
And vote the Sessions, more Compendious
To be against the Orders of the House.
Th' expences of Dividing what th' had gaind
Had Run the Publique money behind Hand,
That Rapine, Sacriledge, and Providence,
Could not Supply th' extravagant Expence;
Nor turning all the Churches of the Nation
Into one singular Impropriation:
Nor Sale, nor Sequestration, could suffice;
Nor Decimation, forfiture, Excise,
Nor Selling Scots, by th' Head, our Pretious Brethren,
To stock Plantations, 'mong the Indian Heathen.
That Prayd, and taught, and Fasted to Devour
With more Insatiate Greediness, and Powr,
And Run through all the Difficultst Affairs
Upon th' Account of Zeal, and Fasts, and Prayers,
And by their owne self-seeking of the Lord
Gave Revelations as Designs concurd,
Destroyd Religion by Humiliations
And strove to sow, and Sprinkle down three Nations.
Had Run the Publique money behind Hand,
That Rapine, Sacriledge, and Providence,
Could not Supply th' extravagant Expence;
Nor turning all the Churches of the Nation
Into one singular Impropriation:
Nor Sale, nor Sequestration, could suffice;
Nor Decimation, forfiture, Excise,
Nor Selling Scots, by th' Head, our Pretious Brethren,
To stock Plantations, 'mong the Indian Heathen.
That Prayd, and taught, and Fasted to Devour
With more Insatiate Greediness, and Powr,
And Run through all the Difficultst Affairs
Upon th' Account of Zeal, and Fasts, and Prayers,
And by their owne self-seeking of the Lord
Gave Revelations as Designs concurd,
Destroyd Religion by Humiliations
And strove to sow, and Sprinkle down three Nations.
For Laws and Money are the same,
And from the selfsame Derivation Came.
And from the selfsame Derivation Came.
As Daughters pass for Sons, in Legal Authors
But not all Sons Indiffrently for Daughters.
But not all Sons Indiffrently for Daughters.
As in Sealing writings, He allone
That take's the seal off, 's held to Put it on.
That take's the seal off, 's held to Put it on.
Are held of Bums the bravest fellows,
The Hangmans Life-guard at the Gallows,
Without whose Ayd, the Populace
Would hang him up, in his own Place.
The Hangmans Life-guard at the Gallows,
Without whose Ayd, the Populace
Would hang him up, in his own Place.
As equal Jurys use to Hang one Half
Of Criminals, and th' other moeity save.
Of Criminals, and th' other moeity save.
As sinners in the Church of Rome do trust
To be savd by the Suffrings of the Just.
To be savd by the Suffrings of the Just.
A Pirat do's more mischief of himself
Then all together Storm, and Rock and shelf.
Then all together Storm, and Rock and shelf.
When He, whose Present Turn it is to Read,
Do's both their Talents, and their Bodys, feede,
Expounds upon all Diffrent Sorts of Meates,
And on, at least, five Hundred Dishes treates,
Resolv's the Case in Law, the Poynt, and Reason,
Of ven'son, Fish, and Foul, that are in Season:
And with a most Judicious Tast, Defines,
And states the Cases, of all Sorts of wines:
And all his welcome Hearers Edifys
With Hammes of Bacon, Tongues, and Red-Dear-Pies.
Do's both their Talents, and their Bodys, feede,
Expounds upon all Diffrent Sorts of Meates,
And on, at least, five Hundred Dishes treates,
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Of ven'son, Fish, and Foul, that are in Season:
And with a most Judicious Tast, Defines,
And states the Cases, of all Sorts of wines:
And all his welcome Hearers Edifys
With Hammes of Bacon, Tongues, and Red-Dear-Pies.
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