And by their ruin hoped to save himself. Innumerable woes oppress the land, When it submitted to his cursed command. So just was heaven, that 'twas hard to tell, Whether its guilt or losses did excel. Men that renounced their God for dearer trade, Were then the guardians of religion made. Rebels were sainted, foreigners did reign, } Outlaws returned, preferment to obtain, } With frogs, and toads, and all their croaking train. } No native knew their features nor their birth; They seemed the greasy offspring of the earth. The trade was sunk, the fleet and army spent; Devouring taxes swallowed lesser rent; Taxes imposed by no authority; Each lewd collection was a robbery. Bold self-creating men did statutes draw, Skilled to establish villany by law; Fanatic drivers, whose unjust careers Produced new ills exceeding former fears: Yet authors here except a faithful band, Which the prevailing faction did withstand; And some, who bravely stood in the defence Of baffled justice, and their exiled prince. These shine to after-times; each sacred name Stands still recorded in the rolls of fame. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 80: The famous Gilbert Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Sarum. See Vol. X. p. 267.] [Footnote 81: The alleged poisoning of Charles II., and the imposition of a spurious Prince of Wales, both falsely charged upon James II.] [Footnote 82: John Lord Churchill, afterwards the famous Duke of Marlborough. Although loaded with favours by James, he felt himself at liberty to join the Prince on the Revolution.] [Footnote 83: Sarah Lady Churchill, afterwards Duchess of Marlborough. She instigated the flight of the Princess Anne from her father's palace, and accompanied her to Northampton.] [Footnote 84: On the 8th February, 1688-9, the lords resolved, that, notwithstanding the joint sovereignty of the Prince and Princess of Orange, the Prince alone should possess the regal power, and exercise it in the name of both.] [Footnote 85: When the Princess of Orange arrived from Holland, she displayed, in the confusion of spirits incidental to her uncommon situation, a womanish levity, for which she was much censured by the friends of the late King. DALRYMPLE'S _Memoirs_, Vol. II. p. 290. Edit. 1790.] ON THE YOUNG STATESMEN. The following verses have been ascribed to Dryden upon slight authority, and contrary to internal evidence. They display a good deal of the turn of wit, and structure of verse, which may be observed in similar _jeux d'esprit_ of Dorset, to whom I am tempted to ascribe them, though the name of Dryden may have been borrowed, to give them publicity. They ought to have preceded, in point of time, those entitled "Tarquin and Tullia," but were accidentally misplaced.