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1649. {{ppoem|start=stanza|end=stanza| It talks of mall things, But it ets up all things; This maters money, though money maters all things.

It is not eaon To talk of reaon, Nor call it loyalty, when the }word will have it treaon.

It conquers the crown, too, The grave and the gown, too; Firt it ets up a Prebyter, and then it pulls him down too.

The ubtlie diater Turns bonnet to beaver; Down goes a bihop, irs, and up tarts a weaver.

This makes a layman To preach and to pray, man; And makes a lord of him that was but a drayman.

Far from the Gulpit Of Saxby’s pulpit, This brought an Hebrew ironmonger to the pulpit.

Such pitiful things be More happy than kings be; They get the upper hand of Thimblebee and Slingbee. }}