The Phanaticks PLOT Discovered:
BEING
A true Relation of their strange Proceedings in Glocester-shire and other Counties; And what hath since hapned upon the
appearing of the two great Bodies of Frogs and Toads, (as they pretended) in sundry shapes and dreadful Colours; to the great wonder of all
Loyal Subjects, that shall seriously peruse these following Lines. To the Tune of, Packingtons Pound.
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KInd Friends I am resolved to discover a thing,
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Which of late was invented by Foes to our King;
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A Phanatical Pamphlet was printed of late,
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To fill honest hearted Affections with Hate:
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But here lies the thing, God hath sent Us a King,
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That hath Wisdom enough to extinguish their Sting;
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And therefore I wish all Allegeance be given,
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To Him that directly was sent Us from Heaven.
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The Phanaticks do tell Us in Gloucestershire,
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A parcel of Christians as they call them there,
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Did meet for to worship their unknown Apollo;
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But mark! for their baseness, hereafter doth follow:
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I have taken the pain, without any gain,
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The truth of this matter to you to explain:
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And therefore believe not this flattering thing,
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But stick close to your duty you owe to your King.
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Here now comes the matter which I am to declare,
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The Anabaptists in Gloucestershire,
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Where Brother and Sister being privately met,
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They say a rude multitude did them beset:
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But Villains beware, and of this have a care,
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Lest you with true Subjects should have no share:
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For the King is resolved their Rights to restore,
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And therefore Phanaticks plot Treason no more.
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After this Multitude had them beset,
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They went to a Justice his Warrant to get,
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Desiring his aid and assistance therein,
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But he being honest disowned their sin:
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He bid them depart, if they had their desert,
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They deserv'd to be whipt at the arse of a Cart:
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But yet through their policie they do Us tell,
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That the Judgment of God on that Justice befel.
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And for to bring this purpose about,
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One of their own Congregation went out
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Into the fields, where by chance he did see
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Of Frogs and of Toads a great company:
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But this they do say, that in battle array,
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To the Justice his house they straight took their way:
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O do not believe them! my Friends have a care,
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For this is an Anabaptistical Snare.
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Yet I'le not deny but that there was store
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Of Frogs and of Toads at the Justice his dore,
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Which was Anabaptists, Brownists, and those,
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Which ever were known to be the Kings Foes:
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But thanks be to God they are under the Rod,
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That never intended to do any good:
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O do not believe them, my friends, least that they
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Should delude you into their most damnable way.
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Besides, they do tell Us the Justice his Maid
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Were the cause that these Frogs and these Toads were con-vey'd,
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Which before at the Justice his windows had been,
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Was after dispierst, and never more seen:
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But let them have a care, it will fall to their share,
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That such Frogs and such damnable Toads as they are,
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E're long will be banisht, and never more seen,
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Which too long in this Christian Nation have been.
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I wonder, methinks, how they can be so bold,
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To continue their impudent Actions of old:
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It hath been their practice since Oliver's days,
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To plot and foment how dissention to raise;
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Not calling to mind, how gracious and kind,
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Our Soveraign Lord King Charles they do find:
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And as for their Pamphlet I wish you beware
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How you do believe, and of them have a care.
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O I wish you consider their Actions of late,
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How they turn'd a brave Kingdom into a base State,
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Throwing the Pillars quite out of the Socket,
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And striving to get the coin into their pocket:
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No man I'le name, then do not me blame,
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But, Gentlemen, this I do speak to their shame,
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That all their Intentions was onely this Thing,
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To hedge in the Kingdom, and murder the King.
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Come, come, Independent, and cast off thy hate,
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Consider the workings of God here of late,
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How miraculously he hath brought it about
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To bring in the King, whom you thought to keep out:
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The Presbyter and the Episcopal man
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May safely rejoyce now, because that they can
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Freely enjoy what is duly their own,
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That's to have their Estates, and the King have his Crown.
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