Nor is it likely there to stay long,
The retentive faculties being gone,
The juggle is stale, and money there’s none,
Which no body can deny.
The secluded members made a trial
To enter, but them the Rump did defy all
By the ordinance of self-denial,
Which no body can deny.
Our politique doctors do us teach
That a blood-sucking red-coat’s as good as a leech
To relieve the head, if applied to the breech,
Which no body can deny.
But never was such a worm as Vane;
When the State scour’d last, it voided him then,
Yet now he’s crept into the Rump again,
Which no body can deny.
Ludlow’s f— was a prophetique trump [69]
(There never was anything so jump),
’Twas the very type of a vote of this Rump,
Which no body can deny.
They say ’tis good luck when a body rises
With the rump upward, but he that advises
To live in that posture is none of the wisest,
Which no body can deny.
The reason is worse, though the rime be untoward,
When things proceed with the wrong end forward;
But they say there’s sad news to the Rump from the Nor’ward; [70]
Which no body can deny.
’Tis a wonderfull thing, the strength of that part;
At a blast it will take you a team from a cart,
And blow a man’s head away with a f—,
Which no body can deny.
When our brains are sunck below the middle,
And our consciences steer’d by the hey-down-diddle,
Then things will go round without a fiddle,
Which no body can deny.
You may order the city with hand-granado,
Or the generall with a bastonado,—
But no way for a Rump like a carbonado,
Which no body can deny.