1 Such grofs delufions could not pafs But gold defiles with frequent touch; Which while the fenate ftrove to fcour, They wash'd away the chemic power. To fwim against this popular tide, By their own weight funk to the bottom; With affes' ears, and dirty hands. AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG: 1711. BEING THE INTENDED SPEECH OF A FAMOUS ORATOR AGAINST PEACE*. A1 N Orator dismal of Nottinghamshire, Who has forty years let out his conscience to hire, *The lord treasurer having hinted a wish one evening that a ballad might be made on the earl of Nortingham; this fong was written and printed the next morning. He He has vamp'd an old fpeech, and the court, to their forrow, Shall hear him harangue against Prior to-morrow. But repeats the fame note a whole day, like a Finch. 66 And, Mistakes to prevent, I've obtained a copy." THE SPEEC H. WHEREAS, notwithstanding, I am in great pain, His grace But fome will cry Turn-coat, and rip up old stories, But ftill I'm in principle ever the fame, And will quit my best friends, while I'm Not-in-game. When I and fome others fubfcribed our names To a plot for expelling my master king James; I withdrew I withdrew my fubfcription by help of a blot, I fwore to the Queen, that the prince of Hanover Now my new benefactors have brought me about, And I'll vote against Peace, with Spain, or without : Though the Court gives my nephews, and brothers, and coufins, And all my whole family, places by dozens; Yet, fince I know where a full-purse may be found, THE THE WINDSOR PROPHECY*. 1711. HEN a holy black Swede, the fon of Bob †, WHE With a faint at his chin, and a feal ‡ at his fob, Shall not fee one § New-year's-day in that year, Then let old Englond make good chear : Windfor and Briflow then fhall be Joined together in the Low-countree ||. Then shall the tall black Daventry Bird** Speak againft peace right many a word; It is faid, that Queen Anne had nominated Dr. Swift to an English bishoprick; which was oppofed by Dr. Sharp, archbishop of York, and the dutchefs of Somerfet, who had prevailed on his grace to go with her to the queen to lay afide the nomination, which her majefty refused; but, the dutchefs falling on her knees, and fhewing the above prophecy to her majefty, the bifhoprick was given to another. See p. 93. + Dr. John Robinfon, bishop of Bristol, one of the plenipotentiaries at Utrecht. He was dean of Windfor, and lord privy feal. The New Style (which was not used in GreatBritain and Ireland till 1752) was then obferved in moft parts of Europe. The bishop fet out from England the latter end of December, O. S.; and, on his arrival at Utrecht, by the variation of the style, he found January fomewhat advanced. Alluding to the deanry and bifhoprick being poffeffed by the fame perfon, then at Utrecht. Earl of Nottingham. And And some shall admire his conying wit, For many good groats his tongue shall Alit. But, fpight of the Harpy that crawls on all four, * Carrots fown Thynne † a deep root may get, If so be they are in Somer set : Their Conyngs mark thou; for I have been told, *The dutchefs of Somerset. + Thomas Thynne of Longleate, efq; a gentleman of very great estate, married the above lady after the death of her first husband Henry Cavendish earl of Ogle, only fon to Henry duke of Newcastle, to whom she had been betrothed in her infancy. Count Koningsmark. ANNA. MASHAM. Lady Mafham's maiden name was Hill. EPIGRAM. |