56 Miscellaneous Poems.

Abroad he leafn'd to live upon his Prince,

As ev’ry Fool, Whore, Bully, has done since ;

To other Merit he has no Pretence.

Bar zi lt,ai’s Praise .1 could rehearse again,

And make the second Labour of my Pen ;

Wise, Valiant, Loyal, Rich, of high Descent,

Born Fall that Fortune for her Darlings meant,

Who nobly scorn'd a private Happiness,

When he beheld the Sov’reign in Distress :

To Arms he flew, but, with bold Cato’s Fate,Espous’d the Cause that Fortune seem’d to hate :Striving to save the Plead that wore the Crown,

He pull’d the mighty Ruin on his own.

But why extoll’d Jenifalcm 's Sagan,

At Drink and Whores indeed a very Dragon ?

Not Magdalen, possess’d in all her PrimeWith hei ten Devils, could have equall’d him:

Why would’st thou call thy Adriel a Muse,

And David of his hasty Rife accuse ?

When we all know the same obliging HandGave him his George, and Churchill his Command,Jermin his Comitryhoufe.andPrsM-rvrc^ hisPoy nt Band.Or Jotham fiatter’d with vain fickle Thing,

Famous for Jests upon the Church and King:

One while Pythagoras 's harmless Food,

For Thoughts and Politicks must cool his Blood;

And then again with Whores and lusty Wines,

Revels all Night, and thinks him mad that Dines.Quibbles, Jokes, Puns, and trifling Wit he has,

And, like the Swede, is very rich in Brass :

Against the Court and David’s self he roar’d,

How ill he govern’d, and how worse he whor’d :Would swear a Parrot had more Wit than Nelly,

With her parch’d Face, more wrinkled than P—Belly.Yet now to Both, like Popish Saints, he prays,Which shews he will not burn in James 's Days :

In his plain Band, and Honesty in Show,lie only aim’d at Darby's Overthrow;

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