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“A Parliament with one consent

Is all the cry o’ th’ nation,

Which now may be, since Popery

Is growing out of fashion.

The Belgic troops approach to Town,

The Oranges come pouring,

And all the Lords agree as one

To send the papists scouring.”

The Whigs, who had effected the Revolution which placed William III. on the throne, were now in the enjoyment of place and power, to the mortification of the discomfited Tories, whose vexation on the aspect of affairs, which gave them no prospect of a return to office, found expression in satirical attacks upon their more successful adversaries.