“From Salisbury, that low Hous’d Town, Where steeple is of high renown, Of late was brought unto the Crown A Lesson: ’Twas drawn up by three worthy wights, Members they were, and two were Knights, Great trencher-men, but no one fights Mompesson.[21] Through discontent his Hand did set First to the scroll without regret, Then pilgrim-like travel’d to get Some others, From house to house, in Town and Close, Our zealous Preservator goes; Tells them of dangers and of Foes; But smothers The true intent of what they bring, Who beg’d the House may sit; a thing Which only can preserve the King, When nothing Destroys him more; for should he give Consent, he’d never that retrieve, But part with his Prerogative; A low thing Make himself by ’t, the rabble get Into his high Imperial seat They’d make him Gloriously Great! We trow it. They serv’d his Father so before, These Saints would still increase the store Of Royal Martyrs, Hum! no more, We know it. The herd of zealots long to see A monarch, but in effigie, A project which appears to be Most witty; And they at helm aspire to sit, There govern without fear or wit, King and un-king when they think fit; That’s pretty. To see (’twould make a Stoic smile) _Geneva Jack_[22] thus moil and toil To Lord it in our British Isle Again, Sir; And ‘Pulpit-Cuff’ us till we fight, Lose our Estates and lives outright; And when all’s done, he gets all by ’t, That’s plain, Sir. But this, I hope, nor make no mars _Charles_ knows what’s meant by all these jars, And these domestic paper-wars, Conceive it; _Tom_ of Ten Thousand,[23] is come in, Sure such a hero much will win, On skulls as thick, as his is _Thin_, Believe it The people would have power to call Parliaments, and dissolve them; all Regalias possess; what shall The Saint, Sir, Not have the power of Peace and War? Religion steer? Holy we are, And rich, the King shall we (be ’t far) Acquaint, Sir?” The Court party lost no opportunity of abusing their opponents of the Constitutional and Protestant party; they not only did the Whigs the favour to hate them cordially, but, as their own satires abundantly demonstrate, they also dreaded and feared them not a little.