See, they obey the magic of my words! Presto! they're gone, and now the House of Lords Looks like the withered face of an old hag, But with three teeth like to a triple gag. A jig! a jig! and in this antic dance Fielding and Doxie Marshall first advance. Twisse blows the Scotch-pipes, and the loving brace Puts on the traces and treads cinque-a-pace. 70 Then Saye and Sele must his old hamstrings supple, And he and rumpled Palmer make a couple. Palmer 's a fruitful girl if he'll unfold her; The midwife may find work about her shoulder. Kimbolton, that rebellious Boanerges, Must be content to saddle Dr. Burges. If Burges get a clap, 'tis ne'er the worse, But the fifth time of his compurgators. Noll Bowles is coy; good sadness, cannot dance But in obedience to the ordinance. 80 Here Wharton wheels about till mumping Lidy, Like the full moon, hath made his lordship giddy. Pym and the members must their giblets levy T' encounter Madam Smec, that single bevy. If they two truck together, 'twill not be A child-birth, but a gaol-delivery. Thus every Ghibelline hath got his Guelph But Selden,--he 's a galliard by himself; And well may be; there 's more divines in him Than in all this, their Jewish Sanhedrim: 90 Whose canons in the forge shall then bear date When mules their cousin-germans generate. Thus Moses' law is violated now; The ox and ass go yoked in the same plough. Resign thy coach-box, Twisse; Brooke's preacher he Would sort the beasts with more conformity. Water and earth make but one globe; a Roundhead Is clergy-lay, party-per-pale compounded. [_The Mixed Assembly_ (_1647_.) This was the famous 'Westminster' Assembly which met in July, 1643--a hodge-podge of half a score peers, a score of commoners, and about four times as many divines as laymen. Tanner MS. 465, of the Bodleian, has a poor copy of this poem; but some transpositions and omissions suggest that it preserves an earlier draft. Lines 63-6 follow 52; 71-8, 81-2, are omitted.] [Line: 1 Flea-bitten] As of a horse--the laymen appearing like specks on the body of clergy.] [Line: 2 _ana_] Usually interpreted in the apothecary's sense, 'in equal quantities', written so in prescriptions and said to be from the Greek--[Greek: ana] being thus used.] [Lines: 6, 7 'Church and State's, Most divine' _MS._] [Line: 19 In a fable a Royston crow (the town being on the way to Cambridge had probably a bad reputation for fleecing the guileless undergraduate) advised an innocent of his kind to drop a shellfish from a height on rocks where the Royston bird was waiting and secured the meat.] [Line: 28 _1677_ changes 'But' to 'That'.]