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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<P>THE OLD EXCHANGE TO THE <HI>New Stadt-hou&s;e:</HI> OR, <HI>The</HI> Frogs <HI>are in Fear that the Sun &s;hould Marry.</HI></P>
<Q><P>In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas Corpora.</P>
<BIBL><HI>Ovid Metam.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P>Printed in the Year 1667. for <HI>F. C.</HI> near the <HI>Bridge.</HI></P>
<P>Price 1 <HI>d.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="2" REF="2">
<HEAD>The old <HI>Exchange</HI> to the new <HI>Stadt Hou&s;e,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_LOW Country Provinces, united Bogs,</L>
<L>Once di&s;tre&s;t States, now <HI>Hogen Mogen</HI> Frogs;</L>
<L>Royal and Noble Int're&s;t gone, Command;</L>
<L>Grown formidable both at Sea and Land:</L>
<L>Who but a Century of Years before</L>
<L>Dabbled in Fi&s;hing, de&s;picably Poor,</L>
<L>In &s;eamle&s;s Ve&s;&s;els, Troughs, cut out of Logs,</L>
<L>Catch'd W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ting-Mops; now <HI>Gogs</HI> and <HI>Gog-magogs,</HI></L>
<L>In &s;tately Pines new Con&s;tellations rai&s;e,</L>
<L>Ploughing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">p <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">illow Two and Thirty Ways;</L>
<L>Through boiling Brine, through Cakes of cru&s;ted Ice,</L>
<L>For Gold and Silver, Ivory, Oyl, and Spice;</L>
<L>What Straights, Gulphs, treading Days, &s;pare they to pierce,</L>
<PB N="3" REF="2">
<L>By Water to take in the Univer&s;e?</L>
<L>Are they with Force not able to Invade?</L>
<L>No Matter; they'll undo the World by Trade.</L>
<L>Four Frogs, two Tod-pols, and one grea&s;y Toad,</L>
<L>Deep freighted Bottoms bear from Road to Road.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Whom now a con&s;ternating Panick Fear</L>
<L>Dejected much: The Sun will wed they hear;</L>
<L>The News from <HI>India,</HI> wor&s;e than Plague or War,</L>
<L>Brought and atte&s;ted by the blazing Star.</L>
<L>To Pigmy Inches the&s;e gygantick Frogs,</L>
<L>Pale Terror &s;hrunk; &s;ummon'd from all the Bogs,</L>
<L>Hopping or Crawling they in Clu&s;ters came,</L>
<L>Up to their Prime <HI>Morra&s;s,</HI> their greate&s;t <HI>Damm.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There the new <HI>Stadt-Hou&s;e</HI> &s;tands built fair and large,</L>
<L>For their own Profit, but the People's charge;</L>
<L>Where they in all Emergencies of State,</L>
<L>Or private Bu&s;ine&s;s in Convention &s;ate:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No <HI>Portico</HI> this modern Building fac'd,</L>
<L>Within no ancient Princes Figures grac'd;</L>
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<L>Nor Grandfires with their Nets, &s;uch were too Poor</L>
<L>To &s;tand with Bo&s;oms there behind the Door,</L>
<L>Who for their own <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI> Martyrs dy'd</L>
<L>By Hemp, or by more Realous Faggots try'd,</L>
<L>But Gods and Godde&s;&s;es in Marble carv'd,</L>
<L>Or finely Painted, which the Heathen &s;erv'd,</L>
<L>In all the <HI>Nieches,</HI> each convenient Place</L>
<L>In Stone or Tables the fair Structure Grace;</L>
<L>But yet for all their Skill, the&s;e B&mdash;k Toads</L>
<L>Made <HI>Up&s;ie D&mdash;h</HI> Heroes, Grecian Gods.</L>
<L>Early his Day a&s;&s;embled Old and Young,</L>
<L>The <HI>Dam</HI> they cover, and the <HI>Stadt-Hou&s;e</HI> throng,</L>
<L>Silence commanded, not one whi&s;pering Croak,</L>
<L>An old Sag-bellied Toad ri&s;ing, thus &s;poke.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Grave <HI>Hogen Mogen,</HI> High and Mighty Frogs?</L>
<L>Who&s;e Care and Prudence fertiliz'd the Bogs,</L>
<L>And &s;o improv'd the&s;e your United States,</L>
<L>Princes to Beard, and be with Kings <HI>Cope Mates,</HI></L>
<L>Though we from Mu&s;hrooms &s;prung, and Spawn of Toads,</L>
<L>Like Palaces are now our fair Aboads;</L>
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<L>When through B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ack Waters, and a &s;alt <HI>Mora&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>We in cutt Trenches &s;afe at plea&s;ure pa&s;s,</L>
<L>From <HI>Damn</HI> to <HI>Damn,</HI> and Time with Talk beguile</L>
<L>Our &s;elves and Goods landing, 'thout Care or Toyl;</L>
<L>From which new Water-works more Rent you rai&s;e</L>
<L>Then from rank <HI>Acres,</HI> where fat Oxen gra&s;e,</L>
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<LG>
<L>But what of the Improvements will become?</L>
<L>The Sun will wed, and Nuptials keep at home:</L>
<L>Whom Laws of Gods and Men allow a Year</L>
<L>From Warr or Travel, with his fair Compeer;</L>
<L>His Ab&s;ence will our Marshes in a Trice</L>
<L>To Cry&s;tal turn a never thawing Ice.</L>
<L>Or &s;hou'd we &s;cape &s;uch a continued Fro&s;t</L>
<L>As girdles up nine Months the <HI>Artick</HI> Coa&s;t,</L>
<L>His teeming Spou&s;e may yet produce a Son</L>
<L>Shall quite out of the Beaten <HI>Zodiack</HI> run,</L>
<L>So unexperienc'd drive his Father's Chair,</L>
<L>That &s;oon to fire he'll rarefie the Air,</L>
<L>Water and Earth to Du&s;t and A&s;hes turn,</L>
<L>And all in one new Conflagration burn</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="6" REF="4">
<L>They tell how <HI>Phaeton</HI> our ample Bogs,</L>
<L>To Jelly boyl'd; Stew'd Tod-pods, Toads and Frogs</L>
<L>In one Pottage, and <HI>Pluto</HI> gave, who &s;wore</L>
<L>He never ta&s;ted Broth &s;o Rich before.</L>
<L>Many &s;uch Yonkors may &s;pring from his Loyns,</L>
<L>And &s;hare his Hou&s;es twelve Caele&s;tial &s;igns;</L>
<L>And they may wed have Sons, and Daughters too:</L>
<L>What in this Imminent Danger &s;hall we do!</L>
<L>To what Protector &s;hall we make addre&s;s?</L>
<L>All know that <HI>Neptune</HI> this concerns no le&s;s;</L>
<L>Such drinking Sons may at one Meeting Quaff,</L>
<L>If he had twenty Plumble&s;s Oceans off.</L>
<L>Him to implore lay by next Sabbath Day,</L>
<L>We're no &s;uch Jews, nor Chri&s;tians but we may:</L>
<L>He heard us lately when a &s;welling Tide</L>
<L>Imbodied, Threatned o'r our Tow'rs to ride;</L>
<L>And &s;oon as mov'd, with his great <HI>Trident</HI> came,</L>
<L>Beats of green Reg'ments &s;torm'd our yielding Dame,</L>
<L>Which had they batter'd but nine Inches higher,</L>
<L>We had not liv'd ruin to fear by Fire.</L>
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<LG>
<PB N="7" REF="4">
<L>This &s;aid, Oh wondrous! the Foundations quake,</L>
<L>And the &s;tiff Idols, fixt in Marble, Shake;</L>
<L>When <HI>Neptune,</HI> where he did in Triumph ride</L>
<L>On a rich Shell, his Cheeks fre&s;h Sanguine dy'd,</L>
<L>His <HI>Trident</HI> waving then with Arms di&s;play'd,</L>
<L>Thus to the great Convention wondring &s;aid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Batavian</HI> Frogs, advanc'd by me &s;ole Power</L>
<L>Whom <HI>Jove</HI> fir&s;t planted from a Thunder Shower,</L>
<L>Fear not the Sun, nor at his Of-&s;pring &s;hake:</L>
<L>To the la&s;t drop I'll drain my ample Lake,</L>
<L>My watery Kingdoms Laver into Suds,</L>
<L>To quench their Torches; to the <HI>Stygian</HI> Floods</L>
<L>I'll <HI>Titan</HI> &s;end, and all his fiery Titts,</L>
<L>To light their Lamps, and to regain their Wits.</L>
<L>Lay idle Fears a&s;ide, he'll never Wed,</L>
<L>Nor plant a Female in a flaming Bed.</L>
<L>Su&s;pect no Confilgrations from the Ea&s;t;</L>
<L>But a new Sun now ri&s;ing in the We&s;t;</L>
<PB N="8" REF="5">
<L>His flames beware, make Peace or arm with &s;peed;</L>
<L>You more than all the Elements with need:</L>
<L>Call our Supernal, Call th' infernal Li&s;t,</L>
<L>Both Gods and Fiends to weak are to re&s;i&s;t.</L>
<L>He Threatens my large Arms to bind in Chains,</L>
<L>And now at home a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;econd <HI>Heptune</HI> reigns;</L>
<L>Who three great Nations &s;ways, and two fair I&s;les,</L>
<L>His People <HI>Ruler of the Ocean</HI> Stiles.</L>
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<LG>
<L>This &s;aid, their God grows pale, Limbs &s;tiff and cold,</L>
<L>Trembling with fear, Shrunk in their Marble mold.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L><HI>E&s;t nihil a&s;perius quam humilis quam &s;urgit in altum.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<L>Princes beware to aid a growing State,</L>
<L>Le&s;t they be fir&s;t that give you the check Mate.</L>
<L>Wealth and &s;ucce&s;s turns humblene&s;s to pride:</L>
<L>Beggars on Hor&s;eback to the Devil ride.</L>
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