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The loyal and impartial satyrist containing eight miscellany poems ...
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T. R. (Thomas Rogers), 1660-1694.
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THE Loyal and Impartial SATYRIST CONTAINING Eight Miscellany Poems VIZ. I. The Ghost of an English Jesus addressing himself to the Royal Cabal in France To the Honourable T. C. II. Looking on Father Petre's Picture To his Honoured Friend Sir T. W. Kt. III. Ecebolius Britannicus Or Memento to the Jacobites of the Higher Order To the Truly Orthodox Critick and Poet J. D n Esq IV. The Grand Decision to the Memory of Cranmer To his Magnanimus Friend Mr. H ll of H y. V. To an Old Factious Miser who wept at the Loss of a Bag of Gold To his Generous and Ingenious Friend Capt. B w. VI. The True Christian Philosopher written to his much Honoured Friend W. B. Esq VII The Refuge written to the Honourable Sir R. F. Barronet VIII The Comical Cabal or Humours of the Mobile To the Truly Honourable and Ingenious Sir P. D. Bar. Jamque Iâ—ae patuere Deum manifestaque belli Signa dedit Mundus Lucan lib. 2. Dabit Deus his quoque finem Virg. Aeneid lib. 1. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1694. TO My much Honoured Friend GEORGE LUCY Esq Honoured Sir BEING under some Obligation to communicate these following Essays to the World and being my self sufficiently satisfied with the good meaning and tendency of 'em I am thereby induc'd in a peculiar manner to recommend 'em to your Perusal aâ—d Acceptance And in you I am sure I at once Honour a Gentility becoming the Politest Age and a Wisdom that adorn that Antient and much celebrated Family of which you are now the principal surviving part and to which I must ever own my self most particularly oblig'd I have here presented you as a tryal of your kind and wonted Constructions with some slight and unaccurate productions of a little leisure and which at first I designedly form'd in some hurry of thoughts for my own satisfaction and ease but have now ventur'd to Publish in times of more Publick and Universal Danger For tho' I was never much surpriz'd and alarm'd with popular or artificial Fears and Jealousies which will perhaps make a noise even in the most promising Seasons as long as the World endures yet when Matter of Fact is notoriously plain and evident when Tyrannical Base and Vndermining Principles are seconded with Pow'r Revenge and successful Issues 'T is a weak piece of bravery merely to defy Danger and Rank Folly and Stupidity not to be Nationally concern'd The Politicks of France are now fairly legible in Speeches and Bravadoes in Actions and Menaces and many Self-evident Tokens of a design'd Vsurpation And we are not only to expect the same Burning Effects from the same Damning Cause but have also too just and apparent reason to fear that we shall be graduated up through all the dectnt forms of Ingenious Cruelty and the several Stages of Torture to a more Solemn and Ceremonious Death if ever Popery lift up it's Head in England Perhaps the more dull and half-witted Priests may content themselves with a short Fiery Tryal with the Plain and Old-fashion'd way of Sacrificing Hereticks to the Roman Idol And I have Charity to believe there are many kind and good-natur'd Romanists amongst us who are so much our Friends as to shrink and tremble even at the thoughts of such Barbarities as these But all their good wishes must prove but vain and plausible Nothings when the Insolent Jesuit has once 〈◊〉 Ascendant and is roaring up and down with Racks Wheels and Damnation in his Mouth and all the Terrours of the Ten Persecutions And what will a not swearing or who wou'd have thought it signify when our Gates are set open to that Royal Thunderer who has been so far influenc't by his Beloved Oracles an the Omnipotent Charms of Canonical Executioners as to give no rest either to the World or himself and whose magnified Conduct bears a near resemblance to that Awful sort of Majesty which Mr. D n presents us with in his notable Description of a Bull after this manner While Monarch-like he rang'd the listed Field Some tost some gor'd some trampling down he kill'd I would here take occasion had I a Commission so to do to entertain the Courteous and Benevolent â—eader with some obliging Prophesie or comfortable Revelation about Futurities and Events But at present I must own my self not sufficiently skilled in Astrological Enquiries Synchronistical Schemes and other ingenious Whimseys which sound but immusically to a Judicious Ear and rather amuze than improve the Rational Faculties If I can compose or allay an ill-natur'd Passion or gratifie a good one by perusing the Books of Homer I am not much concern'd with Didymus the Grammarian where he was certainly born or with others which were first written the Iliads or Odysses So long as I can enjoy the Benefits of the Reformation occasionally begun by Luther I need not anxiously enquire what his Name seems to import in the Muscovitish Stile or High Dutch And if I could but see my Native Countrey in a Triumphant Condition of which I do not despair I care not whether Albion take it's Name ab Albis Rupibus from Olbion or the Son of Neptune Be pleased to accept of what I have written as a Testimony of my Zeal and Love for Old England and Honour for your self I am Honoured Sir Your Humble Servant S. 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THE GHOST OF AN English Jesuite Addressing himself to The Royal Cabal IN FRANCE BRavely perform'd my Friends and who can tell But this rare Change may add new Life to Hell It shall Success shall all your Fears confute And bring the Devil again into Repute In spight of Heav'n your Fame shall wider spread And stamp a Terrour both on Quick and Dead The Northern Heresie shall now go down That has so long out-brav'd the Gallick Throne And Heav'n it self shall with new blushes glow At thâ— dire Ills which you transact below O Britany thy Fate rides on apace And Rome shall punish thy accursed Race The Leaguing Pow'rs of Hell and Earth combine With cruel Martyrdoms to make thee shine And nobly to revenge my fall by Thine I thought that Monarch for whose sake I sell And Head-long went before my Time to Hell Would have atton'd my Fate with active speed When Time should plant the Crown upon his Head Had he done so and shew'd true Roman Skill I could have own'd him for my Master still Had he but mark't each Week or Day with Blood Begun with his own Vile Apostate Brood Had he thought Mary's Reign too soft and good And scorn'd t' have been b'a Woman thus out-done Had he from London Tow'r lanc't Thunder down When like a Trojan Horse it fac't the Town Had he inverted Seasons forc't a Day With blazing Bishop shew'd the foulest play That Rome could Act or Hell it self can Name 'Till he by poaching had destroy'd the Game Nay had he been the second of his time Blest with a Genius for some lower Crime