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Cur $ e 0 H ^ e sk ° u ° ^ ^ at licentious throng * Whofe merriment ( more brutal than the song nf marl Acave , when wild Haemus o ' er
Her Peatheus' mangled limbs the mother bore ) proclaims the fall of Liberty : —ye shades Of mighty chiefs , from your Elysian glades Look down benign , avert the dire
presage , Nor with two Charles ' s brand one sinful age . 0 my poor country I what capricious tide Of Fortune swells the Tyrant ' s motley pride ! Around his brows yon servile prelates
twine The stale and blasted wreath of Right Divine ; While harlots , like the Coan Venus fair , Move their light feet to each lascivious
. Hence with your orgies 1 Righteous Heaven ordains A purer worship , less audacious strains . When falls by William ' s sword , ( as soon it must , ) Tliis edifice of bigotry and lust , The Muse shall start from her inglorious
trance , And give to satire ' s grasp her vengeful lance , At Truth ' s historic shrine shall victims
smoke , And a fresh Stuart bleed at every stroke . Thine too , perfidious Albemarle , ( whose steel , Drawn to protect , embroil'd Britannia ' s weal , Shrunk from thy coward arm , consign'd
the reins Of power to Charles , and forged a nation ' s chains , ) Compar'd with nobler villanies of old , High deeds , on plates of adamant enroll'd , Shal 1 meet the felon ' s undistinguish'd
fate , v Sure of contempt , uuvrorthy of our hate . * 4 < Our most religious King , " as Uiarles II . was first styled ia the ^ rnmon Prayer , was next day at
^ fturch , where , no doubt , thanks were ffwen t 0 the Almighty for allowing the Stuart faction to murder and mangle some of the best men of the nation , * " <* tepys tells us how this and anoler an ff « st worshiper were employed ? 1 Wodlmil ' s Equality of Mankind , in urcU s Collection of Poems , IV . 246 , 7 .
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daring divine service ; " I 4 tb . To White | I&U eta ^ p $ U ,. < M&ena we-Dr . Crofts made an indifferent sermon , and
after it an anthem , ill sung , which made the King i < tugk .- ~~ Hcre I also observed , how the Duke of York and Mrs . Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through the hang-ings that parts the King ' s closet , and the closet where the ladies sit . " I , 79 *
The sight of parts of the dismembered patriots * Oct . 20 th , wpiild seem io have affected Pepys properly : M This afternoon going through London , and calling at Crowe ' s the Upholsterer ' s ,
in Saint Bartholomew ' s , I saw limbs of some of our new traitors set upon Aldersgate , which was a sad sight to see ; and a bloody week this and the last have been , there being ten hanged , drawn and quartered , " I . 80 .. The next passage shews that this observer
was not overcome by his humanitythe last words are a singular instance of sangfroid : " 21 st . George Vines carried me up to the top of his turret , where there is Cook ' s head ^ set up for a traytor , and Harrison ' s set up on the other side of Westminster Hall . Here
I could see them plainly , as also a very fair prospect about London *** Ib . Pepys relates that , Nov . 1 st , he paid a visit with Sir W . Penn ( father of the
celebrated Quaker ) to Sir W . Batten ' s , at whose table he met an old friend who reminded him of his early anti-royal predilections . " Here dined with us two or three more country gentlemen ; among the rest Mr . Christmas , my old school-fellow , with whom 1 had much talk . He did remember that I was a great roundhead when I
was a boy , and I was much afraid that he would have remembered the words that I said the day the King was beheaded , ( that were I to preach upon him , my text should he , i ( The memory of the wicked shall rot , " ) but I found afterwards that lie did go away from school before that time . " I . 82 .
This shrewd observer relates the arrival next day of the Queen Dowager , widow of Charles I ., and remarks , " I observed this night very few bonfires in the city , not above three in all London , for the Queen ' s coming j whereby I guess that ( as I believed before ) her coming do please but very few . " I . 83 . Under the same date is an entry which might have lessened Lord Bray-
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Metnoxrs of Samuel Pep i /* , Esq . 528
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 523, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/11/
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