"Nor did he such small favours then disdain, "In a slash'd doublet then he came ashore, "And dub'd poor Palmer's wife his royal whore. Bishops, and Deans, Peers, Pimps, and Knights "he made; "Things highly fitting for a Monarch's trade! "With Women, wine, and viands of delight, Marvel has another poem called "A Dialogue be"tween two Horses, 1674." As the equestrian statue at Charing Cross was erected in honour of Charles the 1st, so it seems a marble statue had been erected at Wool-Church in honour of Charles the 2d-Marvel supposes the two horses to meet at night-the marble horse at Wool Church begins thus 66 "It would make a stone speak" Charing. My brass is provoked as much as thy stone, "To see Church and State bow down to a whore, "And the king's chief minister holding the door. Wool Church. "To see Dei Gratia writ on the throne, "And the king's wicked life say, God there is 66 none. Charing. "That he should be stil'd Defender of the Faith, "Who believes not a word what the word of God "saith. brought him some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the port"manteau before it was taken out." Wool-Church. "That a king should consume three kingdoms' "estates, "And yet all the court be as poor as church rats. "If the bastards you add, "What a number of rascally Lords have been made. Charing. "But thanks to the whores who made the king "For giving no more the rogues are prorogued. Wool-Church. "That the king should send for another French "whore, "When one already had made him so poor. Charing. "The Misses take place, each advanc'd to be "Dutchess, "With pomp great as queens in their coach and "six horses: "Their bastards made Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, " and Lords, "And all the high titles that honour affords. Wool-Church. "While these brats and their mothers do live in "such plenty, "The nation's empoverish'd, and the Chequer "quite empty: "And tho' war was pretended, when the money "was lent, "More on whores, than in ships, or in war, hath "been spent. Charing. "To see Bishop Laud. Wool-Church. "To cuckold a scrivener, mine's in masquerade; "For on such occasions he oft steals away, "And returns to remount me about break of day; "In very dark nights sometimes you may find him, "With a harlot got up on the crupper behind him. Charing. "Pause brother awhile, and calmly consider “What thou hast to say against my royal rider. Wool-Church. 66 Thy priest-ridden king turn'd desperate fighter "For the Surplice, Lawn-sleeves, the Cross, and 66 "the Mitre. Charing. Thy king will ne'er fight except for his Queans. Wool-Church. "He that dys for ceremonies, dys like a fool. Charing. "The king on thy back is a lamentable tool. Wool-Church. "The Goat and the Lyon I equally hate, "And freemen alike value life and estate : "Tho' the Father and Son be different rods, "Between the two scourges we find little odds ; "Both infamous stand in three kingdoms' votes "This for picking our pockets, that for cutting our "throats. Charing. "More tolerable are the Lyon king's slaughters, "Than the Goat making whores of our wives and "our daughters. "The debauched and cruel, since they equally gall "us, "I had rather bear Nero than Sardanapalus. Wool-Church. "One of the two tyrants must still be our case, "Under all who shall reign of the false Stuart race. "De Wit and Cromwell had each a brave soul, "I freely declare it, I am for old Noll; 66 Though his government did a tyrant resemble, "He made England great, and his enemies tremble. "But what's thy opinion of James Duke of York? Charing. "The same that the frogs had of Jupiter's stork. "With the Turk in his head, and the Pope in his "heart, "Father Patrick's disciples will make England "smart. "If e'er he be king, I know Britain's doom, "We must all to a stake, or be converts to Rome. "Ah! Tudor, ah! Tudor, of Stuarts enough; "None ever reign'd like old Bess in the ruff. Wool-Church. "But can'st thou devise when things will be "mended? Charing. "When the reign of the line of the Stuarts is "ended." On May 29th 1784 Porson, who was afterwards Greek Professor at Cambridge, but at that time Bachelor Fellow of Trinity College, was desired to make the usual Latin Oration, in the Hall, about the Restoration this, as he could not very well refuse, he consented to do-he drew a very. black picture of Charles the 2d, and concluded with "His saltem accumulem donis"—from Virgil meaning his hearers to supply in their own minds the remainder of the verse "Munere." "et fungar inani He was to get nothing by what he had been doing. T. R. 1685. Albion and Albanius was brought out at D. G., and with an extraordinary expense-it was meant by Dryden as a Satire on the Whigs and Republicans, and as a Panegyrick on Charles the 2d and his Brother, who are represented under the characters of Albion and Albanius-Augusta, or the City of London, is discovered in a dejected posture, with an old useless Charter &c., so as to show her sorrow and penitence for her offences- -this Opera is in 3 acts. Act 1st represents the Restoration of Charles the 2d-Augusta and Thamesis repent of their disloyalty |
