Good News in Bad Times;
OR,
Absaloms Return to David's Bosome.
To the Tune of, Adieu to the Pleasures and Follies of Love.
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ADieu to the hopes of the Whigs of the State,
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The long-wish'd-for News is arrived, tho' late;
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Reflections of Conscience did Monmouth convince,
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How much he had wrong'd his dear Father, and Prince;
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So hanious a Crime there's none durst befriend,
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But only the Monarch which he did offend;
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Great YORK interceeds for him,
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And Nature Pleads for him,
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to Kiss the Hand of his Monarch again.
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II.
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So humble a Submission, so pensive a Face,
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So glorious an Advocate needs must find grace;
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The God-like great Brothers did Monmouth restore,
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The height of whose Crime shew'd their mercy the more:
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As before in the Court all together they shin'd,
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In the Presence again they will strike envy blind;
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For York has retrieved him,
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The King received him,
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Monarchs have mercy, and Nature is kind.
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III.
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The Peace you have made so successful will prove,
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No Seperatist dares to add Gall to your Dove;
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Be deaf to those Crocodiles if they do Whine,
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They love not your Father, nor none of his Line:
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A Presbyter-Priest when his Zeal does provoke,
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Is a heap of Combustables in a long Cloak:
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Who e're Burn'd the City down,
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Now 'tis a pritty Town, Now 'tis
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But they once made the three Nations to Smoak.
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IV.
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Away to the Court and Survey e'ry Room,
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Your presence will bring there a richer Perfume:
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Each Picture will bow there, and smile in your face,
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And those that detracted will pray for your Grace;
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Then keep in the Court, and your favour renew
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With Caesar, and those that have lov'd you so true:
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And let the Rabble know,
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You'l have no more to do
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With such a Factious Illitterate Crew.
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V.
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The Faction who carrys Religion in's face,
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Will make no more Treats, nor drink healths to your Grace;
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For since you'r returned to Great Caesars Breast,
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They swear you'r a Papist as well as the rest;
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And now they remember their Machine of State
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Was afraid that your Father and you were too great:
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And nothing troubles them,
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But that you Bubbled them,
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Of all their hopes, and of many a Treat.
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VI.
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Keep close to your Gracious forgiving Great King,
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And everyday some new Offering bring;
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Discover Great-Brittains Intestine Foes,
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And those that the Church and her Interest oppose;
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By this you'l deserve the great favour obtain'd,
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And wipe off that Blemish with which you were stain'd
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And like a Glorious Star,
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Of our bright Hemisphere,
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One of her Patrons forever proclaim'd.
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VII.
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Then bless the good Duke, and your Father renown,
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But hate those that put you in thoughts of a Crown;
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Live under its beams, for the shelter is good,
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But think not to injure the old Royal Blood:
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Who Heaven has adopted for a Crowned Head,
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Must wait for the hour of the Field or the Bed;
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And there in Honours fight,
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Take naught but what is right,
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Wronging Succession is wronging the dead.
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