And ftanding council 'gainst the church and state
For gall'd and tender confciences;
Commits himself to prifon to trepan,
Draw in, and fpirit all he can;
For birds in cages have a call,
To draw the wildeft into nets,
More prevalent and natural

Than all our artificial pipes and counterfeits.

All laws of heaven and earth can break,

IX.

But when his painful gifts h' employs
In holding-forth, the virtue lies
Not in the letter of the fenfe,
But in the fpiritual vehemence, .
The power and difpenfation of the voice,
The zealous pangs and agonies,
And heavenly turnings of the eyes;

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The groans, with which he piously destroys 185
And drowns the nonfenfe in the noise;

130 And grows fo loud, as if he meant to force
And take-in heaven by violence;
To fright the Saints into falvation,
Or feare the devil from temptation;
Until he falls fo low and hoarfe,
No kind of carnal fenfe

Can be made out of what he means:

135 But, as the ancient Pagans were precife
To ufe no fhort-tail'd beaft in facrifice,
He ftill conforms to them, and has a care

190

105

And fwallow oaths, and blood, and rapine eafy, T' allow the largest meature to his paltry ware,

And vet is fo infirm and weak,

'Twill not endure the gentleft check,

But at the flightest nicety grows queafy;
Difdains control, and yet can be
No where, but in a prifon, free;
Can force itself, in fpite of God,

Who makes it free as thought at home,

A flave and villain to become,

To ferve its interefts abroad:

And, though no Pharifce was e'er fo cunning
At tithing mint and cummin,

No dull idolater was e'er fo flat

In things of deep and folid weight;

Pretends to charity and holiness,
But is implacable to peace,

And out of tenderness grows obftinate.

140

X.

The ancient churches, and the best,
By their own martyrs' blood increaft;
But he has found out a new way,
To do it with the blood of thofe

145 That dare his church's growth oppose,
Or her imperious canons difobey;
And ftrives to carry on the Work,
Like a true primitive reforming Turk,
With holy rage, and edifying war,

150

And, though the zeal of God's houfe ate a prince
And prophet up (he fays) long fince,
His cross-grain'd peremptory zeal

156

Would eat up God's houfe, and devour it at a

meal.

More fafe and powerful ways by far:
For the Turk's patriarch, Mahomet,
Was the first great Reformer, and the chief
Of th' ancient Chriftian belief,
That mix'd it with new light, and cheat,
With revelations, dreams, and vifions,
And apoftolic fuperftitions,

To be held forth and carry'd on by war;
And his fucceffor was a Prefbyter,
With greater right than Haly or Abubeker.

XI.

For, as a Turk, that is to act fome crime

160 Against his Prophet's holy law,

Is wont to bid his foul withdraw,
And leave his body for a time;

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210

215

220

Against him the breach of Covenants,
And all the charters of the Saints;
Pleads guilty to the action, and yet
Upon high terms and bold demands;
Excepts against him and his laws;
And will be judge himfelf in his own cause ;
And grows more faucy and severe
Than the Heathen emperor was to Jupiter,
That us'd to wrangle with him and difpute,
And fometimes would fpeak foftly in his car,
And fometimes loud, and rant, and tear,
And threaten, if he did not grant his fuit.

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Though e'er fo noble, great, and good,
By them is neither heard nor understood.
All our fine fleights and tricks of art,
85 First to create, and then adore defert,
And those romances which we frame,
To raise ourselves, not them, a name,
In vain are stuft with ranting flatteries,
And fuch as, if they knew, they would defpife,
For, as thofe times the Golden Age we call,

In which there was no gold in ufe at all;

90 So we plant glory and renown

That spends his fting on what he cannot hurt;
Enjoys a kind of letchery in fpite,

95

Like o'ergrown finners, that in whipping take
delight;

Invades the reputation of all thofe
That have, or have it not, to lofe;

And, if he chance to make a difference,
'Tis always in the wrongeft fense:
As rooking gamefters never lay

Upon thofe hands that ufe fair play,
But venture all their bets

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Upon the flurs and cunning tricks of ableft cheats.

VI.

Nor does he vex himself much less
Than all the world befide;

Falls fick of other men's excefs,

Is humbled only at their pride,

And wretched at their happiness;

Revenges on himfelf the wrong

Which his vain malice and loofe tongue,

To thofe that feel it not, have done,

Where it was ne'er deferv'd nor known,
But to worfe purpose, many times,
To flourish o'er nefarious crimes,
And cheat the world, that never feems to mind
How good or bad men die, but what they leave

behind.

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25

Who, though born falfe, may be made true,
And teach the world to be more just and wife; 30
Ought not, like vulgar afhes, reft

Unmention'd in his filent cheft,

He, like a pious man, fome years before

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Not for his own, but public interest.

The arrival of his fatal hour,

Made every day he had to live

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And whips and fpurs himself because he is out

To his last minute a preparative;

Taught the wild Arabs on the road

To act in a more gentle mode;

Take prizes more obligingly than those
Who never had been bred filous;

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And how to hang in a more graceful fashion
Than e'er was known before to the dull English

nation.

MOST RENOWNED DU-VAL. upon him in what is called his Remains, was pub

'T'

A PINDARIC ODI*.
I.

IS true, to compliment the dead
Is as impertinent and vain,
As twas of old to call them back again,

lihed by the Author himself, under his own name, in the year 1671, in three fheets 4to; and, agreeable to this, I find it in his own hand-writing among his manufcripts, with fome little addition, and a few verbal alterations, as the reader may obferve, in comparing it with the copy already printed.

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In this great academy of mankind
He had his birth and education,

Where all men are fo ingeniously inclin'd,
They understand by imitation,

Improve untaught, before they are aware,

As if they fuck'd their breeding from the air,
That naturally does difpenfe

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of

65 Might in return from him receive his fatal doom,

To all a deep and folid confidence;

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A virtue of that precious ufe,

That he whom bounteous Heaven endues

But with a moderate fhare of it,

Can want no worth, abilities, or wit,

In all the deep Hermetic arts

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(For fo of late the learned call

All tricks, if ftrange and myftical).

He had improv'd his natural parts,
And with his magic rod could found
Where hidden treasure might be found:
He, like a lord o' th' manor, feiz'd upon
Whatever happen'd in his way,

As lawful weft and ftray,

And after, by the caftom, kept it as his own.

V.

From thefe first rudiments he grew
To nobler feats, and tried his force
Upon whole troops of foot and horse,
Whom he as bravely did fubdue;
Declar'd all caravans, that go
Upon the king's highway, the foe;
Made many defperate attacks
Upon itinerant brigades

VII.

He would have starv'd this mighty Town
And brought its haughty fpirit down;
Have cut it off from all relief,

And, like a wife and valiant chief,

Made many a fierce affault

Upon all ammunition-carts,

And those that bring up cheefe, or malt,
Or bacon, from remoter parts:

No convoy e'er so strong with food
Durft venture on the desperate road;
He made th' undaunted waggoner obey,
And the fierce higgler contribution pay;
80 The favage butcher, and stout drover
Durft not to him their feeble troops difcover;
And, if he had but kept the field,
In time had made the City yield;
For great towns, like to crocodiles, are found
I' th' belly aptest to receive a mortal wound.

Of all profeffions, rauks, and trades,
On carriers' loads, and pedlars' packs;
Made them lay down their arms, and yield,
And, to the fmalleft piece, restore
All that by cheating they had gain'd before,
And after plunder'd all the baggage of the field.
In every bold affair of war

He had the chief command, and led them on;
For no man is judg'd fit to have the care

Of others' lives, until he has made it known
How much he does defpife and fcorn his own.

Might prove too cunning for their chains a

them,

And break through all their locks, and bolts, a

wards;

Had both his legs by charms committed
To one another's charge,

That neither might be fet at large,
And all their fury and revenge outwitted.
As jewels of high value are

Kept under locks with greater case
Than thofe of meaner rates,

So he was in ftone walls, and chains, and

grates.

IX.

Thither came ladies from all part,

To offer up clefe prifonce their hearts;