Later Stuart tracts . pected honours;For which, Ill certainly abuse the donors !Knighted, and made a Tribune of the people,Whose Laws and properties Im like to keep well I , The Ctisios Rotidonim of the City .-s i^ And Captain of the Guards of their banditti. \^ Surrounded by my Catchpoles, I declare lYlj Against the needy debtor, open war. / V I hang poor thieves for stealing of your pelf; ^ \j^And suffemone to rob you,- but myself! The King commanded me to help reform ye!And how Ill do it, Miss shall inform ye!I keep the best Seraglio in the hope in time to bring it into
Later Stuart tracts . pected honours;For which, Ill certainly abuse the donors !Knighted, and made a Tribune of the people,Whose Laws and properties Im like to keep well I , The Ctisios Rotidonim of the City .-s i^ And Captain of the Guards of their banditti. \^ Surrounded by my Catchpoles, I declare lYlj Against the needy debtor, open war. / V I hang poor thieves for stealing of your pelf; ^ \j^And suffemone to rob you,- but myself! The King commanded me to help reform ye!And how Ill do it, Miss shall inform ye!I keep the best Seraglio in the hope in time to bring it into not I a Magistrate for Reformation ! For this my praise is sung by every bard,For which Bridewell would be a just reward !In print my panegyrics fill the hired gaol-birds, their huzzas charity s contrived to make a shew :Have taught the needy rabble to do so !Whose empty noise is a mechanic fame,Since for Sir Beelzebub, they d do the same! 154 The True Born EnglishmaN.\j^^f°^^ The Hen let us boast of ancestors no more ! Or deeds of heroes done in days of yore ; In latent records of the Ages past, Behind the rear of Time, in long Oblivionplaced! For if our Virtues must in lines descend,The merit with the families would end ;And intermixtures would most fatal grow,For Vice would be hereditary too!The tainted blood would of voluntary wickedness convey ! Vice, like ill-nature, for an Age or two,May seem a generation to pursue :But Virtue seldom does regard the breed,Fools do the Wise, and wise men Fools is it to us, what ancestors we had ?If good, what better ? or what worse, if bad ?Examples are for imitation set,Yet all men follow Virtue with regret I Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate,And see their offspring thus degenerate ;How we contend for birth and names unknown,And build on their past actions, not our own :They d cancel records, and their tombs openly disown the vile degenerate race !\ For
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