towards Westminster; and the statue of Queen Elizabeth in regard to the day, having on a crown of gilded laurel, and in her hand a golden shield, with this motto inscribed:  The Protestant Religion, and Magna Charta, and flambeaux placed before it.  The Pope being brought up near thereunto, the following song, alluding to the posture of those statues, was sung in parts, between one representing the English Cardinal (Howard)[b] and others acting the people: 

CARDINAL NORFOLK.

From York to London town we come,
To talk of Popish ire,
To reconcile you all to Rome,
And prevent Smithfield fire.

PLEBEIANS.

Cease, cease, thou Norfolk Cardinal,
See yonder stands Queen Bess;
Who sav’d our souls from Popish thrall: 
O Queen Bess, Queen Bess, Queen Bess!

Your Popish plot, and Smithfield threat,
We do not fear at all;
For lo! beneath Queen Bess’s feet,
You fall, you fall, you fall.

     “’Tis true, our King’s on t’other side,
       A looking tow’rds Whitehall: 
     But could we bring him round about;
       He’d counterplot you all.

     “Then down with James, and set up Charles,
       On good Queen Bess’s side;
     That all true Commons, Lords, and Earls,
       May wish him a fruitfull bride.”

     Now God preserve great Charles our King,
       And eke all honest men;
     And traitors all to justice bring: 
       Amen, Amen, Amen.

“Then having entertained the thronging spectators for some time, with the ingenious fireworks, a vast bonfire being prepared, just over against the inner temple gate, his holiness, after some compliments and reluctancies, was decently toppled from all his grandeur, into the impartial flames; the crafty devil leaving his infallibilityship in the lurch, and laughing as heartily at his deserved ignominious end, as subtle jesuits do at the ruin of bigotted Lay Catholics, whom themselves have drawn in; or, as credulous Coleman’s abettors did, when, with pretences of a reprieve at last gasp, they had made him vomit up his soul with a lye, and sealed his dangerous chops with a halter.  This justice was attended with a prodigious shout, that might be heard far beyond Somerset-house; and ’twas believed the echo, by continued reverberations, before it ceased, reached Scotland, (the Duke was then there;) France, and even Rome, itself, damping them all with a dreadfull astonishment.”

   From a very rare broadside, in the collection made by Narcissus
   Luttrell.

   Footnotes: 
   a.  Sir George Wakeman was physician to the queen, and a catholic. 
      He was tried for the memorable Popish plot and acquitted, the
      credit of the witnesses being now blasted, by the dying
      declarations of those who suffered.

b.  Philip, the 3d son of Henry Earl of Arundel, and brother to the
Duke of Norfolk, created a Cardinal in 1675.  He was a second
cousin of Lady Elizabeth Howard, afterwards the wife of our
poet.