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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B090012.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="W">r1896</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99887866</BIBNO>
<VID>183518</VID>
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<PB N="393" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 15 -->
<HEAD>ROME in an Uproar; OR, The <HI>Popes</HI> BULLS brought to the Baiting-Stake by Old Father <HI>Petres.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Packington's Pound.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>WHen <HI>England</HI> half Ruin'd, had cau&s;e to be &s;ad,</L>
<L>The <HI>Pope</HI>'s bloody Bulls they began to run mad,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e we had given them Pa&s;ture a while,</L>
<L>They ran about ranging all over the I&s;le;</L>
<L>The&s;e mere&s;&s;e&s;s Bea&s;ts, their rage for to fea&s;t,</L>
<L>They gor'd and had like to have Murder'd our <HI>Te&s;t:</HI></L>
<L>But ju&s;t in the intrim there came in a Friend,</L>
<L>Who did the poor <HI>Te&s;t,</HI> from their Fury defend.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The&s;e Bulls they were kept by that Bear in the <HI>Tower,</HI></L>
<L>And chiefly were Nouri&s;h'd by Di&s;pen&s;ing Power:</L>
<L>But &s;ometimes to fea&s;t their devouring Iaws,</L>
<L>Their Keeper would give them &s;ome &s;craps of the Laws;</L>
<L>The&s;e Bulls have been found in other Mens Ground,</L>
<L>But now we have put them in <HI>Packington</HI>'s Pound;</L>
<L>O never was Bulls &s;o &bgr;aited about,</L>
<L>For certain, as the&s;e will be, e're they come out.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus in our Nation a great many Fools,</L>
<L>Endeavour'd to Fatten his Holine&s;s Bulls;</L>
<L>The Iudges almo&s;t out of every Cau&s;e,</L>
<L>Allow'd them a Pen&s;ion of <HI>Penal Laws;</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e Bulls had &s;uch power, they'd like to devour</L>
<L>Our Church and our Laws, but they now are brought lower</L>
<L>Was ever &s;uch Impudent Bulls ever known,</L>
<L>To to&s;s Sacred Maje&s;ty out of the Throne.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Their Keeper who was no le&s;s Man than a Lord,</L>
<L>Were by the&s;e Mad Bulls mo&s;t notoriou&s;ly Gor'd:</L>
<L>They had on they Heads &s;uch a <HI>Samp&s;on</HI>-like power,</L>
<L>The ca&s;t him at one clever To&s;s in the <HI>Tower;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ome they are jealous that he and his Fellows,</L>
<L>Will be to&s;t from the <HI>Tower,</HI> to a Scaffold or Gallows;</L>
<L>O what a &s;ad &s;ight would it be for to &s;ee</L>
<L>So many ble&s;t Martyrs to &s;wing on a Tree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We've done with the Keeper, and now for the Driver,</L>
<L>Who valued Religion no more than a Stiver:</L>
<L>The&s;e Bulls being Wanton, and at no Command,</L>
<L>They to&s;t their poor Driver quite out of the Land;</L>
<L>This is a &s;ad matter to loo&s;e <HI>Ob&mdash;r,</HI></L>
<L>Who has a &s;trange Name, but is &s;tranger by Nature:</L>
<L>'Twould be a &s;ad thing, &s;hould he dance the long Iigg,</L>
<L>For making Divi&s;ion 'twixt <HI>Tory</HI> and <HI>Whigg.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e Bulls were &s;o Wanton and Ma&s;terle&s;s grown,</L>
<L>They broke into Pa&s;tures that lay nigh the Throne;</L>
<L>They Fatted them&s;elves, and they ranged about,</L>
<L>And undid the Owner before they come out:</L>
<L>He was fore'd out of hand, to leave all his Land,</L>
<L>Such damn'd Popi&s;h Bulls de&s;erve all to be Hang'd;</L>
<L>More Mi&s;chief they did which mu&s;t not be expre&s;t,</L>
<L>I'le leave you alone to imagine the re&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now the&s;e &s;ad Bea&s;ts for the Mi&s;chief they'd done,</L>
<L>Will be to the Slaughter brought every one;</L>
<L>And if that they were but well order'd and dre&s;t,</L>
<L>'Twould make <HI>Pope</HI> and <HI>Devil</HI> a delicate Fea&s;t;</L>
<L>Their Bull nor their Bears, &s;hall breed no more fears,</L>
<L>Nor &s;et us together again by the Ears,</L>
<L>We'll out of our Land quickly drive out &s;uch Bea&s;ts,</L>
<L>As popular Rogues, and di&s;quieted Prie&s;ts.</L>
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<LG>
<L>You that are minded to purcha&s;e a Hide,</L>
<L>Pray lay by your Coin while the Bulls they are try'd,</L>
<L>For then at the Gallows you'll &s;ee &s;uch a heap,</L>
<L>And excellent Penniworths &s;old very Cheap:</L>
<L>Stay but while Se&s;&s;ions, you'll hear &s;uch Confe&s;&s;ions,</L>
<L>As Subtle as e're was the Old Declarations;</L>
<L>But we &s;hall have now a much Hone&s;ter State,</L>
<L>And be no more Bull'd at &s;o &s;imple a rate.</L>
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<P>Printed in the Year 1689.</P>
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