And this way you may claim a Share,
In carrying (as you brag) th' Affair;
Elfe Frogs, and Toads, that croak'd the Jews,
From Pharaoh, and his Brick-kilns lose :-
And Flies, and Mange, that fet them free,
From Task-Masters, and Slavery,
Were likelier to do the Feat,
In any Indiff'rent Man's Conceit;
For who e'er heard of Reftoration,
Until your thorough Reformation?
That is, the King's and Churches Lands
Were fequeftred int' other Hands :
For only then, and not before,
Your Eyes were open'd to restore.
And when the Work was carrying on,
Who croft it, but your felves alone?
As, by a World of Hints, appears,
All plain, and extant as your Ears.
But first o' th' firft; The Isle of Wight
VVill rife up, if you should deny't;
VVhere Henderson, and th' other Maffes,
VVere fent to cap Texts, and put Cafes:
To pafs for deep and learned Scholars;
Although but Paltry Db-and-Sollers.
As if th' unfeasonable Fools
Had been a Courfing in the Schools;
Until th' had prov'd the Devil Author
O'th' Cov'nant, and the Caufe, his Daughter,
For when they charg'd him with the Guilt
Of all the Blood that had been spilt;
They did not mean He wrought th' Effufion
In Perfon, like Sir Peide, or Hughson:
But only those who first begun
The Quarrel, were by him fet on.
And who could thofe be but the Saints,
Those Reformation Termagants?
But 'ere this pass'd, the wife Debate
Spent fo much Time, it grew too late;
For Dliver had gotten Ground,
T'inclofe 'em, with his Warriors, round
Had brought his Providence about,
And turn'd th ́untimely Sophifts out.
Nor had the Uxbridge Bus nefs lefs
Of Nonfenfe in't, or Sottishness;
When from a Scoundrel Holderfo2th,
The Scum as well as Son o'th' Earth,
Your mighty Senators took Law,
At his Command, were forc'd t' withdraw;
And facrifice the Peace o'th' Nation
To Doctrine, Ufe, and Application.
So when the Scots, your conftant Cronies,
Th' Efpousers of your Caute and Monies:
Who had so often, in your Aid,
So many ways been foundly paid;
Came in at last for better Ends,
To prove themselves your trusty Friends;
You bafely left them, and the Church
They train'd you up to, in the Lurch,
And suffer'd your own Tribe of Chriftians
To fall before, as true Philistines,
This fhews what Utenfils y' have been,
To bring the King's Concernments in:
Which is fo far from being true,
That only he can bring in you;
And if he take you into Truft,
Will find you most exactly Just,
Such as will puu&tually repay
With double Int'rest, and betray.
Not that I think those Pantomimes,
Who vary Action with the Times,
Are lefs ingenious in their Art,
Than those who dully act one Part
Or those who turn from Side, to Side
More guilty than the Wind and Tide.
All Countries are a wife Man's Home,
And so are Governments to some,
Who change them for the fame Intrigues
That States-Men ufe in breaking Leagues;
While others in old Faiths and Troths,
Look cdd as in out of Fashion'd Cloaths:
And naftier, in an old Opinion,
Than those who never shift their Linen.
For True and Faithful's fure to lofe,
Which way foever the Game goes:
And whether Parties lofe or win,'
Is always nick'd, or else hedg'd in.
VVhile Pow'r ufurp'd, like stoln Delight,
Is more bewitching than the Right.
And when the Times begin to alter,
None rife fo high as from the Halter.
And fo may we, if w' have but Senfe
To use the neceffary Means,
On one another, Lights, and Dreams.
To ftand on Terms as positive,
As if we did not take, but give:
Set up the Covenant on Crutches,
'Gainst those who have us in their Clutches,
And dream of pulling Churches down,
Before w' are fure to prop our own:
Your conftant Method of Proceeding,
VVithout the Carnal Means of Hedging:
VVho,'twixt your inward Senfe, and outward,
Are worse, than if y' had none, accoutred.
I grant, all Courses are in vain,
Unless we can get so again;
The only way that's left us now,
But all the Difficulty's, How?
'Tis true! w' have Money, th' only Pow'r
That all Mankind falls down before:
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