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OR BARON ALIAS BARREN LOVEL'S CHARGE AT THE ASSIZES AT EXON APRIL IO	A
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Risum teneatis HORAT Ars Poetica	B
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From London to Exon	C
By special direction	D
Came down the world's wonder	E
Sir Salathiel Blunder	E
With a quoif on his head	F
As heavy as lead	F
And thus opened and said	F
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Gentlemen of the Grand Inquest	G
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Her majesty mark it	H
Appointed this circuit	I
For me and my brother	E
Before any other	E
To execute laws	J
As you may suppose	K
Upon such as offenders have been	L
So then not to scatter	E
More words on the matter	E
We're beginning just now to begin	L
But hold first and foremost I must enter a clause	J
As touching and concerning our excellent laws	J
Which here I aver	E
Are better by far	M
Than them all put together abroad and beyond sea	N
For I ne'er read the like nor e'er shall I fancy	N
The laws of our land	O
Don't abet but withstand	O
Inquisition and thrall	P
And whatever may gall	P
And fire withal	P
And sword that devours	Q
Wherever it scowers	Q
They preserve liberty and property for which men pull and haul so	Q
And they are made for the support of good government also	Q
Her majesty knowing	B
The best way of going	B
To work for the weal of the nation	D
Builds on that rock	B
Which all storms will mock	B
Since Religion is made the foundation	D
And I tell you to boot she	N
Resolves resolutely	N
No promotion to give	R
To the best man alive	S
In church or in state	T
I'm an instance of that	U
But only to such of a good reputation	D
For temper morality and moderation	D
Fire fire a wild fire	E
Which greatly disturbs the queen's peace	Q
Lies running about	V
And if you don't put it out	V
That's positive will increase	Q
And any may spy	W
With half of an eye	W
That it comes from our priests and Papistical fry	W
Ye have one of these fellows	Q
With fiery bellows	Q
Come hither to blow and to puff here	X
Who having been toss'd	Y
From pillar to post	Z
At last vents his rascally stuff here	X
Which to such as are honest must sound very oddly	N
When they ought to preach nothing but what's very godly	N
As here from this place we charge you to do	A2
As ye'll answer to man besides ye know who	A2
Ye have a Diocesan l	P
But I don't know the man	B2
The man's a good liver	E
They tell me however	E
And fiery never	E
Now ye under pullers	Q
That wear such black colours	Q
How well would it look	B
If his measures ye took	B
Thus for head and for rump	C2
Together to jump	C2
For there's none deserve places	Q
I speak't to their faces	Q
But men of such graces	Q
And I hope he will never prefer any asses	Q
Especially when I'm so confident on't	N
For reasons of state that her majesty won't	D2
Know I myself I	W
Was present and by	W
At the great trial where there was a great company	N
Of a turbulent preacher who cursedly hot	E2
Turn'd the fifth of November even the gun powder plot	E2
Into impudent railing and the devil knows what	I
Exclaiming like fury it was at Paul's London	D
How church was in danger and like to be undone	D
And so gave the lie to gracious Queen Anne	B2
And which is far worse to our parliament men	F2
And then printed a book	B
Into which men did look	B
True he made a good text	G2
But what follow'd next	G2
Was nought but a dunghill of sordid abuses	Q
Instead of sound doctrine with proofs to't and uses	Q
It was high time of day	H2
That such inflammation	D
should be extinguish'd without more delay	H2
But there was no engine could possibly do't	N
Till the commons play'd theirs and so quite put it out	V
So the man was tried for't	N
Before highest court	I2
Now it's plain to be seen	J2
It's his principles I mean	J2
Where they suffer'd this noisy and his lawyers to bellow	Q
Which over the blade	K2
A poor punishment had	L2
For that racket he made	K2
By which ye may know	Q
They thought as I do	A2
That he is but at best an inconsiderable fellow	Q
Upon this I find here	X
And everywhere	M2
That the country rides rusty and is all out of gear	N2
And for what	I
May I not	E2
In opinion vary	N
And think the contrary	N
But it must create	T
Unfriendly debate	T
And disunion straight	T
When no reason in nature	E
Can be given of the matter	E
Any more than for shapes or for different stature	E
If you love your dear selves your religion or queen	J2
Ye ought in good manners to be peaceable men	F2
For nothing disgusts her	E
Like making a bluster	E
And your making this riot	I
Is what she could cry at	U
Since all her concern's for our welfare and quiet	I
I would ask any man	B2
Of them all that maintain	O2
Their passive obedience	Q
With such mighty vehemence	Q
That damn'd doctrine I trow	Q
What he means by it ho'	P2
To trump it up now	Q2
Or to tell me in short	I2
What need there is for't	N
Ye may say I am hot	E2
I say I am not	E2
Only warm as the subject on which I am got	E2
There are those alive yet	R2
If they do not forget	R2
May remember what mischiefs it did church and state	T
Or at least must have heard	S2
The deplorable calamities	Q
It drew upon families	Q
About sixty years ago and upward	S2
And now do ye see	N
Whoever they be	N
That make such an oration	D
In our Protestant nation	D
As though church was all on a fire	E
With whatever cloak	B
They may cover their talk	B
And wheedle the folk	B
That the oaths they have took	B
As our governors strictly require	E
I say they are men and I'm a judge ye all know	Q
That would our most excellent laws overthrow	Q
For the greater part of them to church never go	Q
Or what's much the same it by very great chance is	Q
If e'er they partake of her wise ordinances	Q
Their aim is no doubt	V
Were they made to speak out	V
To pluck down the queen that they make all this rout	V
And to set up moreover	E
A bastardly brother	E
Or at least to prevent the House of Hanover	E
Ye gentlemen of the jury	N
What means all this fury	N
Of which I'm inform'd by good hands I assure ye	N
This insulting of persons by blows and rude speeches	Q
And breaking of windows which you know maketh breaches	Q
Ye ought to resent it	H
And in duty present it	H
For the law is against it	H
Not only the actors engaged in this job	T2
But those that encourage and set on the mob	T2
The mob a paw word and which I ne'er mention	D
But must in this place for the sake of distinction	D
I hear that some bailiffs and some justices	Q
Have strove what they could all this rage to suppress	Q
And I hope many more	U2
Will exert the like power	E
Since none will depend on't	N
Get a jot of preferment	N
But men of this kidney as I told you before	U2
I'll tell you a story Once upon a time	V2
Some hot headed fellows must needs take a whim	W2
And so were so weak	B
Twas a mighty mistake	B
To pull down and abuse	Q
Bawdy houses and stews	Q
Who tried by the laws of the realm for high treason	D
Were hang'd drawn and quarter'd for that very reason	D
When the time came about	N
For us all to set out	N
We went to take leave of the queen	J2
Where were great men of worth	X2
Great heads and so forth	Y2
The greatest that ever were seen	J2
And she gave us a large	Z2
And particular charge	Z2
Good part on't indeed	N
Is quite out of my head	N
But I remember she said	N
We should recommend peace and good neighbourhood wheresoever we came and so I do here	X
For that every one not only men and their wives	Q
Should do all that they can to lead peaceable lives	Q
And told us withal that she fully expected	N
A special account how ye all stood affected	N
When we've been at St James's you'll hear of the matter	E
Again then I charge ye	N
Ye men of the clergy	N
That ye follow the track all	P
Of your own Bishop Blackall	P
And preach as ye should	N
What's savoury and good	N
And together all cling	B
As it were in a string	B
Not falling out quarrelling one with another	E
Now we're treating with Monsieur that son of his mother	E
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Then proceeded on the common matters of the law and concluded	N
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Once more and no more since few words are best	N
I charge you all present by way of request	N
If ye honour as I do	N
Our dear royal widow	N
Or have any compassion	D
For church or the nation	D
And would live a long while	P
In continual smile	P
And eat roast and boil	P
And not be forgotten	D
When ye are dead and rotten	D
That ye would be quiet and peaceably dwell	P
And never fall out but p s all in a quill	P