. The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat . r abroad,And die in a Land without Maopye or Toad,Then the Sazvce of the Veal, joining three to one Lyon,Shall devour a Fiih, the Pad-nag of Arion :The Lillies mall try to fwim over the Ferry,Where they fhall be met with, and drowned by Children of France, with Famine oppreit,Shall weep that their Mother has never a Breaft. A PROPHECY>«J under the Treesand Bench in St. Jamesj Park the 12th ofJune, 1694, engraved in Copper, and car-rfd to my Lord Chamberlain, by S
. The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat . r abroad,And die in a Land without Maopye or Toad,Then the Sazvce of the Veal, joining three to one Lyon,Shall devour a Fiih, the Pad-nag of Arion :The Lillies mall try to fwim over the Ferry,Where they fhall be met with, and drowned by Children of France, with Famine oppreit,Shall weep that their Mother has never a Breaft. A PROPHECY>«J under the Treesand Bench in St. Jamesj Park the 12th ofJune, 1694, engraved in Copper, and car-rfd to my Lord Chamberlain, by SerjeantBarecroft. XU HEN the laft of all Knights is the firfl of all Knaves,* V And the beft of all Pimps is the worltof all Braves^,When a Cozuard is dubbd for not Fighting, but Feeding,And a Lubberly Brute preferrdfor his Breeding:When a Medal and Chain is beftowd on a Hog,Who deferves more a Rope than ever did Dog,When Prophecies are coind by a Drunken Buffoon,Whofe chief Talent lies in abufive Lampoon;When the Black-Rod is given to a bold brazen Face,What Beaft may not hope at Whitehall for a Place ? fe >. A Prophecy, &c. 239 ^PROPHECY found on Friday the29th cj January, 1696. by fine Workmendigging tip the Ruins of the Privy-Garden,and by them carry* d to the Ujher of the Black-Rod, as it was written in a Scroll cf Parch-ment. WH E Na Kmght otthcNrth is Hoppd in Ax-Yard,By a biting F— 5s Trick having plaid a falfe Card;When at the Green-Cloth a Grey Fox dos prefide,And a Wo/fm a Chain thro the City does ride;When Chalk pays for Cheefe, and God dwindles to Wood,And Banks rather let in than keep out the Flood,When Grocers-Hall fears to be fent to the Compter,Publick Faith being fo light that a Feather will mount her:When the Coin fcarcer grows, thothe Mints do increafe,And we are mauld with a War, without hopes of a hen the Oceans fo Frenchifyd, few Ships dare ride int,And is ruld by a Shovel infrad of a Trident;When Juflice is fored to abandon the Land,Tho mol
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