Loyalty Turned Up Trump, or the Danger Over

From the Loyal Garland, reprinted from a Black-Letter copy, printed 1686.  Reprinted for the Percy society, 1850.

In vain ill men attempt us,
   Their day is out of date;
The fates do now exempt us
   From what we felt of late.
The nation is grown wiser
   Than to believe their shame;
He that was the deviser
   Themselves begin to blame.

They thought the trumps would ever
   Turn on rebellion’s side,
But kinder power deliver
   Us from their foolish pride;
For see, they are deceived,
   And can no more prevail;
Those who the Rump believed,
   Ashamed are of the tale.