.^2 Miscellaneous Poems,

And by that Name dost foolishly infer,

He from old Dav , n’s Head the Crown would tear,Was he ambitious, he had kept his Place :

Stood high in Dav i d’s as People’s Grace ;

And.warlike Chief of the Prætorian Bands,

To the whole Nation’s Hearts hadjoin’d their Hands ;Of publick Good dissembled his deep Care,

With the false Jebusite a-while kept fair;

Then in some great decisive glorious Hay,

Make those vile Cormorants disgorge their Prey,

Oar Church, Religion, Freedom, and our Laws,Those darling Morsels of their longing Jaws.

Wife Stanley thus, till Bofworth ’s fatal Hay,

Hid seeming Faith to cruel Rkshard pay;

But let the Tyrant in the Heat of Fight,

And brought Success to Harry’s drooping Right.Monmouth’s brave Mind could no Disguise endure,Still noble Ways preferring to secure,

While Havi“d lavishes his People’s Love,

He buys the Purchase with Design t’improve;

And like some prudent Kinsmen, re-convey '

What the wild Heir hath vainly thrown away, CLest the Great Ancient Family decay. )

Good honest Dav id, why would’st thou have madeOs such a Son and Parliament afraid ?

Which whilst he sways, what Faction dares dispute,

Or who can say, He is not absolute !

Thro’ them he may command the People’s Purse,

And spend their Wealth and Blood without a Curse.

By Laws they would a Popish Heir exclude,

Not by rude Force, or a tumultuous Crowd :

Against Navarre the factious Princes leagu’d,

And the right Heir the Papal World intrigu’d :

When a long War had plac’d him on the Throne,The State-Religion he was fore’d to own ;

The harmless People took it in good Part,

The zealous Church yet st abb’d him to the Heart;

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