And when th' have pack'd a Parliament,
Will once more try th' Expedient,
Who can already mufter Friends,
To ferve for Members, to our Ends,
That reprefent no part o' th' Nation,
But Fisher's Folly Congregation
Are only Tools to our Intrigues,
And fit like Geefe to hatch our Eggs,
Who, by their Precedents of Wit,
T'out-faft, out-loiter, and out-fit:
Can order Matters under-hand,
To put all Business to a stand:
Lay Publick Bills afide, for Private,
And make 'em one another drive out;
Divert the Great and Neceffary,
With Trifles to conteft and vary;
And make the Nation represent,
And ferve for us in Parliament;
Cut out more Work than can be done
On Plato's Year; but finish none,
Unlels it be the Bulls of Lenthal,
That always paft for Fundamental,
Could fet up Grandee against Grandee,
To fquander Time away, and bandy;
Make Lords and Commoners lay Sieges
To one another's Privileges;
And, rather than compound the Quarrel,
Engage, to th' inevitable Peril
Of both their Ruines; th' only Scope
And Confolation of our Hope:
Who, though we do not play the Game,
Affift as much by giving Aim,
Can introduce our Ancient Arts,
For Heads of Factions to act their Parts;
Know what a Leading Voice is werth,
A Seconding, a Third, or Fourth;
How much a Cafting Voice comes to,
That turns up Trump of I, or No;
And by adjusting all at th' End,
Share ev'ry one his Dividend.
An Art that so much Study coft,
And now's in danger to be loft;
Unless our Ancient Virtuofo's,
That found it out, get into th' Houfes,
Thefe are the Courses that we took
To carry things, by Hook or Crook :
And practis'd down from Forty four,
Until they turn'd us out of Door;
Befides the Herds of Boutefeus,
We fet on work, without the Houfe.
When ev'ry Knight and Citizen,
Kept Legislative Journey-men,
To bring them in Intelligence, g
From all Points, of the Rabbles Sense
And fill the Lobbies of both Houfes
With Politick Important Buzzes :
Set up Committees of Cabals,
To pack Defigns without the Walls,
Examine, and draw up all News,
And fit it to our present Ufe. que
Agree upon the Plot o' th' Farce, a jd hrá
And every one his Part rehearfe.
Make Q's of Answers, to way-lay 1. MPA
What th' other Party's like to fay:
What Repartees, and smart Reflections
Shall be return'd to all Objections
And who fhall break the Mafter-Jeft,ariw LaA
And what, and how, upon the reft: bing A
Help Pamphlets out, with falfe Editions,
Of proper Slanders and Seditions;uichu.9 nI
And Treafon for a Token fend, it sliw, nå
By Letter, to a Country Friend :: bauðlov;TI
Difperfe Lampoons, the only Wit,) of nislì(
That Men like Burglary; commitè siis lanc'I
Wit, falfer than a Padder's Face,ovit lliw T
That all, its Owner does, betrays;obIT TO
Who therefore dares not truft it whenom I
He's in his Calling to be feen.ain¶ mA
Disperse the Dung on Barren Earth,hnoƆm
To bring new Weeds of Difcord forthi omis VI
Be fure to keep up Congregations,
In spight of Laws and Proclamations;
For Chiarlatans can do no good,
Until they're mounted in a CowdRawit sval{ And when they're punish'd, all the Hurt >>7
Is but to fare the better fort;
As long as Confeffors are fure
Of double Pay for all th' endures en bak
And what they earn in Perfecution,
Are paid t'a Groat in Contribution.
Whence fome Tub-Holdersforth have made
In Powd'ring-Tubs their richeft Trade;
And, while they kept their Shops in Prifon,
Have found their Prices ftrangely rifen.
Difdain to own the least Regret,
For all the Chriftian Blood w' have let
"Twill fave our Credit, and maintain
Our Title to do so again:
That needs not coft one drop of Sense,
But Pertinacious Impudence.
Our Conftancy t' our Principles,
In time will wear out all things else:
Like Marble Statues, rubb'd in pieces,
With Gallantry of Pilgrims Kisses;
While those who turn and wind their Caths
Have fwell'd and funk, like other Froths.
Prevail'd a while, but 'twas not long,
Before from World to World they fwung ;
As they had turn'd from fide to fide,
And as the Changelings liv'd, they dy'd,
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