Miscellaneous Poem?. 55

The sacred Ties of Marriage can dissolve,

And Children in their Parents Crimes involve,

Making those Bastards who had else been Heirs,,

And injur’d Husbands legal Widowers;

Cut off Entails, make new, repeal old Laws,

And of contending Kings decide the Cause.

Thus from the Helm our learned Richard thrust,Confefs’d their Pow’r, and otvn’d their Sentence just.And on the Throne our brave Fourth Edward fate,Whilst Harry liv'd a Pris’ner of the State.

Alphonso thus depos’d for his weak Life,

- Pedro enjoy’d his Kingdom and his Wife.

There Jus Dninum barks not at his Right,

Damns not his Rule by Day, nor Love by Night.

In his Defence, each private Man may kill;

Must then a Nation perilh and stand still ?

If for our Laws, Faith, God, we may not fight,

When can a Christian Sword be in the Right ?

O ! the prodigious Wit, and w'ond’rous Sting,

To call Ach 1 t’phel’s Son, unfeather’d two-legg’d thing!So by old Plato Man was once defin’d,

’Till a pull’d Cock that Notion undermin’d.

Thy Ami el with Bull Jonas self may vyeFor all but Courage, Wit, and Honesty.

As loud he roar’d ’gainst the Prerogative,

As sharply blam’d, as stingily would give,

’Till his own Wants oblig’d him to receive,

And on his cheated Sire he could no longer live :

Whose whole Estate, when he in Trust, had got,

Thy honest Amiel grudg’d him Pipe and Pot.

Thy Hushai next, a true Friend e’er a Man,

So soon his Dearness with his Prince began,

Was but Fourteen when David was Abroad,

Less fit for a King’s Friendship than a Rod ;

Which he deserv’d, when he with Tears reply’d,

And in full House the Baby cry’d,

How could on e German Journey teach his Youth,

And add Experience to his native Truth!

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