Obstruct, perplex, distract, entangle,
And lay perpetual trains to wrangle;
But in affairs of less import,
That neither do us good nor hurt,
And they receive as little by,
Out-fawn as much, and out-comply; {
And seem as scrupulously just,

To bait our hooks for greater trust.
But still be careful to cry down
All public actions, though our own;
The least miscarriage aggravate,

And charge it all upon the State:
Express the horrid'st detestation,
And pity the distracted nation;
Tell stories scandalous and false
I' th' proper language of cabals,
Where all a subtle statesman says

Is half in words and half in face

(As Spaniards talk in dialogues

Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs);
Intrust it under solemn vows

Of Mum, and Silence, and the Rose,

To be retail'd again in whispers,

For th' easy credulous to disperse.

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Thus far the Statesman-when a shout, Heard at a distance, put him out;

And straight another, all aghast,

Rush'd in with equal fear and haste,

1500

Who star'd about, as pale as death,

And, for a while, as out of breath;
Till, having gather'd up his wits,

He thus began his tale by fits:

That beastly rabble—that came down

1505

From all the garrets-in the Town,

And stalls, and shop-boards-in vast swarms,
With new-chalk'd bills, and rusty arms,

To cry the Cause-up, heretofore,

And bawl the Bishops-out of door,

1510

Are now drawn up-in greater shoals,

To roast-and broil us on the coals,

And all the Grandees-of our members

Are carbonading—on the embers ;

Knights, citizens, and burgesses—

Held forth by rumps-of pigs and geese,

That serve for characters-and badges

To represent their personages;

Each bonfire is a funeral pile,

1515

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And ev'ry representative

Have vow'd to roast-and broil alive:

And 'tis a miracle we're not

Already sacrific'd incarnate;

For while we wrangle here and jar,

1525

We're grilly'd all at Temple-bar;

Some, on the sign-post of an ale-house,

And, while the Work is carrying on,

Be ready listed under Dun,........ulle

That worthy patriot, once the bellows
And tinder-box of all his fellows;

The activ'st member of the five,

As well as the most primitive;

Who, for his faithful service then,

Is chosen for a fifth agen :

(For since the State has made a quint

Of generals, he's listed in 't :)

This worthy, as the world will say,
Is paid in specie his own way;&

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For, moulded to the life, in clouts

Th' have pick'd from dunghills hereabouts,

1545

He's mounted on a hazel (bavinrush fax

A cropp'd malignant baker gave 'em ;
And to the largest bonfire riding,

They've roasted Cook already, and Pride in;

On whom, in equipage and state,

His scare-crow fellow-members wait,

And march in order, two and two,

1551

As at thanksgivings th' us'd to do,

Each in a tatter'd talisman,

1555

Like vermin in effigie slain.

But (what's more dreadful than the rest)
Those rumps are but the tail o' th' Beast,
Set up by Popish engineers,

As by the crackers plainly' appears;
For none but Jesuits have a mission
To preach the faith with ammunition,
And propagate the church with powder;
Their founder was a blown-up soldier.
These spiritual pioneers o' th' Whore's,
That have the charge of all her stores,
Since first they fail'd in their designs
To take-in heav'n by springing mines,

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And with unanswerable barrels

Of gunpowder dispute their quarrels,
Now take a course more practicable,
By laying trains to fire the rabble,

And blow us up, in th' open streets,
Disguis'd in rumps, like sambenites,
More like to ruin and confound

Than all their doctrines under ground.

Nor have they chosen rumps amiss

For symbols of State-mysteries,

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Though some suppose 'twas but to shew

How much they scorn'd the Saints, the few,

Who, 'cause their wasted to the stumps,

Are represented best by rumps:

But Jesuits have deeper reaches
In all their politic far-fetches,

1581

And, from the Coptic priest Kircherus,
Found out this mystic way to jeer us;

1585

For as th' Egyptians us'd' by bees

T' express their antique Ptolemies,

And by their stings the swords they wore,
Held forth authority and power;

Because these subtle animals

Bear all their interest in their tails;

1590