FORTUNATE RISING,
OR THE
RUMP
UPWARD.
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Good People, and you, that have been undone
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By Guns, and Drums, and the Trumpet's tone,
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And new hard Words since Forty and One,
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Which nobody can deny.
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Here is a word, that will plague you more
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Then any, that ever went before,
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'Tis The Rump of Harry Martins Whore,
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Which, etc.
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The Cause was at first a pretty conceit
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To create a durty Rebel great;
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But now that has left th' imperial Seat,
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Which, etc.
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A General was a glorious Name,
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Till Essex his Member spoil't it's Fame;
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For a Souldier ought to be good at the Game,
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Which, etc.
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The Communication Line was a Jigge,
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And as good as the Bath to make women bigge,
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Who never were so, till they learnt to Digge,
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Which, etc.
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Artillery was a thundring word,
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Where many appear'd with Musket and Sword
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To fright poor Atkins out of a Turd,
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Which, etc.
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Cavalier was a name of as great a Force,
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As Centaure, that is both Man and Horse,
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And for Ravishing suffered many a curse,
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Which, etc.
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Yet every woman, that had this fear,
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Although in her heart a Roundhead she were,
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In her belly she wisht a Cavalier,
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Which, etc.
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Sequestration scar'd men out of their Plate,
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Excise drew potent Ale out of date,
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And the Corps de Garde broke many a pate,
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Which, etc.
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The Plunderers made men hide their money,
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And women their jewels, if they had any;
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And one there was, hid gold in her Cunny,
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Which, etc.
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A Commonwealth is a Citizens trust,
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And by his wife ador'd it must,
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As a Topique to prove adultery just,
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Which, etc.
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The Protector storm'd at all mankind,
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Made Kings, and Princes walk behind,
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Till the Divel out-ranted him in a wind,
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Which, etc.
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The Committee of Safety threw the Dye;
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But somebody spit in his face from on high,
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And made the valiant Fleetwood cry,
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Which, etc.
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But the RUMP is a word of such a power,
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Pronounc'd, your Beer, like Thunder, twill sowr,
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And after making you squitter an howr,
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Which, etc.
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The Squirting at EPSOM'S not worth a louse,
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RUMP outdoes all, that come there to carouse;
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For it shit from Portsmouth to Wallingford House,
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Which, etc.
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If Booth were no Knave, a Fool let him be,
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To keep such a stir for Liberty,
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When the Rump sets all it's Tenant Free,
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Which nobody, etc.
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He that could imitate sounds in a Fart,
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And speak from behind with a wondrous Art,
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Were the living now, should take Lenthals part,
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Which no, etc.
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And then a Fart for the City forces,
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For Monk, that's comming with all his Horses,
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And a T--- for Fairfax too, that worse is,
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Which, etc.
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A Parson once in a Frolick Divine
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Exhausted Glasies twenty and nine,
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For Turkey's Rump in Canary Wine,
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Which, etc.
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And sure he receiv'd a Revelation,
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When to Preach he left his first Vocation,
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That a Rump in time should rule the Nation,
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Which, etc.
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Montelion's Dialls a droling Mock,
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With a stick in the Country fellows Dock,
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And fitter now then the Pallace Clock,
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Which, etc.
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Morlay, a joynt of the Rump, grew Big,
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And swelling; but politique Hasilrigge,
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Ha's sent him for Physick to Doctor Trigge,
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Which, etc.
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Mad Vane was Anointed King, and said,
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He receiv'd a Crown that burden'd his Head,
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For which the Rump sent him home to Bed,
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Which, etc,
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The Abjuring Oath made the Speaker Sick,
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Which Hasilrigge taking in the Nick,
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For his fain'd one show'd him a real Trick,
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Which, etc.
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Thus, what for aliment is unfit,
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The Tayle by a vertue guiding it,
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Excludes, and leaves it self beshit,
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Which, etc.
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Let no Man then pretend any Cause,
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Against the Rump to open his Jawes,
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For it Rules by the Fundamental Laws,
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Which nobody can deny.
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