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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35650	Famous battel of the catts, in the province of Ulster, June 25, 1668.	Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669.	1668 (1668)	Wing D1001; ESTC R15057	2,507	14

THE Famous Battel OF THE CATTS IN THE PROVINCE OF ULSTER June 25. 1668. In the SAVOY Printed by T. Newcomb in the Year 1668. THE Famous Battel OF THE CATTS IN THE PROVINCE of VLSTER June 25. 1668. WHat wild Fanatick broke his Cage The Valiant Catti to engage Into this more then Civil Rage Alass I need not question that It was the Egyptian God the Ratt Trapan'd the poor Vltonian Catt Though Ireland of no Venome boasts Supplanters plant in mighty Hosts Reforming Ratts on all her Coasts These Vermin soon together get And being all on Mischief set Form'd in a dark Assembly met One goodly Ratt above the rest Since He was biggest would be best Stood forth his Paw upon his Breast This Ratt was Hee a Ratt of Fame Who all things but himself o'recame And Rattamountain was his name He all the Rules and Tricks could show Both Arts of War and Peace did know To cheat a Friend or spoil a Foe The Chair the Chair they cry'd whereat He smil'd at first and then down sate This over-undertaking Ratt Then they began since I alone Must speak what e're I touch upon Shall be cleer Demonstration They made us Golden Gods and then Ador'd us at our Shrines but when Saw ye one Ratt that worship't men Did not our Troops devoure all Thrace Not only beasts but human Race And left them neither name nor place And did we not neer Mentz devour Their Prelate Maugre all his power Whence still 't is call'd the RATTIN TOWER And having slain one Bishop Prince Princes and Bishops ever since We into popular Classes Mince Did we not since destroy and spoile In one short night Bermudas Isle And eat up all the Planters toil In all Records our Honour Lives But the vile Cat who 'gainst us strives From th' Alchoran his birth derives The Lyon if that Legend's true Did sneeze and from his Nostrels threw A Catt which instantly cry'd Mew Since Catts the Lyon's Nature share We for the Great as little care Who Rampant Passant Guardant are How long shall they devour us thus Ye know one Whittingtonian Puss Slew Legions of the best of us No mortal power could us annoy If Unity we could Injoy We our Destroyers should destroy Then let 's Unite and break their pride Make Catts against the Catts to side Those may Command who can divide All weaker States that would surprise The stronger prudently advise How to make Parties and Allies I now a People shall make known Who under like oppression groan Whose Interest and ours are one I know you 'll quickly smell a Ratt Then this is it I would be at Ingage the Mouse against the Catt Our Cause when they to us resort Three strong Militia's shall support From City Countrey and from Court Though Millions in a Battle dy Our Race with their Infinity Will us with fresh recruits supply The Anti-Gresham Stagyrit Says he Beheld with great delight This strange Superfoetatious sight A Female of the Persian Ratts Brought forth at once full sixscore Bratts Nay more now look about you Catts The young were big with young before Their birth with many hundreds more And she her Childrens Children bore George Pine to us thou art an Ass One year thy Hundred did surpass Amongst thy four shew one such Lass Thy Island in a hundred years As on thy own Account appears But only twice six thousand bears And now to make your Grandure rise Form into Assemblies your supplies To rescue your old Liberties No Petifoggers shall set Traps By Nusance stop our holes and gaps Nor Quacks with Arsnick give us Claps Nor no Owl-Constable by night Shall seize the less or greater fright Though they have Bills yet we can bite Now let us close in joynt consent That with the Mice we are content To share the Spoil and Government And when our Common-wealth prefers Their Members we will be the Peers And honest Mice the Commoners And when this Order's Rattifi'd They on our Honours may confide The Deans and Chapters to divide Pardon this boldness nor seem nice For when we have to do with Mice Quibble and Witt bear equal price To shew I am a Ratt of sense All my Proposals I Commence From Reason and Experience I 'le all in one advice give in If from the English Catts you 'll win Trophies with Ireland first begin Thus Rattamountain Then they call That the Word might be Have at all In Vlster they will stand and fall Their Agitator then they name Active Mac-Ratt who swift as Fame On crooked errands went and came Who straight from Ireland answer made That he had their Commands obey'd And all the trains of mischief laid So Lull'd asleep the Catti were His Arts had them secur'd from fear But what did from themselves appear Yet all that Rattamountain knew Or diligent Mac-Ratt could shew Was vain to that which did insue Soon as the Moon in Cancer rose Into the Tiberts brains she throws Such rage as all their plots out-goes Three hundred Catts on Vlsters shore Each with nine Lives that 's nine times more Into the field their Colours bore The Field a Gutter which did run Blood which the name of Field may own As Iambah that of Islington Long time the fight so equal was The greater half fell on the place Nor Quarter given in the Chace But their most hideous Catterwaule With the Allarm it gave did all Th' Vltonian Ratts together call Lest they should no Interment have To the departed Catts a grave The Ratts in their own bowels gave They at Bonratty so says fame To Rebels bodies did the same This place and that may bear one name Now the Staggs Duel's out of door The Cause was great the Effect was poor I saw two Savage Lice do more Staggs are not so t' whom Grass gives food But Catts and Lice who feast on blood For savage beasts are understood Two Staggs Militia's were but four Nothing to what the Tiberts bore For each having nine Lives had more Mac-Ratt is now return'd t' invite Those Ratts who scap'd by Londons Light To march through Scotland in the night And with the Highland Ratts t' agree To pass Dunbartons narrow sea To accomplish this Cattastrophe The Isle of Ratts when they those boggs Shall dispossess of Irish froggs Will goe beyond our Isle of Doggs There shall we see the new rais'd Throne Of Rattamountain in his own Metropolis High't Rattisbone Some Irish Bard thy skill bequeath To charm our English Poets breath Like thee to Rhime our Ratts to death Else we are sou'st in our old Pickle For now or never we must stickle When Playhouse turns to Conventicle FINIS The same that the Hessi A Castle yet standing upon the Rhine Stow's Annals of London Aristotle in his History of Animals Parturiunt montes Anglice Rattamountain Midsummer Moon Where the Rats eat all the dead bodies of the Rebels Army At Gresham-Colledg