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[title page] ORANGE: A Political Rhapsody CANTO I ECCE ITERUM!! THE FOURTH EDITION DUBLIN: PRINTED BY JOHN MILLIKEN, 32, GRAFTON-STREET M,DCC,XCVIII. [p. 2 blank] (3) THE PRINTER TO THE READER FINDING some passages of this rhapsody Rather obscure, and being unable to discover The author, I had recourse to the aid of some literary friends, who have enabled me to explain them To these gentlemen I now return my thanks --in particular to the obliging P. R. who desires me to conceal his name; and to the young annotator, whose comments are dis- tinguished by so remarkable a portion of hereditary acuteness. DUBLIN, October 17th, 1797 A2 ORANGE, [p. 4 blank] (5) ORANGE, etc. CANTO I P. WHY am I silent?--Why in times like these, When Vice and Treason lord it as they please-- When G------------n every hour our ear assails, With his mad grandsire's Jacobitish tales, And, with forgotten slanders, seeks to draw 5 Contempt upon the honours of Nassau-- When ******, blasted, black with every crime,-- The pimp, the cuckold, parasite, and mime, Without one claim to worth or honour, tries A patriot on the vulgar voice to rise-- 10 When public virtue is not found to soar, Beyond such things as F--r, T--e, and H--e. With conquering William's long established fame Sinks into rivalry with Grattan's name.-- In Line 4.] It is not to be supposed, as some have idly done, that this renowned orator had no grandfather. I remember him very well, a mad Jacobite parson, hanging upon the humours of Dean Swift, and feeding the spleen and weakness of that great genius PR. Line 7.******] Who this means I am not able to guess; certainly no living character can deserve such attributes.----------- Line 12] F--r, T--e, H--e.] The first of these blanks is a real name, being intended to disguise a great man, who had a Pretty (6) In vain old Boyne beheld his silver flood 15 Stain'd with commingled streams of kindred blood, In vain did Aughrim's wild and barren plain, Tremble and groan beneath the heaps of slain-- In vain did Limerick's now dismantled wall, See the last hopes of luckless Stuart fall-- 20 Vain were the glories of La Hogue, and vain The countless blessings of three Georges' reign-- Since fell Democracy, of Gallic birth, Roams her native den to plague the earth; And brutal Bigotry on Erin's shore, 25 Hails her with a savage yell, and kindred roar, Demands her aid, a fellow fiend to save, And snatch expiring Popery from the grave; To join, with frantic zeal, the mutual cause, And tear down William's church, and William's laws. 30 F. But why thus speak in allegoric trope? Mean you that France is bringing in the Pope? If so, speak out! but oh! forbear to raise The false alarms of Titus Oates's days. P. No! pretty smattering of oratory in the late Parliament. What T--e means, I am equally ignorant of; and as for the last, I am inclined to guess it would rhyme to soar. -George Faulkner, jun. Lines 15, 17, 19, 21.] Boyne, Aughram, Limerick, and La Hogue are the names of rivers in which victories by land and sea were obtained by king William, of glorious memory; he having been killed on a sorrel horse on his way to Kensington. G. F. jun. Line 22.] George I, II, III of whose reigns a very impartial history hath been lately written with great virulence by Dr. Belsham, a Presbyterian parson; and to be had at the printer's hereof. -Ditto Line 25.] Erin was the old name of Ireland. -Dr. Ledwich. Line 34.] Titus Oates was a Jesuit, and turned clergyman for a reward, which he got by prosecuting Lord Stafford and other popish priests. -G.F. jun. (7) P. No! though my soul the bigot race abhor, 35 "I only slay them in the trade of war." Nor like the Puritan's malignant race, Would I their lives with perjur'd bloodhounds chase; For Russel's memory rouses all my hate, While I deplore the gentle Stafford's fate; 40 And scorning Rome's infallible pretence, Can mourn with Pelham an afflicted Prince. F. Forbear, my friend, to tempt the dangerous theme; Seek not, with puny strength, to check the stream. Let not your venturous rashness idly dare 45 The midnight vengeance of the Union Star. And tho' the raging Northern Star be set, Beware the fury of the Cork Gazette! Malignant Gilbert on your life will scowl; And vulgar Cooney raise the murderous howl. 50 Think Line 36.] "Tho' in the trade of war I have slain men, "Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience "To do no contrived murder." Shakespeare. Line 39.] Lord Russel, an ancestor of the present Duke of Bedford, who was beheaded for high treason with several others of that loyal family. -G. F. jun. Line 40.] For the persecution of this innocent nobleman, see Hume's England, vol. viii, p. 112. Line 42.] See Sir Hercules Langrishe's exultation upon the downfall of the Pope, as a temporal prince, and Mr. Pelham's spirited rebuke. -5th May, 1795. Line 46.] Will posterity believe, can our contemporaries believe, that a publication is on foot in the city of Dublin, periodically devoting to the knives of the assassins a certain number of our fellow subjects, obnoxious only for their loyalty? --Vide Proclamation. Line 47.] The Northern Star, during its existence, kept up in Ulster those commotions which ceased on its suppression. Line 48.] The Cork Gazette is also expired. Line 49, 50.] The Evening and Morning Post. The former is conducted by a madman, named Magee, contrary to law; whose father-