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bite song-makers to send the most obnoxious of their opponents to
hell, and give some account of their treatment there, as abun-
dantly appears in the course of this work. When they could get
no other amends of them, they kept that behind as a corps-de-
reserve, or rather as a forlorn hope : seeming to feel for them
exactly as the old mariner did toward the deceased gentleman
who had left his estate wrongously, as he supposed, and cut off the
right heir, his nephew, with a shilling : " The old gentleman's in
hell, that's some comfort !"
SONG XLV.
Saturn'© tOitQZ
Is a trifle of the same stamp, pretending to give a character of
the Doctor. The following is a much more perfect one, from an
old Jacobite poem, entitled, "The Republican Procession," a piece
of great cleverness, and, though anonymous, has merit which may
justify the fathering of it on one of our best humorous poets.
" Next these a lecturer of note,
A preaching scandal to his coat,
A busy, prating, factious priest,
Advanc'd, as joyful as the rest ;
Distinguish'd by his habit holy.
Though 't gave no sanction to his folly,
But made the wiser sort believe
A knave was hid in pudding-sleeve :
To pulpit rais'd by Whigs, to smother
The doctrines of his sacred mother,
And to confound his factious hearers
With Whiggish and fanatic errors ;
Which he hath done with zeal so hearty,
To curry favour with his party.
That his whole parish, to his shame,
Is nicknam'd Little Amsterdam.