EBBA 34457
Houghton Library - Miscellaneous
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A NEW
ANSWER
TO AN
ARGUMENT
AGAINST
A Standing Army.
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WOuld they who have Nine Years look'd Sow'r,
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Against a French and Popish Pow'r,
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Make Friends with both in half an Hour?
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This is the Time.
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Would they discreetly break that Sword,
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By which their Freedom was restor'd,
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And put their Trust in Lewis Word?
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This is the Time.
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Would you turn Hero's into Pads,
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And crush the Sp'rits of our brave Lads,
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And make them look like Bedlam Mads?
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This is the Time.
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Would they leave England unprotected,
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To shew how well they are affected,
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And get themselves next Bout Elected?
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This is the Time.
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Against the Souldiers Lusts and Gullets,
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Would they preserve their Wives and Pullets,
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And break our Guns to save our Bullets?
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This is the Time.
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Would they oblige a Winter-Sea,
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Their prudent Orders to obey,
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Or keep a straying Wind in pay?
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This is the Time.
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Wou'd they but say what th' are pursuing,
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Who th' are advancing, who undoing,
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Which sort of Men do threaten ruin?
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This is the Time.
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I pray then let 'em shew their Games,
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Fix us to one of their Extreams;
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A Common-wealth, or else K. James?
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This is the Time.
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