A NEW
LETANY
For the General
FAST DAY.
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FRom Shamming Three Nations by New-coin'd Inventions,
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From Usurping the Crown by Religious Pretentions,
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From Hot-headed Peers, and Self-made Conventions,
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Deliver us good Lord deliver us.
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From making Kings shorter by th' Head with a stroak,
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From thrusting our Necks int' a Sanctify'd Yoak,
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From a Surplice that stinks of a Puritan Cloak,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From building New Houses without good Foundations,
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From the dismal Effects of Dutch Innovations,
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From New-minted Prayers, and Church Reformations,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From breaking Commandments by a Law void of Reason,
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From a Q------ fit for naught but the Rabble to gaze on,
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From Loyalty wrested to Faction and Treason,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From Oatess Black Bills, and all Scurrilous Libels,
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From invisible Grid-Irons, and torturing Sham-Bridles,
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From Luthers last Tenets, and Geneva Bibles,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From a Mob Jus-divinum, with Noise and much Nonsense,
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From acting quite contrary to Gospel, and known Sense,
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From serving Two Masters with a very good Conscience,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From a Foreign Supply of Burnt-brandy Sots,
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From Setling Three Kingdoms by Parliament Votes,
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From Levying more Money to cut our own Throats,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From a General Fast to encourage more Sin,
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From playing the Old Game over agen,
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From a Son, and a Rebel, stuft up in one Skin,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From Wiggish Cabals where Treason prevails,
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From unjustly disclaiming the True Prince of WALES,
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From short German Daggers, and Protestant Flails,
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Deliver us, etc.
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From paying vast Sums for Receipts for the Ptisick,
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From applying to th' K------ whilst the Kingdom wants Physick,
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From Ten thousand Things more that make you Sick and me Sick,
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Deliver us good Lord deliver us.
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