To Mr. E.L. on His Majesties dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford, March 28, 1681 Kennett, White, 1660-1728. 1681 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A47259 Wing K305 ESTC R39319 18367935 ocm 18367935 107392 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Poetry. 2003-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-05 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-06 John Latta Sampled and proofread 2003-06 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion MAJESTIES Dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford , March 28. 1681. AN Atheist now must a Monster be , Of a strange Gigantick birth : His Omnipotence do's let all men see , That our King 's a God on Earth . Fiat , says he by Proclamation , And the Parliament is created : He repents of his work , the Dissolution Makes all annihilated . We Scholars were expell'd awhile , To let the Senators in , But they behav'd themselves , as So we return agen : And wonder to see our Geometry School All round about beseated , Though there 's no need of an Euclid's rule , To demonstrate 'em all defeated . The Commons their Voting Problems would , In Riddles so involve , That what the Peers scarce understood , The King was forc'd to solve . The Commons for a good Omen chose , An old consulting station : Being glad to dispossess their Foes O th' House of Convocation . So States-men like poor Scholars be , For near the usual place They stood , we know , for a great Degree , But the King deny'd their Grace . Though sure he must his Reason give , And charge them of some Crime : Or else by course they 'l have reprieve , For this is the Third time . It was because they did begin , With insolent behaviour : And who should expiate their Sin , The King himself 's no Saviour . Their Faults grew to a bulk so high , As Mercy did fore-stall : So Charter forfeited thereby , They must like Adam fall . It is resolv'd the Duke shall fail , A Scepter to inherit : Nor right nor desert shall prevail , 'T is Popish to plead Merit . Let the King respect the Duke his Brother , And keep affection still , As duly to the Church his Mother : In both they 'l cross his will. They would Dissenters harmless save , And Penalties repeal : As if they 'd humor Thieves , who crave A liberty to steal . Thus he that do's a Pardon lack , For Treason damn'd to dy , They 'd tempt , poor man , to save his neck , By adding Perjury . The Nobles threw th' Impeachment out , Because , no doubt , they saw , 'T was best to bring his cause about , But not to th' Commons Law , But hence 't was plaguily suspected , Nay 't is resolv'd by Vote , That the Lords are Popishly affected , And stiflers of the Plot. The Commons courage can't endure To be affronted thus : So for the future to be sure , They 'l be the Upper House . But by such Fevorish Malady , Their strength so soon was spent , That punning Wits no doubt will cry , Oh Weeked Parliament . Printed in the Year , 1681.