Who 'ad compass'd all th' pray'd, and swore,
And fought, and preach'd, and plunder'd for,
Subdu'd the nation, church, and state,
And all things but their laws and hate;
But when they came to treat and transact,
And fhare the spoil of all they 'ad ransackt,
To botch up what they 'ad torn and rent,
Religion and the government,
They met no fooner, but prepar'd,
To pull down all the war had spar'd;
Agreed in nothing, but t'abolish,
Subvert, extirpate, and demolish :
For knaves and fools b'ing near of kin,
As Dutch boors are t' a footerkin,
Both parties join'd to do their best
To damn the public interest,
And herded only in confults,
To put by one another's bolts;
T'outcant the Babylonian labourers,
At all their dialects of jabberers,
And tug at both ends of the saw,
To tear down government and law.
For as two cheats, that play one game,
Are both defeated of their aim ;
So those who play a game of state,
And only cavil in debate,
Altho' there's nothing loft nor won,
The public bus'ness is undone,
Which still the longer 'tis in doing,
Becomes the furer way to ruin.
This when the royalists perceiv'd, Who to their faith as firmly cleav'd,
And own'd the right they had paid down 165 So dearly for, the church and crown,
Th' united constanter, and fided
The more, the more their foes divided :
For tho' outnumber'd, overthrown,
And by the fate of war run down,
Their duty never was defeated,
Nor from their oaths and faith retreated;
For loyalty is still the fame,
Whether it win or lose the game;
True as the dial to the fun,
Altho' it be not shin'd upon.
But when these bretheren in evil,
Their adversaries, and the devil,
Began once more to fhew them play,
And hopes, at least, to have a day,
They rally'd in parades of woods,
And unfrequented folitudes;
Conven❜d at midnight in outhouses,
T'appoint new rifing rendezvouses,
And, with a pertinacy unmatch'd,
For new recruits of danger watch'd.
No fooner was one blow diverted,
But up another party started,
And as if nature too, in haste,
To furnish out fupplies as faft,
Before her time had turn'd deftruction
T'a new and numerous production ;
No fooner those were overcome,
But up rose others in their room,
That, like the chriftian faith, increas'd
The more, the more they were fuppreft :
Whom neither chains, nor transportation,
Profcription, fale or confiscation,
Nor all the defperate events
Of former try'd experiments,
Nor wounds, could terrify, nor mangling,
To leave off loyalty and dangling,
Nor death, with all his bones, affright
From vent'ring to maintain the right,
From staking life and fortune down
'Gainst all together, for the crown:
But kept the title of their cause
From forfeiture, like claims in laws;
And prov'd no profp'rous ufurpation
Can ever fettle on the nation ;
Until, in spite of force and treason,
They put their loy'lty in poffeffion ;
And, by their constancy and faith,
Destroy'd the mighty men of Gath.
Tofs'd in a furious hurricane,
Did Oliver give up his reign,
And was believ'd, as well by faints
As moral men and mifcreants,
To founder in the Stygian ferry,
Until he was retriev'd by Sterry,
Who, in a falfe erroneous dream,
Mistook the New-jerusalem
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