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The Health.

When Tories and Parsons do Cant and Pray,
And spit their dull Malice on us,
Let's remember the Cause that occasion'd the Day,
And Drink a good Health to Old Puss, Old Puss.
When Priests of Rebellion and Treason prate,
And extol the lewd Monarch emur'd in the Cake,
Confront 'em with Vagabond James's Fate,
And put 'em in Mind of the Stroak they struck;
When Oppression increases, and Hopes grow less,
When Tyrants unbridl'd, their Subjects vex,
Let's chear up our selves with the happy Success,
That once did attend on the Ax, the Ax.
Then Freedom and Peace did in Triumph appear,
As soon as the Glorious Deed was done
Our Fathers perform'd, and why should we fear
To follow what they have so well begun?
Moses of old, when the Jews dispair'd,
How they should threat'ning Dangers shun,
Buoy'd up their Faith with the Wonders they've heard,
Had by their Fathers been done, been done;
But we have better Examples in store,
When Power with Liberty won't accord,
We'll follow the Pattern they set us before,
And deliver our selves from the Sword, the Sword,
Then fill up the Glass to the daring Hand,
Which bravely finish'd the just Design,
And stain'd with Tyrannical Blood the Sand,
While murmuring Scots repine, repine.
About with't again to the Hand and Cause,
That gave us Occasion to Revel thus;
Confusion to those, who shall dare refuse
To Drink a good Health to Old Puss, Old Puss.