STATE-CASES
PUT TO
JACK PRESBYTER:
----Rabies amavit Iambo.
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I.
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JAck, if you have one Grain of Sence,
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That's free from Pride and Impudence,
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Say something in your own Defence,
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But LYE NOT.
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II.
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Why dost thou make our Blood recoyl,
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With Noise of Plots and Popish Guile,
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Whilst you're the Traitor all the while:
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And BYGOT?
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III.
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Why dost thou Brood upon the Plot,
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To Hatch the Mischiefs Rome cou'd not,
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And play the old Game? but we've cought
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Ye NAPPING.
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IV.
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Why did the little Dorset-Eele,
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To make the Brain-sick Croud Rebel;
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Sad Stories in the City tell,
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And WAPPING?
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V.
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What did the Western Progress mean,
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When a fine Duke did march between,
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Lord G---- and Tommy, to be seen
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o'th' WOMEN?
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VI.
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How Country Protestants did run
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To Gaze upon a Royal Son,
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God bless him, or we're quite undone
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For FREEMEN.
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VII.
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What meant Ben Harris's Appeal,
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So full of Loyalty and Zeal;
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Was it not written for to heal
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Our BREACHES?
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VIII.
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Why did the Commons House Address,
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And move the King that He'd Release,
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The Villain from the Marshalseas;
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And GRATIS?
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IX.
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And Prythee Jack, didst never hear
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The famous Speach of Noble Peer,
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Stuft with true Protestant and bare-
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Fac'd TREASON?
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X.
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Why were so many Thousand spread,
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That every Post-Town Packets had
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Without own Penny for'em paid;
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The REASON?
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XI.
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Why did the Perjur'd Jury fave,
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The little Elephantine Knave;
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And on the Bill's back-side Engrave
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IGNORAMUS?
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XII.
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Juries are now a Town Trepan,
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A Tory-Trap, They know their Man,
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This Jack we plainly say, nor can
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You BLAME US.
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XIII.
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Why did you stickle Tooth and Nail,
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The Penal Statutes to Repeal;
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When you yourselves wou'd never deal
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Such MEASURE?
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XIV.
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But did inhumanly impose
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On all you judg'd Dissenting Foes,
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Heavy Mulcts and heavier Blows
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At PLEASURE.
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XV.
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Why did the Knights and Burghers Vote,
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No Man shou'd lend the King a Groat;
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Tho good Security were brought:
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And ROYAL?
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XVI.
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But Oh! That Britain's Majesty
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Is never to be trusted, why,
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Confounded Jack, was that said; I
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DEFYE ALL.
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XVII.
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Why doe you suffer Janeway,
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And Curtis Factious Lies to say,
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And Hireling Care, the Devils Ama-
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NUENSIS.
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XVIII.
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Why doth the Packet of Advice,
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And Protestant true Mercuries,
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Scare Folks with Weekly Forgeries,
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To FRENZIES?
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XIX.
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And yet you easily can spie
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In Roger's Works State-Heresy,
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And Popery the Devil and all in He-
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RACLITUS.
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XX.
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Jack, If you will these Scruples weigh,
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And any Thing in Answer say;
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To Quoery once again it may
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INVITE US.
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