(Sung to Chevy Chase)

 I sing the man with lofty muse

With zeal and wit inspir'd

Did western women's valour chuse

To chant with art acquire'd

 Stang is his name, though Strong he writes,

Forgetting's father's Houses,

Whom he neglecteth and thus slights,

Because a Poor........

The Sacred Function he invades

Without a Lawful call,

(As now adares do men of Trade,

Though learned not at all)

And soon became a Teacher quaint,

Zealous of Reformation,

Presently falling on the point

Of dire Presdestination.

Bishops and Deans he much decr'd

As things intolerable,

The Surplice and the Cross beside

Were most abominable

The Doctor he turned out o door,

And took into possesion

His lands, his goods and what is more,

His Book by Sequestration.

The holy Font that raised was

For the Administration

Of Infant-Baptisme, he (alas)

Fed pigs, and put his wash in.

When Raw, the Sequestrator had

Himself hang'd. through despair,

Our Author (as his Chaplain) made

A sermon to repair

The Credit of this Fallen Saint,

And did much applaud,

As one impatient of Restraint

From being with his God.

This Corps which should have buried been

In some Cross-qay and stak'd,

In holy ground interr'd has been

By our author, and up rak'd.

But being at length ambitious grown,

He could not be content

With that small lot which was his own,

To Ilminster he went,

A market town in Somerset,

And though a sequestration,

Yet....throat could swallow it

Glibber than ordination.

Our author here increas'd he wealth

As well as in Renown,

Though what he got was all by stealth,

And was noe of his own.

A purchaser he then became

Of House, and eke of lands,

And rose to be a man of fame,

But he built on the sands.

For moving from the Vicarage-house

The Porch, unto his own,

The Fact, so Sacriligious,

Did throw his own house down.

And being now a widower,

He would a wooing ride,

To get a rich wife, far or near,

His Palfrie he'd bestride.

In order whereunto, on goes

The Rich Black velvet coat,

Which worn is , everybody knows,

Onely by men of note.

In this he swaggerer'd up and down

Ilminster, Taunton, Chard,

On Market Daies; scarce any town

Near him, but saw or heard.