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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>Swearing and Lying. OR AN ANSWER TO THE SWEARING PAMPHLET.</HEAD>
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<L>THat you do fear an Oath I dare not &s;wear,</L>
<L>E&s;pecially, if it the cau&s;e advance,</L>
<L>And yet I dare &s;wear that one Oath you fear,</L>
<L>And that the Oath is of Allegiance.</L>
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<L>To God yet you will &s;wear, and to your King,</L>
<L>Provided that the Oath be my&s;tical:</L>
<L>You promi&s;e, and you mu&s;t performe the thing,</L>
<L>Though with the <HI>Forty,</HI> 'tis to kill Saint <HI>Paul.</HI></L>
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<L>You are, you &s;ay, no <HI>Quaker</HI> to prote&s;t</L>
<L>Again&s;t all Swearing; that indeed I grant:</L>
<L>But if with <HI>Rome,</HI> you &s;wore not Ea&s;t and We&s;t,</L>
<L>How a pox gulpt ye down that <HI>Covenant</HI> ?</L>
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<LG>
<L>But what an alteration here is made ?</L>
<L>What &s;ubjects on a &s;udden ye commence ?</L>
<L>Maintain the Crown, and yet the Church invade;</L>
<L>Come ye'l yield all things, but Obedience.</L>
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<L>But if that great King <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> &s;ayes not nay,</L>
<L>You to the Kings Commands will freely yield:</L>
<L>But is not this that Con&s;cience Sir I pray,</L>
<L>That has our Land with Blood and Rapine fill'd ?</L>
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<L>What &s;play-mouth'd wi&s;h is this ? let all agree</L>
<L>When you the Concord crumble into parts:</L>
<L>But <HI>Knaves</HI> of <HI>Clubs</HI> maugre your Villany,</L>
<L>His Maje&s;ty &s;hall &s;till be King of <HI>Hearts.</HI></L>
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<L>You &s;wear forfooth you will the Crown defend,</L>
<L>And all the dignity of the Royal Oak:</L>
<L>But here the thief u&s;urps the name of Friend,</L>
<L>The <HI>Kirk</HI> the lvie is of which you &s;poke.</L>
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<L>With the <HI>Apochrypha</HI> you cannot bear,</L>
<L>And your Devotion &s;tumbles at this logg:</L>
<L>And what's the rea&s;on ? 'tis becau&s;e ye are</L>
<L>Like <HI>Tobit</HI> blind, and madder then his <HI>Dog.</HI></L>
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<L>But we are got to my Lord Bi&s;hop now,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Government you dare not &s;ay is right Sir:</L>
<L>But &s;hall I tell ye why your teeth ye &s;how,</L>
<L><HI>Jack</HI> has a peack at <HI>Aaron</HI> for his Myter.</L>
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<L>I'le &s;wear and venture all that I am worth,</L>
<L>That Bi&s;hops la&s;t as long as King and Queen.</L>
<L>You have already as the Act holds forth,</L>
<L>Like baffled <HI>Hender&s;on</HI> your Doom&s;day &s;een</L>
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<L>That <HI>Peter</HI> was a Prelate I'le maintain,</L>
<L>But that he preacht &s;o o&s;t I doubt it greatly.</L>
<L>But by your leave, what <HI>Peters</HI> do you mean;</L>
<L><HI>Peters</HI> that preacht at <HI>Charing-Cro&s;s</HI> &s;o lately ?</L>
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<L><HI>Peter</HI> a Fi&s;her was, and &s;o are they,</L>
<L>Would you be caught you might Salvation get:</L>
<L>Their Sacred Nets they ca&s;t out day by day,</L>
<L><HI>But it &s;eems</HI> all's not Fi&s;h that comes to th' Net.</L>
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<LG>
<L>As for the Court, that <HI>Court Eccle&s;zia&s;tick</HI></L>
<L>As it is ju&s;t, it merciful appears;</L>
<L>To wave all others, let me in&s;tance <HI>Ba&s;twick</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e Head being forfeit could compound for's <HI>Ears.</HI></L>
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<L>Archdeacons, Deans and Chapters, are the Men</L>
<L>Have honour, and your envy would implead it:</L>
<L>Turn over therefore, pray, your book agen,</L>
<L>'Tis a hard <HI>Chapter,</HI> and you cannot read it.</L>
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<L>Spirit'al Madam ? pray what Madam's that ?</L>
<L>Heraulds would &s;wear you here fal&s;e Doctrine teach.</L>
<L>You refu&s;e Bi&s;hopricks ? away, ye prate;</L>
<L>But Foxes &s;corn the Grapes they cannot reach.</L>
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<L>For holy Ve&s;tments Holland's &s;it, and Lawn,</L>
<L>But as for nai&s;ty <HI>Scotch</HI> Cloath we'l have none;</L>
<L>And if the Kirki&s;ts wo'nt to this be drawn</L>
<L>Then give 'em Hemp as long as 'twill hang on.</L>
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<L>That <HI>Paul</HI> becau&s;e here's mention of a Cloak,</L>
<L>A <HI>Presbyterian</HI> was I cannot &s;wear;</L>
<L>But this upon my Oath may well be &s;poke,</L>
<L>All he converted were by <HI>Common Prayer.</HI></L>
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<L>You owe Allegiance to the King, <HI>God &s;ave him,</HI></L>
<L>(But on condition Bi&s;hops may go down)</L>
<L>But if he will not do as you would have him,</L>
<L>You neither value Myter, nor yet Crown.</L>
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<L>And yet you &s;eem to like of Myter'd men;</L>
<L>O Con&s;cience &s;ee what Intere&s;t can do !</L>
<L>For if in&s;tead of one we &s;hould have ten,</L>
<L>'Tis ten to one, but one might fall to you.</L>
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<L>In fine you mu&s;t not &s;ever Church and State;</L>
<L>If you not both obey, you both provoke:</L>
<L>But if you will not ? Porter ope the Gate,</L>
<L>And farewel <HI>Presbyter,</HI> farewel <HI>long Cloak.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year 1666.</P>
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