Or name us
For loyal traitors known;
Soon found a flaw i'the bottom of the joyner,
By justice, and the laws,
Of church and commonwealth an underminer,
Who fell a martyr in the good old cause.
[324] He protested to Burnet, that God and his holy angels could witness, he only went among them for this purpose. After which, the Bishop says, he paid no regard to any thing he could say, or swear.
[325] One can hardly help exclaiming, with the punning author of a ballad called "Oates well thresh't,"
A curse on every thing that's hight Oates;
Both young and old, both black and white Oates