A New BALLAD,
To the Tune of, Or, Packington's Pound.
Good People give ear, while a Story I tell,
Of Twenty black Tradesmen were brought up in Hell, &c.
TO our once Loyal Town, is lately come down,
Such an Hodge-podge of Benchers, as never wore Gown:
Saints, fit for the Legend of Romes Pseudo-Martyrs,
Who have Pawn'd th' Old Religion, to Purchase New Charters;
To promote Publick Faith, they are zealously bent,
And Bugger Geneva, to Fructifie Trent.
When Satan was squeamish, and long'd for a Dainty,
The Pope Fricasseed him this new Four and-twenty.
(2)
The first a State-Jocky, bred up of a Groom,
'Twixt a Colchester — Mare, and a Stallion of Rome:
He Cants when at Hollet's, on Hopkins his Metre,
And drops Pater-Nosters with Lowick and Petre:
Thus he Banters Non-Cons with Prophane Masque
And Quacks on the Gospel to force a lost Trade.
When Satan was squeamish, &c.
(3)
The next Cacafugo, once a Captain of Peace,
At the sight of cold Iron he melts in his grease;
Yet he looks Indignation, and huff [...] [...]'' Hector;
He Whores like an Abbot, and Drinks like a Rector.
The third Nicodemus,
St.
a Seeker by Night;The fourth Father Whitebread, who H [...]ats for new Light.
When Satan was squeamish, &c.
(4)
The fifth and the sixth,
B. & A.
two precise Renegades;The one Jack of Diamonds, and the other of Spades:
For Orphans and Widows, they beautifie Cloysters,
And swallow their Houses, as a Barnacle Oysters;
But no Dish so fit, when his Holiness treats,
As an
A great Italian Dish.
Oleopodrido of Zealots and Cheats.When Satan was squeamish, &c.
(5)
Next formal Sir Foplin,
M.
who often has slunk,With a Tester at Rose's to Purchase a Punk;
But if Porter or Carman be possest of his Doxie,
He adopts his kind Hostess her Spiritual Proxie.
Thus a Puritan Lecher (though with a lewd Slut)
May solace the Spirit, while the Flesh goes to Rut.
When Satan was squeamish, &c.
(6)
Lo here
Fat St. Lean Jeff.
Gog and Magog at once representThe Prophane Carnaval, and Idolatrous Lent;
Both Teckelites true, as were
Oats and Comins in the Plot.
Titus and Eustace;The Guts of good Manners, and Garbage of Justice:
But nothing more proper to vacuate Laws,
Than the Mouth of Rebellion, and Rump of the Cause.
When Satan was squeamish, &c.
(7)
Advance Ruffling Dick to supply the next place,
C.
Who on a bad Matter oft shams a worse Face:
When the Algerine Caper has boarded his Frigat,
He can fawn like a Floater, and cringe like a Bigot.
Well the Good-natur'd Wittal may wink at his Fate,
Since he that Cornutes him has Bugger'd the State.
When Satan was squeamish, &c.
(8)
Wee'll refer young Tertullus t' a Bill of Review,
Left he shou'd Repeal what he never yet knew:
His Worship wee'll leave to his new Breviaries,
'Till One Miserere's worth Ten Avemaries;
For a Janus-like Convert, who in Faith interlopes,
Like a Cordelier-Fryar, must be sav'd by his Ropes.
When Satan was squeamish, and long'd for a Dainty,
The Pope Fricasseed him this new Four-and-twenty.