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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33400	A collection of several poems and verses composed upon various occasions by Mr. William Cleland.	Cleland, William, 1661?-1689.	1697 (1697)	Wing C4627; ESTC R29226	55,441	156

this season ●…sham plo●… and putative Treason And Whiggs had need to learn to think They sleep not all that seem to wink It 's folly with Kail Wives to flyte Some Dogs ba●…k best after they b●…te Some sna●…ch the Heels and Taile about And so get all their Harns dung out A well train'd Royster fast will close His Jawes upon a mad Bull 's Nose Some Cowlies murders more with words Than Trowpers do with Guns and Swords The sore brunt Client makes Complaint Of those Pick pockets with consent Calling●…um more exhausting Thieves Th●…n High-way men that stealls and reaves Lawyers Advocats and Clerks May give their Thoughts and their Remarks On Laws who ever to this hour Gave them a Legislative Power Enough of this therefore I 'll had Lest all the Polland Dogs go mad B●…fore their wonted time of Year When such poor Cowish S●…ust they hear Juries should know how Matters stands Lest they with Pilate wash their hands Pomantick fellows should not be Advanc'd to too much Dignitie Some places Celia in a shrine And she for that makes them be seen With browes adorn'd wit●… long dilemmas Which some repute no pleasant gemmas It 's like some think another thing If they be gif●…ed by a King ●…y horned Logicks I conclud●… And very Pithily make good That tho●…e who for the Test give votes Are very Ignorants and So●…s Either they this confession knew Or not And if the first be true They 're men of round spu●… noddle fictio●… Who understood not contradictions But if the second must hold foot I will aff●… they 're ●…kant of wit Who in a Supream Court like that Will ●…umph and vote they wot not 〈◊〉 These Hornes pricks pi●…hily the side●… Of Ghostly Fathers our Church guides Bu●… like these Sain●…s are in a 〈◊〉 Unto the mother of 〈◊〉 Without demur●…ing I will say it They are for order peace and quie●… Who 〈◊〉 would be content With a 〈◊〉 Form in Parliament The matters clear no more deb●…e A vote 〈◊〉 all a speech in S●…ate There are some persons I su●…one Would swime with all but sink with none Who darres to trust such snakeing slave●… Are greater fools the●… they are knaves Some may be courted for a while Whom yet the Gallowes may beguile Corrupters have ground to suspect Corrupted persons and their neck Is very fair to bide a stresse When they have done their business They 'll bury us when we are dead Without a stipend at our head My talking wants top main and tail And my Concep ives seem to fail These have scarce Time and little Reason Would see they do not p●…atle Treason He set him down the Sophee rose With face so firie that his Nose Might have endangered Corn stacks And fired Powder Lint or Flax. And cryes Good Fellows ye may ken that Quos Jupiter perdit dementat He set him down And so I end Whom I have wrong'd let others men●… If any ask for the Conclusion Let them conclude it was Confusion Altho there wants not Inquisition If other Kirkmen did petition Whether they be exempt by paction By secret emption or transaction Or if there 's powder at its root I choose at present to be mute If Circumstances call to clear it Its like hereafter you may hear it Follows the Tenour of the Oath of the TEST To be taken by all Persons in Publick TRUST I A. B. Solemnly Swear in Presence of the Eternal GOD Whom I invocat as Judge and Witness of my sincere Intention of this my Oath That I own and sincerely profefs the true Protestant Religion contained in the Confession of Faith recorded in the first Parliament of King James the sixth And that I believe the same to be founded on and agreeable to the Written Word of GOD. And I promise swear that I shall adhere thereto during all the dayes of my Lifetime and shall endeavour to Educat my Children therein And shall never consent to any Change or Alteration contrar thereto And that I disown and renounce all such Principles Doctrines or Practises whether Popish or Phanatical which are cont●… unto and inconsistent with the said Protestant Religion and Confession of Faith And for Testification of my Obedience to my most Gracious Soveraign CHARLES the Second I do affirm and Swear by this solemn Oath That the King's Majesty is the Only Supream Governour of this Realm over all Persons and in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil And that no Forraign Prince Person Pope Prelate State or Potentat hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superioritie Pre heminencie or Authoritie Ecclesiastical or Civil within this Realm And therefore I do utterlie renounce and foresake all Forraign Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authoiries And do promise tha●… from henceforth I shal bear Faith and True Allegiance to the King's Majesty His Heirs and lawful Successors And to my power shall Assist and Defend all Rights Jurisdictions Prerogatives Priviledges Prehemin●…ncies and Authorities belonging to the King's Majesty His Heirs and Lawful Successous And I farther affirm and swear by this my solemn Oath That I judge it unlawful for Subjects upon pretence of Reformation or any other pretence whatsoever To enter into Covenants or Leagues or to Convocat Conveen or Assemble in any Councils Conventions or Assemblies to Treat Consult or D●…termine in any matter of State Civil or Ecclesiastick without His Majesties special Command or express Licence had thereto or to take up Arms against the King or those commissionated by Him And that I shall never so rise in Armes or enter into such Covenants or Assemblies And that there lyes no obligation on me from the National Covenant or the Solemn League and Covenant so commonly called or any other manner of way whatsoever to endeavour any change or alteration in the Government either in Church or State as it is now established by the Laws of this Kingdom And I promise and swear that I shall with my utmost power defend assist and maintain His Majesties Jurisdiction foresaid against all deadly and I shall never decline His Majestie 's Power and Jurisdiction As I shall Answer to GOD. And finallie I affirm and swear that this my solemn Oath is given in the plain genuine Sense and meaning of the words without any equivocation mental reservation or any manner of evasion whatsoever And that I shall not accept or use any dispensation from any Creature whatsoever So help me GOD. VERSES made upon the Death of that famous Gospel Minister Mr. ROBERT M KW AIRD. Who died in Holland after 18 years Banishment from Scotland his Native Countrey WAS it for nought that blustering sparkling Rayes Of strange stupendious Comets did the eyes Of Earths Inhabitants so long detain In dayes but lately past who can refrain Considering our stroak so great so sad Heightn`d with Circumstances dark and bad From saying sure these Portants did presage Some future Tragidie to this poor Age Which new`s begun so shrewdly for to think On