AN ELEGY On the much Lamented Sir WILLIAM WALLER, Who Valiantly Hang'd Himself at Rotterdam.

RIse, Grim Alecto, rise ('tis fit to chuse
For Hellish matter an Infernal Muse:)
Thou who at Fox Hall did'st Inspire those Sots,
Tongue, Oates and Kirby to Contrive their Plots;
Who did'st through wondrous Labarinths of Ill,
Conduct Sir Godfrey safe to Primrose-Hill;
And by Mysterious Ways, and Oaths most quaint,
Of an Old Faggot made us a Young Saint:
Plots thou canst make and marr: Thou Stygian Whore
Assist me once! I'll ne'r invoke thee more.
The Hell-born Dame Assents; Her Head she shakes,
Pregnant of Plots, and Pery wick'd with Snakes;
At her Right-Ear an Oates and Bedlow hung,
And at her Lest Prance Everard and Tongue:
Thus Gravely she Recounts what the Curs'd Else
Sir Waller Confess'd, e're he Hang'd himself.
Good Father Ferguson, quoth He, now I
Do mean to make Confession Verily.
When willing Senators wisely were afraid
Of Horrid Scare-crows, they Temselves had made;
When Chappel of St. Stephen, and Place of Peers,
Were overflow'd with sudden Floods of Fears:
When Easie Mortals stop'd their Ears and Eyes,
With Uncouth Tales, and Incoherent Lyes;
When Knaves, and Thieves, and Cheats grew Rich by Plots,
I wisely Worship'd Bedlow and Great Oates;
Because I scarcely then was worth Ten Groats.
These my Right Worthy Patrons with great ease,
Soon made my Worship Justice of the Peace.
Arm'd with this Power (as if I had a Charter
To Rob and Spoil) I gave no Mortal quarter.
Even Aged Matrons, in my nightly Trade,
I Grop'd; Such might be Priests in Masquerade:
My Skill herein was great; I got the Start
Of Brother Chamberlain in his own Art.
And with my Co-Adjutors at my Tail,
Gill, Merry, Jones, Snow, Chetwyn, Prance, Mansel;
In Obscure Holes, and Lanes I Briskly Blunder'd,
And every Papist, that I found, I Plundr'd:
Even Protestants themselves scap'd not my Gynnes;
Though they were Guelphs, their Goods were Gibell [...]ns.
John Gadbury's Maps and Globes were not Protected;
Such as I lik'd, were Popishly Affected.
Now see me on a Steed, more big by far,
Then that my Rebel Sire Bestrid in War;
Towards Tuthil-fields the way I do Traverse,
With a Rude Rout of Miscreants at my Arse.
To th' Fields we come. Lo, Parson Farringdon,
Like a Brave Knipperdolling, Marches on,
With Hatt Erect on Cane ('twas to seem Taller)
He Cryes; I'th' Name of Gad, a Waller, a Waller.
As, when to warn men to Bear-Garden Plays,
Exalted Pugg from's Rosinant Surveys
Attendant Crowds of Doggs, Thieves, Bums and Boyes,
Expressing in his Pleasant Face his Joys:
Like Pugg look'd I, when Billing and his Blades
Denuded their Dull, Sullen, Loggerheads,
Throwing their Everlasting Caps to th' Sky,
Bawling a Waller with a Full-mouth'd Cry.
Environ'd with my Rogues I bent my Course,
To Lady Dormer's, where without Remorse,
Spoons, Tankards, Pictures[?], Plates I took away,
(Alas such Popish Trinkets were just Prey!)
And after narrow Search, like cunning Fox,
I seiz'd a Priest, hid in a Pepper-Box;
The Priest to Newgate had his Mittimus,
The Box, being Silver, did belong to Us.
Then in New-Pallace-yard of Westminster,
I most Couragiously did make a Fire,
And, True-Dissenter like, in zealous Scorn,
At Noon-day did my Saviours Picture Burn:
A worthy Prank of Reformation-work,
That out-does Father Jew, and Brother Turk;
And tells the Christian World I durst Act, what
My Grand sire Pilate would have Blushed at.
With Gun, I and my Knaves to th' Savoy came;
Like Skilful Thieves in Pikerings House we Roam;
Closets and Trunks we break; one did unfold
Full Fourscore Pieces of Egyptian Gold:
Good Quids, quoth I; my Brethren, not a word;
All this is Ours; we're People of the Lord:
This Gun, we Bought i'th' Minories, 'tmust be laid,
And we must find't out in Pikering's Bed.
Then Early in the Morning, let's repair
To tell our Patriots at Westminster:
(Not of the Fourscore Pounds we Stole in Gold)
That Pikering's Gun is Found, and in Safe hold;
This Gun, clos'd up in Feather-Bed so dark,
That Dextrous Gunner us'd in James's- Park:
And, if their Honours Vote to have't laid by,
'Twill serve a Surer Marks-man * with one Eye.
My Sancha-Pancha Prance and I, in Lent
A Journey took to Newark upon Trent;
To seize Old Beddingfield, who like a Fop
Forsook's quiet Grave to keep a Ribbon-Shop:
He was grown Young again; say what ye will,
These Cunning Jesuits will be Jesuits still:
The Mayor and We Rob'd him of all his Things,
Two Spoons, one Old Plate, Horse, Ribbons, Gloves, Rings.
But why should I my Mighty Deeds declare?
I'll Hang my self now in this wild Despair.
Why do I Live? Brave Anthony is gone,
And Essex with his Razor cryes, Ah Hone!
Bold Walcot's Hang'd, and close behind his Breech,
Stands Noble Russel making a True Speech:
All-killing Armstrong and Bold Gray are Fled;
Prince Monmouth Sneaks, and dares not show his Head.
All's Lost; Go Ferguson, get a Rope, go, go;
Here's a Convenient Beam will serve Us Two:
Then at one Swing himself Sir Waller Hurl'd,
To's Fellow-Traytors in the other World.

Printed by N. Y. at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, 1683.

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