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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41837	The Graves-end tilt-boat		1699 (1699)	Wing G1606; ESTC R4953	21,400	50

of his Wickedness and the just Vengeance due to him on that Account made him extream Uneasie so that instead of Adjusting things fairly as his Son-in-law desir'd being conscious to himself that he was justly hated by the generality of the People in the County he rather chose to with-draw himself out of the County and go after his Lady and her pretended Son than to look his Son-in-law in the Face whom he had so much wrong'd The News of his having with-drawn himself out of the County was no sooner known but it caus'd a general Rejoycing none being sorry for it but a few beggarly Scoundrels whom he had made the Instruments of his Injustice and Cruelty whose chief Sorrow was that they had now no more opportunity to ruine their Neighbours And his Son-in-law having taken Possession of the Estate which of Right belong'd to him he was soon after chosen Lord Lieutenant in the Room of his Father-in-law This made the old Lord Lieutenant almost raving Mad who was still as Wicked as ever and now Plotted by all the ways and means he cou'd to take away his Life sometimes by Poyson and at other times by Assassinating him as he rid upon the Road but being the Darling and Peculiar Care of Heaven he has hitherto been preserv'd and I hope will always be so having done nothing but what became an honest and worthy Gentleman Himself his Lady and her Sister having Justify'd themselves to be the best of Children to the worst of Fathers As soon as the Gentleman had made an end of this Tale and we had all shew'd our Resentments at the Barbarousness and Cruelty of so unnatural a Father one that had said nothing all this while but sat as if he had been asleep having rous'd up himself said Well Gentlemen I have heard both your Tales which I take to be one and the same divers ways told but you have done neither side that Right which a Printed Copy of Verses has done that I found t'other day at the End of a Book and which for the Ingenuity of 'em I committed to Memory and if you please Gentlemen for your further Diversion I 'll Repeat as well as I can We were all desirous to hear what they were and so intreated him to begin Which he did thus The Third Tale. WHAT I am going to repeat is call'd A Dialogue between the late King James and King William after the Battle of the Boyn in Ireland The Words are these King James No Injur'd Monarch can his Fate Explore A Father and an Vnkle's Right is more Nature pleads here your Blood is on my side Each beating Pulse and ev'ry Vein's Ally'd What Fever then thus boil'd you into Arms Is it Religion or the Crown that charms If from my Daughter 's Right your Claim you bring She is too Early Queen whilst I am King Your Love to her you shew by wronging Me You praise the Fruit and yet cut down the Tree That Crime Rome blusht to punish you pursue Make it your Conscience and your Glory too Why shou'd you shake my Glass so nearly done The Ebbing Sands have but a few to run King William I took but up that Crown you durst not wear And am Your Conquerour as well as Heir If Right Divine does unto Kings belong Where 's the Divine when once the King does Wrong All Monarchs did from Civil Contracts spring And he who breaks the Law Dissolves the King Nor can you here a Parent 's Right pretend For Publick Safety knows no Private Friend Thus Generous Pompey for his Countrey drew Forgot his Julia and her Caesar too King James New Titles may be scaffolded with Laws And frothy Monarchs of the Mobs applause Accept a Crown on Terms too mean to wear Then boast themselves they are the Peoples Heir But he that Crowns from Contracts does receive Is King at Will and Governs but by Leave A Marble Caesar ' Pinion'd to a Throne The People Regnant and the Monarch Stone King William When Men did first their Bruitish Lusts pursue And Force alone was all the Law they knew When Sense was Guardian and when Reason Young T was then the Weak submitted to the Strong Thus as the Bull walks Monarch of the Ground So Nimrod Caesar and the rest were Crown'd For he that cou'd Protect and Conquest bring Was from a Captain ripen'd to a King Thus they the People's Safety made their Choice And Heaven confirm'd it hy the People's Voice When you to Priests and Rome the Laws Betray'd The Injur'd Nation call'd to Me for Aid And 't is their Choice the Noblest Title brings For Subjects are the surest Guard to Kings When he had made an End of Repeating his Verses all the Passengers Commended them for Ingenious Lines and most of us were of Opinion that those attributed to King William were more to the purpose than those of the late King James Whilst we were thus discoursing of the matter a Country-like Fellow amongst us said Gentlemen I have heard your Discourse but it is above my Understanding nor indeed do I love to meddle with Kings and Princes they are Persons of too high a Quality for me to talk of And I am sure it wou'd be more to my purpose to talk of the Tilling of my Ground and the Sowing of my Corn for that 's a thing that will turn to some Account if GOD send a good Seed-time and Harvest And yet I am thankful to GOD that has given us such a good King and can drink his Health as heartily as any one but as to matters of State and Government that 's none of my Business Let us but serve GOD and obey the King and live quietly under his Administration and I don't doubt but we shall do well enough without Prescribing Rules to our Superiours For if the King and Parliament don't know how to order things I am sure I don 't And now Gentlemen since you have been telling Stories pray give me leave to tell a Story too but it shall be a very short one We were all taken with the Honest Plainness of the Country-man and bid him go on which he did thus The Fourth Tale. The Traveller and Lyon THERE was a certain Traveller that going thorow a Wood saw a huge Lyon lying upon the Ground which at first put him into a very great fright but seeing the Lyon lie still he began to recover himself again and went nearer him till at last he got so near that he perceiv'd the Lyon was asleep upon which being now grown a little fool-hardy he surveys him round about and mightily lik'd his Shaggy Neck and Noble Head but thought his hinder parts were not so handsome as they might be made for he had seen of your Island-Dogs which is a Creature very much resembling a Lyon in its shape and he had oft observ'd that the Shaving or cutting off the hair of their hinder parts made 'em look much more hand some and therefore they were generally