Classic Poem

Good people, and you that have been undone
By Guns, and Drums and the Trumpets tone,
And new hard words since Forty and One.
Which no body can deny .

Here is a word that will plague you more
Then any that ever went before,
'Tis the Rump of Harry Martins Whore,
Which, &c .

The Cause was at first a pretty conceit
To create a durty Rebel great;
But now that has left th'imperial Seat,
Which, &c .

A General was a glorious Name,
Till Essex his Member spoilt his fame;
For a Souldier ought to be good at the game,
Which, &c .

The Communication Line was a Jigg,
And as good as the Bath to make women big,
Who never were so, till they learnt to digg,
Which,&c .

Artillery was a thundring word,
Where many appear'd with Musket and Sword,
To fright poor Atkins out of a turd,
Which, &c .

Cavalier was a name of as great a Force,
As Centaure , that is both Man and Horse,
And for Ravishing suffered many a curse,
Which, &c .

Yet every Woman that had this fear,
Although in her heart a Roundhead she were,
In her belly she wisht a Cavalier,
Which, &c .

Sequestration scar'd Men out of their Plate,
Excise drew potent Ale out of date,
And the Corps de Gard broke many of pate,
Which, &c .

The Plunderers made men hide their money,
And women their jewels, if they had any;
And one there was, hid Gold in her Cunny,
Which, &c .

A Commonwealth is a Citizens trust,
And by his wife ador'd it must,
As a Topique to prove adultery just,
Which, &c .

The Protector storm'd with all mankind,
Made Kings and Princes walk behind,
Till the Divel out-ranted him in a wind,
Which, &c .
The Committee of Safety threw the Dye;
But some body spit in his face from on high,
And made the valiant Fleetwood cry,
Which, &c .
But the Rump is a word of such a power,
Pronounc'd, your beer, like thunder, 'twill sowr,
And after make you squitter an howr,
Which, &c .

The squirting at Epsom's not worth a louse,
Rump out-does all, that comes there to carouse;
For it shit from Portsmouth to Wallingford house,
Which, &c .

If Booth were no Knave, a Fool let him be,
To keep such a stir for Liberty,
When the Rump sets all it's Tenants Free,
Which, &c .

He that could imitate sounds in a fart,
And speak from behind with a wondrous Art,
Were he living now, should take Lenthals part,
Which, &c .

And then a Fart for the Cities forces,
For Monk that's coming with all his Horses,
And a T — — for Fairfax too, that worse is,
Which, &c .
A Parson once in a frolick Divine,
Exhausted Glasses, twenty and nine,
For Turkey's Rump in Canary wine,
Which, &c .

And sure he received a Revelation,
When to preach he left his first Vocation,
That a Rump in time should rule the Nation,
Which, &c .

Montelions Diall's a drolling Mock,
With a stick in the Countrey Fellows dock,
And fitter now than the Pallace clock,
Which, &c .

Morlay a joynt of the Rump grew bigg,
And swelling; but politick Haslerigg ,
He sent him for Physick to Doctor Trigg ,
Which, &c .

Mad Vane was Anointed King, and said,
He received a Crown that burden'd his Head,
For which the Rump sent him home to Bed,
Which, &c .

The Abjuring Oath made the Speaker Sick,
Which Haslerigg taking in the Nick,
For his fain'd one show'd him a real Trick,
Which, &c .

Thus, what for aliment is unfit,
The Tail by a vertue guiding it,
Excludes, and leaves it self beshit,
Which, &c .

Let no man pretend any Cause,
Against the Rump to open his Jawes,
For it rules by the Fundamental Laws,
Which no body can deny .