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Tertullus Christianus, or, Thanks for the Kings indulgence, with a rebuke of ingratitude.
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W. W.
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1672
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Wing W154; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[220]
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Tertullus Christianus Or Thanks for the Kings Indulgence with a Rebuke of Ingratitude BE gone Sarcastick Harpyes and your Spawns Hence ye rough Satyrs and ye flattering Fawns Cynicks avast whose wits composed be Of Chymick drugs Salt Sulphur Mercury Whilst joyful Non-conformists welcome in Their year of Jubilee with cheerful din And with a Clang sent from the Silver Trump Blow joy to friends and strike into a dump Repining Foes Come sound aloud and clear Let no harsh jarring in your notes appear Conform in this Transports of gladness shall Pass for Fanaticism Venial Confinement to a Cage and place obscure To sing well now must needs have taught you sure If Memnons broken statue by the ray Of rising Phaebus warm'd the harp could play And if Drebellus Organs thaw'd alone By the Suns heat gave a melodious tone What shall not we when such a Light is shewn Prove that our Instruments are right in tune A Light like that which Peters Angel brought And which the same Celestial power hath wrought Whose piercing Lustre hath dissolv'd our chains And th' Iron-gate relaxed without pains Setting us Gratis in the open street Oâ— Liberty with clear unshackled feet Look now but up and see a brighter Scene How the Wrack rides and Heavens are made serene By Royal breath The Sun with free aspect Doth equal light and warmth to all project The Floods are calm'd the swelling Surges cease Asswag'd by powerful Trident that in peace The Halcyons now may build their nests But oh What mean yon ominous Porpus to and fro Lifting their swarthy backs above the Main As if they did predict some Hurricane Or dreadful Tempest which way stands the wind South East by East That Quarter is unkind But yet me thinks the sky looks very clear Within the Compass of our Hemisphear Take the Perspective then contract your eye Well now a little cloud I do descry Like a Mans hand stretcht out here Like 's the same A great way off towards the Mediterrane Why this same Cloud unless you hasten in Will all ' orecast and wet you to the skin How skill you that Perhaps 't will disappear In time or meetly turn to wind how ' ere We 'r in good safty yet if 't come no near Why hear you not what France of late hath done How they 've a Channell cut from the Garown To the Levant an expeditious way VVhereby the Bridge-maker of Thymbris may Convey materials to our narrow Seas And let in such Philistines as he please By such a Bridge as Xerxes numerous hoast Discharg'd themselves upon the Thracian coast VVell stay but till you see his Gallies float And then perhaps in a small Fishers Boat Like him he 'l backward Cross the Ocean As right Successor to a Fisherman But why such strange surmizes sure ye be Slipt from the discipline of Agape Ha's the late signal Favour merited No better sentiments or judgement bred The Pope must come because it may be so He 'l thrust-in's body where he gets-in's Toe Is Charls and James and great Eliza's name Grown Cyphers then d' ye think away for shame And keep your May-bees closs nor let them swarm So soon you 'l find their stings will do much harm And many inward swellings cause whose rage Honey alone and sweetness will asswage VVould you that Shem and Japhet slight the Ark Because a Cham himself doth there imbark Or should the Sheep and Doves have kept away Because it harbour'd VVolves and Birds of prey VVhere Prudence rules affairs all will do well And noxious things are kept within their Cell VVell aim'd that ancient Sage who said or sung Each thing two Handles had a right and wrong You think perhaps by your lefthanded slights T' augment the number of the Benjamites But hit aright I guess you never will No gain their glory by your awkard skill VVhat wayward mood incites you to catch hold Of the hot end when you may take the cold Forbear in time 't will scortch your hands I wis Spit but on 't first and you shall find it hiss This is like Moses Rod offer to take It by the head 't will prove a biting snake Catch th' end that 's tractable 't will straight commence A staffe both for support and for defence And may perhaps if rightly us'd no less Then his in time effect strange miracles Do not like peevish Children then refuse The profferd good which you deny'd would chuse Nor shew your selves such idiot Rustick folk To chew the wrong end of the Artichoak Nor yet such Cockneys as your mouths to rake With awnes of wheat when you the grain may take Believe a Friend you 'l make him so and this May prove the Prodrome of a greater bliss Retire a while Let those that dread the title Of New-Phanaticks shew their skill a little And furbish th ir'Artillery to contest With this new Romish or Romantick Beast Let them with their ador'd Ratiâ—cination Combate this Monster of their own Creation Forbear good Pope and keep beyond the Sea Thou' rt kil'd already in Effigie Or if to vent their passion they but mean 'T will serve in time t'evacuate their spleen Whilst our Tertullus fraught with gratitude Doth with his old Preamble now conclude Since we by Thee great quietness enjoy Nor Poenall Laws for Conscience us annoy But very worthy deeds Thou dost dispense Unto this Nation by thy providence We always do accept so great Redress Most Noble Felix with all thankfulness Deus nobis haec otia fecit W. W. Printed in the year 1672. Pontifex