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Treachery
A Man as Virtuous and Good
As ever in a Galley Rowd.
As ever in a Galley Rowd.
Discover Secrets but in whispers
For th' Easy Credulous to Disperse.
For th' Easy Credulous to Disperse.
Whose words and Deeds are Counterfet
And like a Printers letters set,
Are not to be interpreted
Unles by being Backward read.
And like a Printers letters set,
Are not to be interpreted
Unles by being Backward read.
As Hangmen aske Delinquent Mercy
And truss 'em up with wondrous Curtsy.
And truss 'em up with wondrous Curtsy.
No Jew ever had more Care
To do his Busnes neat and fair
And not like Judas, who betrayd
So like a Bungler, and Delayd
But was more Civil in his way
And never let his Master stay.
To do his Busnes neat and fair
And not like Judas, who betrayd
So like a Bungler, and Delayd
But was more Civil in his way
And never let his Master stay.
Like Rookes that use to drive subtle Trade
By taking all the Odses that are Layd,
And who so ever hap's to have the Best
Are sure to win, or save themselvs at Least.
By taking all the Odses that are Layd,
And who so ever hap's to have the Best
Are sure to win, or save themselvs at Least.
But strive's t' assert a Supererrogation
Of Inhumanity, and Profanation,
Disdains to tread in any Beaten Path
Of Vulgar Treachery, and Breach of Faith,
But findes new ways, as some have don of Lechery
The Sponsors and the Collarys of Treachery,
Take's naturally to all Expedients
Of the great work, to ruine Government;
For those that have been hangd, and Cut in Quarters
For Treachery are but the Devils Martyrs,
Had servd in all Perfidiousnes, between
The Legal years of Sixty and Sixteen.
Of Inhumanity, and Profanation,
Disdains to tread in any Beaten Path
Of Vulgar Treachery, and Breach of Faith,
But findes new ways, as some have don of Lechery
The Sponsors and the Collarys of Treachery,
Take's naturally to all Expedients
Of the great work, to ruine Government;
For those that have been hangd, and Cut in Quarters
For Treachery are but the Devils Martyrs,
Had servd in all Perfidiousnes, between
The Legal years of Sixty and Sixteen.
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