The Counter-Turn.

The Counter-Turn.

OBserve that Pile of skulls, but chiefly There That mossye skull Survey: Do's the sage Front display Plots, Projects, and nocturall Care? Methinks it shou'd, for once it did belong T'a Machiavilian that cou'd Shock a State, And trusted He cou'd Bastle Fate. Who wou'd have sought that Head-piece in this Throng? The plotting Wight promis'd that skull a Crown, In Lowest Earth He founded the Design, With Heav'n the Roof did join; 'Till with a suddain shock of Fate O're-thrown, The Fabrick fell on the Contrivers Head, And crusht th'aspiring Politician Dead.