THE EXECUTION OF THE COVENANT, Burnt by the Common-Hang-man EDW. DON, Presbyter, May 22. 1661.  
Published for the Use of Dr. B. and Mr. Notcrof, and the rest of the Rigid Presbyterians.  
THe News I pray! What doth this Throng infer?  
Do ye not know? DVN is turned PRESBYTER.  
Well then! I see the Brethren in spite  
Of BISHOPS, have obtained a PROSELYTE;  
One that will soon be on the Rigid Score,  
And be a Cause of turning many more.  
Make him an ELDER then! Indeed ye shall:  
For he is one, that may Advance you all.  
That he is now a BROTHER, you must grant,  
For I did see him take the COVENANT.  
Take it indeed; yet you must understand,  
'Twas but to give't the Honour of his Hand.  
But to be bold, and come a little nigher,  
He took it, true, but threw it in the Fire.  
In which he showed himself a CHRISTIAN right,  
To let the Works of Darkness come to light.  
Bark then fanatics, who like Demopbon,  
Glow in the shade, and Frieze still in the SUN.  
Howle Millenaries, Independents too,  
And Anabaptists, that Heretic Crew  
Of Presbyterian By-blows; If these Flashes  
Be Sacred to you, Come and Urn the Ashes:  
For we esteem the Relics of these Sheets  
Too dirty and debauched to pave our Streets.  
This Mouth-Granado, from that Scotch-witch came  
To set three Glorious Kingdoms in a flame.  
A Covenant? No, 'twas a Conspiracy,  
Plotted by Brethren in Iniquity.  
Bold Assassins that durst attempt all ill,  
And Holocaust whole Kingdoms to Self-will.  
Mend, mend, for shame, your Brother else will look,  
To hang the Authors, as he burnt the Book.  
But he presumes, or hopes, y''ll rather turn,  
Than follow your black Juncto to the Urn.  
While I thus thinking am, who would desire,  
(Were it to Roast a RUMP) a fit fire?  
In which it now hath pleased the Fates to grant,  
The Dissolution of the— 
 — COVENANT.   

LONDON, Printed for A. Rice, at the sign of the Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1661.