Titus Tell-Troth: OR, The PLOT-FOUNDER Confounded. A Pleasant New SONG.
To the Tune of,
Hail to the Myrtle Shades.
[...]HAil to the Knight of the Post; To Titus the Chief of the Town; Titus who vainly [...] did boast of the Salamancha-Gown; Titus who saw the world o're, from the Tower [...] of Valadolid, Yet stood in the White-horse Door, and swore to it, like the Creed.
[2]
Titus
at Watton
in May,
To
Titus at
Islington;
And
Titus the self same day
Both Here and There again.
Titus who ever swore
Truth,
His politick
Plots to maintain,
And never yet bawk'd an
Oath,
When call'd to the
Test again.
[3]
Then
Titus was Meekest of all,
When Never a Peny in's Purse,
And oft did on
Pickering call,
His Charity to Imburse.
But when He swore
Damnable Oaths,
And
Lying esteemed no Sin,
Then
Titus was
One of those
Whom the
Devil had entred in.
[4]
Then
Titus the Frown of Heav'n,
And
Titus a Plague upon Earth;
Titus who'l ne'r be
Forgiven,
Curs'd from his
Fatal Birth;
Titus the
Curse and the
Doom
Of the Rich and the Poor Man too;
Oh Titus,
thou Shred of a Loom,
What a plague dost thou mean to do?
[5]
Titus
an Orthodox Beast,
And Titus
a Presbyter Tall;
Titus
a Popish Priest,
And
Titus the shame of all;
Titus who ne'r had the skill
The Wise with his
Plots to deceive;
But
Titus whose
Tongue can kill;
Whom Nature has made a Slave.
[6]
Titus the Light of the Town,
Where
Zealots and
Whigs do resort;
Titus the Shame of the
Gown,
And
Titus the Scorn of the
Court;
Titus who Spew'd out the
Truth,
To Swallow the
Covenant;
Yet never blush'd at an
Oath,
Whom
Lying has made a
Saint.
[7]
Yet
Titus believed cou'd be
Against any
Popish Lord;
Whilst still against
S—y
The
Witness and
Truth's abhorr'd;
So
Titus got Credit and Gold
For
Lying, nor thought it a Sin;
But against
Dissenters bold
The
Truth is not worth a pin.
[8]
Thus
Titus Swore on apace,
'Gainst those whom he never did see;
Yet
Titus with brazen Face
Wou'd our
Preserver be.
But as
Titus the foremost in Trust
Discover'd this
Mystery:
May
Titus so be the
First
That leads to the
Triple-Tree.