To Mr. E.L. on His Majesties dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford, March 28, 1681 Kennett, White, 1660-1728. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A47259 of text R39319 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing K305). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A47259 Wing K305 ESTC R39319 18367935 ocm 18367935 107392 2248549988

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A47259) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107392) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1637:5) To Mr. E.L. on His Majesties dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford, March 28, 1681 Kennett, White, 1660-1728. 1 broadside. [s.n.], [London?] printed : 1681. In verse. Attributed to Kennett by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints. In 2 columns. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Poetry. eebo To Mr. E.L. on His Majesties dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford, March 28, 1681 Kennett, White, 1681 1 508 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-06 Sampled and proofread 2003-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
MAJESTIES Dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford , March 28. 1681. AN Atheist now must a Monster be , Of a strange Gigantick birth : His Omnipotence do's let all men see , That our King 's a God on Earth . Fiat , says he by Proclamation , And the Parliament is created : He repents of his work , the Dissolution Makes all annihilated . We Scholars were expell'd awhile , To let the Senators in , But they behav'd themselves , as So we return agen : And wonder to see our Geometry School All round about beseated , Though there 's no need of an Euclid's rule , To demonstrate 'em all defeated . The Commons their Voting Problems would , In Riddles so involve , That what the Peers scarce understood , The King was forc'd to solve . The Commons for a good Omen chose , An old consulting station : Being glad to dispossess their Foes O th' House of Convocation . So States-men like poor Scholars be , For near the usual place They stood , we know , for a great Degree , But the King deny'd their Grace . Though sure he must his Reason give , And charge them of some Crime : Or else by course they 'l have reprieve , For this is the Third time . It was because they did begin , With insolent behaviour : And who should expiate their Sin , The King himself 's no Saviour . Their Faults grew to a bulk so high , As Mercy did fore-stall : So Charter forfeited thereby , They must like Adam fall . It is resolv'd the Duke shall fail , A Scepter to inherit : Nor right nor desert shall prevail , 'T is Popish to plead Merit . Let the King respect the Duke his Brother , And keep affection still , As duly to the Church his Mother : In both they 'l cross his will . They would Dissenters harmless save , And Penalties repeal : As if they 'd humor Thieves , who crave A liberty to steal . Thus he that do's a Pardon lack , For Treason damn'd to dy , They 'd tempt , poor man , to save his neck , By adding Perjury . The Nobles threw th' Impeachment out , Because , no doubt , they saw , 'T was best to bring his cause about , But not to th' Commons Law , But hence 't was plaguily suspected , Nay 't is resolv'd by Vote , That the Lords are Popishly affected , And stiflers of the Plot. The Commons courage can't endure To be affronted thus : So for the future to be sure , They 'l be the Upper House . But by such Fevorish Malady , Their strength so soon was spent , That punning Wits no doubt will cry , Oh Weeked Parliament .

Printed in the Year , 1681.