A
LITANY
FOR THE
FAST.
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FROM Merit unweildy, and overgrown Worth;
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From such Honours and Loyalty, Faith and so forth,
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As three Princes betray'd, and now bullies the Fourth,
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Libera nos, Domine.
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From Duty that is such a Rarity thought,
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That while Honour and Conscience, not worth a Groat,
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This at the Price of a House and Crown-Lands must be bought,
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Libera Nos, etc.
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From who keeps the Vacant Commissions six Months
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Of Colonels and Captains, Premiers and Seconds;
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And oh! Terrible thus is an Army at once,
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From a Peace to be manag'd by such Plenipoes
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As thereby Forty Thousand per annum must lose,
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And who has no Passion for Money, God knows,
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From the Cause of a Court, and the Spawn of a Bawd,
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From Malice and Faction, Pride Envy and Fraud;
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From a Cloven-Foot veil'd with a Petticoat Lord,
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From the Pest of a State, a Club-ridden Knave,
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Who a Nation does with their own money enslave,
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And has damn'd more than Thou in thy Justice can save,
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From Tremendous Cabals that do Fatally rise,
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From an Elightning Custard and Hot Mutton-Pyes,
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To bubble the State, and bully the Skies,
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From such Civil Law as insults Holy Writ,
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From the Number where Faction contracted does sit
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Into Five; that's Two Fools, Two Knaves and a Wit,
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From a People too good to be told of their Faults,
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From an Head of a City, whose Word goes for nought,
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Who'll endeavour to save St. Pauls-work,'tis thought,
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Libera Nos, etc.
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