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Songs Of The Ceaft.
" In a song , in the same book , are these other lines : " < Let moderns and critics with impious rage , Amuse the vain town , and against us engage ; Let Prichard an el's followers , apostate profane , With false tenets puzzle each lethargic brain . '
" In another Masonic song , composed 1768 , and published in ' The Freemason ' s PocketCompanion / is this verse ; " < What tho' some of late , by their spleen , plainly show , They fain would deride ' what they gladly would know ; Let ey ' ry true Brother these vern \ in despise , And the antient grand secret keep back from their eyes . '
" DAnvers is satirized in another song , because , in No . 653 of ' The Craftsman / he said , ' the rioters who hanged Porteus at Edinburgh were all Freemasons , for they kept their own secrets . ' u 'In vain would D'An vers with his wit Our slow resentment raise ; What he and all mankind have writ But celebrates our praise ; His wit this only truth imparts , That Masons have firm , faithful hearts /
" I am not acquainted with the allusion in these verses of another song : " * Inspiring virtue by our rules , And in ourselves secure , We have compassion on those fools Who think our acts impure : From ignorance we know proceeds Such mean opinion of our deeds . Then let us laugh , since we ' re inipos'd
On those who make a pother , Who cry , the secret is disclos'd By some false-hearted Brother : The mighty secret gain'd , they boast , From Postboy , or from Flying Post . '
" Qu . Was there any discovery of the Masonic mysteries pretended to be published in * The Postboy ? ' In their poetic effusions , the Masonic laureates have preserved the memory of more than one sect of heretical apostates , who had distinguished themselves by opposition to the progress of the Craft , or pretending to disclose a full knowledge of its secret arcana . One of these initiated versifiers thus exclaims :
" ' How happy are the antient brave , Whom no false Cowan can deceive ! And may they so remain ! No modern Craftsman e ' er did know What signs our masters to us show , Though long thev strove in vain .
The homed buck and Galilean , As the monkey imitates the man , Their clubs do lodges call ; Wliile antient Masons know full well No fools like those amongst them dwell ; No , no nor never shall . '
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Songs Of The Ceaft.
" In a song , in the same book , are these other lines : " < Let moderns and critics with impious rage , Amuse the vain town , and against us engage ; Let Prichard an el's followers , apostate profane , With false tenets puzzle each lethargic brain . '
" In another Masonic song , composed 1768 , and published in ' The Freemason ' s PocketCompanion / is this verse ; " < What tho' some of late , by their spleen , plainly show , They fain would deride ' what they gladly would know ; Let ey ' ry true Brother these vern \ in despise , And the antient grand secret keep back from their eyes . '
" DAnvers is satirized in another song , because , in No . 653 of ' The Craftsman / he said , ' the rioters who hanged Porteus at Edinburgh were all Freemasons , for they kept their own secrets . ' u 'In vain would D'An vers with his wit Our slow resentment raise ; What he and all mankind have writ But celebrates our praise ; His wit this only truth imparts , That Masons have firm , faithful hearts /
" I am not acquainted with the allusion in these verses of another song : " * Inspiring virtue by our rules , And in ourselves secure , We have compassion on those fools Who think our acts impure : From ignorance we know proceeds Such mean opinion of our deeds . Then let us laugh , since we ' re inipos'd
On those who make a pother , Who cry , the secret is disclos'd By some false-hearted Brother : The mighty secret gain'd , they boast , From Postboy , or from Flying Post . '
" Qu . Was there any discovery of the Masonic mysteries pretended to be published in * The Postboy ? ' In their poetic effusions , the Masonic laureates have preserved the memory of more than one sect of heretical apostates , who had distinguished themselves by opposition to the progress of the Craft , or pretending to disclose a full knowledge of its secret arcana . One of these initiated versifiers thus exclaims :
" ' How happy are the antient brave , Whom no false Cowan can deceive ! And may they so remain ! No modern Craftsman e ' er did know What signs our masters to us show , Though long thev strove in vain .
The homed buck and Galilean , As the monkey imitates the man , Their clubs do lodges call ; Wliile antient Masons know full well No fools like those amongst them dwell ; No , no nor never shall . '