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410 APPENDIX.
mubice to tl)e "Cories,
To you, ye Tories, I address
This charitable ditty,
Intending not, in your distress,
To aim at being witty :
For surely it was wondrous hard,
When things were near completed,
To have your schemes untimely marr'd.
And every hope defeated.
I only would advise you now
Sincerely to repent.
And, if you please, instruct you how
You may disgrace prevent.
First, Hermodactyl, of high fame,
Must freely be giv'n up
To that which has the fairest claim
The scaffold or the rope ;
For by the peace which he advis'd,
For sake of louis-dores,
Abroad he made us be despis'd.
At home stark mad and poor.
Let Codicil his fate to share ;
For without much divining.
One need not scruple to declare
He had a hand in signing.
He favour'd here the Popish fry ;
"Wherefore to make scores even,
Some Jesuit may, when he's to die.
Give him a pass to heaven.
And that the stage may ne'er again
With quackery be perplex'd,
Lewd Gambol in the jug'lar vein
Should bleed a little next :
Or since this, as severe, I know,
By some will be oppos'd
Let him in his seraglio
At Greenwich be enclos'd.