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I. REJOYCE, ye good Writers, your Pens are set free, Your Thoughts and the Press are at full Liberty; For your King and your Country you safely may write, You may say Black is Black, and prove White is White. Let no Pamphleteers, Be concernd for their Ears, For every Man now shall be tryd by his Peers. Twelve good honest Men shall decide in each Cause, And be Judges of Facts, tho not Judges of Laws. II. Tis said Master Caleb a Paper did print, Which sometimes at some Folks lookd slyly a-squint, He weekly held forth of no Peace, and no War, So was forcd from his Trade to appear at the Bar: Thus for talking too free, Master Att--y Straind his Lungs for to set him in the Pillory; But Pillories now shall be raisd for the Shame Of some Rogues as yet tis not proper to name. III. You may call the Man Fool, who Treaties dos blunder, And stile him a Knave, who his Country doth plunder; If the Peace be not good, it can neer be a Crime, To wish it were better, in Prose or in Rhime. For Sir Philip well knows, That Innuen--does, Will serve him no longer in Verse or in Prose, For Twelve honest Men have decided the Cause, And were Judges of Facts, tho not Judges of Laws. IV. Twelve Judges there are, and twice Twelve Aldermen; Many Lords, many Members and Bishops, --- what then? Although you shoud travel all England around, Amongst them Twelve honester cnanot be found, Than this same Jury, Which set Caleb free, And brought in their Verdict, He was not Guiltie. Then let these honest Men, who do pay Scot and Lot, While Ballads are Ballads, be never forgot.
V. This Jury so trusty, and Proof against RHINO I am apt to believe to be Jure Divino, But tis true in this Nation (oh! why is it so?) Men the Honester are as the lower you go; So a Fish when tis dead, I have often heard said, May be sweet at the Tail, tho it stinks at the Head. Oh! may Honesty rise and confound the base Tribe, Will be corrupted by Pension or Bribe. VI. A Jury there was when the Pope was in Power, That brought our seven Bishops alive from the Tower. They savd our Religion from Jacobite Fury, Both that and King GEORGE we owe to a Jury; So those that brought out The Bishops ----no Doubt Brought in our King George, whos so gallant and st[out] Then sure tis the Interest of Country and King, That Juries should never be led in a String. VII. Thus far honest Duncan hath prophesyd right, And provd himself blessd with true Second Sight, Who tho Deaf and Dumb, in Astrology famous, As Partridge, poor Robin, or old Nostradamus, Did lately Divine, That Caleb should shine, And prevail oer his Foes in the Year Twenty nine, For Twelve honest Men have determind his Cause, And rescued from Quibles our old English Laws. VIII. But one Thing remains his Predictions to crown, And that is to see the LEVIATHAN down: Nor let us despair, the Year is not out, And a Month or two more may bring it about. Then in Chorus lets sing, And say, GOD bless the King. And grant that all those who deserve it may swing. If Twelve honest Men were to judge in this Cause, One good Verdict more might secure all our Laws.
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