<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2008-11-06</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>tcpstaff</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080917.pdcc.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A75442">
<STC T="W">a3442a</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">42475006</BIBNO>
<VID>151107</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 4 -->
<HEAD>AN ANSWER TO THE SATYR Upon the <HI>French</HI> KING.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHY all this Rage, <HI>Jack?</HI> Whence this &s;ad di&s;a&s;ter?</L>
<L>What makes thee thus abu&s;e thy Royal Ma&s;ter!</L>
<L>Why all this Pa&s;&s;ion for <HI>Italian Molly,</HI></L>
<L>That thou could'&s;t wi&s;h to <HI>Firk</HI> a Bumm with <HI>Holly?</HI></L>
<L>Had'&s;t thou no other way to &s;hew thy Folly?</L>
<L>And is't not mon&s;trous thus to &s;hift thy Sails,</L>
<L>And Ridicule the vertuous <HI>Prince</HI> of <HI>Wales?</HI></L>
<L>The feeble <HI>Prop</HI> of <HI>Abdicated</HI> Right;</L>
<L>The <HI>Hope</HI> of each expiring <HI>Jacobite.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But why the Devil, mu&s;t the <HI>Turks</HI> and <HI>Tartars,</HI></L>
<L>Lamented be as <HI>Confe&s;&s;ors,</HI> and <HI>Martyrs?</HI></L>
<L>Is it to let us under&s;tand your mind,</L>
<L>And know, to what <HI>Religion</HI> you're inclin'd?</L>
<L>If &s;o, I'll Swear You are the fitte&s;t Man</L>
<L>To write a Comment on the <HI>Alcoran;</HI></L>
<L>For if the <HI>Fable</HI> won't with Rea&s;on chime,</L>
<L>You'll make Amends, and Daub it o're in <HI>Rhime.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lord! What &s;trange Times mu&s;t we expect to Come,</L>
<L>When each <HI>Non-juror</HI> turns a <HI>Whipping Tom?</HI></L>
<L>Faith 'tis high time the <HI>Whiggs</HI> &s;hou'd all be jogging:</L>
<L>If once the <HI>Tory Poets</HI> talk of <HI>Flogging;</HI></L>
<L>Or &s;end their brawny Buttocks to the <HI>Tanners,</HI></L>
<L>Since <HI>Oates</HI>'s <HI>Pennance</HI> can't Reform their Manners.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For&s;ake thy <HI>Mu&s;e, Jack;</HI> take a <HI>School;</HI> 'tis better</L>
<L>To Flogg Boys <HI>Ar&s;es,</HI> than pay Scores with Meeter.</L>
<L>As once you in a merry Frollick told one,</L>
<L>A young <HI>Bum-fiddle's</HI> better than an old one.</L>
<L>Then, &s;tead of <HI>Tythe-Piggs, Quarter</HI> Pay comes in,</L>
<L>To furni&s;h out your now di&s;mantled <HI>Chin.</HI></L>
<L>By help of this you may Re&s;tore your No&s;e,</L>
<L>Retrieve your <HI>Pimples,</HI> and Repair your Cloaths,</L>
<L>Know where to <HI>Dine</HI> when your Inte&s;tines croke,</L>
<L>And not be forc'd to Stuff your Gutts with Smoke;</L>
<L>Con&s;trained no more, by Nodding and by Beckening,</L>
<L>To Intimate the <HI>Bar</HI> mu&s;t Score the Reckoning;</L>
<L>Have always ready Coin your <HI>Club</HI> to pay:</L>
<L>And <HI>Sheppard</HI> will Rejoice to fee the day,</L>
<L>When he no more &s;hall count his Summs on <HI>Tick,</HI></L>
<L>Nor you complain that <HI>Publick Faith</HI> is &s;ick.</L>
<L>Then, take a <HI>Friend's</HI> Advice, and Change betimes</L>
<L>To <HI>Penitential</HI> Pro&s;e your <HI>Mungrel</HI> Rhimes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>LEWIS</HI> mount a nobler Pitch,</L>
<L>Than your enfeebled <HI>Malice</HI> e're can reach.</L>
<L>The glorious Beams of their <HI>concentring</HI> Light,</L>
<L>Contracts your <HI>Power,</HI> and Di&s;dains your <HI>Spite.</HI></L>
<L>Your Haggard Mu&s;e has cho&s;e a Theme too high:</L>
<L>The Eagle's not a <HI>Quarry</HI> for the Fly.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Harris,</HI> 1697.</P>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
