(As Spaniards talk in dialogues

Of heads and shoulders, nods and fhrugs);

Intruft it under folemn vows

Of Mum, and Silence, and the Rose,

Ver. 1504.] We learn from Lilly, that the meffenger who brought this terrifying intelligence to this cabal was Sir Martyn Noell. Sir Martyn tells his story naturally, and begins like a man in a fright and out of breath, and continues to make breaks and ftops till he naturally recovers it, and then proceeds floridly, and without impediment. This is a beauty in the Poem not to be difregarded; and let the reader make an experiment, and fhorten his breath, or, in other words, put himself into Sir Martyn's condition, and then read this relation, and he will foon be convinced that the breaks are natural and judicious.

Ver. 1505.] This is an accurate defcription of the mob's burning rumps upon the admiffion of the fecluded members, in contempt of the Rump Parliament. F4

And ftalls, and fhop-boards-in vaft fwarms,
With new-chalk'd bills, and rufty arms,
Το cry the Cause-up, heretofore,

And bawl the Bishops-out of door,

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Are now drawn up-in greater fhoals,

To roast-and broil us on the coals,

And all the Grandees-of our members
Are carbonading-on the embers;
Knights, citizens, and burgeffes-

Held forth by rumps-of pigs and geefe,
That ferve for characters-and badges

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To represent their perfonages;

Each bonfire is a funeral pile,

In which they roast, and scorch, and broil,

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Some, on the fign-post of an alehouse,

Ver. 1534.] Dun was the public executioner at that

time, and the executioners long after that went by the

fame name.

That worthy patriot, once the bellows,

And tinder-box, of all his fellows;
The activ'ft member of the five,
As well as the most primitive;
Who, for his faithful service then,
Is chosen for a fifth again

(For fince the State has made a quint
Of Generals, he 's lifted in 't):
This worthy, as the world will fay,

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They 've roasted Cook already' and Pride in ;

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On

Ver. 1540.] Sir Arthur Hazlerig, one of the five members of the Houfe of Commons, was impeached 1641-2; was Governor of Newcastle upon Tyne, had the Bishop of Durham's houfe, park, and manor of Aukland, and 6500l. in money given him. He died in the Tower of London, Jan 8, 1661.

Ver. 1541, 1542:] The Rump, growing jealous of General Monk, ordered that the generalfhip fhould be veted in five commiffioners, Monk, Hazlerig, Walton, Morley, and Alured, making three a quorum, but denying a motion that Monk fhould be of that quorum; but, their authority not being then much regarded, this order was not obeyed, and Monk continued fole General notwithstanding.

Ver. 1550.] The wicked wretch, who acted as folicitor in the King's trial, and drew up a charge of high

treafon

On whom, in equipage and state,
His fcarecrow fellow-members wait,
And march in order, two and two,
As at Thanksgivings th' us'd to do,
Each in a tatter'd talisman,

But (what's more dreadful than the rest)

Like vermin in effigie flain.

Those rumps are but the tail o' th' Beast,

Set up by Popish engineers,

As by the crackers plainly' appears;

For none, but Jefuits, have a miffion

To preach the faith with ammunition,,

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And propagate the Church with powder;
Their founder was a blown-up foldier.
These spiritual pioneers o' th' Whore's,
That have the charge of all her stores,
Since first they fail'd in their designs,
To take-in heaven by fpringing mines,
And with unanfwerable barrels
Of gunpowder difpute their quarrels,
Now take a courfe more practicable,
By laying trains to fire the rabble,
And blow us up, in th' open streets,
Difguis'd in rumps, like fambenites,
More like to ruin and confound,
Than all their doctrines under ground.

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treafon against him, and had drawn up a formal plea against him, in cafe he had fubmitted to the jurifdiction of the Court. At his own trial he pleaded that what he did was as a lawyer for his fee. He defervedly fuffered at Tyburn as a Regicide.

Nor have they chosen rumps amifs,

For fymbols of State-mysteries,

Though fome fuppofe 'twas but to fhew

How much they scorn'd the Saints, the few,
Who, 'cause they 're wafted to the ftumps,
Are reprefented beft by rumps.
But Jefuits have deeper reaches
In all their politic far-fetches,
And from the Coptic prieft Kircherus,
Found out this mystic way to jeer us :

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For as th' Egyptians us'd by bees

T'express their antique Ptolomies,

And by their ftings, the swords they wore,
Held forth authority and power;

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Because these subtle animals

Bear all their interests in their tails,

And when they 're once impair'd in that,

Are banish'd their well-order'd state;

They thought all governments were best

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By hieroglyphic rumps expreft.

For as, in bodies natural,
The rump 's the fundament of all;
So, in a common-wealth or realm,
The government is call'd the Helm,
With which, like veffels under fail,
They 're turn'd and winded by the tail;
The tail, which birds and fishes steer

Their courfes with through fea and air,

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Ver. 1585. Kircherus.] Athanafius Kircher, a Jefuit, hath written largely on the Egyptian myftical learning. Kirkerus, in the two first editions.