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Vanity of Vanities
Ratts Rhimed to Death (April? 1660)
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First pub. 18 January, 1660? |
[p. 46]
[D7v]
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Vanity of Vanities,
or
Sir
Harry
Vane'
s
Picture.
To the Tune of Jews Corant.
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Ave you not seen a Barthol'mew
Baby
A Pageant of policy as fine as may be,
That's gone to be Shown at the Mannor of
Raby,
which no body can deny.
[5]There was never such
a prostitute Sight,
That e're profan'd this purer Light,
A Hocus Pocus
jugling Knight,
which no body can deny.
He was taken for a Delphick Tripus,
[10]Another doubt-resolving
Oedipus,
But the Parliament made him a very Quibus,
VVhich no body, &c.
His cunning State-tricks and Oracles,
His lying wonders and Miracles,
[25]Are turned into Parliament
Shackles,
VVhich no body, &c.
Goodly great Sir Onesimus
VANE
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The Annointed King of Saints not
Reign?
I see all Godlinesse
is not Gain,
[20]
VVhich no body, &c.
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John a Leyden
that
Munster's
Jing,
Was a Fool and an Asse
to this pretty Thing,
But the Parliament
hated the name of a King,
VVhich no body, &c.
[25]This holy Saint hath pray'd till he wept,
Prophesied and Divin'd while he slept,
But fell in a T--- when aside he stept,
VVhich no body, &c.
He sate
late in the House
so
discontent,
[30]With his Arms folded and his Brows bent,
Like
Achitophel
to the Parliament,
VVhich no body, &c.
He durst
not speak of a Concubine,
Nor gave more Counsell to any Design,
[35]But was musing on a Hempen Line,
VVhich no body, &c.
He see Mr.
Prin take a great deal
of Pain,
To get in with the rest
as Members Again,
But they were Voted as use-lesse
as
VANE,
[40]
VVhich no body, &c.
They gave him a Congee
with such a Vote;
'Twas thought they had learned it by Rote,
Ever since he went down to
Graves
end by Bote,
which no body, &c.
[45]For all his Ceremonious Cringing,
He shall undergo
a notable Swindging,
There is now no more need of his Engine,
which no body, &c.
VVhen first
the English VVar began,
[50]His Father was a Court Trepan,
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And 'rose to be a Parliament
Man,
which no body, &c.
So from the Father
came unto the Son,
VVhom wo and mis'ry now do wait upon,
[55]For Counselling Protector
John,
which no body, &c.
A Gemini
they were,
Pollux and
Castor,
One was a Teacher the other a Pastor,
And both like R--- betray'd
their Master,
[60]
which no body, &c.
The Devil ne're see
such two Sir Harry's,
Such a pest'lent
pair nor neer nor far is,
No not at the Jesuits
Sorbon
of
Paris,
which no body, &c.
[65]They talk't of his having a Cardinall's
Hat,
They'd send him as soon
an Old Nun's Twat,
For turning in pan there was ne're such
a Cat,
which no body, &c.
His dainty project
of a Select Senate,
[70]Is Damned for a blasphemous Tenet,
T'was found in the budget, ('tis said)
of Monck
Bennet,
which no body, &c.
Of this State
and Kingdoms he is the Bane,
He shall have
the reward of
Judas and
Cain,
[75]And t'was he that overthrew
Charls
his VVain,
which no body, &c.
Should he sit
where he did with his Mischievous brain,
Or if any his Counsels behind do remain,
The house
may be called the Labour in Vain,
[80]
VVhich no body can deny.
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Ratts Rhimed to Death. Or,
The Rump-Parliament Hang'd up in
the Shambles.
(London, 1660)
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Notes: Siglum = "RRa". Printed miscellany in octavo of 23 poems with preface. Poems are close transcriptions of broadside orginals, all published
between May, 1658 and March 30, 1660.
8°: Collation: A3 B-F8 G5 [$4 signed (-A1, 3)]; 48 leaves, pp. [6] 1-89 [1]
Wing R307.
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BL Thomason E.1761(2) [RRb]
Bodleian 8 B463 Linc.
Bodleian Harding C 2530
Bodleian Wood 326(1)
Cambridge UL Brett-Smith.d.10
Folger Shakespeare 152-930q
Harvard UL *EC65.A100.B659r
Manchester UL Deansgate UCC 1839
Sutro L, San Francisco, CA 821.08 R23
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Editor
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Keyboarding
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Tagging
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Proofing
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