. The Roxburghe ballads. such actions as these ? Alas for the Brethren ! what now must they do,For choosing Whig-Sheriffs and Burgesses too ?The Chatter with Patience is gone to the pot,And the Doctor is lost in the depth of the Plot. St. Stephen his Flayl No more will prevail,Nor Sir Roberts Dagger the Charter to bail:Oh London ! thoudst better have sufferd by Fire,Then thus thy old Charter shoud stick in the Mire. [April, 1683. 45 [Aldermen. [Sir P. Ward. [Oates. [S. College. [Clayto?i 54 But since with your Folly, your Faction and Pride,You sink with the Charter, who strove with the Tide,Le
. The Roxburghe ballads. such actions as these ? Alas for the Brethren ! what now must they do,For choosing Whig-Sheriffs and Burgesses too ?The Chatter with Patience is gone to the pot,And the Doctor is lost in the depth of the Plot. St. Stephen his Flayl No more will prevail,Nor Sir Roberts Dagger the Charter to bail:Oh London ! thoudst better have sufferd by Fire,Then thus thy old Charter shoud stick in the Mire. [April, 1683. 45 [Aldermen. [Sir P. Ward. [Oates. [S. College. [Clayto?i 54 But since with your Folly, your Faction and Pride,You sink with the Charter, who strove with the Tide,Let all the lost Rivers return to the MainFrom whence they descended ; they 1 spring out again : Submit to the King In every thing,Then of a Neiv Charter new Sonnets we 11 sing:As London {the Phoenix of England) nerdirs,So out of the Flames a Netv Charter will rise. 63 Printed by N[athanaet] T[hoinpson~\, at the Entrance into the Old Spring-Gardens. [White-letter. No woodcut; this one belongs to p. 30 r. Date, June, 1683.]. r. . Ltate of (ZEnglanti And long mightst thou have seenAn Old Man wandering, as in quest of something,Something he could not find : he knew not what. —Samuel Eogerss Italy : Ginevra. LONDONS Charter having been endangered or recalled, othercities either loyally submitted and were rewarded by renewal ofprivileges, or for their contumaciousness were punished. TheMonmouth partizans, united with Republicans and anarchists, con-spired and boasted of impending reprisal, while feeling daily theirdecrease of influence. They hoped to gain everything by a strokeof violence, such as was soon to be revealed in the Rye-House Plot,when Dissenting Jack Presbyter was once more to be set up tooverthrow Mitre and Crown. Thus befittingly we end our presentGroup, in the temporary lull, after the death of Shaftesbury, whomhis former sycophants regarded ungratefully as a removedencumberance. While he led them on to victory, he had over-cowedtheir spirit; when he trie
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