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Rh His rhetorick, bombast, filly jests, are by far More like to lampooning, than pleading at bar. Knock him down, &c.

This pedlar, at speaking and making of laws, Has met with returns of all sorts but applause; Has, with noise and odd gestures, been prating some years, What honester folks never durst for their ears. Knock him down, &c.

Of all sizes and sorts, the fanatical crew Are his brother protestants, good men and true, Red hat, and blue bonnet, and turban's the sames What the De'el is't to him whence the Devil they came? Knock him down, &c.

Hobbes, Tindal, and Woolston, and Collins, and Nayler, And Muggleton, Toland, and Bradley the Taylor, Are Christians alike; and it may be averr'd, He's a Christian as good as the rest of the herd. Knock him down, &c.

He only the rights of the clergy debates, Their rights! their importance! We'll set on new rates On their tithes at half-nothing, their priesthood at less: What's next to be voted with ease you may guess. Knock him down, &c.

At length his old master (I need not him name) To this damnable speaker had long ow'd a shame; When his speech came abroad, he paid him off clean, By leaving him under the pen of the dean. Knock him down, &c. Rh