[Footnote 103: The sermon deserves to be read. See the London Gazette
of April 14. 1689; Evelyn's Diary; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; and the
despatch of the Dutch Ambassadors to the States General.]

[Footnote 104: A specimen of the prose which the Jacobites wrote on this
subject will be found in the Somers Tracts. The Jacobite verses were
generally too loathsome to be quoted. I select some of the most decent
lines from a very rare lampoon:

"The eleventh of April has come about,
To Westminster went the rabble rout,
In order to crown a bundle of clouts,
a dainty fine King indeed.

"Descended he is from the Orange tree;
But, if I can read his destiny,
He'll once more descend from another tree,
a dainty fine King indeed.

"He has gotten part of the shape of a man,
But more of a monkey, deny it who can;
He has the head of a goose, but the legs of a crane,
A dainty fine King indeed."

A Frenchman named Le Noble, who had been banished from his own country
for his crimes, but, by the connivance of the police, lurked in Paris,
and earned a precarious livelihood as a bookseller's hack published on
this occasion two pasquinades, now extremely scarce, "Le Couronnement
de Guillemot et de Guillemette, avec le Sermon du grand Docteur Burnet,"
and "Le Festin de Guillemot." In wit, taste and good sense, Le Noble's
writings are not inferior to the English poem which I have quoted. He
tells us that the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London had a
boxing match in the Abbey; that the champion rode up the Hall on an ass,
which turned restive and kicked over the royal table with all the plate;
and that the banquet ended in a fight between the peers armed with
stools and benches, and the cooks armed with spits. This sort of
pleasantry, strange to say, found readers; and the writer's portrait was
pompously engraved with the motto "Latrantes ride: to tua fama manet."]

[Footnote 105: Reresby's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 106: For the history of the devastation of the Palatinate,
see the Memoirs of La Fare, Dangeau, Madame de la Fayette, Villars, and
Saint Simon, and the Monthly Mercuries for March and April, 1689. The
pamphlets and broadsides are too numerous to quote. One broadside,
entitled "A true Account of the barbarous Cruelties committed by the
French in the Palatinate in January and February last," is perhaps the
most remarkable.]

[Footnote 107: Memoirs of Saint