O. concerning the present state of affairs in England." Also a
coarse ballad, entitled, "The Venison Doctor, with his brace of
Alderman Stags;"
Showing how a Doctor had defiled
Two aldermen, and got them both with child,
Who longed for venison, but were beguiled.
27. Our author has elsewhere expressed, in the same terms, his
contempt for the satire of "The Rehearsal." "I answered not the
Rehearsal, because I knew the author sat to himself when he drew
the picture, and was the very Bayes of his own farce." _Dedication
to Juvenal._--The same idea occurs in a copy of verses on the Duke
of Buckingham sometimes ascribed to Dryden:
But when his poet, John Bayes, did appear,
'Twas known to more than one-half that were there,
That the great'st part was his Grace's character;
For he many years plagued his friends for their crimes,
Repeating his verses in other men's rhymes,
To the very same person ten thousand times.
_State Poems_, Vol. II, p. 216.
28. Besides those who were alarmed for civil liberty, and those who
dreaded encroachment on their religion, the whig party, like every
one which promises to effect a great political change, was embraced
by many equally careless of the one motive or the other; but who
hoped to indulge their licentious passions, repair their broken
fortunes, or gratify their inordinate ambition amidst a
revolutionary convulsion.
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