CANTVS.
[ 15] 〈♫〉〈♫〉 UNdone! undone! the Lawyers are, they wander a╌bout the Town, and cannot find the 〈♫〉〈♫〉 way to Westminster, now Charing-Cross is down: At the end of the Strand they make a stand, swearing they 〈♫〉〈♫〉 are at loss; and chafing, say, That's not the way, they must go by Charing-Cross.
II.
The Parliament to Vote it down, conceiv'd it very fitting,
For fear't should fall, and kill 'em all, i'th' House as they were sitting;
They were inform'd 't had such a Plot, which made 'em so hard-harted,
To give express Command, it should be taken down and carted.
III.
Men talk of Plots, this might been worse for any thing I know,
Than that Tomkins, and Chalenour, was hang'd for long ago:
But as our Parliament from that, themselves strangely defended;
So still they do discover Plots; before they be intended.
IV.
For neither Man, Woman, nor Child, will say, I'm confident,
They ever heard it speak one word against the Parliament▪
T'had Letters about it some says, or else it had been freed;
'Fore-God I'le take my Oath, that it could neither write nor read.
V.
The Committee said, Verily to Popery 'twas bent,
For ought I know it might be so, for to Church it never went:
What with Excise, and other loss, the Kingdom doth begin
To think you'l leave 'em ne're a Cross, without Door, nor within.
VI.
Methinks the Common-Council should of it have taken pity,
'Cause good old Cross, it always stood so strongly to the City:
Since Crosses you so much disdain, Faith if I was as you,
For fear the King should Rule again, I'd pull down Tyburn too.