The anthems for the years 1693 to 1697, inclusive, are then given in the pamphlet, and contain some things which it would be criminal to reprint. We subjoin the least objectionable specimens that we can give. The anthem for 1693 consists of five verses of eight lines each, with a chorus. The following lines are taken from the third and fourth verses:— “Triumphant laurels too must crown that head, Whose righteous hand struck England’s tyrant dead; The heroes too, adorn’d with blood and sweat, Who forced the opposing monster to retreat. “’Tis force must pull the lawless tyrant down; But give men knowledge, and the priest’s undone; In vain he whines, in vain he cants and prays, There’s not a man believes one word he says.” The following infamous lines are taken from the anthem for 1694. After describing the “fall of the tyrant,” and the satisfaction of the nation, and their own celebration of the event, those bacchanalian revellers are made to sing:— “Then fill the calf’s cranium to a health so divine, The cause, the old cause, shall ennoble our wine; Charge briskly around, fill it up, fill it full, ’Tis the last and best service of a tyrannical skull. Then to puss, boys, to puss, boys, Let’s drink it off thus, boys,” &c. The anthem for 1695 consists of five verses; the first, the second, and the fourth verses are too profane and lewd to be reproduced. The following are the third and fifth. After describing the people hurrying to Church on the 30th of January, and asking what is meant by it, the foul-mouthed members sing:— “Oh! sir, it is a debt they say, Mother Church must yearly pay To her saints’ canonisation; It is the day in which he fell, A martyr to the cause of hell, Justly crown’d with decollation. “May the banish’d Tarquins’[162] fate, Be as just, but not so great; Some mean shameful death attend him: May cursed Lewis, for old sores, Turn him poorly out of doors; Then may some friendly halter end him.” ----- Footnote 162: James II. ----- The greater part of the anthem for 1696 is filthy and profane to a horrible degree. The following are the last four lines, and the least exceptionable:— “Oh! how should we rejoice and pray, and never cease to sing a, If bishops too were chased away, and banish’d with their king a, Then peace and plenty would ensue, our bellies would be full a, The enliven’d isle would laugh and smile, as in the days of Noll a.” The anthem for 1697 consists of ten verses. The following are the eighth and ninth:—