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R15654 WIse Solomon has said, 'Tis sometimes fit / To answer one, that has nor Sense, nor Wit, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 829 Good Deeds ill Requited: / OR, / AN ANSWER / TO / INNOCENCE UNVEIL'D. / BEING / A POEM / In Vindication of Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe. Good Deeds ill Requited: OR, AN ANSWER TO INNOCENCE UNVEIL'D. BEING A POEM In Vindication of Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe. Good Deeds ill Requited: OR, AN ANSWER TO INNOCENCE UNVEILED. BEING A POEM In Vindication of Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe. ?-?

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WIse Solomon has said, Tis sometimes fit To answer one, that has nor Sense, nor Wit, Lest the vain Fop grow wise, ins own Conceit. A Poem! Bless us, Muses! railing Rhimes, Where Discord only, and no Musick chimes: Where Malice, and no Wit or Sence is shown, And Puddle-dirt at worthy men is thrown. That mortal man in paltry Rhime should prate, Like a she-Orator of Billingsgate; Who, if she ever did at Crambo play, Might rail in Rhime, and better things would say. Poor quibling Fool did lack some Oaten drink, To help inspire his wooden Wit, I think, Who his fine Poem usherd (out upont!) With a most silly Quibble in the Front. Those very Men his Worship termeth Fools Handle edge, better than he rhiming, tools: And tho these men he Saviours calls in scorn, And doth with Coxcombs, Fools, and Knaves, adorn His railing Verse; they shall in Story dwell In Heavnly Fame, like Angels that neer fell, Whilst such as he lie in Oblivions Hell. What Stuff hes made of, all the world may see; But Jesuits Heart wont with Fools Brain agree. A We
[2] We can his Spleen however well detect; Their Evidence hed make of no effect. At that alone his squinting Verses look, A safer way indeed than Reading took: But twill not do; his Rhymes do Reason lack, For all the Law, of which you so much crack; The Foild may rise, and lay some on their back. Touch the galld back of any furious Beast, Hell bite and kick, or wince and fling at least; And he that meddles, when the Beast does feel, Had need be guarded well, gainst iron heel. I am no Surgeon, and shant rake in Sore; The World have Eyes, and I shall say no more. If some say Black is White, I am content, Or call a running Sore an Ornament. The Romans did not cackling Geese despise, Who kept their Capitol from a Surprise: But we fling Dirt at men, like unwise Sots, Who have the Nation savd from Jesuits Plots. Since Jesuits cant the Nation now crepan, Theyll do it all the Mischief that they can, And with foul Mouths, worse Pens, and lying Notes, Rail with full Cry, at Bedloe, and at Oates. Who will hereafter Traytors Plots make known, If no Encouragement to these are shown? When scurrilous Pamphleteers shall dayly try To make their Evidence to seem a Lye; To make them Juglers, wicked, perjurd Knaves, Inventors of strange Plots, the worst of Slaves; Men who of right by us should honourd be, Their Names made great to all Posteritie; And for Encouragement, and greater Grace, Their Statues set up in some publick place. Whateer that scribling Poetaster writes, Those very Commons which his Worship slights, May in good time make Truth and Justice known; And who the Knaves are then, will best be shown. Then Oates and Bedloes Story will be told, And twill appear they have not been too bold, But that both Truth and Justice once was sold.
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