X.

When long we have ferv'd,
And Preferment deferv'd,
Let's not mifs of our juft Expectations;
By every Fop's Letter

For his Friend, that's no better,
Or our Patron's more Block-head Relations

XI.

For 'tis Cause of grieving
To fee a good Living

Which our Thoughts had long been fixt on,
Be giv'n to a Wigeon

With no more Religion,
And Learning much less than his Sexton.

XII.

Nor yet let Matrimony,

The worst Sort of Simony, Be the Price of our Presentations: Nor to wed a caft Miftrefs When fhe's in great Distress, Our requifite Qualification.

XIII.

And if it be our Chance
To serve against France,

At Sea, on the Rhine, or in Flanders;
We earnestly fue t' ye,

That exempt from all Duty

We may dine with our pious Commanders.

XIV.

Then Brandy good Store,

With feveral Things more,

Which we Sons o'th'Church have a right in:

But chiefly w' intreat,

You'll never forget

To excufe us from Preaching and Fighting.

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XV. Let

XV.

Let not a Commiffion
So change the Condition
Of him that juft carried a Halbert;
That a Dunce of no Letters
Should hector his Betters,
For truly we cannot at all bear't.

XVI.

Nor when the War's done,
Let's be broke ev'ry one,
To languish in Rags and lie idle,
Nor be fo ill ferv'd,

To be left to be ftarv'd,
And kept by a Bear and a Fiddle.

XVII.

May it therefore you please,
For your own and our Eafe
To relieve us without Hefitation:
For the Grievances told,
Are as frequent and old
As any befides "in the Nation.

XVIII.

Then on us take Pity,

And chufe a Committee,

Let no other Bufinefs prevent ye;

Our Request do not fpurn,

Nor vote it to burn

With a Nemine Contradicente.

XIX.

To this if you yield,

Our Mouths fhall be fill'd With Encomiums of your Piety;

Whofe excellent Fame

We will loudy proclaim,

And worship next that of the Deity.

XX. When

XX.

When thus you remove
What we difapprove,

We all, down to Z from the Letter A,
By Night and by Day,

Will fervently pray,

As in Duty bound, &c. a.

A DIALOGUE between a SHEP. HERDESS and SHEPHERD.

T

SHEPHERDESS.

O me y'ave made a Thousand Vows,
A Thousand tender Things have faid;
I gave you all that Love allows,

The naked Pleasure of the Bed:

Yet now my Eyes have loft their Charms,
Or you abate in your Defire;

You dream y'ave Celia in your Arms,
And burn with an unhallow'd Fire.

Aloud you name her in your Sleep,
And if t'wards me y'are pleas'd to stir,
(A Kindness that but makes me weep)
'Tis only when you think of her.
SHEPHERD.

That charming Celia I admire,
I must with Pleasure own it true;
But had I ten times more Defire,
How could my Paffion injure you?
Love is the facred Tree of Life,
And up to Heav'n its Branches rears,
Yet Admiration's but the Leaf,
Enjoyment is the Fruit it bears.

Then while you raife this vain Difpute,
Your Fondnefs but itfelf deceives,
When you yourself have all the Fruit,
What need you envy her the Leaves ?

The

The LAST WILL and TESTAMENT of

I

DOCTORS-COMMONS.

Doctors-Commons, in the Parish of St. Benedict, Paul's-Wharf, London, being very aged, and finding by general Computation that my Time draws to an end, and likewife much fhaken both in Body and Mind with a Westminster Ague, yet of perfect Mind and Memory; to avoid all Suits and Controverfies that hereafter may arife concerning my Estate, or any Part or Parcel thereof, and to the Intent and Purpose that my contentious Days may be confummated and ended in Peace, Do conftitute, ordain, declare, and make this my laft Will and Teftament in Manner and Form following: That is to fay,

Imprimis, For my Soul, I bequeath it to Gunpowder Makers, to be made into Gunpowder, which fhall be employed only for the Discharge of the new Canons.

Item, I bequeath my Body to the Earth, from whence it came, decently to be buried, but not fumptuously, in the Convocation-Houfe, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London, aforefaid, according to the Difcretion of my Executors hereafter-named.

Item, For my Perfonal Estate (having never been poffeffed of any Lands, I willingly bequeath the Reverend Judges, Vicars-Generals, Chancellors, Commiffaries, Arch-deacons, Deans and Chapters, and their Surrogates; and alfo all High Commiffioners, Judges, Delegates, Advocates, and Legum Doctores quofcunque. Qg, the great Commiffary, alias Dr. Roan only excepted, to the High Court of Parliament, there to be cherish'd according to their Merits and Defervings.

Item, I bequeath all my Regifters, Deputy-Regifters, Proctors, Examiners, and Public Na

taries, to the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, to be admitted Attornies (if no Prohibition be granted to the contrary)

Item, I will and bequeath all my Fifty Pound Clerks to their Friends in the Country, or to the Juftices of the Peace and Quorum.

Item, I will and bequeath all my Journeymen Clerks, Hackney and Sub hackney Clerks, to Chancery-Lane, and Britannick S. Hugh Preftar, to the Star-Chamber.

Item, I will and bequeath all my Pursuivants, Apparators, Promooters, &c. to Under-Sheriffs, but in cafe they have no Need of them, then I bequeath them to their ghoftly Father, unto whom they have most relation.

Item, I will and bequeath all my Writings and Records as followeth, my Bonds to large measuring Taylors, my Bills, Tranfmiffions and the like, to retaling Tobacconifts, my incontinent Articles to Bloomsbury, Long-Acre, and other like Places of good Fellowship; my Libels of Defamation to the penitential Scolds, there to be ordered according to their Difcretions; all my Commiffions of Appeal to the Parties appellant, for they have the most Right to them, in regard they have paid for them.

Item, I will and bequeath all my large Books of Acts to them of the Fortune Play-Houfe, for I hold it a Deed of Charity, in regard they want good Action; my Decrees to the Courts of Chancery, in cafe they want any; my Sentences to those Orators that imitate Tullies quanquam te Marce fili, &c. for they are fomething long: And lastly, I will and bequeath my Cannons, charged with &c. to the Tower, to defend him that made them: And all the rest of my Writings, Efcripts, Manufcripts, and fuperfluous Papers whatfoever to Cooks, Bakers, Grocers, and Chandlers.

Item,