Countered with ‘My words my own
My acts my ministers’ alone’;
1662
In sixteen-six-two year of grace,
Charles taxed every fire-place;
And citizens who couldn’t pay
Shivered and grumbled as to-day.
These were the times of Musketeers
And proud and dashing Cavaliers;
When words were few and tempers hot
And duels fought out on the spot.
John Bunyan
THE tinker preacher Bunyan wrote
The ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ we still quote,
The prison bars no barrier wrought
To lowly Bunyan’s lofty thought.
Milton 1678
In stately language Milton’s muse
The Bible story doth diffuse;
From ‘Paradise Lost’ we get our view
Of Adam and Eve and Satan too.
The Reverend Titus Oates, a scamp,
Egregious Popish plots did vamp,