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The Loyal Garland.

5. It talks of ſmall things,
But it ſets up all things,
This maſters Money, though Money maſters all things.

6. It is not ſeaſon,
To talk of reaſon,
Nor call it Loyalty, when the Sword will have it Treaſon.

7. It Conquers the Crown too,
The Grave and the Gown too,
First it ſets up a Presbyter, and then it pulls him down too.

8. This ſubtile Diſaſter,
Turns Bonnet to Beaver;
Down goes a Biſhop, Sirs, and up ſtarts a Weaver.

9. This makes a Lay-man,
To preach and to pray man,
And this can make a Lord of him that was but a Dray-man.

10. Far from the Gulpit,
Of Saxbey’s Pulpit,
This brought an Hebrew Iron-monger to the Pulpit.

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