ot out both the pope and the duke;
Let them vote, let them move, let them do what they will;
The bishops, the bishops, have thrown out the bill.

It concludes with the following stanza:

The best of expedients, the law can propose,
Our church to preserve, and to quiet our foes,
Is not to let lawn sleeves our parliament fill,
But throw out the bishops, that threw out the bill.
_State Poems_, Vol. III. p. 154.

The Tunbridge ballad, which our author also ascribes to Shadwell or
his assistant, I have not found among the numerous libels of the
time.

36. The "Massacre of Paris" appears to have been written by Lee,
during the time of the Popish plot, and if then brought out, the
subject might have been extravagantly popular. It would appear it
was suppressed at the request of the French ambassador. Several
speeches, and even a whole scene seem to have been transplanted to
the "Duke of Guise," which were afterwards replaced, when the
Revolution rendered the "Massacre of Paris," again a popular topic.
There were, among others, the description of the meeting of Alva
and the queen mother at Bayonne; the sentiments expressed
concerning the assassination of Caesar, and especially the whole
quarrelling scene between Guise and Grillon, which, in the
"Massacre of Paris," passes between Guise and the admiral
Chastillon. In the preface to the "Princess of Cleves," which was
acted in 1689, Lee gives the following account of the transposition
of these passages. "The Duke of Guise, who was notorious for a
bolder fault, has wrested two whole scenes from the original, (the
Massacre just before mentioned,) which, after the vacation, he will
be forced to pay. I was, I confess, through indignation, forced to
limb my own child, which time, the true cure for all maladies and
injustice, has set together again. The play cost me much pains, the
story is true, and, I hope, the object will display treachery in
its own colours. But this farce, comedy, tragedy, or mere play, was
a revenge for the refusal of the other." This last sentence alludes
to the suppression of the "Massacre of Paris," which, according to
the author's promise, appeared with all its appurtenances restored
in 1690, the year following.]

37. When the days of Whiggish prosperity shone forth, Shadwell did his
best to retort u