Loyalty
in
Grain
,
OR
THE
ACT
of
OBLIVION
Repeal'd
BY
HERACLITUS
.
Th'
Heav'ns
laugh
at
your
attempts
,
and
tell
you
loud
,
The
Sons
shall
live
to
'
venge
their
Fathers
Blood
.
Heraclitus
Ridens
,
Numb
.
69.
BUT
is
it
possible
that
such
an
Expression
should
come
from
the
Loyal
Heraclitus
,
so
great
a
Champion
for
the
Royal
cause
and
interest
as
he
pretends
to
be
,
truly
there
's
no
doubt
on
't
't
is
as
like
him
as
if
it
had
been
spit
out
of
his
mouth
as
certainly
it
drop'd
from
his
Scurrilous
Pen
,
that
Mischievous
instrument
of
his
with
the
feather
end
of
which
as
he
strokes
the
Government
by
his
fulsom
and
deceitful
adulations
,
the
other
end
he
imployes
to
scratch
the
People
with
desperate
and
exasperating
invectives
;
his
Oyl
and
Vinegar
being
both
improperly
applied
,
not
to
the
end
to
heal
our
Sores
,
but
to
make
'em
;
This
Politick
whiffler
,
and
Mimick
of
State
,
that
with
his
lushious
drollery
betwixt
Jest
and
Earnest
goes
about
to
tarantulotise
the
Government
and
People
into
a
fatal
phrensie
,
and
to
dance
themselves
to
death
in
frisking
after
his
Lure
and
his
Brother
Observators
Fiddle
;
A
precious
pair
of
Beagles
indeed
;
and
by
their
way
of
hunting
,
it
is
now
evident
what
kind
they
are
of
:
No
other
than
Blood-Hounds
their
pursuit
is
blood
and
vengeance
;
our
admired
Heraclitus
declares
it
plainly
in
this
distich
,
the
latter
of
which
concludes
.
The
Sons
shall
live
to
'
venge
their
Fathers
Blood
.
Oh
most
Loyal
and
Obliging
;
certainly
the
Devil
has
at
last
paid
him
the
debt
he
has
so
long
ow'd
him
for
his
services
;
the
truth
is
I
perceive
the
Whigs
have
not
so
wholly
ingross'd
all
the
brass
commodity
as
he
speaks
,
but
they
have
left
him
enough
to
tincture
his
Face
with
sufficiently
;
otherwise
durst
the
impudent
Baffoon
be
so
saucy
(
to
give
it
no
worse
word
)
with
the
Government
,
to
dare
to
instigate
the
head
thereof
contrary
to
his
own
native
clemency
and
goodness
,
and
his
Royal
Brother
to
Vengeance
even
to
blood
against
the
People
—
Vengeance
is
Gods
.
And
although
Princes
,
his
Vice-gerents
may
and
ought
to
imitate
him
in
acts
of
Justice
,
yet
not
in
Revenge
,
than
which
nothing
can
be
more
unworthy
and
unbecoming
to
those
Earthly
Deities
in
the
clemency
and
mansuetude
of
whose
minds
(
not
exempt
from
due
acts
of
Justice
where
the
law
requires
)
lies
the
greatest
security
of
their
Peoples
and
their
own
peace
.
Certainly
this
Tory
Writer
was
formerly
Nursed
up
like
Romulus
at
the
Breast
of
some
Irish
Wolf
,
that
he
bears
about
him
so
savage
and
sanguinary
a
disposition
;
such
cruel
complements
as
these
might
have
been
proper
enough
for
a
Nero
or
Caligula
,
but
to
pass
them
upon
two
such
Christian
Princes
,
Princes
indued
with
so
much
honour
and
goodness
,
and
so
far
alienated
from
the
principles
of
revenge
and
cruelty
,
is
a
piece
of
Arrogance
in
this
Boutefeau
of
Sedition
that
's
not
to
be
parallel'd
.
Heraclitus
is
sometimes
we
find
possessed
with
a
poetick
fury
,
when
having
his
Brains
inflated
with
the
more
brisk
airs
of
the
Observators
Fiddle
,
he
cannot
contain
himself
,
but
must
needs
break
out
into
Pindarick
Raptures
(
and
certainly
the
Noble
Pindar
was
never
more
abused
than
in
being
ap'd
by
such
a
Sycophanting
●ug
as
this
is
)
in
this
humor
he
presumes
to
vent
his
Venome
more
liberally
,
and
spares
nothing
sacred
or
civil
,
under
the
licentious
pretext
of
a
Licentia
Poetica
—
in
this
humour
we
now
find
him
under
the
pretence
of
a
strained
complement
upon
his
Royal
Highnesses
deliverance
from
his
late
danger
at
Sea
(
which
we
do
as
heartily
Congratulate
as
he
can
do
)
belching
out
his
malice
against
the
Whigs
;
and
menacing
them
with
some
severe
judgments
to
be
expected
from
their
Vengeful
Princes
—
Their
Son's
shall
live
to
'
venge
their
Fathers
Blood
.
As
if
there
could
be
no
more
acceptable
Eucharists
offered
to
the
obliging
Heavens
for
so
great
a
deliverance
,
than
by
making
the
Subjects
Victims
to
an
unperioded
Revenge
.
We
do
acknowledge
the
providences
of
God
in
the
preservation
of
these
two
great
Princes
our
Soveraign
and
his
Royal
Brother
to
have
been
as
miraculous
as
gracious
,
and
we
are
sensible
what
returns
have
been
made
(
not
unbecoming
them
)
to
God
for
such
his
mercies
;
that
sacred
Blood
(
which
this
avenger
of
Blood
is
yet
so
eager
to
revenge
)
was
most
justly
avenged
upon
those
principal
ones
that
could
be
found
to
have
had
the
most
immediate
hand
in
it
;
The
King
therein
acted
both
as
a
pious
Son
,
and
just
Successor
to
his
Royal
Father
,
in
making
them
Victims
to
Justice
;
but
then
the
distemper
of
Rebellion
and
Disloyalty
,
which
occasioned
that
cursed
Tragedy
being
universal
,
and
by
some
overt
Acts
or
other
,
in
a
manner
the
whole
Nation
concerned
in
it
,
His
Majesty
was
most
graciously
pleased
to
reconcile
his
delinquent
Subjects
to
his
favour
by
a
free
act
of
Amnesty
and
Oblivion
,
in
which
as
a
City
of
refuge
they
took
Sanctuary
,
hoping
the
avenger
of
Blood
should
not
farther
pursue
them
.
And
by
this
act
of
Grace
,
the
Love
,
Gratitude
,
Union
and
Obedience
,
and
peace
of
the
Subjects
,
were
sufficiently
secured
,
and
I
question
not
will
continue
so
to
be
,
notwithstanding
these
and
the
like
malicious
Artifices
of
this
Over-grown
Scribler
,
and
his
Brother
Observator
to
the
contrary
.
Who
knowing
no
other
ways
to
execute
their
revenge
upon
their
Fellow-Countrymen
(
distinguished
by
them
under
the
contrived
names
of
Whigs
,
Fanaticks
,
or
what
they
please
to
make
them
)
than
by
involving
them
in
the
Rebellion
of
the
late
times
,
are
still
reviving
the
memory
of
41
and
48.
the
crimes
of
which
have
been
already
either
punish'd
or
pardoned
,
and
by
this
means
indeavour
to
obviate
that
gracious
Act
of
Oblivion
,
and
to
render
the
Subjects
of
their
revenge
,
how
innocent
soever
as
culpable
of
that
horrid
Crime
of
the
Kings
Murther
,
as
those
that
were
actually
concerned
in
it
?
But
did
the
King
and
Parliament
know
what
they
did
when
they
passed
that
healing
Act
,
not
only
for
pardoning
past
Crimes
,
but
terminating
all
differences
that
should
arise
by
reason
of
them
?
Were
not
the
Kings
Murtherers
particularly
by
name
exempted
in
it
,
and
the
persons
so
named
deservedly
brought
to
punishment
for
it
?
And
why
was
the
Justice
of
the
Government
,
so
limited
?
and
the
Phanaticks
,
and
Whigs
,
those
Rebels
against
Heraclitus
,
and
the
Observator
,
not
also
excluded
from
the
benefit
of
that
gracious
Edict
,
seeing
they
and
their
Children
too
,
must
in
the
sense
of
Heraclitus
,
be
as
guilty
of
that
horrid
Regicidisme
,
as
those
that
were
the
immediate
instruments
in
it
.
We
do
believe
that
that
horrid
and
unparallel'd
Crime
of
Murthering
his
late
Majesty
,
as
it
was
detested
by
all
good
Men
,
so
was
no
less
hateful
to
God
himself
(
whose
anointed
he
was
)
and
we
may
justly
conclude
that
amongst
those
many
Sins
for
which
he
has
by
manifold
Judgments
punished
this
Nation
,
this
more
especially
has
not
been
forgotten
,
and
whether
the
next
succeeding
Generation
,
may
not
as
well
suffer
for
it
as
this
has
done
,
is
best
known
to
him
to
whom
Vengeance
belongeth
;
he
may
indeed
by
vertue
of
his
divine
Prerogative
,
visit
the
iniquities
of
the
Fathers
upon
the
Children
,
unto
the
third
and
fourth
Generation
,
but
that
this
should
be
the
measures
of
humane
justice
,
especially
as
to
Blood
,
I
much
question
,
let
Heraclitus
say
what
he
will
to
the
contrary
;
if
the
Fathers
have
eaten
sower
Grapes
,
must
the
Childrens
Teeth
be
set
an
edge
,
yet
this
is
the
Divinity
of
our
State
Fop
,
Heraclitus
Ridens
.
Why
does
he
not
commend
this
Doctrine
to
be
preach't
up
by
the
Observat
.
inferiour
Levites
at
Sams
Colledge
,
would
it
not
think
you
be
a
rare
Subject
to
descant
on
at
Whitehall
,
if
any
of
them
should
come
to
the
honour
to
Preach
there
,
to
tell
the
King
that
his
Fathers
Blood
is
not
yet
revenged
,
but
cries
still
aloud
for
his
Royall
Justice
(
Now
after
almost
40
years
to
punish
it
)
upon
this
and
the
succeeding
Generations
,
that
notwithstanding
his
former
gracious
Act
of
indempnity
so
long
as
he
and
his
Royal
Brother
live
,
they
are
bound
to
revenge
it
by
Massacres
and
publick
Slaughters
,
though
the
innocent
Babes
of
the
Whiggish
Party
be
Baptized
in
their
own
blood
to
expiate
for
the
Sins
of
their
suspected
Fathers
.
Would
not
this
think
you
be
an
acceptable
piece
of
Service
to
his
Majesty
to
irritate
him
contrary
to
his
own
natural
clemency
,
and
goodness
to
such
merciless
and
unbounded
Revenges
?
and
would
it
not
be
as
obliging
to
the
People
,
could
they
persuade
them
that
the
King
were
inclinable
to
such
Counsels
,
that
he
has
but
dissembled
with
them
in
all
those
Acts
of
Grace
that
he
has
given
them
for
their
security
against
the
strokes
of
his
justice
;
for
that
his
Royal
Heart
still
burns
in
Revenge
against
them
,
and
that
both
he
and
his
Princely
Brother
will
take
all
opportunities
to
revenge
their
Fathers
sufferings
upon
this
and
the
succeeding
Generation
?
Would
not
this
tend
to
render
his
Sacred
and
Serene
Majesty
equal
with
that
Tyrant
Nero
,
that
wished
his
People
had
but
one
Neck
,
that
he
might
at
one
stroke
at
once
destroy
them
—
what
excellent
effects
such
monitions
as
these
,
were
they
regarded
,
might
have
between
the
King
and
his
People
,
is
easy
to
be
imagined
.
If
His
Majesty
in
the
mean
time
take
not
notice
of
him
,
to
other
more
deserved
purposes
,
it
is
pity
when
such
are
there
wanted
,
but
this
bold
Dictator
should
be
taken
into
the
Council
,
and
I
question
not
but
his
advices
would
be
as
happy
to
the
Government
as
those
of
the
inferiour
States-men
were
to
Rehokoam
,
and
we
might
have
one
Counsellor
at
Court
that
shall
match
,
if
not
out-mate
the
so
much
exploded
Achitophel
abroad
,
but
before
he
arrive
at
the
honour
,
't
is
well
if
the
fate
of
the
Achitophel
of
old
(
for
these
his
Villanous
and
Seditious
Practices
)
do
not
more
deservedly
dispose
of
him
.
To
require
his
Oracuous
Metre
,
I
shall
conclude
in
like
manner
,
Th'
Heav'ns
laugh
at
his
attempts
,
and
tell
us
loud
,
The
Sons
shall
live
to
do
their
Country
good
,
And
punish
those
that
seek
the
Nations
Blood
.