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TREACHERY
There's no Integrity, where Faith
Is not obligd, on Paine of Death;
Nor Obligation firm, and Good
That is not seald with mutuall Bloud,
Where both ingagers, can at will
Breake one another on the wheel.
Is not obligd, on Paine of Death;
Nor Obligation firm, and Good
That is not seald with mutuall Bloud,
Where both ingagers, can at will
Breake one another on the wheel.
There's no Integrity or trust
Where Intrest do's not make men Just.
Where Intrest do's not make men Just.
Hypocrites with Acted Zeal
Take more then tru Saints with the Real,
That Pray and fast, but to devour
With Greater Greediness and Power.
Take more then tru Saints with the Real,
That Pray and fast, but to devour
With Greater Greediness and Power.
As Truest Glasses Cheat the Sight
By Representing Left, for Right,
So Right, and wrong, are Counterchang'd
And in each others Places Rang'd.
By Representing Left, for Right,
So Right, and wrong, are Counterchang'd
And in each others Places Rang'd.
One Enemy within the wals
Is worth a Troop without as false.
Is worth a Troop without as false.
All the Politiques of the Great
Are like the Cunning of a Cheat,
That let's his False Dice freely Run,
And Trust's them to themselves alone;
But never let's a tru one Stir
Without some fingring Trick, or Slur;
And, when the Gamsters doubt his Play,
Conveys his False Dice safe away,
And leaves the Tru ones in the Lurch,
T' indure the Torture of the Search.
May they be Honest when it is too late,
That is undon the only way they hate,
Whose words and Actions are al one
And both together, Past, and don,
And most obliging Favours Civil
As kind indearments of the Devil.
Are like the Cunning of a Cheat,
That let's his False Dice freely Run,
And Trust's them to themselves alone;
But never let's a tru one Stir
Without some fingring Trick, or Slur;
And, when the Gamsters doubt his Play,
Conveys his False Dice safe away,
And leaves the Tru ones in the Lurch,
T' indure the Torture of the Search.
May they be Honest when it is too late,
That is undon the only way they hate,
Whose words and Actions are al one
And both together, Past, and don,
And most obliging Favours Civil
As kind indearments of the Devil.
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To Promise only to Betray
Is but to cheat, and loose at Play,
To venture Credit upon Tick
For nothing but to shew a trick.
Is but to cheat, and loose at Play,
To venture Credit upon Tick
For nothing but to shew a trick.
Chineses have their Publique Schooles to teach
The Libral Arts to cheat and overreach.
The Libral Arts to cheat and overreach.
Treachery's a Princely Sport
The only Royal Game of Court.
The only Royal Game of Court.
It is in vaine for Cheats to fix
'Mong those, that understand their Trick[s]:
Who therefor Change the Aire, and Stroul,
To Catch the fresh unwary foul.
'Mong those, that understand their Trick[s]:
Who therefor Change the Aire, and Stroul,
To Catch the fresh unwary foul.
The Man, that for Profit's brought t' obey
Is only hir'd, on Liking, to betray;
And when he's bid a liberaller Price,
Will not be sluggish in the Work, nor nice.
Is only hir'd, on Liking, to betray;
And when he's bid a liberaller Price,
Will not be sluggish in the Work, nor nice.
For those are but Probatione[r]s
That have but once been Perjurers,
And have no[t] don their Exercise
Till Th' have betrayd and Perjured twice,
The Sacrament of Confirmation
To Fix 'em Constant to the Nation.
That have but once been Perjurers,
And have no[t] don their Exercise
Till Th' have betrayd and Perjured twice,
The Sacrament of Confirmation
To Fix 'em Constant to the Nation.
Wheedleing and Shaming at the best
Is but a kinde of Knavery in Jest.
As Gamsters Practice for their Exercise
The Liberal Arts of Cheating with tru dice.
Is but a kinde of Knavery in Jest.
As Gamsters Practice for their Exercise
The Liberal Arts of Cheating with tru dice.
In the Dark and Secret Passages
That ly between the other world and this,
One mortal Cheat's another of his Right,
As Burglares break houses in the Night,
And, at the wills and Pleasures of theyr mothers,
Transfer their Claimes, before th'are born, to others.
That ly between the other world and this,
One mortal Cheat's another of his Right,
As Burglares break houses in the Night,
And, at the wills and Pleasures of theyr mothers,
Transfer their Claimes, before th'are born, to others.
What should I do at Rome? I cannot Ly,
Or if a Book be Bad, Commend and Buy:
I understand no Mathematique Skill,
Nor can Prædict a Fathers Death, nor will.
Others can beare, what Leachers use to send
New marryd wives, and what the[y] say Commend:
I cannot Steal; nor give the Least Releife,
In Acting of a Robbery, t' a Thiefe:
And therefore Go alone, like one, that's maimd
Of his Right-hand, and for a Cripple Lamd.
Or if a Book be Bad, Commend and Buy:
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Nor can Prædict a Fathers Death, nor will.
Others can beare, what Leachers use to send
New marryd wives, and what the[y] say Commend:
I cannot Steal; nor give the Least Releife,
In Acting of a Robbery, t' a Thiefe:
And therefore Go alone, like one, that's maimd
Of his Right-hand, and for a Cripple Lamd.
Words are but th' outside of the minde
But all the Art is how 'tis lind.
But all the Art is how 'tis lind.
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