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318 APPENDIX.
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1679.
Would you be a man of fashion ?
Would you lead a life divine ?
Take a little dram of passion,
In a lusty bowl of wine.
If the nymph have no compassion,
Vain it is to sigh and groan ;
Love was but put in for fashion.
Wine will do the work alone.
Would you have at your devotion
Gown fop Whigs, that love to prate ?
Take a dram of Tony's notion.
In a coffee-dish of state :
If the poison will not warm ye,
Take ye tea, 'twill do the thing.
There are statesmen can inform ye
How to rule without a king.
Would you then be thought most witty ?
Would you be a man of parts ?
Aid the factious of the city.
Till you're hang'd for your deserts.
If your virtue's not rewarded,
For the glorious thing you aim'd,
And another saint recorded.
Care and Curtis both be damn'd.
Would you have a new religion.
Founded on a plot of state ?
Whisper but with Prance's Pidgeon,
In a dungeon, through a grate.
If your soul finds no impression,
Murder'd Godfrey will appear :
Though there needs no more confession,
Kiss the book, and all is clear.
Would you have a true narration
How the city first was fir'd ?
Let the Monument's relation
Prove the man, and those he hir'd.