[Footnote 61: 'Queen Bess's night:' alluding to a procession of the
Whigs, carrying party effigies, and a representation of the dead body of
Sir E. Godfrey, on the 17th of November, the birthday of Queen
Elizabeth.]
[Footnote 62: By the Bartholomew Act not more than five Dissenters were allowed to commune together at one time.]
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XXXIII.
PROLOGUE TO "THE KING AND QUEEN."[63]
UPON THE UNION OF THE TWO COMPANIES IN 1686.
1 Since faction ebbs, and rogues grow out of fashion,
Their penny scribes take care to inform the nation,
How well men thrive in this or that plantation:
2 How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers,
And Carolina's with Associators:
Both even too good for madmen and for traitors.
3 Truth is, our land with saints is so run o'er,
And every age produces such a store,
That now there's need of two New-Englands more.
4 What's this, you'll say, to us and our vocation?
Only thus much, that we have left our station,
And made this theatre our new plantation.