England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . re openly. 8 THE THREE FALSE BRETHREN. [1710. Another song, entitled High-Church Loyalty, goeson in the same tone as the one quoted above: — Ye Whigs and Dissenters, what would ye have done ?Neer think of restoring your old 41. Then fill up a bowl, fill it up to the brim ; Here *s a health to all those who the Church do esteem ! We know the pretence, you for liberty bawl; But had you your will, you d destroy Church and all. Then fill, &c. ****** While the Phoenix stands up, and the Bow bells
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . re openly. 8 THE THREE FALSE BRETHREN. [1710. Another song, entitled High-Church Loyalty, goeson in the same tone as the one quoted above: — Ye Whigs and Dissenters, what would ye have done ?Neer think of restoring your old 41. Then fill up a bowl, fill it up to the brim ; Here *s a health to all those who the Church do esteem ! We know the pretence, you for liberty bawl; But had you your will, you d destroy Church and all. Then fill, &c. ****** While the Phoenix stands up, and the Bow bells do ring, Heres a health to Sachevrell, and God bless the Queen! This song was answered and parodied in doggrelabout as good as that in which it was itself written :— You pinnacle-flyers, where would you advance 1What, would you be bringing of Perkin from France ?Instead of a bowl filld up to the brim,A halter for those that would bring Perkin in ! The Whigs not only wrote and sung against Sa-cheverell, but they caricatured him, and that veryseverely. In an engraving of this time the Doctor. THE TIIREK FALSE BRETHREN. is represented in the act of writing his sermon,prompted on one side by the Pope and on the otherby the Devil, these three being the false brethren 1710.] CxVRICATURES ON SACIIEVERELL. 9 from whom the Church was really in clanger. Theother party, in revenge, caricatured Bishop Iloadly,the friend of the Dissenters, and one of the mostable of the Low-Church party, in a number of prints,in which the evil one was pictured as closeted withthat prelate, whose bodily infirmities were turnedto ridicule. Moreover, they made a nearly exactcopy of the caricature of Sacheverell, with a bishopmitred in the place of the Pope, and the Devil flyingaway in terror at the Doctors sermon, thus insinu-ating that this miserable tool was the great defenceof the Church of Christ against the attacks of remarkable instance of this adaptation of one de-sign to the two sides of t
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