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A Collection of Forty Eight Original Patriot Toasts

Drank at a select Assembly of Free-holders at Corke, the First of this Inst. January, 1754.

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A Collection of

Original Patriot Toasts.

I. The King and Royal Family.

II. The Battle of Culloden.

III. The Glorious and Immortal Memory of the Great King William.

IV. May the Succession to the Crown, be perpetual in the illustrious House of Hanover.

V. Prosperity to Ireland.

VI. May the Earl of Kildare, the Speaker, Sir Richard Cox, and Prime Serjeant, ever prove a Scourge to the Vanity and Ambition of Caiphas, and a poten Check to the Judaic Betrayers of their Country.

VII. May every Man of large Properies in Ireland, who endeavoured to betray her real Interst upon a certain important Debate, have a prodigal Son to annihilate the occumulate Fortune of a degenerate Father.

VIII. May all Court-Slave lose the BLESSING OF GOD the Day befoe they intend their Country's Ruin.

IX. May the Friends of Ireland enjoy as much Liberty and Royal Favour, as their Loyalty deserves.

X. May the English Ministry, be as much in the Irish Interest, as the Irish are in his Majesty's.

XI. May his Majesty ever have as faithful Subjects in England and Scotland, as in Ireland.

XII. May the Commons of Ireland be never Subject to the Machinations of an En--sh M--n--y.

XIII. May we never have a G--r who can publickly declare one thing, and privately grasp at another.

XIV. May we never have a G---r, who would betry those, he pretended to protect.

XV. May the Nation never be purchased, nor bribed by her own Money.

XVI. ASSENT to the K--, and CONSENT to the Commons.

XVII. The united and inseparable Interest of Great-Britian and Ireland.

XIX. May all the Irish Pace-Men retain the Virtue and Resolution of Sir Richard Cox, Gustavus Lambard Cosby Nesbit, and Fran. McCartney, Esqrs.

XX. May the House of Commons never want a Boyle nor a Gore to assert the Liberties of Ireland.

XXI. May the Free-holders of the Country of Meath never vote for a Judas taht would fell his Country, but, Nil de mortuis, nisi bonum.

XXII. May the House of Commons never want such brave Patricians, as the NINE GORES.

XXIII. May the Provice of Munster ever preserve the Honour they have got this Session.

XXIV. May the Judas's in other Provinces never be elected upon any future occusion.

XXV. May that Poet be pillor'd for Plagiary, who writes an Elegy on a deceased Courtier.

XXVI. May those whose Principles are better fitted for a Pair of Beads, than a Church-Bible, never be re-elected to vote against their Country. Y. LAD. HNERF.

XXVII. May a certain pensioned A--n, be compelled by his Canscience to refund his Bribe, and sooner depend upon his Country for Support, than live by the Spoil of the Nation.

XXVIII. Disgrace to all Incediearies betweeen his Majesty, and his Irish Subjects.

XXIX. May his Majesty never forget the Battle of Dettingen, when the Irish deprived the French of a swinging Ransom.

XXX. May the Bravery of Irish Admirals; Valour of Irish Commanders; Intrepidity of Irsih Soldiers, and Loyalty of Irish Subjects be always in higher Esteem with his Majesty, than the Dissimulation of Courtiers, who too often, like the slanting Huney-suckle, play against the Beams that raised them.

XXXI. May his Majesty never forget the Earl of Kildare's Loyalty in the late Rebellion.

XXXII. May the Irish never forget the Services done by the Speaker's Family, when the Name of a Protestant was a Crime in Ireland.

XXXIII. May the Speaker's Interest be ever supported in the House of Commons of Ireland.

XXXIV. May all Sec--y Bashaws and lordly High-Priests, be kept to their Tackle, the Sword and the Bible.

XXXV. May every Landlord who compels his Tenants to vote for an Enemy to his Country never be paid his Rent. D. C--p--e, D. of A--h.

XXXVI. May every City, Country, and Borough in Ireland, confront the Enemies to the Nation with their Guilt, and refuse them their Suffrages upon all future Elections.

XXXVII. May every reduc'd Member sooner Dine on a Blade Bone of Mutton, and serve his Country, than fare sumptuously and betray it.

XXXIX. May every G--r be respected according to his Merit.

XL. Maythe Clergy from the High Priest, to the Curate of St. M. never have any Interst in the Ballance of national power.

XLI. May the Importation of Ganymedes be discontinued in Ireland.

XLII. May Caipha build a Lodge in St. Patrick's Purgatory, and there in a solitary Retirement expiate his sinister Designs against a loyal Country, that reluctatly supports him.

XLIII. May he have no more Love, Friendship, Interest, or Respect, than he has Thoughts of meriting Heaven by promoting the Welfare of Ireland.

XLIV. May his own Party find his Principles to be what they really are, viz. Concenter'd in SELF, and an ungovernable ambitious Grasp at Power.

XLV. May no Man whose Father was pillor'd for Defection to his Majesty, and whose Mother married the Person that pillor'd her Husband, ever have a Seat in the House of Common of Ireland.

XLVI. May all mitred Enemies of Ireland die of a conscious Gangrene, for betraying their Country.

XLVII. May Every Member who took a Bribe to vote against his Country, lay the Price of his Venality at the Feet of Justice, ---- a great Distance from the C---- Y----d.

XLVIII. May the Enemies to Ireland curse their priestly Seducer, and proclaim his Bribery in the publick Streets.

XLIX. May the H---- P----'s Ganymede be catched in the Bestiality.

L. May he who has no Fortune in our Country nver have a Vote in it again.

LI. May military Men, who fought for our Liberties abroad, and betrayed them at home, never get a Seat in the House again.

LII. May all those who would screen a Villain from Justice, share in his Infamy and Disgrace.

LIII. May all Gavourites imported, from the elder Sifter, to vote against the Younger, be despised by Majesty, and the Sons of Liberty.

LIV. A smart Gale, and safe Passage, to the L--- L---.