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JACOBITE SONGS. 319
If the Phoenix was consumed,
As they say, by Popish prigs.
All her pride was reassumed
By the Ignoramus Whigs.
Would you have another charter,
You that should be men of sense ?
Talk no more of 3Iagna Ghartay
But rely upon your prince.
If you can repent sincerely,
Caesar has a godlike mind ;
Purge your factiousness severely,
Caesar will be always kind.
1680.
Since plotting's a trade, like the rest of the nation,
Let 'em lie and swear on, to keep up the vocation ;
Let Tinkers, and Weavers, and Joiners agree
To find work for the Cooper, they'll have none of me :
Let politic shams in the statesmen abound,
While we quaflf off our bumpers and send the glass round ;
The jolly true Toper's the best subject still.
Who drinks off his liquor, and thinks no more ill.
Then let us stand to't, and like honest men fall.
Who love king and country, duke, duchess, and all :
Not such as would blow up the nation by stealth,
And out of the flame raise a new commonwealth ;
Not such as against church and bishops do rage,
To advance old Jack Presbyter on the new stage ;
But to all honest Tories who'll fight for their king,
And, to crown the brave work, with the court we'll begin.
Here's a health to the king and his lawful successors.
To honest Tantivies, and loyal Addressers ;
But a pox take all those that promoted petitions.
To poison the nation, and stir up seditions.
Here's a health to the queen and her ladies of honour.
And a pox take all those that put sham plots upon her.
Here's a health to the duke and the senate of Scotland,
And to all honest men, that from bishops ne'er got land.