ROPERY Routed:
OR,
Father Petres's Farewel to London City:
To the Tune of, Hark how the Thundring Cannons Roar.
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SEe how the Romish Whore goes down,
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Posting whole-sale out of Town,
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'Cause her Fate does shrewdly Frown,
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and Cross her Inclinations:
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Father Petres, and his Crew
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Of Jesuits, Monks, and Fryars too,
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Must now pack up, and bid adieu
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to London's Corporation.
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Pox on all their Perjur'd Oaths,
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Which a Zealous Church-man loaths,
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Are they not Woolves in Sheeps Cloaths,
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that Lurk in e'ry Station,
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To Trappan the Innocent,
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And hatch a Hellish Discontent:
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Let us then with one consent,
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dismiss them from our Nation.
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When I saw them first grow Bold,
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I thought the Proverb true of old,
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That they ran too fast to hold,
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their damn'd Insinuation,
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Now their prince Dispensing Pow'r,
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Lies a-bleeding in the Tow'r,
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Cursing of the Fatal Hour
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of his first Procreation.
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Now that Wizard knows full well,
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Himself to be a Bird of Hell,
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Inhumanely thus to Rebel
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against his Habitation:
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But e're this Hypocrite shall pass,
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We'll bring his Crimes for Looking-Glass,
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To see himself the meerest Ass
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of all the Worlds Creation.
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Welcome was brave Orange here,
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As it plainly doth appear,
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Who deliver'd us from Fear
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of Popish Usurpation;
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Who when we were in great Surprize,
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Preserv'd us from our Enemies,
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And all the damn'd Conspiracies,
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of Rome's Assassination.
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Was there such a Trick e're seen,
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As hath lately acted been,
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By their Fathers, and the Q-----n,
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to gull our English Nation?
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But their jugling up that Brat,
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From we know not who nor what,
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Will be prov'd; nay, worse than that
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of Transubstantiation.
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Monsieur now had best take heed,
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For his Expeditious speed,
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In Helping us, e're we had need
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Of his Dissimulation;
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Least in Requital of his Care,
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We send his Knives, and some to spare,
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And bring Le Bougra in for share
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of's Cursed Assignation.
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Well, I'll say no more; but see
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(True Protestants where e're you be)
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You come not near such Villany,
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nor grand Equivocation;
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E're long I hope our Parliament,
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Will rid that Superstitious Scent
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From us, that we may rest Content,
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each in his proper Station.
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