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A42677 The Ghost of the late House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at Oxford 1681 (1681) Wing G640; ESTC R36542 1,062 1

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The Ghost of the late House of Commons To the New one appointed to meet at OXFORD FRom deepest Dungeons of Eternal Night The feats of Horror Sorrow Pains spight I have been sent to tell your tender Youth A seasonable and Important Truth I feel but Oh too late that no Disease Is like a Surfeit of Luxurious Ease And of all other the most tempting things Are too much Wealth and too Indulgent Kings None ever was superlatively ill But by Degrees with Industry and Skill And some whose Meaning hath at first been fair Grow Knaves by Life and Rebels by Despair My time is past and Yours will soon begin Keep the first Blossoms from the blast of Sin And by the Fate of my Tumultuous ways Preserve your self and bring serener Days The buisie subtile Serpents of the Law Did first my Mind from true Obedience draw While I did Limits to the King prescribe And took for Oracles that Canting Tribe I chang'd True Freedom for the Name of Free And grew Seditious for Variety All that oppos'd me were to be accus'd And by the Laws I Legally abus'd The Robe was summon'd M d in the head In Legal Murder none so deeply read I brought him to the Bar where once he stood Stain'd with the yet un-expiated Blood Of the Brave Strafford when 3 Kingdoms rung With his accumulative Hackney Tongue Prisoners and Witnesses were waiting by These had been taught to Swear and those to dy And to expect Their Arbitrary Fates Some for ill Faces some for good Estates To fright the People and Alarm the Town B and O imploy'd the Reverend Gown But while the Triple Mitre bore the blame The Kings 3 Crowns were their Rebellious aim I seem'd and did but seem to fear the Guards And took for mine the B and the W Anti monarchick Hereticks of State Immoral Atheists Rich and Reprobate But above all I got a little Guide Who every Foard of Villany had try'd None knew so well the old Pernicious way To Ruine Subjects and make Kings obey And my small Jehu at a Furious Rate Was driving Eighty back to Forty Eight This the King knew and was Resolv'd to bear But I mistook his Patience for his Fear All that this happy Island could afford Was Sacrific'd to my Voluptuous Board In his whole Paradice one only Tree He had excepted by a strict Decree A Sacred Tree which Royal Fruit did bear Yet It in pieces I Conspir'd to tear Beware my Child Divinity is there This so out-did all I had done before I could attempt and He endure no more My Un-prepar'd and Un-repenting breath Was snatch'd away by the swift Hand of Death And I with all my Sins about me hurl'd To th' utter Darkness of the lower World A dreadful place which you too soon will see If You believe Seducers more than Me. FINIS Printed for Benjamin Harris at the Stationers Arms under the Royal Exchange and are to be sold by Langley Curtis in Goatham Court on Ludgate-Hill 1681.