Be as just, but not so great;
Some mean shameful death attend him:
May cursed Lewis, for old sores,
Turn him poorly out of doors;
Then may some friendly halter end him.”
The greater part of the anthem for 1696 is filthy and profane to a horrible degree. The following are the last four lines, and the least exceptionable:—
“Oh! how should we rejoice and pray, and never cease to sing a,
If bishops too were chased away, and banish’d with their king a,
Then peace and plenty would ensue, our bellies would be full a,
The enliven’d isle would laugh and smile, as in the days of Noll a.”