Works Volume N . 17 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...While Carter and Prendergast both may be rotten, And damn'd to the bargain, and yet be forgotten. THE YAHOO'S OVERTHROW; on, THE A KEVAN BAYL'S NEW BALLAD, JOLLY boys of St. Kevan's, St. Patrick's, Donore, And Smithfield, I'll tell you, if not told before, How Bettesworth, that booby, and scoundrel in V grain, Has insulted us all by insulting the Dean. Knockhim down, down, down, knock him down. The Dean and his merits we every one know, ' But this skip of a lawyer, where the D_e'el did the grow P Q, 3-How greater his merit at Four Courts or House, /1 the barking of Towzer, or leap of a louse? Thathe came from theTemple, his morals do show; But where his deep law is, few mortals yet know: His rhetoric, lrombast, silly 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. A 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 same, What the De'el is't to him whence the Devil they i came? V, Knock him down, &c. Hobbes, Tindal, and Woolston, and Collins, and I J 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. C i i iKnock him down, &c. He only the rights of the clergy debates, Their rights their importance We'll set on new i rates Qn their tithes at half-nothing, their priesthood D at lesszi ' h K_fVha_t's next to be voted..