Dryden in vain would try this nice way, off with
how he to be a learning blade thought fit,
but when he would be sh unp, he still was blunt,
To fluke and frolic phancy, heed his Cunt:
Would give the Lady's a dry Bawdy bobb
And thus he got the name off Poet Squobb: Dryden's Nickname
But to be just, 'twill to his pride be found,
His exsultancy more than faults a bound;
Now that from his sacred Temple leaves
That laund, which he bests reserve to wear:
But does not Dryden find even Johnson Bull,
Fletcher and Beaumont in correct, and full
of Lewis Line: (as he calls them) Shakspere's style.
Stiff and affected: to his own the white
Allowing all the justness, that his pride,
So annually had to his deuird.
And may not I have leave imparially
To search and censur Dryden's works, and eye
Off those gross faults his choice pen does commit
Proceed from want of judgment, or off with:
or if his lumpish fancy does refuse
Spirit and grace to his loose slatcun Marge;
Five hundred vengs every morning with
Prove you no more a boh than a Wh:
Such scrib ing authors have been known before
Mustapha, the English prifiers, forty more
Wen things perhaps composed in93 an hour,
To wake what may secussly stand the fire
Off being well read over, the fire at least
Compare each phrase, examine every line
Weigh every word and every thought or fine
Sound all, appear the like count can be below
And be content to please those few who know:
Camest thou be such a vain mistake thing,
To wish thy works, might make a playhouse ring;
With the Un thinking, Laughters and poor praise
Off fops, and Ladies, fashions for thy playes
Then send a cunning friend to learn thy come
From the Sherepow judg'd in the drawing room;
I've no Ambition on that I'd be some
But say with my Mornce here to know,
When a count Lady calls he's Buckeys whom

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confult thy sacred volume where thou'lt find
Such who to ever end dullness have been kind,
To those obsequious cringe with humble bow,
with court like scrapes & with submittive bron;
Since from their numerous party thou mayst hope
more, then praunce, Cates, or Bedlow from thy pope:
This is not gain'd preferment by a fong
Whistst Audibrag does starve among the throng,
May Minion shadwell cannot hold out long;
There lives a Lord, a noble peer is he

Newport.

Whose conscience is as plain as my Knee;
whose easy temper by good nature moved
does make him universally beloved:
he once pretended to a share of offence
But for that impotent and bold offence
The councell wily banght him from hence;
who finding that hope of pretences onnay
is grown a length as wise as one of us;
him make thy friend, if that method fail
prepare thee in these following terms to vaile;
may weets billet doux successive prone
tempting of her little grace to love

Grafton.

may Anglesey thinke bribery as a
His counte's pluckt it out when once he is
May Atlington his little braff clep pike
And she no more of name of dut chesse prize;
may pulzie Howard line by poetry
And cleauetand dye for want of teachery;
may monmouth quitt his interest to a crown;
Moll Howard ne'r grin, & nelly never from:
may belty mackrell cease to be a whores
may Villain Fraeck fuck mazarine no more

S. R. HOWARDS
SON.

The ballad here under written hath not respect to all the principles of prachtes of the Quakers, but particularly to their two disputes with they had about Oct: 1674 with the Quabaptists; ye first in Barbacan, 2d in Spittle fields in London, occasioned by a booke put forth by Mr. Aho: Hicks a Quaker, for writing in booke ye Quakers would have had ye Quabaptists to have disowned Aho: Hicks, but instead of

so doing, he others for him defended & booke & indeed
he yet not beaghamed of it, for there is nothing in ye
booke but an episcopall man &c. might have written.
The ballad seems to be made by some gentleman it was
present at ye disputations.

The Quakers Ballad.

marginall notes.

1. y quaker is term of ch
they use of each other
is friend when they
say fuck a one is a
friend they mean he
is a Quaker.

2. The Quakers sometimes have silent meetings, some lately hath put forth a book to delen them; they brevets the razation of these disputations put forth by Baptists; may thinke of Quakers behaved that way, more like young Schollang, when two Colleyes usd to counte each other then like religious men.

3. They exclaim at
Thomas Hicks as if
he had wrong'd them
by writing in booke
a fore paid.

4. The Quakers misunderstand: standing in place like the 2:00x 10:4. ignorantly hold if they ought not to use any weapon to do in their Kelves, as word gun, staff. now if we were all Quakers, if each only other nation may easily make planes of it; for this reason as well as for a great many other magistracy may well define to hinder their subjects from turning Quakers.

5. Mr. Faldo asseanced minister in his booke entitled, Quakerisme no chriştianity; from leading quakers down words, not looted out of their books, hath drawn

inheit

1. yee she friends & the friends whoever
infallible light in dark lanthorn of spirit
come prick up your ears, for behold I will fitt yee
an hymn if ye called mee a wicked a ditty

For the fiddle & organs are both Babylonish
wherwith & prophane delight alone is,
yet in greek a dange inspiration may hau
Even us who are perfect to warble a chaunt.

2. Then let us a while our trembling lay by
and quitt our still meeting to set up acy,
Let's challenge our rank, take low & be bold
For your spirit at present doth move us to cold.

3. This line to exclaim as receiving a wrong
And take up a carnall weapon ye tongue;
For if we delay our whole party must strike
and our long longest light goet out a stinke.

Our dugglings so plain will appear each eye
Thro' ye maske of our holy pretences will spy,
And see if a quaker when script of his paint
is nearer of him to an atheist then Saint.

5. Then let us equivocate neatly & fly
at plausible meaning on all that we say,
And see ye very same art that serves to excuse us
At once shall condemne all those to accuse us.

This being done we point time to place
and come full prepared to bandy our case,
In ye Barbacan first we gave them a meeting,
But never was seen such a bear garden greeting.

For don't mistake it by ye law alone,
your rights derived to our English throne;
Set that aside and make it law a shamm
No sovereign you, nor no subject can;
For selfe same law gives you a dignity
gives me my life, fortune & liberty:
pardon six, if lesse decent this is said
A man does become a member to his head,
For this sound doctrine, I cully, Brother,
And clergy rights would fain preach up another:
Within ye circle of my law great Sir
I stand, but out of it will never stirr:
Is to be King you'l be content, I will
pay all allegiance & obedience still:
That peoples right & our braue English laws
doe make ye strongest side of justest cause:
Nor shall your keeping us from parliaments
Ought further or advantage your intents;
For greater are & choofers then ye choice
Englands Freeholders have a mighty voice;
These we'll unite, these we'll associate,
And if we can't defend our lives & state
We'll fairly fall, & freemen to ourGRAUES
We'll rather goe by, then to live Slaves;
Our Ancestors shew cause us in our Tombs,
Nor shall our children in their Mothers wombe;
They kept us free, & we thege free will leave
Or death our hopes & us shall both decime:
This said, with threatening looke he went away,
And I trudg'd to as quite affraid to stay;
But as I went I met with honest Nelly,
And when I more did hear, I more will tell yee.

Jcævola scoto-Britannus.

Sharpieſ exerceſt Jævas dum perſiduæ iras,
Et proprii pæſtor, ſi k Lupus ille gregis;
Lentæ videbatur cœli vindicta Michello,
Et fas in talem crediebit omne neſfas:
peccat in moniti sed præſule miſſile plumbum,
(Jnſons si præſul, quilibet esse poterät)
par culpa, et diſpar. ſequitur fortuna Jæcobos;
Ocæa ſorquet idem, mitra beate G. ſcelus:
Quantæ ast perſuor crimen virtute piavit,
Judicibus ipsi quam venerandus erat.

Quid de se fieret melius prætore docebat,
non pœnas illum, sed stare jura putes;
Carnificem tremulum jubet abstinuisse sinistra,
errorem dextræ dextera sura pugt:
nec mora, feralem tortore aptante cothurnum,
Tanquam sutori comodat usq; pedem:
Intima contufo dum ringitur offe medulla
Calcæus vrit, ubi cernere nemo queat:
Ut vocationem proprii sedet ad spectacula curis,
Jūnotus, populo comisevante reus:
Non vultu aut ulla testatus voce dolorem,
Sub cuneo quanquam bibia pressa jacte gemit;
At, ceu mitis hærus famulo subvidet in epto,
Infractus, Ianum frangere meubra vidit:
Inter hictoris nigus feriatur an heli,
nec vult supplicii conscius esse fui:
Laus us, Cate; interea patitur tormenta minister;
(Qui sentit solus dicitur ille pati?)
Scævola si Thuleum potuit terrere Tyrannum,
Fortius hoc specimen Scotia nostra dedit:
Numina quid temnas, homines ne spernito Sharpi?
Hic e ter centum Mucius unus erat:
Expurgà nequit quem sternere glande michellus
Explodet sævum Scotia pontificem:
Inter pontificem quid distat, Carnificem us
Inter Luciferum Fureciferum quid est?

Directions to a painter

July 1679

Lord Roberts.

Draw me a lord standing in separation
From church community of the English nation;
Draw in one hand a Bible of Scottish print,
Without Apochrypha or prayers int:
And draw in the other hand for his great glory
Instead of common prayer & directory:
Then draw a meeting house without a steeple
Or bell; but bagpipes to call in the people;
Then draw him painter; if he skill be able,
There with his heart when head at council table:
Then grapple handling in his close his text,
Delivering to the people what comes next,
With his mouth & with extended paws,
patching up his sermons with hums & haws;
Instead of gravity & comely grace
Twang with his nose & many awry face.