A NEW LITANY FOR THE Holy Time of Lent.  

1.  
FRom all the Women We have whored  
From being bound to keep Our Word  
From Civil Broils and Foreign Sword  
Libera nos Domine.   

2.  
From store of Ships and want of Men  
From leaping into the Lion's Den  
From a Dutch-War, and Burnet's Pen  
Libera nos, etc.   

3.  
From Bombs of France, and Bulls of Rome  
From being Hen-peckt worse at Home  
From Dorchester's insatiate Womb  
Libera nos, etc.   

4.  
From Toleration and such Nonsense  
From granting Liberty of Conscience  
To Heretics against their own sense  
Libera nos, etc.   

5.  
From hopes we shall Dissenters bring  
To Union with a Popish King  
And PEN, that managed the whole thing  
Libera nos, etc.   

6.  
From standing of our Slaves in dread  
From being by the Priesthood led  
From English-Limbs to a Roman-Head  
Libera nos, etc.   

7.  
From Oxford faithful to his Trust  
From being to Our Promise just  
From Mulgrave's Pride to his Wife's Lust  
Libera nos, etc.   

8.  
From Somerset and haughty Lory  
That would Eclipse our Roman glory  
And make a Jest of Purgatory  
Libera nos, etc.   

9  
From Parliaments that dare oppose  
And lead their Sovereign by the Nose  
And from the Sanguinary Laws  
Libera nos, etc.   

10.  
From such as will not do their best  
To take off Penal-Laws and Test,  
From Stamford Grey and all the rest  
Libera nos Domine.   

11.  
We humbly do beseech Thee Lord  
That we may Govern by the Sword  
And Berwick know no other Word  
Quaesimus te audire nos Dom.   

12.  
That it may please while we do Reign  
Whatever Neighbour Rules the Main  
To make us great in our Campaign.  
Quaesimus te etc.   

13.  
That it may be enough for these  
While others Towns and Castles seize  
To Storm 'em here in Effigies.  
Quaesimus te etc.   

14.  
That they may feast and make a Noise  
And with their Volleys rend the Skies  
Against a flock of Butterflies.  
Quaesimus te etc.   

15.  
That it may please the to repair  
Lord Powis who is in despair  
And furnish England with an Heir.  
Quaesimus te etc.   

16.  
That it may prove its Father's Hope  
Restore the Nuncio and the Pope  
And save Old Petre from the Rope.  
Quaesimus te etc.   

17.  
That we with Members may be blest  
In such a Parliament possessed  
As shall Annul that Bloody-Test.  
Quaesimus te etc.   

18.  
That we have time before we die  
To settle Church and Popery  
That Father Condon may not fly.  
Quaesimus te etc.   

19  
Grant we may never cross the Main  
To be a General for Spain  
And never see Breda again.  
Quaesimus te etc.    

Imprimatur,  
OB. WALKER.   

OXFORD, Printed by H. Cruttenden: One of His Majesty's Printers.