UNIVERSITY ANSWER
To the Pretended
UNIVERSITY BALLAD.
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I.
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WE receivd your Advice as good Daughters
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should do, Fa la, etc.
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Not doubting the least, but the Mother was true,
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Not doubting, etc.
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When you provd nothing like her at second Review.
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Fa la, etc.
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II.
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Thus Jacob the Younger by the Means of a Plot, Fa la,
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The Blessing designd for the Eldest Son, got, Fa la,
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The Blessing, etc.
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And was taken by Isaac for what he was not. Fa, la,
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III.
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His Face and his Hands, his Garment and Hair, Fa, la,
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Imposed on the Patriarchs Fatherly Care, Fa, la, etc.
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Imposed, etc.
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Till his Voice made the Cheat most apparently clear.
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Fa, la, etc.
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IV.
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Een so twas with us, who deceivd at first Sight, Fa, la,
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Took the Parent of Darkness for the Parent of Light,
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Fa, la, etc.
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Took, etc.
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Till the Tone of the Voice set us Both in the right.
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Fa, la, etc.
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V.
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Believe us Dissembler, thy Shifts and Escapes, Fa, la,
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Thy Fetches and Projects, thy Forms and thy Shapes,
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Fa, la, etc.
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Thy, etc.
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Cant Inveagle the Wise to Relish soure Grapes. Fa, la,
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VI.
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Tho Woodcocks in Southwark mistake thy Designs,
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And the Mobb take Delight in thy plausible Rhimes,
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And the Mobb, etc.
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Like Fish who bite on, Spight of Hooks and of Lines,
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VII.
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Yet know that DFoe in the Churchs Disguise, Fa, la,
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Cant make us believe his Inventions and Lyes, Fa, la,
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Cant, etc.
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Tho he seem to be just and very Precise. Fa, la, etc.
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VIII.
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We dare to be True to the Church and the Nation,
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In Spight of thy Arts, and thy Mock Moderation,
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In Spight, etc.
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And the Patriot Sir H. his Sham Vindication. Fa, la, etc.
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IX.
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Tho Legions and Black-Lists deal about their
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Alarms,Fa, la, etc.
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And Scandalous Pamphlets fly about us in Swarms,
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And, etc.
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Tho DFoe preaches Peace to Invite us to Arms. Fa, la,
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X.
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Tho our Heads are Traducd with Design to Oppose,
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The Candidate thou woudst have nowhere be Chose,
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Fa, la, etc.
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The, etc.
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Tho Libels are scatterd both in Verse and in Prose.
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XI.
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Yet M------th who Scorns all degenerate Ends, Fa, la,
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Whose Heart to the Center of Loyalty tends, Fa, la,
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Whose, etc.
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Shall never want Votes while Religion has Friends,
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XII.
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Nor shalt thou Detract from our Wh------cks Desert,
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Who has found out your Tricks, and is an honest
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Convert, Fa, la; etc.
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Who, etc.
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And doth make up with Zeal what is wanting in Art.
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XIII.
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He will not give back, nor at his Friends grudge,
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If they bid him Attack a Bishop or ------ Judge, Fa, la,
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If, etc.
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For at Hunting a F--x he is a true Drudge. Fa, la, etc.
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XIV.
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And as for his Oaths he is Able to pay, Fa, la, etc.
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And not like De Foe to Sculk out of the way, Fa, la,
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And, etc.
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And neither Poor nors Creditors one Penny to pay.
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XV.
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Tho he make not many Speeches, he has a good Nose,
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And will always give Vote for Impeaching of those,
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And, etc.
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Who on the Prince and the People do plainly Impose.
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XVI.
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Elections are Free, and well freely Bestow Fa, la, etc.
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Our Votes on such Men, as now we do know, Fa, la,
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Fa, la, etc.
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Our, etc.
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Do hate your Distinction of High and of Low, Fa, la,
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XVII.
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Our Members shall be such as will not shrink back,
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Since the Best of our Laws have been gaind by a Tack
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Since, etc.
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Tho each get the Name of Sach------ll or Jack. Fa, la,
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XVIII.
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Not one of our Members shall Sneak from the Clause,
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But stand in the Gap in Defence of our Cause, Fa, la,
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But, etc.
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And deserve our Esteem and the Nations Applause,
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XIX.
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Tho Kit-Kats made Drs. perhaps may suppose,
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We are bound to agree with their Yeas and their Noes,
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We, etc.
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Yet theyll find themselves very much out in the Close.
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XX.
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For neither Nobs Councel, nor the Drs. made Knights,
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Shall be Keepers of our University Rights, Fa, la, etc.
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Shall, etc.
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But who meet with their Favours, shall meet with our
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Slights. Fa, la, etc.
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XXI.
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Thus the Tables may turn once more of our side, Fa, la,
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The Whigs may abate of their Insolent Pride, Fa, la,
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The Whigs, etc.
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And Annas Best Friends under Anna may Guide.
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