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THE CHARACTER THe Lords and Commons having had their doom The banish'd Romans since supply their room And in full Herds they publiquely appear Bearding both Protestant and Presbyter Yet do not so resent the soul Affront To take up Armes and make Rebellion on 't Nor do not sleep but by the Drum and Fife To keep thy Throat from bloody Jesuit's Knife Though Murther be in us a bloody Fact In holy Priest it is an holy Act If Priest and Knife be consecrated then By Blood and Massacre they Heaven win When we poor Souls ar damn'd for the same Sin Who would not be a sacred Priest to Rome When they can save or give Eternal doom Make Virtue damn'd and meritorious Vice They snatch from Hell and send to Paradise And more to compleat their further Glory They call and take a touch in Purgatorie Since that they Bug-Bear Parliament was fled Bold was the man durst say That Godfrey's dead Or in Rome's Slaughter house his Blood was shed Or Priests contriv'd to have him murthered Or who dares say The Temple was on fire By the contrivance of some Priest or Fryar To burn Commissions hid in Langhorn's Room To blind the Plot and clear the Lords of Rome O! People all so weak as not to see Your selves betray'd by your own Foolerie Contending with your King his Laws and Power Intrenching on his Prerogative each hour Flying i' th Face of his Supremacy With sawcy Libelling and Ribauldry The seed o' th Serpent is abroad again To teach young Colt his black Rebellion Form'd and begot i' th old damn'd Stallion Whose pregnant Issue 's quick and nimble sence Exactly copies their Syre's Impudence Treading his Steps with a full strong source Flyes in the Face of Majesty in course The young out-throwes the old at least a Barr For they but only ' gainst the King made War But these young Start-ups in bold and thundering words Dare both the King his Bishops and his Lords And would subvert at once and at one hour The royal-Royal-Office and the Supreme Power Make King and Peers but Cyphers in the State And they the powerful Figures of Debate Traytor and Presbyter do seem two things But equal is the venom of their stings Against Prerogative they plead Priviledge That Fatal By-blow with a double edge The Infatuated Jewes their sence being gon Made War among themselves and still fought on Till they were conquered by Vespasian So You fall out like senceless stones and stocks Flying at each other even like Dogs and Cocks To satisfie YOVR Pride WEE split on Rocks In short Fanatique's Character is this THEY'RE Cursed Obstacles o' th Nations Bliss FINIS