That liv'd and dy'd to leave behind
A great Example to Mankind:
That fell a publick Sacrifice,
From Ruin to prevent those few,
Who, tho'born falfe, may be made true;
And reach the World to be more juft
(and wife,
Ought not, like vulgar Ashes reft,
Unmention'd in the filent Cheft,
Not for for his own,but publick Interest.
He like a pious Man, fome Years before
Th' Arrival of his fatal Hour,
Made ev'ry Day he had to live,
To his laft Minute,a Preparative;
Taught the wild Arabs on the Road
To act in a more genteel Mode,
Take Prizes more obligingly than those
Who never had been bred Filous;
And how to hang in a more graceful
Than e'er was known before to the dull
In France, the Staple of new Modes, Where Garbs & Courts are current Goods That ferves the rude Northern Nations
With Methods of Addrefs and Treat, Prescribes new Garnitures and Fashions, And how to drink, and how to eat No out-of-fafhion Wine or Meat. To understand Crevats and Plumes, And the most modifh from the old Per(fumes; To know the Age and Pedigrees, Of Points of Flanders and Venice, Caft their Nativity, and to a Day
Foretel how long they'll hold, and when
T'affect the pureft Negligences,
In Geftures, Gaits and Meins,
And speak by Repartee Routines,
Out of the most authentic of Romances;
And to demonftrate with fubftantial
What Ribbands all the Year are in or
To this great Academy of Mankind,
He ow'd his Birth and Education,
Where all are fo ingeniously inclin'd,
They understand by Imitation;
Are taught, improv'd before they are
As if they'd fuck'd their Breeding from
That naturally does difpence
To all, a deep and folid Confidence,
A Virtue of that precious Ufe,
That he whom bount'ous Heav'n endues
But with a moderate fhew of it,
Can want no Worth, Abilities, nor Wit.
In all thy deep Hermetick Arts,
(For fo of late the Learned call
All Tricks, if strange and mystical)
He had improv'd his natural Parts,
And with his magick Rod could found
Where hidden Treasures may be found.
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He, like a Lord o'th'Mannor, feiz'd upon
Whatever happen'd in his Way,
As lawful Waif and Stray,
And after, by the Custom, kept it as his
From these first Rudiments he grew
To nobler Feats, and try'd his Force
Upon whole Troops of Foot and Horse,
Whom he as bravely did subdue :
Declar'd all Caravans, that go
Upon the King's Highway, his Foe,
Made many desperate Attacks,
Upon itinerant Brigades,
Of all Profeffions, Ranks and Trades; On Carriers Loads and Pedlars Pack, Made them lay down their Arms and
(yield, 'And, to the smallest Piece, reftore, 'All that by cheating they had got before
And after plunder'd all the Baggage of
In ev'ry bold Affair of War,
He had the chief Command and led
(them on;
For no Man is judg'd fit to have the Care
Of others Lives, until h'as made it
How much he does defpife and scorn (his own.
Whole Provinces, 'twixt Sun and Sun,
Have by his conqu'ringSword been won;
. And mighty Sums of Money laid,
For Ranfom, upon ev'ry Man,
And Hoftages deliver'd till 'twas paid.
Th' Excife, and Chimney-Publican,
The Jew, Foreftaller and Inhanser,
To him for all their Crimes did answer.
He vanquish'd the most fierce and fell
Of all his Foes, the Constable,
That oft had beat his Quarters up,
And routed him, and all his Troop.
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