Wesley Corpus

Volume 4 (1781): 340 "No Longer Pipe, No Longer Dance."24 The First and Second George were wise, And understood a faction's price; Little account of those they made, That from mere principle obey'd, But purchas'd with an annual bribe The votes of the Dissenting tribe; Who serv'd with flaming zeal and hearty, The heads of their own favour'd party. Why are they chang'd to George the Third, And never give him a good word? His rebels why do they embrace, And spit in a mild monarch's face! "Because he slights his father's friends, And the three kingdoms comprehends, All sects and parties reconciles, Alike on Whig and Tory smiles: Aims at impossibilities, And studies friends and foes to please; Because our pensions he withdraws, And if he starve the good, old cause, And if he nothing more advance No longer pipe, no longer dance!" 24Appears in MS Patriotism (drafts), 45-46; and MS Patriotism, 45-46, under title "Party Loyalty." Frank Baker (Representative Verse, 339) suggests it was written shortly after 6 April 1780, when John Dunning secured passage in Parliament of a resolution calling for the power of the Crown to be diminished. Volume 4 (1781): 344 An Epitaph on Edward Hearne, of Monmouth, who Died April 28, 1776.25 Stranger to vice, with early grace imbu'd, The pious youth his Saviour's steps pursu'd: Pursu'd, a zealous follow'r of his Lord, A mother labouring for her full reward: Trac'd her from earth, by lawless violence driv'n, And found the martyr'd saint enshrin'd in heaven. 25Appears in MS Funeral Hymns, 111.