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262 THE POEMS

WOOL-CHDRCH.

Of the bastards you add
What a number of rascally lords have been made.

CHARIXO.

That traitors to a country, in a bribed House of

Commons,
Should give away millions at every summons.

WOOL-CHURCH.

Yet some of those givers, such beggarly villains,
As not to be trusted for twice Mty shillings.

CHARING.

No wonder that beggars should still be for giving,
Who out of what 's given do get a good living.

WOOL-CHURCH.

Four knights and a knave, who were burgesses

made,
For selling their consciences were liberally paid.

CHARING.

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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OP MARVELL. 263

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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264 THE POEMS

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.