The DEVIL and his DAM.
To the Tune of Bright Cynthia, etc.
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I.
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GO seduce the Nation
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From Prayer and Devotion,
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But tell them of God and the Spirit:
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Possesse the Religious
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With Tenants Prodigious,
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That Saints the Earth shall inherit
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II.
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Put fire in Churches,
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Or Schism that worse is,
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Let Pulpits thunder Sedition;
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Let them humble and Fast
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For the Traytors dy'd last,
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And stand for Barebones Petition.
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III.
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Wee'l make them all joyn,
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And like Brothers combine
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Against Episcopal Power;
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By way of Allusion,
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Wee'l make a Confusion,
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Like that of Babylons Tower.
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IIII.
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Pater Noster and Creed,
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Perswade 'um not read,
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If e're you make 'um right Atheists,
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And that the two Tables
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Of Moses, are Fables,
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Now used in Rome by the Papists.
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V.
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All the Congregations
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Of divers perswasions,
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Shall hold this fancy to please us:
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That 'tis but a Foppery,
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And downright Popery
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To Bow at the Name of Jesus,
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VI.
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Should Bishops be settled,
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We all should be nettled
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With heart-burning Malice forever;
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Their Worship is such,
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It incourages much
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A Sinner, to turn Believer.
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I.
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THis Lent unexpected,
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My steps I directed
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To London, and round about there,
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To invent some odd Feats,
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And infuse a few Cheats,
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T' incourage the Factious rout there.
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II.
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There needed no Scot
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To hatch and to Plot,
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Myself so soon did engage 'um,
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'Gainst Lent and Fish-eating,
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That 'twas Popish Cheating,
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As nothing could better inrage 'um.
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III.
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Let th' Orthodox Teach,
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And Learned Bishops Preach,
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The Sectaries shall out-Pray 'um
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With their turn'd up Eyes,
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Oh Lords! and their Sighes,
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As if they would all-bewray 'um.
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IIII.
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'Gainst set forms of Prayer,
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And Canonical Gear,
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Our Whip-Tayl Parson opposes;
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Hee'l pull down the Miters,
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And set up Presbyters,
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Or what his fancy disposes.
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V.
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There's old Cinque-and-Cater
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With's Nutmeg and Grater,
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Through age grown feeble and limber,
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Yet his Zeal had the grace
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To beg Pauls, and imbrace
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The Stones, the Lead, and the Timber,
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VI.
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Such Fellows as these are,
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To spight God and Caesar,
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Observe no Lent, nor a High-day,
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They hold it an honour,
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'Gainst Custom and Manner,
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To Feast with Flesh on Good-Friday.
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