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CHARINO.

More tolerable are the lion-king's slaughters.
Than the goat making whores of our wives and

our daughters :
The debauched and cruel since they equally

gall us,
I had rather bear Nero than Sardanapalus.

WOOL-CHURCH.

One of the two tyrants must still be our case.
Under all who shall reign of the false Stuart's

race.
DeWitt and Cromwell had each a brave soul,
I freely declare it, I am for old Noll ;
Though his goverament did a tyrant resemble,
He made England great, and his enemies

tremble.



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CHARING.

Thy rider puts no man to death in his wrath,
But is buried alive in lust and in sloth.

WOOL-CHURCH.

What is thy opinion of James, Duke of York ?

CHARING.

The same that the frogs had of Jupiter's stork.
With the Turk in his head, and the Pope in his

heart.
Father Patrick's disciples will make £lngland

smart
If e'er he be king, I know Bntain's doom,
We must all to a stake, or be converts to Rome.
Ah, Tudor ! ah, Tudor ! of Stuarts enough ;
None ever reigned like old Bess in the ruff.
Her Walsingham could dark counsels unriddle.
And our Sir Joseph write news, books, and fiddle.

WOOL-CHURCH.

Truth, brother, well said ; but that 's somewhat

bitter ;
His perfumed predecessor was never more

fitter :
Yet we have one secretary honest and wise ;
For that very reason, he 's never to rise.
But can'st thou devise when things will be

mended ?



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268 THE POEMS

CHARING.

When the reign of the line of the Stuarts is ended.

CONCLUSIOX.

If speeches from animals in Rome's first age,

Prodigious events did surely presage,

That should come to pass, all mankind may

swear
That which two inanimate horses declare.
But I should have told you before the jades

parted,
Both galloped to Whitehall, and there humbly

farted;
Which tyranny's downfall portended much more.
Than all that the beasts had spoken before.
If the Delphic Sibyl's oracular speeches
(As learned men say) came out of their breeches.