They did not mean he wrought th' effufion

In person, like Sir Pride or Hughson ;
But only those who first begun

The quarrel were by him set on;
And who could those be but the Saints,
Thofe Reformation termagants?

But ere this pass'd, the wise debate
Spent fo much time it grew too late ;
For Oliver had gotten ground,
T'inclofe him with his warriors round;
Had brought his Providence about,
And turn'd th' untimely fophifts out.
Nor had the Uxbridge business less
Of nonfenfe in't, or sottishness;
When from a fcoundrel holder-forth,
The fcum as well as fon o' th' earth,

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Ver. 1250. Pride.] Pride was a foundling. He went into the army, was made a colonel, and was principally concerned in fecluding the members, in order to the King's trial; which great change was called Colonel Pride's Purge. He was one of Oliver Cromwell's upper houfe. He is called Thomas Lord Pride, in the commiffion for erecting a High Court of Justice for the trial of Sir Henry Slingby, Dr. Hewit, &c. Mr. Butler calls him Sir Pride, by way of fneer upon the manner of his being knighted; for Oliver Crom-. well knighted him with a faggot-stick instead of a fword.

Ibid. Hughfon.] He was a cobler, went into the army, and was made a colonel; knighted by Oliver Cromwell, and, to help to cobble the crazy ftate of the nation, was made one of Oliver's upper house.

Ver. 1263.] This was Mr. Chriftopher Love, a fu

Your mighty fenators 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,
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rious Prefbyterian, who, when the King's commif fioners met thofe of the Parliament at Uxbridge, in the year 1644, to treat of peace, preached a fermon there, on the 30th of January, against the treaty, and faid, among other things, that "no good was to be expect

ed from it, for that they (meaning the King's com "miffioners) came from Oxford with hearts full of "blood."

Ver. 1269, 1270.] The expence the English rebels. engaged the nation in, by bringing in their brother rebels from Scotland, aniounted to an extravagant fum; their receipts in money and free-quarter, 1,462,769 1. 55. 3 d. William Lilly, the Sidropbel of this Poem, obferves of the Scots, That they came into England purposely to fteal our goods, ravish our wives, en"flave our perfons, inherit our poffeffions and birthrights, remain here in England, and everlaftingly to inhabit among us."

Mr. Bowlftrode, fon of Colonel Bowlftrode, a factious rebel in Buckinghamshire, in his prayer before his fermon, at Horton, near Colebrook, ufed the folwing words: "Thou haft, O Lord, of late, written bitter things against thy children, and forfaken thine wn inheritance; and now, O Lord, in our mifery and diftrefs we expected aid from our brethren of our "neighbouring nation (the Scots I mean), but, good "Lord, thou knoweft that they are a falfe, perfidious tion, and do all they do for their own ends."

Who had so often, in your aid,
So many ways been foundly paid,
Came in at last for better ends,

To prove themselves your trufty friends,
You bafely left them, and the Church

They train'd you up to, in the lurch,
And fuffer'd your own tribe of Christians
To fall before, as true Philistines.
This shows what utenfils y' have been,
To bring the King's concernments in ;
Which is fo far from being true,
That none but he can bring in you;
And, if he take you into truft,
Will find you most exactly juft,
Such as will punctually repay
With double intereft, and betray.

Not that I think thofe pantomimes,

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Who vary action with the times,

Are lefs ingenious in their art,
Than those who dully act one part;
Or those who turn from fide to fide,
More guilty than the wind and tide.
All countries are a wife man's home,
And so are governments to fome,
Who change them for the same intrigues
That statesmen ufe in breaking leagues;

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By the author of a tract, entitled Lex Talionis, 1647, it is propofed, as a preventing remedy, "to let the "Scots, in the name of God, or of the devil that sent “ thêm, go home.

While others in old faiths and troths.
Look odd, as out-of-fashion'd clothes,.
And naftier in an old opinion,.

Than those who never fhift. their linen..
For True and Faithful's fure to lose,
Which way foever the game goes ;
And, whether parties lofe or win,
Is always nick'd, or elfe hedg'd in:
While power ufurp'd, like ftol'n 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 we 'ave but fenfe

To use the neceffary means,

And not your usual stratagems
On one another-lights and dreams:

To ftand on terms as positive,
As if we did not take, but give;

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Set the Covenant on crutches,

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'Gainft those who have us in their clutches,

And dream of pulling churches down,

Before we 're fure to prop our own;

Your conftant method of proceeding,,

Without the carnal means of heeding,

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Who, 'twixt your inward sense and outward,

Are worse, than if y' had none, accoutred.
I grant all courses are in vain,
Unless we can get in again;
The only way that 's left us now,
But all the difficulty 's how.

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'Tis true we 'ave money, th' only power
That all mankind falls down before;
Money, that, like the fwords of kings,
Is the last reason of all things;
And therefore need not doubt our play
Has all advantages that way,
As long as men have faith to fell,

And meet with those that can pay well;
Whose half-ftarv'd pride, and avarice,
One church and state will not fuffice,.
T'expose to fale, besides the wages,.
Of ftoring plagues to after-ages.
Nor is our money lefs our own

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Than 'twas before we laid it down;

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For 'twill return, and turn t' account,.

Who fee but th' outfides of our feats,

And not their secret springs and weights,

And, while they 're busy at their ease,

carry what defigns we please?

eafy is 't to ferve for agents profecute our old engagements.?> VOL. II.

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