Who first laid by the Parliament,

The only crutch on which he leant,

And then funk underneath the State,
That rode him above horfeman's weight.

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And now the Saints began their reign,

For which they 'ad yearn'd fo long in vain,

And felt fuch bowel-hankerings,

To fee an empire, all of kings,

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great parts, great courage, and was worthy to com"mand: but for that Richard, that coxcomb, coquin," "poltroon, he was furely the bafeft fellow alive. What 66 is become of that fool? How is it poffible he could "be fuch a fot?" He anfwered, "That he was be"trayed by thofe he most trufted, and had been most "obliged to his father." So being weary of his vifit, he quickly took his leave, and next morning left the town, out of fear that the Prince might know that he was that very fool and coxcomb he had mentioned fo kindly; and two days after the Prince did come to know who he was that he had treated fo well. Clarendon's Hiftory of the Rebellion, Vol. III. p. 519. See a curious anecdote of Richard Cromwell in Dr, Maty's Memoirs of Lord Chesterfield.

Ver. 237.] A fneer upon the Committee of Safety, amongst whom was Sir Henry Vane, who (as Lord Clarendon obferves)" was a perfect enthufiaft, and "without doubt did believe himself infpired; which "fo far corrupted his reafon and understanding, that he did at the fame time believe he was the perfon de"puted to reign over the faints upon earth for a thoufand years."

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Deliver'd from th Egyptian awe
Of juftice, government, and law,

And free t' erect what spiritual cantons

Should be reveal'd, or gospel Hans-towns,
To edify upon the ruins

Of John of Leyden's old outgoings,

Who, for a weather-cock hung up

Upon their mother-church's top,
Was made a type by Providence,
Of all their revelations fince,

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And now fulfill'd by his fucceffors,

Who equally mistook their measures :

For, when they came to shape the model,

Ver. 241, 242.] Dr. James Young obferves, "That' "two Jefuitical prognofticators, Lilly and Culpeper, "were fo confident, anno 1652, of the total fubverfion "of the law and gofpel-miniftry, that in their fcurri"lous prognoftications they predicted the downfall of "both; and, in 1654, they foretold that the law fhould "be pulled down to the ground,—the Great Charter, "and all our liberties, deftroyed, as not fuiting with "Englishmen in these blessed times; that the crab"tree of the law fhould be pulled up by the roots, and grow no more, there being no reason now we should "be governed by them."

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And still the maddeft, and most crackt,

Were found the busiest to transact;

For, though moft hands dispatch apace
And make light work (the proverb fays)
Yet many different intellects

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As flowest infects have most legs.
Some were for setting up a king,
But all the reft for no such thing,
Unless King Jefus : others tamper'd
For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert:

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Ver. 267, 268.] Harry Martyn, in his fpeech, in the debate Whether a King, or no King, said, "That "if they must have a King, they had rather have had “the last than any gentleman in England. He found "no fault in his perfon, but office.'

Ver. 269.] Alluding to the Fifth Monarchy-men, who had formed a plot to dethrone Cromwell, and fet up King Jesus.

Ver. 269, 270. Others tamper'd-For Fleetwood, Defborough, and Lambert.] Fleetwood was a lieutenantgeneral: he married Ireton's widow, Oliver Cromwell's eldeft daughter; was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Cromwell, Major-general of divers counties, one of Oliver's upper houfe: his falary fuppofed to be 6600 l. a year.-Desborough, a yeoman of 60 or 70l. per annum; fome fay a plowman. Bennet, fpeaking to Defborough, fays, "When your Lordship was a "plcwman, and wore high fhoon-Ha! how the Lord "raifeth fome men, and depreffeth others."-Defbo rough married Cromwell's fifter, (aft away his fade,

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Some for the Rump; and some, more crafty,
For Agitators, and the Safety :
Some for the Gospel, and maffacres
Of spiritual Affidavit-makers,
That fwore to any human regence
Oaths of fupremacy and allegiance;
Yea, though the ableft fwearing Saint,
That vouch'd the bulls o' th' Covenant:
Others for pulling down th' high-places
Of Synods and Provincial Claffes,

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and took up a fword, and was made a colonel; was inftrumental in raifing Cromwell to the Protectorship; upon which he was made one of his council, a General at fea, and Major-general of divers counties of the weft; and was one of Oliver's upper houfe. His annual income was 32367. 135. 4 d.

Ibid. Lambert.] Lambard, in the first edition 1678 Altered 1684. He was one of the Rump Generals, and a principal oppofer of General Monk in the Restoration of King Charles II. The writer of the Narrative of the late Parliament fo called, 1657, p. 9. obferves, "That Major general Lambert, as one of Oliver's council, had 1000l. per annum, which, with his "other places, in all amounted to 65127. 35. 4 d."

Ver. 272. Agitators.] In 1647, the Army made choice of a fet number of officers, which they called the General Council of Officers; and the common foldiers made choice of three or four of each regiment, moftly corporals and ferjeants, who were called by the name of Agitators, and were to be a Houfe of Comnons to the council of officers: thefe drew up a Declaration, that they would not be difbanded till their arrears were paid, and a full provifion made for liberty of conscience.

That us'd to make fuch hoftile inroads
Upon the Saints, like bloody Nimrods:
Some for fulfilling Prophecies,
And th' extirpation of th' Excife;
And fome against th' Egyptian bondage
Of Holy-days, and paying Poundage :
Some for the cutting down of Groves,
And rectifying bakers' Loaves;
And fome for finding out expedients
Against the slavery of Obedience:
Some were for Gospel-ministers,
And fome for Red-coat feculars,

As men most fit t' hold-forth the Word,
And wield the one and th' other fword:

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Against the Pope, and fome the Turk :
Some for engaging to fupprefs

The camifado of Surplices,

That Gifts and Difpenfations hinder'd,

And turn'd to th' outward man the inward;

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(As wife as ringing of a pig,

That us'd to break up ground, and dig);

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