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The True English Prophet: OR, ENGLANDS Happineſs A Hundred Years Hence, To a New Play-Houſe Tune.

Licenſed according to Order.

I. COme chear up your Hearts, Boys, & all hands to Work, We'll be Happy and Bleſt, ſpight of Devil and Turk; Our Land you muſt know, we ſhall one day ſee flow With that dear Milk and Honey, Call'd Plenty and Money, If we can but a little with Patience diſpence, Thoſe Bleſt Days will be Ours all a Hundred Year's hence, II. By that time our Foes will be all Dead and Rotten, Our Quarrels all huſh't, and our Troubles forgotten; His Gout, Stone and Pox, will have then done the work Of Europes Old Blood-hound, The moſt Chriſtian Turk: For Lucifer waits his New Reign to Commence, And all long before a Hundred Years hence. III. Our Taxes we'll heartily pay in our Turns, Count it which way you pleaſe, for our Heads or our Horns We ſhall ſee that bleſt Day, when we ne're ſhall be poor, If our Wives have not ſent us To Heav'n long before. Peace, Bleſſing, and Plenty, their Smiles will diſpence At furtheſt within one poor Hundred Years hence. IV. And what, tho' thus long we have mourn'd the ſad wants Of a Glaſs of good Bourdeaux, and Cup of fine Nants, We then ſhall have Wine, and Brandy moſt certain, A Quart for a Shilling, And Two-pence a Quartern; For the Generous French will that Favour diſpence, If we happen to live but a Hundred Years hence. V. 'Tis true, no great ſtore of Coin we can boaſt, Our Wealth and our Silver, alas, are Rid Poſt; But what, though the Clippers and Coiners have ſnip'd it, And o're the Herring-Pond The Wars they have whipp'd it, We ſhall role in Mill'd Crowns, Pounds, Shillings & Pence, If we live and do well but a Hundred Years hence. VI. In a Hundred Years time, how the World we ſhall ſettle, VVe ſhall certainly then have quite mended our Kettle, Our Diſputes and our Titles, will then be Adjuſted, And Monſieur by that time Perhaps may be truſted: Then England to France her ſmiles ſhall diſpence In a General Peace a Hundred Years hence. VII. In Wedding, and Bedding, and Goſſiping Rates. Tho' we now pay for Kiſſing, and getting of Brats; Our Grandſons will lay the young Girls on their Back. In the fear of the Lord, And without fear of Tax; Without Socket-Money, or Chriſtning Expence, Take up the Smock Cheaper a Hundred Years hence. VIII. And what tho' our Citizens honeſt good People, In hopes of a New, and a ſwinging Paul's Steeple, Stand Gaping to ſee it Riſe higher and higher; Whilſt we Raiſe by our Coals What we Loſt by our Fire, With that ſmall yearly Rent they'll eaſily diſpence: For Pauls will be Built in a Hundred Years hence, IX. Nay, the Bank Bills that Swagger'd ſo high, tho' of lat • They're Dwindled to Twenty per Century Rebate, If you'll ſtay but a while, and be but ſo Civil To wait but till Knavery Is gone to the Devil; By that time they'll hold up their Heads, and ſpeak ſen •… If you can but have Patience t' a Hundred Years hence. X. The City will, then make their Orphans all Rich, Have pay'd off their Bedlam-Score, Mum-Glaſs and Dit • Oar Caſements and Windows, that now pay their Light; And all to the making Our Silver more Bright; Will Crown with full Glory our Shillings and Pence: For our Mint will Shine out a Hundred Years hence. XI. But now, without Rallying or Joque, lets agree, To pay our Great Caeſar our Hand, Heart and Knee; The Heroe, whoſe Sword for our Liberty Draws, Who faces Blood, Danger, And Death in Our Cauſe; Some few Months, we hope, will his warm Beams diſpe • , And our Heirs Bleſs his Name a Hundred Years hence.

LONDON; Printed for T. Allbridge in Southwark 16 • 7