The new PROJECTOR; OR The Privileged CHEAT: Who when Men do come to receive Satisfaction, Doth answer them all, I have got a PROTECTION.  

I Am a Projector that always have thrived  
by Sideing with every Faction;  
I have to the bottom of Villianie dived,  
and fitted myself for all Actions;  
In every Corner my Springs I have set,  
At Tennis, and Tables, and Billiards I Bet.  
I Shuffle, and run into every Man's Debt:  
But now I have got a Protection.   

Since Sixteen hundred forty and two,  
In the time of our first Distraction,  
When paltry People had nothing to do,  
but Quarrel, and fall into Fraction;  
The Caveliers Party I envied most,  
My Sanctified Zeal was as hot as a Toast,  
We Fought for Religion until it was lost:  
But now I have got a Protection.   

I Canted in Scripture, I Taught in a Tub,  
and gave them Divine Direction:  
The Organ I turned into Dub, a dub, dub,  
like a Babe of the new Election,  
I reached at All, and every Thing  
That would my own Advancement bring.  
I aimed at the Bishop, and Shot at the King:  
But now I have got a Protection.   

I Preached, and Protested, I Plundered & Prayed,  
and gave all the People Direction;  
Who ever did Trust me, I always Betrayed  
by civil and subtle Inspection.  
When Oliver pulled the Long Parliament down  
And set up the sign of the Red-nose and Crown,  
I frighted the Caveliers dead with a frown;  
Yet I have got a Protection.   

But Oliver died, and I was to seek,  
My spirits did suffer dejection:  
I made my Address to his simple Son Dick,  
A Prince of a frolic complexion;  
A Man that loved Wine, and was given to Mirth  
But had a small portion of politic Worth;  
So down of a sudden dropped Richard the fourth:  
And now he doth want a Protection.   

The Committee of Safety I knew would not last,  
It was of such cursed Confection;  
The Wether I saw was so much overcast,  
That I looked for a Scottish Projection:  
My fears come upon me, I sweat and I stunk,  
And staggered in Judgement, like one that was drunk,  
Then in came Politic General Monck,  
And put me quite by my protection.   

I smelled (by his drumming) that something was coming,  
to purge all the Air of infection.  
The Bonfires and Ringing, did usher the King in,  
which altered the Zealots' complexion;  
Thought I; the King's Party will be very strong  
And therefore j'll turn and be for him ding dung,  
For I by my subtlety ere it be long,  
shall get me a cheating protection   

I mounted my Jennet to bring in the King  
and rejoiced at his Resurrection,  
My voice was well pitched, and my Hat I did fling,  
in token and sign of Subjection;  
I Capored, I Ranted, I Tippled for joy.  
I called them all Roundheads that hindered my way,  
I cast up my Cap, and cried Vive-le-Roy,  
for which I have got a Protection.   

I made a discovery of all that I knew,  
who formerly were of my Faction:  
I got me to Court, and in favour I grew,  
'mongst men of my own Complexion;  
With Dice, Drink, and Drab, I did swagger and roar,  
And though I did cry Yea and Nay before,  
Yet Damn me, Confound me, and Sink me I swore,  
for than I had got a Protction.   

My Debts were advanced to a terrible height,  
which brought me so much in Subjection,  
I should have been pressed to death with their weight,  
if I had not used projection:  
Cheapside and Paternoster-Row,  
My crafty delusions do very well know;  
For most of the Shops have my hand to show.  
but now I have got a Protection.   

The Draper, the Butcher, the Brewer and Baker,  
are sensible of my Exaction,  
The Presbyter, Brownists, and Seeker and Quaker,  
are waiting for satisfaction:  
But when in the streets they me espy,  
They'll take an order with me they cry,  
I swagger, and tell 'em all, damn me they lie  
for now I have got a Protection.   

You Merchants and Citizens that do live high  
and are of a good Extraction,  
Beware how you credit such Gamesters as I.  
for Cheating is our Complexion:  
The Court, and the City, and Country may rue,  
The unfortunate season that ever they knew,  
Such knaves as myself (give the Devil his due)  
that Cousin men with a Protection.    

London, Printed for William Gilbertson at the Bible in Giltspur-street.