The new
PROJECTOR;
OR
The Priviledged CHEAT:
Who when Men do come to receive Satisfaction,
Doth answer them all, I have got a PROTECTION.
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I Am a Projector that alwaies have thriv'd
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by Sideing with every Faction;
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I have to the bottom of Villianie div'd,
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and fitted my selfe for all Actions;
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In every Corner my Springes I have set,
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At Tennis, and Tables, and Billiards I Bet.
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I Shuffle, and run into every Mans Debt:
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But now I have got a Protection.
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Since Sixteen hundred forty and two,
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In the time of our first Distraction,
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When paltrie People had nothing to do,
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but Quarrell, and fall into Fraction;
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The Caveliers Party I envyed most,
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My Sanctified Zeal was as hot as a Toast,
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We Fought for Religion untill it was lost:
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But now I have got a Protection.
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I Canted in Scripture, I Taught in a Tub,
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and gave them Divine Direction:
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The Organ I turn'd into Dub, a dub, dub,
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like a Babe of the new Election,
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I reacht at All, and every Thing
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That would my own Advancement bring,
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I aim'd at the Bishop, and Shot at the King:
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But now I have got a Protection.
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I Preach'd, and Protested, I Plundred & Pray'd,
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and gave all the People Direction;
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Who ever did Trust me, I alwaies Betray'd
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by civil and subtle Inspection.
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When Oliver pull'd the Long Parliament down
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And set up the signe of the Red-nose and Crown,
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I frighted the Caveliers dead with a frown;
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Yet I have got a Protection.
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But Oliver dyed, and I was to seeke,
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My spirits did suffer dejection:
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I made my Address to his simple Son Dick,
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A Prince of a frollick complexion;
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A Man that lov'd Wine, and was given to Mirth
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But had a small portion of politick Worth;
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So down of a suddain dropt Richard the fourth:
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And now he doth want a Protection.
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The Commitee of Safety I knew would not last,
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It was of such cursed Confection;
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The Weather I saw was so much over-cast,
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That I lookt for a Scottish Projection:
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My fears come upon me, I sweat and I stunk,
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And stagger'd in Judgement, like one that was drunk,
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Then in came Pollitick Generall Monck,
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And put me quite by my protection.
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I smelt (by his drumming) that something was coming,
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to purge all the Air of infection.
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The Bonfires and Ringing, did usher the King in,
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which alter'd the Zealots complexion;
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Thought I, the Kings Party will be very strong
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And therefore ile turn and be for him ding dong,
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For I by my subtlety ere it be long,
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shall get me a cheating protection
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I mounted my Jennet to bring in the King
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and rejoyc'd at his Resurrection,
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My voice was well pitch'd, and my Hat I did fling,
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in token and signe of Subjection;
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I Capor'd, I Ranted, I Tipled for joy.
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I call'd them all Roundheads that hindred my way,
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I cast up my Cap, and cry'd Vive-le-Roy,
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for which I have got a Protection.
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I made a discovery of all that I knew,
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who formerly were of my Faction:
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I got me to Court, and in favour I grew,
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men of my own Complexion;
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With Dice, Drink, and Drabb, I did swagger and roar,
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And though I did cry Yea and Nay before,
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Yet Damn me, Confound me, and Sink me I swore,
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for then I had got a Protction.
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My Debts were advanc'd to a terrible height,
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which brought me so much in Subjection,
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I should have been prest to death with their weight,
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if I had not used projection:
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Cheapside and Paternoster-Row,
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My crafty delusions do very well know;
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For most of the Shops have my hand to show.
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but now I have got a Protection.
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The Draper, the Butcher, the Brewer and Baker,
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are sensible of my Exaction,
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The Presbyter, Brownists, and Seeker and Quaker,
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are waiting for satisfaction:
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But when in the streets they me espy,
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They'l take an order with me they cry,
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I swagger, and tell 'em all, damn me they lye
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for now I have got a Protection.
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You Merchants and Citizens that do live high
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and are of a good Extraction,
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Beware how you credit such Gamesters as I.
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for Cheating is our Complexion:
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The Court, and the City, and Countrey may rue,
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The unfortunate season that ever they knew,
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Such knaves as myself (give the Divel his due)
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that Cousen men with a Protection.
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