As 'twas made out to us the laft 520 And understand as well to tame 1525 As, when they serve our turns, t' inflame? Have prov'd how inconfiderable Are all engagements of the rabble; Whose frenzies must be reconcil'd With drums and rattles, like a child, 530 When hurricanes of fierce commotion 535 Became ftrong motives to devotion (As carnal feamen, in a storm, Turn pious converts, and reform); When rusty weapons, with chalk'd edges, 540 And brown-bills, levy'd in the City, Made bills to pass the Grand Committee; And Ver. 521. Alluding to the impudence of thofe pretended faints, who frequently directed God Almighty what anfwers he fhould return to their prayers. Mr. Simeon Ah was called the God-challenger, And made the Church, and State, and Laws, 545 T' appease our jealoufies and fears: 560 Like men condemn'd to thunderbolts, 565 Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts; Or fools befotted with their crimes, Who, if we could refolve on either, To partners in extreme diftrefs; 570 D Whe For thrashing mountains, and with spells The quacks of government (who sate And fave their wind-pipes from the law; Was worse than all they 'ad fcap'd in war; To cant and quack upon the nation; Not for the fickly patient's fake, Nor what to give, but what to take; 'Mong these there was a politician With more heads than a beaft in vision, 345 359 And 66 cup; let their blood be fpilled like water; let their "blood be facrificed to thee, O God, for the fins of "our nation." Ver. 351.] This was Sir Anthony-Ashley Cooper, wh complied with every change in thofe times. But barbarous when they came to fall : · 365 He made his intereft with the new one; 370 But got the start of every state, And, at a change, ne'er came too late ; Could turn his word, and oath, and faith, 375 As many ways as in a lath; By turning wriggle, like a screw, Int' highest trust, and out, for new: Inftead of hemp, to be preferr'd, 380 And pafs'd upon a government, He play'd his trick, and out he went But But being out, and out of hopes The public ruin, and his So little did he understand own; The defperate feats he took in hand, 385 For frauds and tricks, he fpoil'd his game; 390 To fhew his play at fast and loose; And, when he chanc'd t' escape, miftook, For art and subtlety, his luck. So right his judgment was cut fit, 395 And made a tally to his wit, And both together moft profound At deeds of darkness under ground; By all these arts, and many more 400 He 'ad practis'd long and much before, Our ftate-artificer forefaw Which way the world began to draw: For, as old finners have all points 405 O' th' compass in their bones and joints; Can by their pangs and aches find 410 |