On the Word
ABDICATE.
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(1)
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SOme Thieves, by ill hap, with an Honest Man met,
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And with Armed Ruffins him round did beset;
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They made scurvy signs, he should yield up his Purse,
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Or if he durst keep it, he should fare the worse.
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He saw them so strong,
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And fearing great Wrong,
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And flying for safety, his Purse down he flung:
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So 'tis Lawfully theirs, by a Vote of our State,
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Because he did freely his Purse Abdicate.
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(2)
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A Virgin did fall in a Ravishers hands,
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And no way cou'd scape their Lawless Demands;
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They ty'd fast her Arms, and left her no Power,
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Their Will to resist, or her Honour t' secure.
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So the Maid they Abus'd,
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And at pleasure Misus'd,
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Yet the Ravisher's Honest, she Justly Accus'd;
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And made a meer Whore by a Vote of our State,
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she freely her Maiden-head did Abdicate.
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(3)
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Some Robbers broke into a Gentlemans House,
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They seiz'd his Arms, Pinion'd him, then let him loose:
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His Servants to th' Villains their help too did lend,
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So he fled, 'cause he cou'd it no longer defend.
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They Swore they'd still have it,
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Since they did not bereave it,
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But of his own free accord the Owner did leave it:
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So 'tis Lawfully theirs by a Vote of our State,
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Because he did freely his House Abdicate.
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(4)
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A Father did quietly enjoy his Estate,
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His Ambitious Son thought his turn wou'd come late;
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So his Armed Comrades, with some Tenant did joyn,
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To force him away, or to make him Resign:
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Their pretence they did tell,
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That he Manag'd not well,
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And therefore it Lawfully to their shares fell:
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So they've Just Title to't, by a Vote of our State,
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Because he did freely his Right Abdicate.
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(5)
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An Ambitious Prince did strangely intend,
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To Dethrone his own Uncle, his Wife, Father & Friend
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With some Treacherous Subjects the Plot was so lay'd
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That they should Desert, while he did Invade:
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Power left he had none,
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To maintain his Own,
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So when he was bid, it was time to be gone:
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So he quite lost his Right by a Vote of our State,
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Because he did freely his Crown Abdicate.
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(6)
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Now unless the Word Abdicate bears this strange sense
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New King and New Parliament are vanish'd hence;
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Coronation's a Foppery, our New Laws are gone,
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New Allegiance is Treason, New Officers none:
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Our Taxes are Robb'ry,
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We English Men Slaves,
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And all those odd Voters are so many Knaves:
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For all the whole Frame of our New-fashion'd State,
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Is built on the Nonsence of their Abdicate:
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For if James did not freely quit, then no new King
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And all that thence follows, hangs on the same String
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