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The school of politicks, or, The humours of a coffee-house a poem.
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Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.
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my Vnderstanding clear Or I shall else be drunk with Joy Are you all ready Gentlemen present Come here 's the Brave King William 's Health A Thing I wish above all Earthly Wealth All at one pull on rep so Boy another This Mug has got a younger Brother We must not sure forget the Queen No no my Lads that were a Mortal Sin Nor must the Prince and Princess be forgot Boy bring each man Mugs half a Dozen I 'll no Man of his Liquor Cozen. Now healths to the Nobility E'gad I 'll drink while I can see You Zarrah Boy but now the Sot With frequent Healths so drunk was got That leaving of the Publick Room Went very Loyal very Tipsie home XXII The Company he left behind Wanted not twenty of the Game Some Loyalty and some Beer inflame Nor were they always in a Mind One drank the King's Health but without a Name Which his next Neighbour could not bear Sir you 're a Jacobite I fear And were I sure to find one here To shew how much I could be Civil I 'd kick him headlong to the Devil A Mighty Hero cries the t'other You 're surely Garagantua's Brother Your Valour or I miss my part Lies in your Tongue more than your heart You Scoundrel don't provoke me more For if you do you Son of a Whore I 'll make my Mug which now 's so full Acquainted with thy Paper Skull This Language t'other could not bear But gives him a round box o' th' Ear That was with Interest paid agen Thus both provok'd and soundly vext Mugs Dishes or what e'er comes next Serv'd 'em wherewith to vent their Spleen But more than 's us'd by Men of Worth Each had his second third and fourth And to 't they fall with fighting Fury As if they'd been at pass of Newry But parted each to shew his spight Curses instead of saying Good Night XXIII I having seen this furious Quarrel But too much influenc'd by the Barrel Thought that this vast Excess of Joy Did even the Soul of Loyalty destroy That Vertue lies not in an idle Vain Of drinking till my Reason stands A Tiptoe in my Brain When so I may obey some rash Commands But calm and quiet always in the Breast Wherein true Loyalty does rest And sure we must it madness call Whilst in some Tavern of the Town Prostrate upon our Knees we 'll fall And drinking others Healths to lose our own XXIV More various Scenes of Humour I might tell Which in my little stay befel Such as grave Citts who spending Farthings four Sit smoke and warm themselves an hour Of modish Town-sparks drinking Chocolate With Bevir cockt and laughing loud To be thought Wits amongst the Crow'd Or sipping Tea while they relate Their Ev'ning's Frolick at the Rose But now I think 't is time to close Lest to my Reader I should give offence And he be tir'd with mine As I was with their dull Impertinence My Reck'ning paid I left the Room And in my passage Home Reflected thus Is this the much desir'd Blessing of Life which most unjustly we Call Regular Society Well to my Closet I 'll repair Past Times with present to compare My self to strictest Study I 'll condemn And ' mongst some Authours wise and good Who Mankind best have understood My Weeks Months Years endeavour to redeem Which vainly foolish and unthinking I Have spent in what we falsely call Good Company THE END Books lately Printed and Sold at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard PLutarch's Morals Translated from the Greek by several Hands in 8vo 5. Vol. The Female Advocate or an Answer to a late Satyr against the Pride Lust and Inconstancy of Women in 4to Moral Essays and Discourses upon several Subjects chiefly relating to the Present Times By a Person of Honour 8vo A New Method of Curing the French Pox written by an Eminent French Author Together with the Practice and Method of Monsieur Blanchard as also Dr. Sydenham's Judgment on the same To which is added Annotations and Observations by William Salmon Professor of Physick in 12ves The Memoirs of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu to which is added a particular Relation of the Archbishop of Enbrun's Voyage into England and of his Negociation for the Advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair which happened the last Year of King James I. His Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original in 12ves A New and Easie Method to the Art of Dialling containing 1. All Horizontal Dials all Upright Dials Reflecting Dials Dials without Centre Nocturnal Dials upright Declining Dials without knowing the Declination of the Place 2. The most natural and easie Way of describing the Curious Lines of the Sun's Declination on any Place by Thomas Strode Esq in 4to