But let some Judas near his person stay,
To swallow the last sop, and then betray. 
Make London independent of the crown;
A realm apart; the kingdom of the town. 
Let ignoramus juries find no traitors[3],
And ignoramus poets scribble satires. 
And, that your meaning none may fail to scan,
Do what in coffee-houses you began,—­
Pull down the master, and set up the man.

Footnotes: 
1.  The association proposed in parliament was, by the royalists, said
   to be, a revival of the Solemn League and Covenant.  But the draught
   of an association, found in Lord Shaftesbury’s cabinet, and
   produced on his trial, in which that memorable engagement seems to
   be pretty closely copied, was probably what our poet alludes to.

2.  The protestant flail was a kind of bludgeon, so jointed as to fold
   together, and lie concealed in the pocket.  They are supposed to
   have been invented to arm the insurgents about this period.  In the
   trial of Braddon and Spoke for a misdemeanor, the recorder offered
   to prove, that Braddon had bragged, that “he was the only inventor
   of the protestant flails; an instrument you have heard of,
   gentlemen, and for what use designed.”  This circumstance was not
   omitted by Jefferies, in his characteristic address to the
   prisoner.  “But oh what a happiness it was for this sort of people,
   that they had got Mr Braddon, an honest man and a man of courage,
   says Mr Speke, a man a propos! and pray, says he to his friend,
   give him the best advice you can, for he is a man very fit for the
   purpose; and pray secure him under a sham name, for I’ll undertake
   there are such designs upon pious Mr Braddon, such connivances to
   do him mischief, that, if he had not had his protestant flail
   about him, somebody or other would have knocked him on the head;
   and he is such a wonderful man, that all the king’s courts must
   needs conspire to do Mr Braddon a mischief.  A very pretty sort of
   man, upon my word, and he must be used accordingly.” State
   Trials, Vol.  III. p. 897.  In one of the scarce medals struck by
   James II.  Justice is represented weighing mural crowns, which
   preponderate against a naked sword, a serpent, and a protestant
   flail:  on each side of the figure are a head and trunk,
   representing those of Argyle and Monmouth.  An accurate description
   of this weapon occurs in the following passage from Roger North: 
   “There was much recommendation of silk armour, and the prudence of
   being provided with it against the time protestants were to be
   massacred.  And accordingly there were abundance of these silken
   backs, breasts, and pots (i.e. head-pieces), made and sold, that
   were pretended to be pistol proof; in which any man dressed up was
   as safe as in a house, for it was