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Political Ballads.
1691.
Nay more I’ll mention,
The Senate has a penſion,
Which overthrows the Contract made with the bleſt Convention.
Thus we, Sir, you ſee, Sir,
Come off by the lee, Sir;
And gave our money to be slaves, inſtead of being free, Sir.
The Senate has a penſion,
Which overthrows the Contract made with the bleſt Convention.
Thus we, Sir, you ſee, Sir,
Come off by the lee, Sir;
And gave our money to be slaves, inſtead of being free, Sir.
Was ever beetle
Blind as his people,
To think that God will own a Church with a Soci’an ſteeple[1]:
Of wits bereav’d,
By prieſts deceiv’d,
Who’ve bro’t themſelves unto that paſs ne’er more to be believ’d.
They lear, Sir,
For fear, Sir,
And then they’ll all repent that e’er they took the ſwear, Sir.
Blind as his people,
To think that God will own a Church with a Soci’an ſteeple[1]:
Of wits bereav’d,
By prieſts deceiv’d,
Who’ve bro’t themſelves unto that paſs ne’er more to be believ’d.
They lear, Sir,
For fear, Sir,
And then they’ll all repent that e’er they took the ſwear, Sir.
- ↑ Archbiſhop Tillotſon, who ſucceeded the nonjuring Sancroft in the archbiſhopric of Canterbury, was moſt unjuſtly ſuſpected, on account of his friendſhip for and correspondence with Locke, Limborck, Le Clerc, and others, of entertaining Socinian views. “All conſiderate inquiſitive men,” as he once obſerved in his own defence, “that are above fancy and enthuſiaſm, muſt be either Socinians or atheiſts,” in the eſtimation of men of his own day.
