The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 · Chapter 60A Bottle Definition of That Fallen Angel, Called a Whig
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From a collection of Historical and State Poems, Satyrs, Songs, and Epigrams, by Ned Ward, A. D. 1717.
What is a Whig? A cunning rogue That once was in, now out of vogue: A rebel to the Church and throne, Of Lucifer the very spawn.
A tyrant, who is ne’er at rest In power, or when he’s dispossess’d; A knave, who foolishly has lost What so much blood and treasure cost.
A lying, bouncing desperado, A bomb, a stink-pot, a granado; That’s ready primed, and charged to break, And mischief do for mischief’s sake:
A comet, whose portending phiz Appears more dreadful than it is; But now propitious stars repel Those ills it lastly did fortel.
’Twill burst with unregarded spight, And, since the Parliament proves right, Will turn to smoke, which shone of late So bright and flaming in the State.