VANITY OF VANITIES OR SIR HARRY VANE'S PICTURE.
To the Tune of the JEWS Corant.
HAve you not seen a
Barthol'mew Baby
A Pageant of policy as fine as may be,
That's gone to be Shown at the Mannor of
Raby,
Which no body can deny.
There was never such a prostitute Sight,
That e're profan'd this purer Light,
A
Hocus Pocus jugling Knight,
Which no body can deny.
He was taken for a Delphick
Tripus,
Another doubt-solving
Oedipus,
But the Parliament made him a very
Quibus,
Which no body, &c.
His cunning State tricks and Oracles,
His lying wonders and Miracles,
Are turned into Parliament Shackles,
Which no body, &c.
Goodly great Sir
Onesimus VANE,
The Annointed King of Saints not Reign?
I see all Godlinesse is not Gain,
Whhno od y,
&c.
John a
Leyden that
Munsters Jing,
Was a Fool and an Asse to this pretty Thing,
But the Parliament hated the name of a King,
Which no body, &c.
This holy Saint hath pray'd till he wept,
Prophesied and Divin'd while he slept,
But fell in a T— when aside he stept,
Which no body, &c.
He sate late in the House so discontent,
With his Arms folded and his Brows bent,
Like
Achitophel to the Parliament,
Which no body, &c.
He durst not speak of a Concubine,
Nor gave more Councel to any Design,
But was musing on a Hempen Line,
Which no body, &c.
He see Mr.
Prin take a great deal of Pain,
To get in with the rest as Members Again,
But they were Voted as use-lesse as
VANE,
Which no body, &c.
They gave him a
Conge with such a Vote;
'Twas thought they had learned it by Rote,
Ever since he went down to
Graves-end by Bote,
Which no body, &c.
For all his Ceremonious Cringing,
He shall undergo a notable Swindging,
There is now no more need of his Engine,
VVhich no body, &c.
When first the English War began,
His Father was a Court
Trepan,
And 'rose to be a Parliament Man,
VVhich no body, &c.
So from the Father came unto the Son,
Whom Wo and Mis'ry now do wait upon,
For Counselling Protector
John,
VVhich no body, &c.
A
Gemini they were,
Pollux and
Castor,
One was a Teacher the other a Pastor,
And both like R— betrayed their Master,
VVhich no body, &c.
The Devil ne're see such two Sir
Harry's,
Such a pest'lent pair nor neer nor far is,
No not at the Jesuits
Sorbon of
Paris,
VVhich no body, &c.
They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat,
They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat,
For turning in pan there was ne're such a Cat,
VVhich no body, &c.
His dainty project of a Select Senate,
Is Damned for a blasphemous Tenet,
T'was found in the budget ('tis said) of Monk
Bennet,
VVhich no body, &c.
Of this State and Kingdoms he is the Bane,
He shall have the reward of
Judas and
Cain,
And 'twas he that overthrew
Charls his Wain,
VVhich no body, &c.
Should he sit where he did with his Mischievous brain,
Or if any his Councels behind do remain,
The house may be called the
Labour in Vain,
VVhich no body can deny.