Note 323 — NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.

Perkin makes fine legs to the shouting rabble, Who to make him king he thinks are able; But the bauble Is only shewed for use: The silly ideot serves but for a tool still, For knaves to work their feats; And will remain a dull mistaken fool still, For all their damned cabals, and Wapping treats. — — — — — — Oxford loyal youths, who scorn to sham us With a perjured bill of Ignoramus, Or name us For loyal traitors known; Soon found a flaw i'the bottom of the joyner, By justice, and the laws, Of church and commonwealth an underminer, Who fell a martyr in the good old cause.