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“Under five hundred kings Three Kingdoms grone:

Go, Finch,27 Dissolve them, Charles is on the throne, And by the grace of God, will reign alone.

“The Presbyterians, sick of too much freedom,

Are ripe for Bethle’m, it’s high time to bleed ’em,

The Second Charles does neither fear nor need ’em.

“I’ll have the world know that I can dissipate

Those Impolitick Mushrooms of our State, ’Tis easier to dissolve than to create.

“They shan’t cramp Justice with their feigned flaws;

For since I govern only by the Laws, (!)

Why they should be exempt, I see no cause.”

The actual “Oxford Poem” in the Bagford Collection is addressed:—