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For falsehood and for treachery,
For drunkenness and for perjury:
He neither word nor oath regarded,
With gibbets he His friends rewarded.
With opposition when he did meet,
He then did play the hypocrite,
And feign’d himself for reformation.
When he intended deformation.
At Spey and Scoon within a year,
The covenants he twice did swear;
And at Dunfermline did profess
His sorrow for his haughtiness;
But that was all to get the crown,
That he the better might pull down
That covenanted Presbyt’ry,
That was so opposite to me:
For afterwards he did rescind
These covenants no more to bind;
And solemnly he gave command
To burn them by the hangman’s hand.
He caus’d the nations to abjure,
What they call’d Reformation pure.
Brave Prelacy he did restore,
As it in Scotland was before;
And to this Dagon he caus’d bow,
Scotsmen, contrary to their vow.
He many a conscience did defile,
Which made me on his court to smile:
He tolerated Heresy,
All error and profanity;
A blasphemous supremacy,
Over the church usurped he;
And granted an indulgency,
Thereby to ruin Presbyt’ry.
