THE CHIMNEYS SCUFFLE.
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LONDON, Printed in the Year 1662.
[Page 1]THE CHIMNEYS SCUFFLE.
‘This is no
Libel, such as
Rogues disperse, But a poor
Chimney-Plea in honest Verse.’
DEar Mistress of the Muses,
Polihym
[...]y,
Breath Spirit into th' Funnel of my
Chimney,
That old
Mull'd-Sack,
Who chang'd his
Name for a Sum of money conditionally paid him by his Fellow Chimney-Sweepers.
who to such fortunes crept;And from a
Chimney to a
Mannor lept,
May with our
Steemy Consort joyn in One
Throbbing our
Suff rings in a Sooty room.
But whence comes this
Complaint? Be pleas'd to hear;
More's
laid[?] upon out
Hearths, than they can Bear.
Our
Chimney-Sweepers may their Hovels keep,
For now the
Owners must their
Chimneys Sweep
Search thy
Records,
Late'y createa
Keeper of the
Fower-Records; but his Fanatick Brain and Fantastick Pea have run such Division, as they will unstrip him of that Imployment.
Cropt Prin, and shew why
SmoakShould thus be hoisted: where so many shar'd,
While Other
Smoakers in our
State be spar'd!
Th' like
Smoaking Age did never yet appear,
'Tis thought we shall turn
Aetna the next year:
We're all in
Smoak and
Powder: not a
Stove
But must our
Synods grand Designe improve.
Alas poor
Chimney-pipes! Say, why should you
Be used thus, who stand but for a Show
In
Great mens Kitchins; while your
Lords at
Court
Act for
high Places, of some
other Sport:
Presenting
there their
Pagentry so clear
As if they meant to make't a
Theater.
Their
Tyre-rooms are alike: and it is common,
‘Women act there with men, and men with women.’
Their
Tents remov'd: the
Meniey must resort
By their
Lords conduct to the modish Court,
Where his
disbanded ancient Family
A Squirrel Lacky, or py-colour'd Page,
Becomes
reduc'd to one bare Livery;
Which may secure his Honour from much wage;
His
Vails will do it, or a cashier'd Suit
With some
Appendices of
Fancy to't.
Batts now and Scrich-Owls may keep open house,
While their
Lords sated with a
Court-Carouse,
Display their loose debauch'ry: yet must they
For their Starv'd Smoakless
Chimneys duely pay
This late
enacted Tax: O precious Jewel
That pays the State for Fire-work without Fuel!
And this is just: for These get any day
More by one
Suit than thousand
Chimneys pay.
Whereas poor
Tradesmen who live by their Booth,
Earning no more than serves from hand to mouth,
With all their Stock can scarce pay Scot and Lot,
Eating at
night more than the
day had got:
‘They knew not what
Fire meant throughout the Week.’
Is this a
Parallel, line, or
Solon's Law?
That those whose Fortunes are not worth a straw
Should be thus pounc'd to Muminie, and receive
No more Exemption than our
Grandees have.
—
Caesar I beg a boon, and it is this
That I may plead
in Forma Pauperis
For these
wcak Starvelings, who make't their desire
‘That their Estates may purchase first a
Fire’
‘Ere they pay for their
Chimneys; and that those’
‘Whose
grandeur by our
Suff'rings daily grows’
‘To such a boundless bottome, as in time’
‘Their daring height will threaten a decline,’
‘May feel Your
Princely[?] Lash; and these be many’
‘Who ought well to be
smoak'd as much as any.’
For they're such
State-Impostons, as their Task
Is to disguise their actions with a Mask
Of
Partial-guilt Conformity; and such
As like
base
Bulloign[?] will not bide the touch,
Being all
Coat-Cards, but of that vicious Crue,
Their
Hearts are
false for all their modish Shew.
And I must tell You from the zeal I bear
Unto that Sacred Diadem You wear,
That those
Court-Burs who onely set their rast
On
best-betrust or on
Self-interest,
(For that's prime Game at Cards they daily use
For their advantage and Your high abuse,)
Can with a
Spanish-Shrug complete their Ends,
And make the world beleive they're
Caesar's Friends;
‘Ingratitude concludes them to be those’
‘Whom You reward the most be most Your Foes,’
Be not these
Courtly Cay-ducks,
A Fashion to our Nation unknown though now disp
[...]s'd through City, Country, Town.
whose reputeSwoln with ambition of a gaudy Suit,
Or some Outlaudish, gimp-thigh'd Pantalour,
A garb since
Adam's. time was rarely known;
[Page 4] Strut all a-long to win the eyes of men,
Who, if discreet, with Scorn dis-value them;
All
Sycamours for
Shadow; nought for
Fruit,
Vers'd only in a frivolous dispute
Or loose discourse of
Hawk, or
Hound, or
Horse,
Or in pursuit of
H, what's ten times worse.
These be those lazy fruitlesse
Droans who thrive
By sucking Honey from Your Princely Hive,
What they ne're wrought nor duly labour'd for,
And these may rest securely on the Shore;
While Your
endeered Zelots who have lost
Their
Fortunes for Your sake are hourly crost
By adverse Winds: Long have these
Starvelings bin
Waiting at th'
Pool in hope to be tane in,
But some
desertlesse Amorists of
Fashion,
Though really the
Refuse of our
Nation,
Must be admitted to the highest place
Not by
internal but
external Grace.
'Tis only
Gold-foil that performs the work,
Heav'ns blesse our Court from such a cursed Turk,
For though his
partial Presence honour win,
He had no hand in bringing's
Sov'raign in.
Awake
Great Prince, intend your own Affairs,
Let no light
Dalilah rob You of Your hairs;
Sampsonis Capilli sunt Principis nervi; qui Pascivis amplexibus, impudicis amoribus debilitari solent, si non dirimi.
Proc.
Those
royal nerves should now imployed be
In
Steering th'
Rudder of Your Monarchie;
And
smoaking those
Ratouns who make't their aime
To raise their Fortunes though they split their Fame;
Nay, th'
honour of our
Nation; which is tride
Sufficiently at th'Game of
Peep and
Hide.
Our State's a constant Mask:—nor can we know
Their
faces by their
vizors; but they show
Best when they'r least discover'd: for what good
Can be deriv'd from Those
corrupt their blood,
And mould
base Heraldry, sprinkling a shame
Upon th'
degenerate House, from whence they came?
[Page 5] All's out of Order; Marriage Beds begin
To take a
Surfet and to rellish Sin.
Stoln Waters rast the sweetest;
Neither Fruits of their owne planting, nor
Waters of their own draining, nor
Soil of their own improving.
those Fruits tooWhich in their
proper Soil did never grow,
But by a strange-inoculating hand
Seizing on that which th'
Owner should command,
Solace their Palates most:—
Actors oth' Stage
Spouse it the best with th'
Peerage of this Age.
Yet th' Spousal holds not: a dispensive Power
Has made his Wife his constant Paramour:
Fortis amatorls fit
Palma, Corone labotis, Quo Sponsus thalamum
Servat[?] honore Suum.
Mancin.
And yet HE loves HER as he loves his Life,
And dearer too then if She were his Wife.
But that we may the sooner make an end,
Let us unto Your
Offices descend,
Both great and num'rous in Your peaceful State,
And such as make our
Officers too fat:
So swoln as they forget what they have bin,
With those brave Places they are seated in.
My Pen ne'r brook'd the Style of
Parasite,
The World shall see I'll do each
Office right.
And first to
Those whom we account the prime,
Pastoral Office in the first place, because the highest prize: and purchas'd by
Renewal of
Leases at the lowest price.
Those
Lawn-fleeves of our late reformed time,
Whose boundlesse height such Priviledges give
As if they trench'd on Your Prerogative.
For these are
Smoakers too, give them their due,
When we our
dormant Leases should renew;
Which might have been prevented in our Land
If you had kept those
Leases in Your hand.
Which would have given those
mounting Lords content,
And rais'd fit Pentions for Your
indigent
Deserving Friends; who bravely stood their ground
When these
Mandilions were not to be found.
Yet those
insatiate Herds for all their store
Are in their
thoughts as
empty as before:
Though
Diocesses be of large extent
To
thirsty Lungs they're insufficient.
[Page 6]
Balaam's Priests could cunningly devise
How to convey their Idol Sacrifice.
‘This
thirst deserves rebuke in Him that preaches,’
‘Cathedral Rabbies should be no Horse-leaches.’
And some we have no
Leprous gold will touch,
They're yet
thin
[...]own, may we have many such.
There's
Smoak in
Law too, having to much skill
As to drain
Water from the
Clients Mill.
The one as simple as the other wife,
‘The
Lawyer g
[...]inds and takes the
Millers grife.’
He'l finger your pretence be '
t[?] right or wrong,
‘Though th' Cause be weak, fat Fees will make it strong.’
Had these in
Xerxes or
Severus dayes
Sought to enlarge their Fame, or Fortunes raise,
They by Imperial Sentence had been Smoak'd,
And with
Gold[?] molted down their Throat been Chok'd:
For nought in reason could be held more sit,
Than those who sold base
Smoak to fall by it:
Shall I draw near Your
Court? it will aver
The ranting Courtier
Smoaks the Cavalier;
Who though he never fought not ever will,
He can prefer a
Suit, and there's his skilp.
Yet this
Brisk Gig for all his garish show,
Proves
Smoaked by his
Damasella too;
In they Court of B
[...]s (as the Apologua observes the
Elephaunt would not be admitted, because his knees were so unweldy, they would not bend,
Who near the
Lobby or the
Back-Stairs waits
To squeeze her Pention from her Brothel Mates:
This brings revenues to the Surgeons Hall,
But Cheats and Courtly Cringes pay for all.
Those in our State he only held for Wisemen
Who are design'd
Commissioners and
Excisemen.
These be those
Grand Impostors of our State,
And need not for preferment long to wait,
For they've already feather'd well their Nest,
And on Your Subjects ruine set their rest.
These to improve Your
Rents, as they pretend,
Become Your
Farmers, but observe the end
[Page 7] Of their Imployments! 'tis their only aim
To make a
Booty of their Soveraign.
With modest boldnesse let me tell Your Grace,
That
these have cheated You before Your Face,
In prizing th'
rates of
Customs to be such,
When th' Annual profit render'd thrice as much.
Now was not this
Design persued well,
To take the
Kernell and leave You the
Shell?
Yet these be
Farmers still: Persons of case
Sharing in Your
Revennes as they please:
Made to Cajole the State, but do no good
Unlesse it be to suck the Vital blood
Of Your endeered Subjects, who have serv'd
Both You and Yours; and better far deserv'd
Than these
Cantarides who cleave to th' Skin
For the Rivulets of Blood that flow within:
But when their yawning Chaps have drunk up all,
High-swoln with Loyal blood, they're forc'd to fall.
These too like impudent Suiters lately wooe
To be the
Farmers of our
Chimneys too:
Which by their active undermining wit
They first contriv'd, by
Votes committing it
To a
Self-own'd Committee, whose Compact
Brought this
Proposol to an expresse Act:
And though by
Act prohibited it be
‘No
Member share in that Proprience,’
A trick is found out by their quick-silver'd Brain,
‘A Dispensation for a future gain.’
These
raking Rocks when they're on
profit Set;
Take all for
Fish that comes into their
Net.
And these
Grandalions of Your own Retenue
Who would be thought to heighten Your Revenue:
And with more fullnesse of Content instore You
Than any Prince that ever Raign'd before You:
Just as that
Rebel Parliament profess'd
To Your late
Father in His
Suff'rings bless'd.
[Page 8] Brave Plots; rich Profers! which like
Flow'rs were strew'd
Not to refresh the Sense but to delude.
But was this done, my
Gracious Liege, for You?
No, though at first sight it might make a shew,
As
Painted Projects use, t' inhance Your Ren
[...]s,
Their Subtile Sconces moulded worse intents
Than pur-blin'd Eyes discover'd; for they sought
Either by
Farming what their
Brokage wrought,
Or by their
Agents to ingratiate▪
Your
Smile for whom they did negotiate.
But such
base baits You cannot rellish, sure,
‘Those be Your
Friends who make You most secure:’
Whereas
Court-Fawns, those
Buffouns of our age
Practise a-long Your HONOUR to ingage;
Which
Princes ever held the precioust
Gem[?]
That could enrich a Royal Diadem.
For what's this guilded State but painted Clay
If Spotlesse Reputation fall away?
May
that live still unblemish'd, and remain
An
Individual to my Sov'raign,
I'm bold, but 'tis my
Zeal that makes me so,
‘Who spares to speak he is Your fawning Foe.’
Satyrs who lay true tincture on a Crime,
Deserve more praise then
Humorists oth' time.
'Tis Charity in Him that shews the way,
Or lends his
Light to One who goes a stray
‘A Subject to his Prince is such a Debter,’
‘The
Plainer that He writes, he loves him better.’
Into Your
Court such
Favourites have rush'd,
Whose
Coats being full of
Moats had need be brush'd;
'Tis true indeed we have
Comp
[...]rolors plenty,
But of that Rank there is not one of twenty
Dare execute that Office as, he should,
Nor would He, I'm perswaded, if he could.
‘The
Weeds of others cannot well be mown’
‘By those who have so many of their own:’
States
Court-abuses to the
Penner's shame;
For there's not any witty Back-stair Wench
But reading
jeers[?] them for their want of Sense.
We talk of a strange thing call'd
Reformation,
But where's that Creature to be sound ith' Nation!
That Language is
Utopian, none of ours,
And has been long time since shut out a doors
As a regardlesse Alien:—Let us can
And take our
Circuit from man to man.
Phanatick, Libertine and Leveller,
Our rigid Presbyterian, who to err
Were held a Prodigy: let's see what peace
Or
Reformation[?] any one of these
Can
hold forth to us!—but the other day
Iohn Presbyter was to be pack'd away
With his
Sedicious Spawn: but are they gone
As 'twas injoyn'd them,
forty Miles from Town?
No, no, believe it this was a
brute Thunder,
Their
swelling Spirits are not so kept under;
Whose Arguments, though strongly seconded, in a late debate were evinced, and those
Fiery S
[...] par
[...]ts deservingly silenced. Mean while their Conventicles and Clandestine
Assemblies[?] by their own
[...]riviledge frequently continued.
For they're repriv'd, their
Censure now blown o're
And
re-estated where they were before:
And now restor'd, they vapour it afresh
As none might touch their
Sanctified Hesh.
Those who
supply their Places few draw near them,
And though they preach
pure Doctrine none wil hear them.
Is this the way to
Reformations, say,
When
Shepherds[?] who have taught their
Flocks to stray
Must be indulg'd; and though they bring forth
Leaves
But no
Soul-saving fruit, yet must
Lawn-
[...]eeves
Though ne'r so
Orthodoxal; be content
With a
fraterual shrug to give consent
To these
Church-Cattines, whose active pate
Works to reduce us to that forlorn State
Which our
Anarchiall Government retain'd
While th'
Syracusan Tyrant
o're[?] us raign'd?
[Page 10] Nor can I blame those
Magpies if they give
Such freedome to these
Zimreys to live;
High forts support the Lower: those who ne'r were
Friends to
Church discipline nor the
Lords Prayer
Be their GOOD LORDS: and These in such high Grace
As they'l cast dirt in any
Bishops face;
So bravely rais'd they are, to Courtly strong
☞
As they will do no right nor suffer wrong:Nor is it strange that
they their Faith dis-own
Who made their Breach of Faith before with Crown.
Grave
Presbyterian Patrons,
Witnesse those Hubbuls raised in several Parochial Churches.
who displayTheir Zeal by throwing
Common Pray'r away
Doom'd to a
dif
[...]rent Martyrdome, as of late
Was done in flat defiance to the State
And th'
High Prerogative sole due to You,
As if we had no Native
Caesar now:
If this succeed, as't his a fearful Shew,
A tragick Epilogue must needs ensue.
We hear of
Coiners too, but they're so
Greai
As they may safely play the Counterfeit:
Men of meb high descent and brave desert
Scorn to receive their Convoy from a Cart.
‘The
Sun has many Moats, yet who'l assay’
‘To take those
radiant blemishes away?’
They're
glorious Soils: and Those are daring Fools
Who call in question either Art or Tools.
‘I much commend those
Coiners pollicy’
‘Who stand secur'd by their Society:’
For they on such
dependent Statists hing,
They're priviledg'd from Cap'ring in a string.
But to our
Chimney-work!—This Enterview
‘Must Catechise us—Sir, what
Chimneys you;’
‘What
Hearths, Stoves, Ovens? render us account,’
‘For we're
Contractors. and must stand upon't:’
‘Do not deceive your self, return your number,’
‘For you're to suffer if you render under.’
[Page 11]
‘The
Lash oth'
Act shall swinge you with such Strokes’
‘As never shall be cur'd by
Iohn an Oakes’
‘Nor those grave
Coif-men, who for
either side’
‘In our
late Bickerings have their Judgements tried:’
‘And as they well delerv'd, now high advanc'd,’
‘So well it has unto those
Neuters chanc'd;’
‘Who with such solemn Ceremonial State’
‘In funeral Robes on
Bradshaw's Corps did wait:’
‘And as they drol'd in mournful Habits thither,’
‘It had been well they had been
Earth'd together.’
Small Coal, Small Coal.—Still, still that Croaking Cry;
I've stopp'd up all my
Hearths; no
Coals will I.
I will not
Salamander-like desire
To make mine Habitation in the Fire:
These age-benummed Joynts I'll never
warm
E're I pay more for
Chimneys then my
Farm.
Though hoary Winter now draw near at hand
I'll shew such due obedience to Command;
With
Damocles I'd rather chuse to starve
Than lessen his Revenues whom I serve;
☜
Yet let the State excuse me, for
Blind Hugh
My Mason clos'd my
Hearth before I knew.
Maduesse hath made me senselesse of all shame,
Within this Fortnight I from
Ped'am came;
Where I my Crack-brain'd
Amours did express
As Woers should;
Tom to his lucky
Bese.
And this contents me, though
mad Boyes we be,
I've found a Court grown
madder far than we.
My
Brain is madling; I am now for Court
For no
Suit-quest, I am not
monied for't;
But to observe their
posture; for we hear
What strange-divining
Meteors rusle there.
State-Criticks now our
Sprucer Sprigs be grown,
Ready to
brush all
garments but their own;
Those must be lightly touch'd, for they alledge
Their Acts pretend a Native priviledge:
[Page 12] Sphear'd above
Censure is their Regiment,
An Apish-modish vosture the only sweet Courtly garb.
Apish or modish it is sufficient
So it be
forraign, be it ne're so gay
Nor garish-gaudy,
[...] will find a way
To gain
admirers: and with speed prepare
New
Fashion-Mongers for a stranger aire:
Our
Countrey Artists be such homely Creatures
As they mis-shape the Beauty of their features.
So it bear th' Title of Outlandish work,
'Twill give content though moulded by a Turk.
There's nought exact done by an
English hand,
☞
No
dresse complete but from an other Land.So is the World might think we stare a quarrel
Both with our plunder'd Language and Apparrel.
Thus begger we our own; not care we much
So we content our Selves▪ our humour's such.
Here may you see a light py
[...] colour'd Jack.
Wear a whole
Lordship on his crazy back;
Which his extorting Ancestor convey'd
To
Him, who for his death
entirely[?] pray'd
That he might
Pawn his
Aores; and ingage.
His State to
dawb his Lackey and his Page:
A gallant Retinue, to travel out the
fagend of a Prodigals Fortune.
Resembsing
those to life who nostle here
Learning first to get Clothes, then how to wear,
(To th' Mercers Ruine) though a Venial Sin
To cheat a Book who meant to Cozen Him.
Turn over Leaf by Loaf ith' Drapers Book,
You'l find his
long own Scores as light as Smoak.
Yet is he out of Debt I dare well say,
For He is said to own who means to pay.
But being at
last stake what shall he do?
He has no
Brains ith' World to five unto:
The only way then to evade this Shelf
Is to serve one no wiser than himself,
Some
Laptand Lord, who having got no Heirs,
Makes his thoughts Strangers to all thriving Cares.
[Page 13] Now what Supplies accommodate the youth
Of these
profusive Sparks, whose Fruitlesse growth
Has spent it self to atoms? They must look
To be
Collectors of our
Chimney Smoak,
A Cool Coal-Cordial for a Consumptive Prodigal.
And by their
mis-accounting profit bring
Gain to themselves in Cheating of the King.
A bold adventure, yet an usual
guize
As may appear by
Farmers oth'
Excize;
Which in one
Instance I shall clearly shew,
Though not recorded yet approved true:
Th' Event so just it highly pleased me
Not in the
Act but the
Catastrophe.
‘A Stirring Member of the Parliament’
‘Stor'd richly with all
Blessings save
Content,’
‘Became
Excifeman; but before he found’
‘The
Profit on't, his
Patent fell to ground.’
‘I wish all
Patentees may have sike hap,’
‘Who draine Revenues from the Ale-wifes
Tap.’
‘O brave Design! Struck on a fatal Shelf,’
‘By his
own Vote th'
Exciseman splits himself’
‘But how has this
Exciseman born himself!’
‘How has this
timing Bird beray'd his Nest!’
‘How has he run his
Pinnace on a Shelf!’
‘How has he ruin'd
those deserved best!’
‘Split th'
Cavalry of their just interest!’
‘Was not this
Act a
Crime beyond compare’
‘I will not judge, but leave it to the
Chaire!’
‘But these ambitious thoughts we have at Court’
‘Make hopes of Honour ramble in this sort.’
THESE from their
Countrey have such glory gain'd
By
ringing backward they are entertain'd.
Hear this
Countrey Peal, ye
Kni
[...]h
[...]s oth'
Shire and
Burgesses.
This is my
Maxim: they're not
Caesar's friends
Who mould their
Votes and
Acts for private Ends.
All such as lov'd their Prince have under
[...]ood
That they did neither
King nor
Subject good.
[Page 14]
‘Those to their
Soveraign ever prove unjust’
‘Who 'twixt
Him and his
People breed distrust.’
And such, my
Liege, or else we hear a Fable,
Receive admittance daily to Your Table,
Who to inlarge the Bounds of their Estate
Will
hackney Honour out at any rate.
These be
Court-Butterflies, who make a Show
Just as our
Lordships Chimneys use to do
In cheating Beggars, making their repaire
But find no Warmth nor Crum of Comfort there.
☞
Discretion will not measure true desertBy Apish postures or Outlandish Art.
He only merits the esteem of
Greaetnesse
Who Suits his dresse without
affected neatnesse.
Your
Highness sways three Scepters independing
From Elders numberless by line descending;
Let no Act derogate from that descent
Through hostile force or Subjects discontent.
Clear that
Augean Stable; Let no stain
Darken the Splendor of our
Charlemain,
Nor his
Court-gate: May th'
Ladies of this time
Be Aemulators of our
Katharine
Late come, long wish'd: whose Princely same shall be
A living Annal to Posteritie.
To whose pure judgement,
A Princesse in
Habit &
Diet unexemplarily temperate.
then which none more
strongBeing
Stranger to the
World and so
Young
Nought can detract more from a knowing Nation
Then making a meer
Idol of a
Fashion;
Or in resemblance unto
—Speculum sibi fingit Asellus Flumine, quo speciem complicet ille suam.
Farn.
Isis AsseTo sacrifice the
Morning to their
Glasse:
Such
atoms of
lost honour SHE esteems
For wandring Fancies or Phanatick Dreams:
‘This
Royal Pattern may, no doubt, re-gain’
☞
Our
Albyon Halcyon days and
Saturns- Raign.The World's new-moulded:—SHE who t'other day
Could Chant and Chirp like any Bird in
May
[Page 15] Stor'd with
Caresses of the Choicest lort
That Art could purchase from a Forreign Court,
Limn'd so by Natures Pencil, as no part
But gave a wound, where e'r it found an heart.
‘A Fortresse and Main-Castle of Defence’
‘Secur'd from all
Assailants saving
Sence.’
—But SHE's a
Convert and a
Mirrour now
Both in her
Carriage and
Profession too;
Divorc'd from strange
Embraces[?]: as my Pen
May justly style Her
Englands Magdalen.
Wherein She's to be held of more esteem
In being fam'd a
Convert of the
Queen.
And from
relapse that She secur'd might be,
SHE
wisely daigns to keep her Companie▪
But forasmuch as
noisome weeds are found
In no Soil more than in our
Holy Ground;
And
Darknesse sometimes takes the Robe of
Light,
So as all is not
clear that seemeth
white;
Admonish those
Lawn Sleeves they grow not proud
But seasonably communicate pure food
To their
deputed Flock: Your
Grace has carv'd
Large
parts for
them, let not their
Sheep be starv'd
For want of
nour shment: I'd have them too
Not only stand like
Beacons for a show;
Their
Church-revenues as they be not small,
'Twere fit for th'
Poor they built an
Hospitall;
☜
Which
Almes-work so long as they delay,
We leave the injurious Usage of one of these (a
Formal Fox, and advanc'd to oue of our highest Places) to the ingeuuous Relation of Mr.
Cressey, a modest deserving Gentleman.
Let their
Revenues for our
Chimneys pay.
At least, for
Tenths as they precisely stand
For each
tenth Chimney let them pay through th' Land
Their
Leases to that vast advantage rise
They may increase their
Pride and
Avarice.
The
Poor should be their
Children during life,
A
Diocesan Care their
Married Wife.
This would imbellish
Miters and inlarge
Their
Past
[...]ral pains to edifie their Charge.
[Page 16] For th'
Presbyter, because there cannot be
An
Unity 'twixt Him and Monarchie,
For if th' Oue rise, the Other needs must fall,
Left of those
Sectists be there none at all,
Such Phlebotomists as practise wholly upon the
Basi
[...]ica Ven
[...] for a
State-Cure are dangerous Artists: and fitter far for
Jamaica than us.
Silence is not
Sufficient: Such Division
Requires strict Exile for the best
Physician[?].
Their
Plots are all
Phlebotomy, but Yours
By mild indulgence tender easier Cures.
No more; vouchsafe upon our
Suit to look,
Our
Hearths want
Fires; and where's no Fire, no Smoak.
The COURT-CURRIER.
OUr Country was of late with blood imbrew'd,
And in this Age as viciously indew'd,
Impoison'd with base Ingratitude,
Where th' Hydra-headed Slavish Multitude
Admires those only who have so much Sence,
As beg a
Place with srontlesse impudence:
And by their
activ'st Pavourite, ready pence,
And without
merit seels for recompence.
These be the
th
[...]iving Boyes, who at this day
Are tane into the
P
[...] while others stay.
The Honest CAVALIER.
MAny have here high hopes,
Distinguish these by their Cignizances.
but they expireBefore they mount to th'height of their desire.
They're only wise that have the least to do
Fixing on Flim from whom all Graces slow.
Nothing so sirm that may Affiance give.
‘Let us only love where we may ever live.’
So shall our hopes be crown'd, and Saints receive us
Into those Courtly joyes shall
[...] deceive
[...]
never leaves us.Some find the way who after learn to stray.
The End tries all, the Evening Crowns the Day.
FINIS.