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 rain, and planting rebellion in America, by intrigues of false statesmen and the mouths of black Judas clergymen, preaching up the doctrine of disobedience; ah, dear hearts, from the days of Jack Stra and and Tom Taylor, there has been a set of those levellers in every generation ; how did they rage in England in the days of Cromwell, when they maintained, that no man ought to be superior above another, and the friar that preached to Jack Stra’s army, had for his text, (When Adam carded and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?) now in this our age, you all know the seditious text, (Wilks and Liberty.) Ah, how it was sounded from shore to shore, oftner repeated than the Creed, esteemed more sacred than the Ave Maria in our holy Manual ; ay, the very malefactors riding in triumph to Tyburn, Cryed, Wilks and Liberty all the way; by Shaint Patrick it was a bad prayer to be hanged with.

And now who is for my pudding pan, it is only for the use of those, who worship that idol, Haggies, this Mr Haggies is a brother to that poor hungry god of Babylon, called Bell, who always are forty sheep at a meal, besides wire and other necessaries; ah, my dear countrymen, my old brogs go down with it, for this voracious Idol, Mr Haggies, has made too many prosylites in sweet Ireland, and in the cold North also; his great solemnity is at Christmas as devoutly kept as a Jewish Sabbath, though the nations were in flames, and the house in fire about their ears, they will not be disturbed till it be over ; ah, dear Shoy, the fat of the three kingdoms and three times more, is squeezed together here for pudding and pan-cake, in adoration of the great idol Haggies, his voracious hunger of late years caused a great depopulation, emigration and transportation, ay, our own dear countrymen, flock’d in thousands to the land of Sneeshing, as it had been the land of Promise