A Person form'd by the Stars for daring Exploits.
Inspired by the happy Genius of our Society,
And by the Insolence of his own Temper fitted for Ar­bitrary Power.
A Constant Friend to France in all Reigns,
A True lover of Tyranny in all Persons;
An Enemy to Moderation in all Times.
Not Obscuring, but exceeding the Merits of his Father,
Whose Sale of Dunkirk ought not to be nam'd with that of Three Kingdoms,
And All EUROPE.
Clarendon procured a barren Queen,
And raised his Daughter to be a Princess.
But his Son projected greater things in his Family,
Which made him cut the Gordian knot of Three leaves out of his Accounts. *
First to make his Daughters Dutchesses,
And then Queens.
By Marrying one to the Earl of Dalkeith for England,
Another to the Duke of Ormond for Ireland.
And offering a Third to the Earl of Arran for Scotland.
Thus to take in all Titles,
In which he was sure of our support.
He was early initiated in our Tremendous Mysteries,
And always active to promote our holy Cause:
[Page 4]Or to attempt the same at Dantzick, and the Cities of Prussia. Sent to Countermine Sir William Temple's sin­cere designs.
Securing to France what he intended for Spain.
And betraying the Dutch, the better to subdue the English.
Nurs'd with the Milk of Slavery,
A Pensioner to Lewis the Great,
An Enemy to the English Constitution,
And the Rapacious Oppressor of his fellow Subjects,
Which made a stubborn Parliament
Vote him a Foe to the King and Kingdom,
One of the Fam'd Triumvirate,
S—d, G—n, Lory,
Whose late good Fortune shall obtain Credit for all future Prophesie.
So great a Favourite of the D. of York,
As to be suspected to K. Ch. 2d.
Whose seasonable and unnatural Death
Prevented our Hero's Banishment and Disgrace:
He was Ld. High Treasurer,
And first Minister of State
To our Blessed Disciple and Confessor,
The Martyrs Son James the Just.
When he bravely laid aside the use of Parliaments,
And Arbitrarily Levy'd Taxes by his own Authority:
First Layman in the high Commission Court,
The Noblest Machine of it self to dispatch the Refor­mation. But a Thousand times more effectual under such a Manager. The warmth of whose temper might kindle all our Fires.
He stoutly oppos'd the Abdication,
The Bill of Abjuration and Recognition.
These 12 Years he hath been a Clog on the Wheel, to spoil the business of the Pr. of Orange. Averse to all Endeavours for enlarging Liberty: Or better secu­ring the Protestant Religion.
[Page 5]But above all, and for the sake of all,
His Master stroke must Eternally Shine in our Annals, the Getting himself to be first Minister to King William [...]
Tho Brother in Law to K. James.
And notwithstanding his late, or old behaviour, whic [...] is an Attempt even to be envy'd by a Jesuit.
The Secretary of the High Commission,
He has made a Secretary of State.
Being soon after to bring the whole Commission int [...] the Ministry.
To this we Owe,
The Seasonable Dissolution of the last Parliamen [...] which gave a happy opportunity to the King of Franc [...] to make his Grand-Son Vice Roy of Spain.
Kept the Dutch Hereticks unresolv'd,
And the English Hereticks unprepar'd.
Weakning their Conduct by the Administration in h [...] own Hands, Lulling them asleep, Dispiriting, and M [...] nacing all,
By his Trusty Emissaries, and fellow Conspirators.
This hindred the Friends of Liberty from lending M [...] ney; being resolv'd to refuse it while he Govern'd, lea [...] it should be a Cause to hang them if his Plot Succeede [...]
By these means,
And our Assistance,
He meant to accomplish as sudden a Change,
And with as little Opposition,
As the late Curs'd Revolution.
For which Services,
As well as other Innumerable,
And his striking the great Blow for Universal Monarch
Which is now on the point of being Established:
The Society is bound to acknowledge,
Eternal Gratitude.

1701.