Ode to Republican'ts

Ode to Republican'ts

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Excepted from Hymn to the Pillory
Daniel Defoe

Quote:

“They that in, vast Employments, rob the State, See them in thy Embraces (of the pillory - LB) meet their Fate; 310 Let not the Millions they by Fraud obtain, Protect 'em from the Scandal, or the Pain: They who from Mean Beginnings grow To vast Estates, but God knows how; Who carry untold Sums away, 315 From little Places, with but little Pay: Who costly Palaces Erect, The Thieves that buds them to Protect; The Gardens, Grottos, Fountains, Walks, and Groves Where Vice Triumphs in Pride, and Lawless Loves: 320 Where mighty Luxury and Drunk'ness Reign'd Profusely Spend what they Prophanely Gain'd Tell 'em there's Mene Tekel’s * on the Wall, Tell 'em the Nations Money paid for all: Advance by double Front and show, 325 And let us both the Crimes and Persons know: Place them aloft upon thy Throne, Who slight the Nations Business for their own; Neglect their Posts, in spight of Double Pay, And turn us all in Debt the Shortest Way. " 330 **

*This is the passage from Daniel regarding the hand Writing on the wall
Daniel 5:25-28
5:25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
5:26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
(http://www.godrules.net/library/kjv/kjvdan5.htm)


** Daniel Defoe: [Defoe, Daniel], J.T. Boulton, ed. Publisher: Schocken 1965, p.106

(Note: OCR and transcription by poster from personal copy purchased in used bookstore, Ginza, Tokyo Japan, Winter 1968)

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