THE
LITANY
OF
The D. of B.
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FRom a Sensual, Proud, Atheistical Life,
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From Arming our Lacqueys with Pistol and Knife,
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From Murthering the Husband and Whoring the Wife:
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Libera nos.
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From going Ambassadors only as Panders,
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From Re-killing dead Kings with Monstrous Slanders,
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From Betraying the Living in Scotland and Flanders:
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Libera nos.
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From a Wild Rambling no-where Abode,
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Without Day or Night, nor at Home nor Abroad,
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From a Prince to Unhorse us on Dover Road:
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Libera nos.
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From Crowning the Herse of our Babe of Adultery,
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Interred among Kings by a Lord of the Prelacy,
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Whom we got Cashier'd for Carnal Arsery:
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Libera nos.
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From Selling Land twice, ten thousand a year
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All Spent, no Mortal can tell how, or where,
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And then Reform Kingdoms as a Sanctifi'd Peer:
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Libera nos.
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From Monstrous Sucking, till both Tongues have Blisters,
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From making our Boasts of giving three Glisters,
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By giving our Claps to three cheated Sisters:
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Libera nos.
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From Transposing Nature upon our Bon---Gers,
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On Keniston Acting both Venus and Mars,
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From owning twenty other mens Farce:
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Libera nos.
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From Wretched Pasquills against Shadwel and Dryden,
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From Casting Nativities with Learned Heyden,
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And Casting of Dollars at Antwerp and Leyden:
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Libera nos.
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From Trembling at Sea, when not a Gun Roar'd,
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And then Steal Ashore by Breaking our Word.
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With Dam me if e're you Catch me Aboard:
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Libera nos.
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From being still Cheated by the same Undertakers,
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By Levellers, Bawds, Saints, Chymists and Quakers,
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Who make us Gold-Finders, and themselves Gold Makers:
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Libera nos.
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From Dam me, whatever we don't Understand,
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From Purchasing at Dowgate, and Selling i'th Strand,
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Calling Streets by our Name, when we have Sold the Land
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Libera nos.
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From Borrowing our own House to Treat Scholars Ill,
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And then be Unchancellor'd against our Will,
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Nought left of a Colledge but our own Colledge-hill:
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Libera nos.
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From Judging the Judges in a Senseless Speech,
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From Following S------, that Riggling Leech,
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Because by Twins both Suckt the same Bitch:
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Libera nos.
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From Mortally Hating all those that Love us,
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From Mimical Acting all those Above us,
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Till our Master at last is forc'd to Remove us:
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Libera nos.
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From Cringing to those we Scorn to Condemn,
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In hopes to be made the Citizens Gem,
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Who now Scorn us more than e're we did them:
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Libera nos.
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From Sneaking 'twixt Castle-yard and Vandeput,
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From Telling Tales when we have been at Rutt,
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And Ramming three Candles into one Ladies Scut:
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Libera nos.
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From beginning an Execrable Traitarous Health,
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To Destroy this Parliament, King and Himself,
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To be made Ducall Peer of a New Commonwealth:
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Libera nos.
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From Changing Old Friends for Rascally New ones,
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From taking Wildman and Marvil for True Ones,
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From Wearing Green Ribbons 'gainst him gave Blew ones:
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Libera nos.
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From Lodging at Court before we are Sent for,
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From Selling six Pallaces for less than they Rent-for,
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And Buying three Hillocks for the three Kings of Branford:
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Libera nos.
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Sion-hill.
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Colledge-hill
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Cliptdon-hill
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From Learning new Morals from Bedlam, Sir Peyton,
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Or Truth and Modesty from Ellis Leyton,
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From making our Heirs to be Morris and Clayton:
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Libera nos.
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