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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55276	Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second. Written by the greatest wits of the age. Viz. Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Lord Bu-------st, Sir John Denham, Andrew Marvell, Esq; Mr. Milton, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Sprat, Mr. Waller. Mr. Ayloffe, &c. With some miscellany poems by the same: most whereof never before printed. Now carefully examined with the originals, and published without any castration.	Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687.	1697 (1697)	Wing P2719A; ESTC R26563	139,358	261

the Reins and give the Realm away With lavish Hands they constant Tributes give And Annual Stipends for their Guilt receive Corrupt with Gold they Wives and Daughters bring To the Black Idol for an Offering All but Religious Cheats might justly swear He true Vice-gerent to old Molock were Priests were the first Deluders of Mankind Who with vain Faith made all their Reason blind Not Lucifer himself more proud than they And yet perswade the World they must obey 'Gainst Avarice and Luxury complain And practise all the Vices they arraign Riches and Honour they from Lay-men reap And with dull Crambo feed the silly Sheep As Killigrew Buffoons his Master they Droll on their God but a much duller way With Hocus Pocus and their Heavenly slight They gain on tender Consciences at Night Who ever has an over zealous Wife Becomes the Priest's Amphitrio during life Who would such Men Heavens Messengers believe Who from the Sacred Pulpit dare deceive Baal's wretched Curates Legerdemain'd it so And never durst their Tricks above-board shew When our first Parents Paradise did grace The Serpent was the Prelate of the place Fond Eve did for this subtil Tempter's sake From the Forbidden Tree the Pippin take His God and Lord this Preacher did betray To have the weaker Vessel made his Prey Since Death and Sin did humane Nature blot The chiefest Blessings Adam's Chaplain got Thrice wretched they who Nature's Laws detest And trace the ways fantastick of a Priest Till native Reasons basely forc'd to yeild And Hosts of upstart Errors gains the Field My Muse presum'd a little to digress And touch their holy Function with my Verse Now to the State again she tends direct And does on Giant L dale reflect This haughty Monster with his ugly Claws First temper'd Poyson to destroy our Laws Declares the Councils Edicts are beyond The most Authentick Statutes of the Land Sets up in Scotland A-la-mode de France Taxes Excise and Armies does advance This Saracen his Country's Freedom broke To bring upon our Necks the heavier Yoke This is the Savage Pimp without dispute First brought his Mother for a Prostitute Of all the Mescreants that e'er went to Hell This Villain Rampant bears away the Bell. Now must my Muse deplore the Nation 's Fate Like a true Lover for her dying Mate The Royal Evil so malignant grows Nothing the dire Contagion can oppose In our Weal-publick scarce one thing succeeds For one Man's weakness a whole Nation bleeds Ill-luck starts up and thrives like evil Weeds Let Cromwell's Ghost smile with contempt to see Old England strugling under Slavery His Meager Highness now has got a stride Does on Britannia as on Churchil ride White-liver'd D for his swift Jack-call To hunt down's Prey and hopes to Master all Clifford and Hide before had lost the Day One hang'd himself and the other ran away 'T was want of Wit and Courage made them fail But O ne and the D ke must need prevail The D ke now vaunts with Popish Mermydons Our Fleets our Ports our Cities and our Towns Are Man'd by him or by his Holiness Bold Irish Ruffians to his Court Address This is the Collony to plant his Knaves From hence he picks and culls his Murthering Braves Here for an Ensign or Lieutenant's place They 'll kill a Judge or Justice of the Peace At his Command Mac will do any thing He 'll burn a City or destroy a King From Tiber came th' Advice-Boat monthly home And brought new Lessons to the Duke from Rome Here with curs'd Precepts and with Councils dire The godly Cheat-King would be did inspire Heaven had him Chieftain of Great Britain made Tells him the Holy Church demands his Aid Bad him be bold all Dangers to defy His Brother sneaking Heretick should dye A Priest should do it from whose sacred stroke All England strait should fall beneath his Yoke God did Renounce him and his Cause disown And in his stead had plac'd him on his Throne From Saul the Land of Promise thus was rent And Jess's Son plac'd in the Government The Holy Scripture vindicates his Cause And Monarchs are above all humane Laws Thus said the Scarlet Whore to her Gallant Who streight design'd his Brother to supplant Fiends of Ambition here his Soul possest And thirst of Empire Calentur'd his Breast Hence Ruine and Destruction had ensu'd And all the People been in Blood imbru'd Had not Almighty Providence drawn near And stopt his Malice in its full career Be wise you Sons of Men tempt God ●o more To give you Kings in 's wrath to vex you sore If a King's Brother can such Mischiefs bring Then how much greater Mischiefs such a King Hodges's Vision from the Monument December 1675 By A. Marvell Esq A Country Clown call'd Hodge went up to view The Pyramid pray mark what did ensue WHen Hodge had numbered up how many score The Airy Pyramid contain'd he swore No Mortal Wight e're Climb'd so high before To the best best vantage plac'd he views around The Imperial Town with lofty Turrets Crown'd That wealthy Store-house of the bounteous Flood Whose Peaceful Tides o'●eflow our Land with good Confused forms flit by his wondring Eyes And his rapt ●ouls o'erwhelm'd with Extasies Some God it seems had encer'd his plain Brest And with 's abode the rustick Mansion blest Almighty change he feels in every part Light shines in 's Eyes and Wisdom rules his Heart So when her Pious Son fair Venus shew'd His flaming Troy with Slaughter'd Dardans strew'd She Purg'd his Opticks fill'd with mortal Night And Troy's sad Doom he read by Heaven's light Such light Divine broke on the Clouded Eyes Of humble Hodge Regions remote Courts Councils Polices The circling wills of Tyrants treacheries He Views Discerns Unc●phers Penetrates From Charle's Dukes to Europes armed States First he beholds Proud Rome and France Combin'd By double Vassallage to enslave Man-kind That wou'd the Soul this wou'd the Body sway Their Bulls and Edicts none must disobey For these with War sad Europe they inflame Rome says for God and France declares for Fame See Sons of Satan know Religions force Is Gentleness Fame bought with Blood a Curse He whom all stil'd Delight of humane kind Justice and Mercy Truth with Honour joyn'd His kindly Rays cherish the teeming Earth And struggling Virtue blest with prosperous Birth Like Chaos you the tott'ring Globe Invade Religion cheat and War ye make a Trade Next the lewd Palace of the Plotting King To 's Eyes new Scenes of Frantick Folly bring Behold says he the Fountain of our Woe From whence our Vices and our Ruin flow Here Parents their own Off-spring prostitute By such vile Arts t' obtain some viler Suit Here blooming Youth adore Priapus's shrine And Priests pronounce him Sacred and Divine The Goatish God behold in his Alcove The secret Scene of Damn'd incestuous Love Melting in Lust and Drunk like Lot he lies Betwixt two bright Daughter Divinities Oh! that like Satura he