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EPILOGUE.

Thus have we shewn what we propos'd to shew,
All would fall off from Tyrants did they know,
That with their wretched Country they betray
Themselves and Children to tyrannick Sway.
They who plac'd haughty Lewis on the Throne
Would have declar'd against Him, had they known
That their Soul's Darlings by his dire Commands
In Torments should expire by bloody Hands,
Or live a banish'd Race in Foreign Lands.
The fiercest Creatures that the Woods contain
What they bring forth with pleasing Love maintain.
That Love the Lyon softens, and the Bear,
The Worlds supported by that tender Care,
All Savages but Men their Offspring spare.
But Man, grown blind by Lust, of Pow'r or Pelf,
Will sell his Darling Offspring and himself.
To reclaim such our Author had me say
He wrote this English and no Party Play:
He minds not who's of Whig or Tory Clan
But who for Lewis is, or who for ANN?
For the same Friends have Lawless Rage and He,
As ANN has the same Foes with Liberty.
Oh may she long command these happy Isles!
Where she with Freedom Empire reconciles!
Long o'er your Hearts may yon bright Circle, Reign
Oh may you never feel a ruder Chain!
And of no other Tyranny complain!
But Beauties Reign on Liberty depends
When the French Reign begins, the Reign of Beauty ends,
The French are Slaves to Man's Despotick Sway,
But with Prophaness acted every Day
They force Celestial Beauty to obey.