The King of Poland's last speech to his country-men

The King of Poland's last speech to his country-men

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THE King of Poland's LAST SPEECH To His COUNTRY-MEN

THE King of Poland's LAST SPEECH To His COUNTRY-MEN

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I Know, you hope all once to be

Great Men of Note and Majeſty;

For this our now Supremacy

Is Nonſence.

Why ſhould one Man for ever ſway

A Scepter, (who's but made of Clay?)

Why may not we our ſelves obey

In Conſcience ?

But now 'tis come, Alas, we ſee,

That all our Fame turns Infamy:

Ah! ſuch a thing is Policy

With Tories

The buzzing Jealouſies and Fears,Into the Peoples liſt'ning Ears,

For all thoſe many buſie years,

Are Stories.

Since in late Plots w' have gone aſtray,

'Tis time to look another way,

And not in ſuch a Caſe delay;

T'will harm us.

No doubt, y'have heard of Forty-One,

Of all the Prancks that then were done,

And of the happy Conqueſt won:

Let's arm us;

And play thoſe very Cards agen,

For all thoſe Antients were but Men;

Five Iſraelites may well beat Ten

Philiſtins.

Let's cry Oppreſſion through the Town,

Oppreſſion of the Court and Gown,

And raiſe in Tumult every Clown,

to Liſtings.

We'll firſt expoſe the Laws to Shame,

And next the Loyal Part defame;

If Good or Bad, they're all the ſame,

No odds make.

Yet let Religion be the Word,

To ſhade Rebellion and the Sword;

Then play the Divel under board,

For God's-ſake.

Then be not wanting in your Lies;

In Plots and Shams, and Forgeries;

To blind the weak and gazing Eyes,

With Fables.

But if you would enjoy the Land,

Let the dark Roman joyn his Hand,

He Force and Councell can command

In Caballs.

Which though it ſeem as ſtrange as Nile,

T'is Lawfull to unite in Guile;

Our Intreſt's ne're the worſe that while,

But further.

For all their Principles are mine;

Their Tricks to guild a black Deſigne;

Their Warrants to unite and joyne

In Murther.

What if you were not born to Land,

Or to be Perſons in Command;

T'is ne'r the worſe at ſecond Hand,

But Faſhion.

Is it not baſe (a Curſe) to ſee,

When we ſhould all live equally,

Such odds and ſuch Majority

I'th' Nation.

And though we find no fault in State,

Or any other Potentate;

Yet thoſe great Names will raiſe debate,

And wroth, Sirs.

Since then t'will be ſo good a Feate.

Let's once (for all) the Work compleate

For nothing elſe can make us Great,

In troth, Sirs.

My Opticks (Friends) almoſt can ſee

A new form'd Lump of Anarchy;

Whilſt under foot lies Monarchy,

And hated.

Methinks I ſee thoſe very Men,

I hate and envy, once agen,

From many Thouſands unto Ten,

Abated.

Ah! ſweet Revenge, and bold Ambition,

Infects both Us, and half the Nation;

The cauſe of Wife Aſſociation

So lately:

And well't may plague us all, to ſee

Some, though no better Men than We,

To live in Pomp for Loyalty,

So ſtately.

I knew when once the Good Old Cauſe

Was nam'd aloud with great Applaue:

Bleſt Times for Liberty! No Laws,

To fright all:

Therfore, if once it come to Teſt,

And we again with Lawrel bleſt,

The Stronger Side muſt be the beſt,

At Whitehall.

And if all Lords you chance to be,

Who knows what Hell deſigns for me?

We'l make our Lives one Jubile,

And Wonder.

So being out of Breath, and ſpent;

Alas, (ſayd he) much more is meant.

At laſt (with Pox) he hurrying went;

Like Thunder.

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Notes

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LONDON, Printed for J. P. in the Year 1682.

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The King of Poland's last speech to his country-men

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1682

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— The King of Poland's last speech to his country-men,

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Printed for J.P.,. London :: 1682.. (Satire in verse on the Earl of Shaftesbury.) (Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.)

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