“And hence I take leave, both my daughters to press To give good examples, you can do no less, When the Church and the State are in so great distress. “The eyes of the nation are fix’d upon you, Every city and borough will observe what you do, And if you’ll choose good members they’ll do so too. “Each member that’s chose, serves for th’ whole nation, For that end you’re intrusted to vote in your station, Without any respect to friend or relation. “The question before you is both plain and short-- Who is the best man, Church and State to support, From designs of the Whigs, and schemes of the Court? “And in your next choice lay your hand on your heart, As if upon Oath, for if you do start From the rule above-mention’d, your conscience will smart. “A good man is steady, and with safety may Be trusted with our Rights; he no tricks will play, He loves Church, and the Queen, and’s the same every day. “But if a man be bred up a notorious Whig, Who because he was neglected begins to look big, And swears for old Friends he cares not a fig: “O trust not to such in time of great danger; Who to mother Church is yet but a stranger, If Dissenter prevail he may vote for to change her. “And as to the Tackers[33] that have tack’d the right way, For the Church and the Laws; to such I do say, I will give them my blessing, and for them I’ll pray. * * * * * “You are two great props of the Church and the Crown, Then be not like buckets, one up, t’other down, To expose your dear mother all over the Town. “O no! Pray consider, this is the last squeak, Then choose we such men, as can both write and speak, Since all that we have, now lies at the stake. “And when by your Daughters such patriots are chose, I may venture to say, that ‘under the Rose,’ You will spoil the new scheme, and wipe the Whig’s nose.” One of the forty-nine verses of which “The University Ballad” consists contains an allusion to an important collision between the two Chambers upon disputed elections, which came about in Queen Anne’s reign:-- “O! how were we blinded with what some do write, Concerning the story of Ashby and White, Till Sir H[eneage] laid before us the fallacy, in sight.”