Dr Wild's humble thanks for His Majesties gracious declaration for liberty of conscience, March 15. 1672. Wild, Robert, 1609-1679. 1672 Approx. 8 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B06583 Wing W2129A Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[81] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[241] 99884037 ocm99884037 182910 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06583) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182910) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[82]; A4:2[242]) Dr Wild's humble thanks for His Majesties gracious declaration for liberty of conscience, March 15. 1672. Wild, Robert, 1609-1679. 1 sheet ([1] p.). [s.n.], London : printed in the year, 1672. Signed: Iter Boreale [i.e. Robert Wild]. Verse: "No, not one word, can I of this great deed ..." With reference to Charles II's declaration of 15 March 1672. Item at A4:2[242] imperfect: torn at foot with loss of imprint. Reproduction of original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. 2008-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2008-04 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion D r WILD's Humble Thanks For His MAJESTIES Gracious DECLARATION for Liberty of Conscience , March 15. 1672. No , not one word , can I of this Great Deed , In Merlin , Old Mother Shipton read ! Old Tyburn take those Tychobrahe Imps , As Silger , who would be accounted Pimps To the Amorous Planets ; they the Minute know , When Jove did Cuckold old Amphitryo , ●en Mars and made Venus wink and glances , Their close Conjunctions , and mid-night Dances . When costive Saturn goes to stool , and vile Thief Mercury doth pick his Fob the while : When Lady Luna leaks , and makes her man Throw 't out of Window into th' Ocean . More subtle than the Excise-men here below , What 's spent in every Sign in Heaven they know ; Cunning Intelligencers , they will not miss To tell us next year , the success of this ; They correspond with Dutch and English Star , As one once did with CHARLES and Oliver . The Bankers also might have , had they gone , What Planet governe'd the Exchequer , known . Old Lilly , though he did not love to make Any words o●'t saw the English take , Five of the Smyrna Fleet , and if the Sign Had been Aquarius , then they 'd made them Nine When Sagitarius took his aim to shoot At Bishop Cosin , he spyed him no doubt ; And with such force the winged Arrow flew ; Instead of one Church Stagg he killed two ; Glocester and Durbam when he espy'd , Let Lean and Fat go together he cry'd . Well Wille Lilly thou knew'st all this as well As I , and yet wouldst not their Lordships tell . I know thy Plea too , and must it allow , PRELATES should know as much of Heaven as thou : But now Friend William , since it s done and past , Pray thee , give us Phanaticks but one Cast , What thou foresaw'st of March the Fifteenth Last ; When swift and sudden as the Angels flye , Th' Declaration for Conscience-Liberty ; When things of Heaven burst from the Royal Breast , More fragrant than the Spices of the East . I know in next year's Almanack thou'lt write , Thou saw'st the King and Council over-night , Before that morn , all sit in Heaven as plain To be discern'd , as if 't were Charles's Waine , Great B , great L , and two great AA's were chief Under Great CHARLES to give poor Fan's relief : Thou sawest Lord Arlington ordain the man. To be the first Lay Metropolitan . Thou saw'st him give induction to a Spittle , And constitute our Brother TOM-DOE-LITTLE . In the Bears Paw , and the Bulls right Eye , Some Detriment to Priests thou didst espye ; And though by Sol in Libra thou didst know Which way the Scale of Policy would go ; Yet Mercury in Aries did decree . That Wool and Lamb should still Conformists be . But hark-you Will , Steer-poching is not fair ; Had you amongst the Steers found this March-Hare , Bred of that lusty Puss the Good Old Cause , Religion rescued from Informing Laws ; You should have yelpt aloud , hanging's the end , By Huntsmens Rule , of Hounds that will not spend . Be gone thou and thy canting-Tribe , be gone ; Go tell thy destiny to followers none : Kings Hearts and Councils are too deep for thee , And for thy Stars and Doemons scrutinie . King CHARLES Return was much above thy skill To fumble out , as 't was against thy will. ●rom him who can the Hearts of Kings inspire , Not from the Planets , came that Sacred Fire Of Soveraign Love , which broke into a Flame ; From God and from his King alone it came . To the KING . SO great , so universal , and so free ! This was too much great CHARLES , except for Thee , For any King to give a Subject hope : To do thus like Thee , would undo the Pope . Yea , tho his Vassals should their wealth combine , To buy Indulgence half so large as thine ; No , if they should not only kiss his Toe , But Clement's Podex , he 'd not let them goe . Whil'st Thou to 's shame , Thy immortal glory , Hast freed All-Souls from real Purgatory ; And given All-Saints in Heav'n new Joys , to see Their friends in England keep a Jubilee . Suspect them not , Great Sir , nor think the worse ; For sudden joys like grief , confound at first . The splendor of your favour was so bright , That yet it dazles and o'rewhelms our sight ; Drunk with her cups , my Muse did nothing mind ; And until now , her feet she could not find . Greediness makes profa'ness i' th' first place ; Hungry men fill their bellies , then say grace . We wou'd make Bonfires , but that we do fear The name of Incend'ary we may hear . We wou'd have Musick too , but 't will not doo , For all the Fidlers are Conformists too . Nor can we ring , the angry Churchman swears , ( By the King's leave ) the Bells and Ropes are theirs . And let 'em take 'em , for our tongues shall sing Your Honour louder than their Clappers ring . Nay , if they will not at this Grace repine , We 'l dress the Vineyard , they shall drink the Wine . Their Church shall be the Mother , ours the Nurse . Peter shall preach , Judas shall bear the purse . No Bishops , Parsons , Vicars , Curates , we , But only Ministers desire to be . We 'l preach in Sackcloth , they shall read in Silk . We 'l feed the Flock , and let them take the Milk. Let but the Black-birds sing in bushes cold , And may the Jack-dawes still the Steeples hold . We 'l be the Feet , the Back and Hands , and they Shall be the Belly , and devour the Prey , The Tythe-pigg shall be theirs , we 'l turn the spit , We 'l bear the Cross , they only sign with it . But if the Patriarchs shall envy show To see their younger-Brother Joseph go In Coat of divers colours , and shall fall To rend it , ' cause it 's not Canonical : Then may they find him turn a Dreamer too , And live themselves to see his Dream come true . May rather they and we together joyn In all what each can ; But they have the Coyn : With Prayers and Tears such service much avail : With Tears to swell your Seas , with Prayers your Sails ; And with Men too , from both our parties ; such I 'm sure we have , can cheat , or beat , the Dutch. A Thousand Quakers , Sir , our side can spare ; Nay , two or three , for they great Breeders are . The Church can match us too with Jovial Sirs , Informers , Singing-men and Paraters . Let the King try , set these upon the Decks Together , they will Dutch or Devil vex . Their Breath will mischief further than a Gun. And if you lose them , you 'l not be undone . Pardon dread Sir , nay pardon this coarse Paper , Your License 't was made this poor Poet caper . ITER BOREALE .