A Parallel of times, or, A memento to the Whiggs

A Parallel of times, or, A memento to the Whiggs

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A Parallel of TIMES: Or a Memento to the WHIGGS.

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A Parallel of TIMES: Or a Memento to the WHIGGS.

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O horrible murder

But lo a Charg is dra [...]ne a day is ſet

The ſilent lamb is br [...]ught, the wolves are met;

And where's the Slaughte [...]-houſe? Whitehall muſt be,

Latlely his Palace, now his Calvarie

And now ye Senators i [...] this the thing.

So oft declar'd is this our glorious King?

Religion vails her ſelf [...]d mourns that ſhe

Is forc'd to own ſuch Horrid Villanie.

WHat dare not England's Monſters had they pow'r?

What did they not, when with a Sanguine Showr

The Nations were bedued? The Dog-ſtars heat

Had put Three Kingdoms in a Bloody Sweat.

Then was the Time when Murder knew no bound,

Death and Deſtruction every where were found.

Fate's boding Omens ſtill preſaging Grief,

Widdows and Orphans crys had no relief:

The Hell-inſpired Hounds had ſcented Blood,

And could not be by force of Law withſtood.

No Sacred Ties had aw enough to bind

Thoſe whom Religions ruine were deſign'd,

By Hells dire darkneſs who with them had joyn'd,

If poſſible t'unhinge the mighty Frame

Of Brittain's Empire, and eclipſe the name

Of her Great Monarch whom the Trump of fame

Renders Immortal here; whilſt he above

Triumphs in Glory and his Makers Love.

Law and Religion were pretences made

To mount the Rebels, till they both betray'd,

And in their Soveraigns Wounds them bleeding laid.

No leſs than Royal Blood muſt ſeal their crimes,

Murders were ſports in thoſe dire diſmal times,

Infamous Canters who ne're utter'd ſence,

With England's great affairs durſt then diſpence:

And judge of thoſe who had the Care of Souls,

The Reverend Clergy, each vile wretch controuls.

Reaſon was ſtager'd, Learning tumbled down,

When the back'd Rable once had brav'd the Crown.

When the black Tribe had Treaſon made no ſin,

And let deſtruction like a deluge in,

By pulling up the Sluces of the State,

Which the long bellowing Surges did rebate;

And all into diſorder'd ruine ſet,

Whilſt they in troubled Waters caſt their Net:

Fiſhers of Men in one ſence term'd they are,

Who did Mens Lives and Fortunes both inſnare.

Then England groan'd in ſee her Breaſt ſo red,

With Blood of her dea [...] dying Children ſhed,

By Murthering Villains that her face o're-ſpread.

'Judgement was turn'd to Wormwood in that day,

'Nor Truth nor Justice challeng'd any ſway:

'Twas the devouring Sword they made their Law,

Which Gold or Blood from Loyaliſt muſt draw.

The Children Baniſh'd, and the Father Slain

Did not ſuffice: Their rage to all his Train

Of Nobles did the Monſters ſoon extend,

As if with him Nobility muſt end;

'Twas Treaſon then to be their Soveraigns Friend.

The baſeſt of all Man- [...]ind mounted high

By this mad Rout, fill all with Tyrany:

In every place Death and Oppreſſion raves,

All were enſlaved to the worſt of Slaves:

Unleſs thoſe mighty Souls who ſcorn'd to be

Connivers at his horrid Villany;

But with a brave diſde [...]in contemn'd his rage,

To Heaven aſcending from the Crimſon Stage,

To meet their Royal Maſter in that bliſs,

Which has no end but endleſs happineſs.

But thanks kind Heave the Storm at length gave way,

The gloomy Clouds gave back, long abſent Day

Roſe glorious to refre [...] our drooping Iſle,

And made the mournful Nation once more ſmile.

The beſt of Kings did [...]avour to that earth,

Render'd thrice happy by his Reign and Birth:

Before whoſe Face the conſcious Rebels fly,

Not daring to behold that Majeſty

In whom Afronts might juſtly kindle Ire,

Fierce as a Whirlwind or devouring Fire,

To overwhelm or drive them from that Earth,

Which is polluted only by their birth:

But ſee Heavens Pattern—All that's good and great,

A King whoſe Mercy ſtays the wheel of Fate;

He pities thoſe that thirſted for his Blood,

And will not add to the too Crimſon Flood.

But what avails Royal trancendent Grace

Where black Ingratitude has fix'd her place?

Unleſs to warm the Monſters, till they grow

Impious as that dire Snake found in the Snow;

For they no ſooner found deaths terror paſt,

But from their holes without a bluſh they haſt:

And Croak aloud, their practices renew,

Rant at their Rulers, and would Rule them too.

The many-headed Monſter they revive,

And it, like Jehu, furiouſly they drive:

Once more a madding, no ways left untri'd

To find a Saddle Monarchy to Ride.

How with Petitions, how with Juries pack'd,

Have they the Boſoms of the people Sack'd,

To know the ſtrength of Faction, how it grows?

What Loyaliſt was ſafe, when they ſuppos'd

The giddy multitude had with them clos'd?

To ſuch ſtupendious Inſolency grown,

Their black mouths ſpar'd not to aſperſe the Throne.

At Regal Power they did preſume to ſtrike,

And durſt a Damn'd Aſſociation like.

What Shoals of Evidence like Locuſt ſwarm'd,

With Stings as ſharp as Felleſt Scorpions Arm'd,

Who muſt Infallible be deem'd, till they

The dire Dark Miſchief of the Whiggs bewray?

But then the Scene is chang'd; none muſt believe

They can ſpeak Truth: And then the buſy Sheriff

Muſt us with Ignoramus undeceive.

Theſe and a Thouſand more their projects are,

Who would our Lives and Fortunes once more ſhare;

And where their Will their Pow r they'd no Man ſpare.

Then let the Royal Martyrs Fall remain

Freſh in our minds, the Shambles of the ſlain

Who guiltleſs fell; yet let's forgive that ſcore,

Pardon what's paſt; But never Truſt them more.

FINIS.

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LONDON: Printed, by J. Grantham, in the Year, MDCLXXXIII.

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A Parallel of times, or, A memento to the Whiggs

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1683

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