The Age of Wonders.
To the Tune of Chivy Chase.
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THE Year of Wonders is arrivd,
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The Devil has learnt to dance;
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The Church from Danger just retrievd
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By Help brought in from Fance.
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Natures run mad, and Madmen rule,
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The Worlds turnd upside down;
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Tumult puts in to keep the Peace,
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And Popery the Crown.
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In all the Ages of the World,
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Such Wonders nere were seen;
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Papists cry out for th English Church,
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And Rabbles for the Queen.
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The Pulpit thunders Death and War,
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To heal the Bleeding Nation;
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And sends Dissenters to the D--l.
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To keep the Tolleration.
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The High-Church Clergy mounted high,
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Like Sons of Jehu drive;
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And over True Religion ride,
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To keep the Church alive.
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The Furiosos of the Church
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Come foremost like the Wind;
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And Moderation, out of Breath,
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Comes trotting on behind.
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The Realm, from Danger to secure,
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To foreign Aid we cry;
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With Papists and Nonjurors join,
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To keep out Popery.
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King William on our Knees we curse,
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And damn the Revolution;
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And to preserve the Nations Peace,
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We study its Confusion.
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With Treacherous Heart and Double Tongue,
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Both Parties we adhere to;
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Pray for the Side we swear against,
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And curse the Side we swear to.
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To Heaven we for our Sovereign pray,
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And take the Abjuration;
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But take it Hocus Pocus way,
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With jugling Reservation.
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Sachevrell-like, with Double Face,
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We pray for our Defender;
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To good Queen Anne make Vile Grimace,
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But drink to the Pretender.
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With Presbyterians we unite,
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And Protestant Succession;
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But if the D....l came for both,
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Wed give him free possession.
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Our Scheme of Politicks is wise,
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Good L....d! that youd but read it;
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T pulls Marlbro down, to beat the French,
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And the Bank to keep our Credit.
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Because our Treasurer was just,
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And House of Commons hearty;
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And neither woud betray their Trust,
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Or sell us to a Party:
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Our Business is, that neither may
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Their Places long Abide in;
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But get such chosen in their room,
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As no Man can confide in.
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Who shall deserve your mighty Praise
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For Fund, and eke for Loan;
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And may the Nations Credit raise,
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But never can their own:
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Because declaring Rights to reign,
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Our Parliaments have part in;
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Well have the Queen that Claim disown,
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For one thats more uncertain.
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The Restoration to make plain,
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That Perkin maynt miscarry,
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Weve wisely wheedld up the Queen
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To Right Hereditary.
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The Dignity of Parliaments,
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The stronger to imprint in s;
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We hug the Priest who they condemn,
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And ridicule their Sentence.
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In order to discurage Mobs,
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And keep the People quiet;
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The Rablers we condemn for Form,
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But not a Rogue shall die yet.
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The Duke of Marlborough to requite,
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For retrieveing English Honour;
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His D......ss shall have all the Spite
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That Fools can put upon her.
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For Battles fought, and Towns reducd
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And Popish Armies broken,
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And that our English Gratitude
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May t future times be spoken:
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While fighting for the Nation he
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Looks Danger in the Face,
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We strive t insult his Family,
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And Load him with Disgrace.
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Because hes crownd with Victory,
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And all the people love him;
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We hate the Man for the Success,
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And therefore will remove him.
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And now were stirring up the Mob
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Against a new Election,
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That High-Church Members may be chose
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By our most wise Direction.
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That Queens may Parliaments Dissolve,
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No doubt tis right and just;
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But we have found it out that now,
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Because she may, she must.
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The Bankrupt Nation to restore,
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And pay the Millions lent;
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Well at one dash wipe out the Score,
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With Spunge of Parliament.
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Then we can carry on the War,
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With neither Fund or Debt;
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And Banks shall eat us up no more,
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Upon pretence of Credit.
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If not, well close with Terms of Peace
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Prescribd by France and Rome;
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That War, being huddled up Abroad,
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May then break out at Home.
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