Page:Lag's elegy, or, The prince of darkness (1).pdf/6

( 6 ) For whoredome and adultery, For inceſt and profanity, For falſhood and for treachery For drunkenness, and for perjury: He neither word nor oath regarded; With gibbets he his friends rewarded. When with oppoſition he did meet, He then did play the hypocrite, And feign'd himſelf for reformation, When he intended deformation, At Spey and Scoon, within a year, The covenants he twice did ſwear; And at Dumfermline did profeſs His ſorrow for his naughtiness: But that was all to get the crown, That he the better might throw down<br /d> That covenanted Preſbytery,<br /d> That was ſo oppoſite to me;<br /d> For afterwards he did reſoind<br /d> Theſe covenants no more to bind;<br /d> And ſolemnly he gave command<br /d> To burn them by the hangman's hand!<br /d> He caused the nations to abjure<br /d> What they call'd reformation pure.<br /d> Brave Prevalecy he did reſtore,<br /d> As it in Scotland was before.<br /d> And to this Dagon he caus'd bow<br /d> Scotsmen, contrary to their vow.<br /d> He many a conference did defile,<br /d> Which made me on his court to ſmile.<br /d> Malignants he advanced high,<br /d> 'Cauſe they good ſubjects were to me.<br /d> He tolerated heresy,<br /d> All error and profanity.