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R15733 'TWixt Heaven and thee, how sprung these fatal jars, / / That thou (Poor Robin) rail'st against the Stars? Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 AN / ANSWER / To the AUTHOR of / Humble Thanks for His Majesties Gracious Declaration / FOR / LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE. AN ANSWER To the AUTHOR of Humble Thanks for His Majesties Gracious Declaration FOR LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE. AN ANSWER To the AUTHOR of Humble Thanks for His Majesty's Gracious Declaration FOR LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE. Z., Y. 1672-1672 J. Edwin

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TWixt Heaven and thee, how sprung these fatal jars, That thou (Poor Robin) railst against the Stars? To thee what have their influences done, With so much zeal to bark against the Moon? On Heavens Tables if thou knewst whats writ As well as on the Earthly what is set, We would allow thou mightst the feud maintain, Enabled by the belly not thy brain: These things, alas, transcend thy scrutiny, Their Language is but Arabick to thee; Thou that couldst never yet higher advance, Then Dod, and Cleaver, and the Concordance. Thou knowst not that the Square of Mercury To Mars afflicts a Punners brain, yet we Find it alas, to be too true in thee. We know what Saturn did at Bartholmew, And some are of opinion so do you: In those Dog-days had been the fittest time To curse thy Stars (Poor Robin) in lewd rime; Mount Ano for Parnassus then had gone, Thou mightst have made with tears an Helicon, And fetchd a Pegasus from Abingdon. But Now to rave, when a propitious ray Has shind on thee, and turnd thy night to day; Now that the Claret-dispensations come, And thou mayst vie for Toe with Him at Rome; Assumd the pristine Rubies of thy beauty, And art made capable of being gouty:
What is it less then when no foe was near us, With so much heat to cry out, Curse ye Meroz! What have those Reverend Prelates done to thee Thus to blaspheme their pious memory? Glocster, and learned Durhams name shall live, When thine in Grubstreet hardly shall survive. Unmannerd man! in Stars, and Men, ill read, To trample on the Ashes of the Dead! Well! since the Royal Clemency has given Each man his leave to choose his way to Heaven, Clean, and unclean Beasts into one Ark driven: Since pressing i th Church-Militant disappears, And all men now are Gospel Volunteers; Since we are all united, lets agree, Think you no worse of us, then of you, we; For by your foul reflections wer afraid, You write the Good Old Cause in Masquerade. Instead of bonds and persecution, Wherewith you usd to make the Pulpit groan, Thank our kind Prince who with compassionate eyes Lookd down and pittied your infirmities. This may be done without or Rope, or Bell, And thus Dear Doggrel, heartily farewel.
From the Star in Colemanstreet, LONDON. SIR, Yours, Y.Z. With Allowance, May 6. 1672. LONDON, Printed for J. Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1672.