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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>AN ANSWER To the AUTHOR of Humble Thanks for His Maje&s;ties Gracious Declaration FOR LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>'TWixt Heaven and thee, how &s;prung the&s;e fatal jars,</L>
<L>That thou <HI>(Poor Robin)</HI> rail'&s;t again&s;t the Stars?</L>
<L>To thee what have their influences done,</L>
<L>With &s;o much zeal to bark again&s;t the Moon?</L>
<L>On Heavens <HI>Tables</HI> if thou knew'&s;t what's writ</L>
<L>As well as on the Earthly what is &s;et,</L>
<L>We would allow thou might'&s;t the feud maintain,</L>
<L>Enabled by the belly not thy brain:</L>
<L>The&s;e things, alas, tran&s;cend thy &s;crutiny,</L>
<L>Their Language is but Arabick to thee;</L>
<L>Thou that could'&s;t never yet higher advance,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Dod,</HI> and <HI>Cleaver,</HI> and the <HI>Concordance.</HI></L>
<L>Thou know'&s;t not that the <HI>Square</HI> of <HI>Mercury</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>Mars</HI> afflicts a <HI>Punner</HI>'s brain, yet we</L>
<L>Find it alas, to be too true in thee.</L>
<L>We know what <HI>Saturn</HI> did at <HI>Barthol'mew,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ome are of opinion &s;o do you:</L>
<L>In tho&s;e <HI>Dog-days</HI> had been the fitte&s;t time</L>
<L>To cur&s;e thy Stars <HI>(Poor Robin)</HI> in lewd time;</L>
<L><HI>Mount Ano</HI> for <HI>Parna&s;&s;us</HI> then had gone,</L>
<L>Thou might'&s;t have made with tears an <HI>Helicon,</HI></L>
<L>And fetch'd a <HI>Pega&s;us</HI> from <HI>Abingdon.</HI></L>
<L>But <HI>Now</HI> to rave, when a propitious ray</L>
<L>Has &s;hin'd on thee, and turn'd thy night to day;</L>
<L><HI>Now</HI> that the <HI>Claret-di&s;pen&s;ation's</HI> come,</L>
<L>And thou may'&s;t vie for <HI>Toe</HI> with <HI>Him</HI> at <HI>Rome;</HI></L>
<L>A&s;&s;um'd the pri&s;tine Rubies of thy beauty,</L>
<L>And art made capable of being gouty:</L>
<L>What is it le&s;s then when no foe was near us,</L>
<L>With &s;o much heat to cry out, <HI>Cur&s;e ye Meroz!</HI></L>
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<L>What have tho&s;e Reverend <HI>Prelates</HI> done to thee</L>
<L>Thus to bla&s;pheme their pious memory?</L>
<L><HI>Gloc'&s;ter,</HI> and learned <HI>Darham's</HI> name &s;hall live,</L>
<L>When thine in <HI>Grub&s;treet</HI> hardly &s;hall &s;urvive.</L>
<L>Unmanner'd man! in Stars, and Men, ill read,</L>
<L>To trample on the A&s;hes of the <HI>Dead!</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Well! &s;ince the <HI>Royal Clemency</HI> has given</L>
<L>Each man his leave to choo&s;e his way to Heaven,</L>
<L>Clean, and unclean Bea&s;ts into one <HI>Ark</HI> driven:</L>
<L>Since <HI>pre&s;&s;ing</HI> i' th' <HI>Church-Militant</HI> di&s;appears,</L>
<L>And all men now are Go&s;pel <HI>Volunteers;</HI></L>
<L>Since we are all united, let's agree,</L>
<L>Think you no wor&s;e of us, then of you, we;</L>
<L>For by your foul reflections we'r afraid,</L>
<L>You write the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e in Ma&s;querade.</HI></L>
<L>In&s;tead of bonds and per&s;ecution,</L>
<L>Wherewith you us'd to make the Pulpit groan,</L>
<L>Thank our kind <HI>Prince</HI> who with compa&s;&s;ionate eyes</L>
<L>Look'd down and pittied your infirmities.</L>
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<L>This may be done without or Rope, or Bell,</L>
<L>And thus Dear <HI>Dogg'rel,</HI> heartily farewel.</L>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the Star in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">oleman&s;treet, LONDON.</HI></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Yours, <HI>Y. Z.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>With Allowance,<DATE>May 6. 1672.</DATE></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>J. Edwin</HI> at the three Ro&s;es in <HI>Ludgate-&s;treet,</HI> 1672.</P>
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