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From that great judge your judgment takes its law,
And by the best original does draw
Bonduca's honour, with those heroes time
Had in oblivion wrapt his saucy crime :
To them and to your nation you are just,
In raising up their glories from the dust;
And to old England you that right have done,
To shew no story nobler than her own.

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SONGS.

NEWS FROM COLCHESTER :

Or, A proper New Ballad of certain carnal passages betwixt a Quaker and a Colt, at Horsley, near Colchester in Essex.

To the tune of "Tom of Bedlam."

I.

ALL in the land of Essex,
Near Colchester the zealous,
On the side of a bank
Was play'd such a prank

As would make a stone-horse jealous.

II.

Help Woodcock, Fox, and Naylor,
For brother Green's a stallion:
Now, alas! what hope

Of converting the Pope,
When a Quaker turns Italian }

III.

Even to our whole profession
A scandal 'twill be counted,
When 'tis talk'd with disdain
Amongst the profane

How Brother Green was mounted.

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IV.

And in the good time of Christmas,
Which tho our saints have damn'd all,
Yet when they did hear

That a damn'd Cavalier

Ever play'd such a Christmas gambol?

V.

Had thy flesh, O Green! been pamper'd
With any cates unhallow'd,

Hadst thou sweeten'd thy gums

With pottage of plums,

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Or profane mine'd pye had swallow'd;

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VI.

Roll'd up in wanton swine's flesh

The fiend might have crept into thee;

Then fullness of gut

Might have caus'd thee to rut,

And the devil have so rid thro' thee.

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"Filly Foal," quoth he,

"My bride thou shalt be;
"And how this is lawful learn all :

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"Thereby may be meant

"That a mare's as good as a madam."

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XI.

Now when in such a saddle

A saint will needs be riding,

Tho' we dare not say

'Tis a falling away,

May there not be some backsliding?

XII.

"No, surely," quoth James Naylor,

'Twas but an insurrection

"Of the carnal part,

"For a Quaker in heart

"Can never lose perfection.

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XIII.

"For (as our masters* teach us) The intent being well directed, Tho' the devil trepan

The Adamical man,

The saint stands uninfected."

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