Friday, February 3, 2023

A WICKED TREASONABLE LIBEL by Jonathan Swift

 A WICKED TREASONABLE LIBEL 
by Jonathan Swift


While the king and his ministers keep such a pother,

And all about changing one whore for another,

Think I to myself, what need all this strife,

His majesty first had a whore of a wife,

And surely the difference mounts to no more

Than, now he has gotten a wife of a whore.

Now give me your judgment a very nice case on;

Each queen has a son, say which is the base one?

Say which of the two is the right Prince of Wales,

To succeed, when, (God bless him,) his majesty fails;

Perhaps it may puzzle our loyal divines

To unite these two Protestant parallel lines,

From a left-handed wife, and one turn'd out of doors,

Two reputed king's sons, both true sons of whores;

No law can determine it, which is first oars.

But, alas! poor old England, how wilt thou be master'd;

For, take which you please, it must needs be a bastard.

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