Classic Poem

To the Tune of, Old Souldjour of the Queens , &c.

News, News: — Here's the Occurrences, and a new Mercurius:
A Dialogue betwixt Haslerigg the bafled , and Arthur the furious:
With Iretons readings upon Legitimate and Spurious ,
Proving that a Saint may be the Son of a Whore; for the satisfaction of the curious.
From a Rump insatiate as the Sea ,
Libera nos Domine.

Here's the true reason of the Cities infatuation:
Ireton has made it drunk with the cup of abomination:
That is, — the Cup of the Whore , after the Geneva interpretation:
Which, with the Juyce of Tichburn's Grapes , must needs cause Intoxication .
From a Rump , &c.

Here's the Whipper whipt — by a friend to George , that whipt Iack , that whipt the Breech ,
That whipt the Nation, as long as he could stand over it: — After which
It was it self Re-jerk'd , by the sage Author of this Speech:
Methinks a Rump should go as well with a Scotch spur, as with a Switch.
From a Rump , &c.

This Rump hath many a Rotten and unruly Member ,
Give the General the Oath , cryes one; — (but his Conscience being a little tender ,)
I'll Abjure you, with a Horse-pox, quoth George , — and make you remember.
The ' Leaventh of February , longer than the Fifth of November .
From a Rump , &c.

With that — Monk leaves ( in Rump assembled ) — the three Estates .
But oh, — how the Citizens hugg'd him for breaking down their Gates ,
For tearing up their Postes and Chaines , and for clapping up their Mates ,
( When they saw, that he brought them Plasters for their broken Pates .)
From a Rump , &c.

In truth, this rufile put the Town in great disorder ,
Some Knaves (in Office ) smil'd , — — expecting 'Twould go furder;
But at the last — my life on't, George is no Rumper , — said the Recorder .
For there never was either Honest man , or Monck of that Order .
From a Rump , &c.

And so it prov'd, for Gentlemen , sayes the General, I'll make you amends;
Our Greeting was a little untoward , but we'll part Friends ,
A little time shall shew you which way my Design tends,
And that, besides the good of Church and State, I have no other ends .
From a Rump , &c.

His Excellence had no sooner pass'd this Declaration and Promise ,
But in steps Secretary Scot , — — — the Rumps man Thomas ,
With Luke , their lame Evangelist — — — (the Devil keep 'um from us,)
To shew Monk what precious Members of Church and State the Bumm ha's .
From a Rump , &c.

And now comes the Supplication of the Members under the Rod,
Nay, My Lord , ( cryes the Brewers Clerk ) good my Lord , — for the love of God,
Consider yourself, us , — and this poor Nation , and that Tyrant abroad;
Don't leave us: — — but George gave him a Shrugg , instead of a Nodd .
From a Rump , &c.

This mortal Silence was followed with a most hideous Noyse
Of Free-Parliament Bells , and Rump-confounding Boyes
Crying, Gueld the Rogues, Singe their Tayles — — — when with a low Voyce;
Fire and Sword , by this Light, cryes Tom , let's look to our Toyes .
From a Rump , &c.

Never were wretched Members in so sad a Plight:
Some were Broyl'd , — some Toasted , others burnt outright .
Nay against Rumps so Pittylesse was their Rage and Spite ,
That not a Citizen would kiss his Wife that Night .
From a Rump , &c.

By this time, Death , and Hell appear'd in the ghastly Looks
Of Scot , and Robinson; (those Legislative Rooks )
And it must needs put the Rump most damnably off the Hooks,
To see, that when God has sent Meat, the Devil should send Cooks .
From a Rump , &c.

But Providence , their old Friend, brought these Saints off, at Last,
And through the Pikes and the Flames, un-dismembred they past,
Although (God wot) with many struglings , and much Hast .
(For — Members , — or no Members was but a measuring Cast)
From a Rump , &c.

Being come to Whitehall , — there's the dismal mone:
Let Monk be Damn'd , cryes Arthur , in a terrible tone:
That Traytor; — — and those Cukoldly Rogues that set him on .
(But, tho' the Knight Spits blood , 'tis observ'd that he Draws none .
From a Rump , &c.

The Plague Bawle you, cryes Harry Martyn , you have brought us to this Condition,
You must be canting, and be Pox'd, — with your Barebones Petition ,
And take in that Bull-headed, splay-footed Member of Circumcision ,
That Bacon-fac'd Jew, Corbet: that Son of Perdition.
From a Rump , &c.

Then in steps Driv'ling Mounson , to take up the Squabble:
That Lord , which first taught the use of the Wooden Dagger, and Laddle ,
He , — — that out-does Jack Pudding , at a Custard , or a Caudle .
And were the Best Fool in Europe, but that he wants a Bauble .
From a Rump, &c.

More was said, to little Purpose; the next News, is a Declaration
From the Rump; for a Free-State, according to the Codenant of the Nation,
And a Free-Parliament, under Oath, and Qualification,
Where none shall be Elect , but Members of Reprobation
From a Rump, &c.

Here's the Tail Firk's; a piece acted lately with great applause ,
With a Plea for the Prerogatibe Sreech, and the Good Old Cause:
Proving, that Rumps , and Members are antienter than Laws:
And that a Bumme Divided , is never the worse for the Flawes .
From a Rump, &c.

But al things have their Period, and Fate,
An Act of Parliament dissolves a Rump of State:
Members grow weak; and Tayles themselves runs out of Date:
And yet thou shalt not Dye; ( Dear Breech ) thy Fame I'l celebrate.
From a Rump, &c.

Here lies a Pack of Cheats , that did their Souls , and Country Sell
For Dirt: The Devil was their good Lord , him they serv'd well;
By his Advice , they Stood , and Acted; and by his President they fell ,
(Like Lucifer ) making but one step betwixt Heaven , and Hell .
From a Rump insatiate as the Sea ,
Libera nos Domine.