The misses take place, each
advanced
to be
duchess.
duchess.
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How base are the souls of such low-prized sinners.
Who vote with the country for drink and for
dinners !
WOOL-CHURCH.
'Tis they who brought on us this scandalous yoke.
Of excising our cups, and taxing our smoke.
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CHARING.
But thanks to the whores who made the king
For giving no more the rogues are prorogued.
WOOL-CHURCH.
That a king should endeavour to make a war
cease.
Which augments and secures his own profit and
peace.
CHARING.
And plenipotentiaries sent into France,
With an addle-headed knight, and a lord without
brains.
WOOL-CHURCH.
That the king should send for another French
whore,
When one already had made him so poor»
CHARING.
The misses take place, each advanced to be
duchess.
With pomp great as queens in their coach and
six horses ;
Their bastards made dukes, earls, viscounts, and
lords,
And all the high titles that honour affords.
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WOOL-CHUKCH.
While these brate and their mothers do live in
such plenty,
The nation's impoverished, and the 'Chequer
quite empty ;
And though war was pretended when the money
was lent,
More on whores, than in ships or in war, hath
been spent.
CHARING.
Enough, my dear brother, although we speak
reason.
Yet truth many times being punished for treason.
We ought to be wary, and bridle our tongue,
Bold speaking hath done both men and beasts
wrong.
When the ass so boldly rebuked the pi-ophet.
Thou knowest what danger had like to come of it ;
Though the beast gave his master ne'er an ill
word.
Instead of a cudgel, Balaam wished for a sword.
WOOL-CHURCH.
Truth 's as bold as a lion, I am not afraid ;
I '11 prove every tittle of what I have said.
Our riders are absent, who is 't that can hear ?
Let's be true to ourselves, whom then need we fear?
Where is thy king gone ?
