THE
Wager-Mongers:
OR A
LAMPOON
On those who laid Wagers on the Taking of
LYMERICK.
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HANG out a Flag: for Pence a piece,
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I'll shew you Jasons Golden Fleece;
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The Isle of Colchos upside-down,
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By Wager-Mongers of the Town.
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To Lymerick we our Letters sent,
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To know the News was our intent;
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But our Returns were Lyes and Stories,
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Of Loyal Whigs and Rebel Tories.
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Some Swore that Lymerick-Isle was taken;
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Without Medaeas help forsaken:
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But when it was brought to a Tryal,
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The Tories stood to their Denial.
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No, by her Shoul, her is not right,
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As shee's a Loyal Shacobite;
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Tee Wager's ours, tee Letters ly'd,
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As her is on King Sheames[']s side.
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And thus the Wager-Mongers sit,
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Who had more Money than sound Wit,
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Depriv'd of all their Seven Senses,
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Cursing the past and present Tenses.
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Some's left the Town, and gone to Holland,
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And Some is on their Voy'ge to Poland:
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And some to Ireland do repair;
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And some are gone the Devil knows where.
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He that at Mons did gain the day,
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At Lymerick Siege must run away:
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And F------, who did Hector W------
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Is now an Object fit to F------ on.
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Now tell me what the deepest Plotter,
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The English, Welsh, or the Bog-trotter,
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Who gain'd, gets by the empty Hamper,
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When all the Higlers thus do Scamper.
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But Man of Lots, and of Despair,
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That thought thy Revenues to rear,
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From others Ruins; be content,
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What's past, there's no Man can prevent.
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Take not, Dear Joy, for earthly Pelf,
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A Halter now to Hang yourself.
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Then Courage Boys, a Turd for Gold,
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You still may Mump when you are Old:
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A Man of Valour's ne'er the worse,
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To play a Saddle against a Horse.
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For what you lost is not worth fretting,
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It was of your Grand-Father's getting.
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I Six-pence laid against a Shilling,
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Tho', at the time, I was unwilling:
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I lost my Money, but we drank it,
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And for the off-come Jove be thanked.
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Tho' of my Loss there's no Recovery,
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I wish you all as fair Delivery;
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For I'm one of your Brother Owls,
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Free of the Company of Fools.
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An Animal, made up of Guts,
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Whose Brains are gelded of their Wits;
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Who's Foolish both and Wise by chance,
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Whose Apprehension's in a Trance,
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Depriv'd of Fear, he hazards all,
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Without respect to Stand or Fall.
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Who lost these Wagers are but Owls,
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And Fortune proves the Gainers Fools.
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But he that lost and he that wan,
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Is neither Wise nor Sober Man:
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For he that wan he might have lost,
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And whereupon had he to boast?
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Both may be fit for many things,
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But none for Counsellors of Kings.
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He who for Riches hastens, shall,
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In great Temptations, daily fall.
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