Classic Poem

To the Tune of The Blacksmith .

N O w Master & Prentice for Rimes must pump
On Hab, Noll, Arthur , and Lawson Vantrump ,
A Long Parliament of a Short Rump .
Which no body can deny .

For Wits and No-Wits now have an Itch
To prepare some damnable tearing Switch
For them whose very Face is a Breech.
Which , &c.

Twelve years they sate above Kings and Queens ,
Full twelve, and then had enter'd their teens
When Oliver came to out-sin their Sins.
Which , &c.

And yet after all his signal Septembers ,
Both he and his Babe, and his Other-House Members
Saw Rump was but asleep in its Embers.
Which , &c.

For up it rose, then out 'twas blown,
For Lambert and Rump like my Lady and Joan ,
Blew in and out till Rump blew out John .
Which , &c.

And then it swell'd with such monstrous growth
That by and by it broke out in the South,
From whence it was called PORTS-MOUTH.
Which , &c.

From thence to London it rode tan-tivy,
(Though London then wore Holly and Ivy )
And sate at Whitehall in a Council-Privy .
Which , &c.

Then suddenly Fleetwood fell from Grace,
And now cryes Heaven hath spit in his face ,
Though he smelt it came from another place .
Which , &c.

Janizary Desbrow then look'd pale,
For, said he, if this Rump prevail,
'Twill blow me back to my old Plough-tayl,
Which , &c.

But when he felt his own Regiment kick,
Oh, quoth he, this was my own Trick
'Gainst my Brother Nol and my Nephew Dick .
Which , &c.

Now whom the Devil doth Rump represent?
'Twas This that Sir Thomas Jermyn meant
When he call'd it a Whipping Parliament .
Which , &c.

We're stript of all shelter from the long Robe ,
As rich and warm as the Devil left Job ,
For Satan Rump sits Lord of the Globe.
Which , &c.

And yet when all is examin'd and ponder'd,
You'll find three Kingdoms enslav'd & plunder'd,
For saying Fourty is lesse than Four hundred .
Which , &c.

And now behold the Sign is in Clune ,
But if Monck be honest or wise, then soon he
Makes Rump but the Italian's Domo Commum .
Which , &c.

Heaven bless the King , with his two brave Brothers ,
From Rumps and Lords of the House call'd Others ,
And hang these Rumping Sons of their Mothers.
Which , &c.

And that He may blesse both Us and our Heirs,
Let all the Members of Commons and Peers,
Turn honest as He that wants his Ears.
Which no body can deny .