Loyal Orange Lodge No'5 Brampton

THE ORANGE TOAST -1715

HERE'S TO THE PIOUS, GLORIOUS AND IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE GREAT AND GOOD KING WILLIAM III PRINCE OF ORANGE WHO SAVED US FROM ROGUES AND ROGUERY, SLAVES AND SLAVERY, KNAVES AND KNAVERY, POPES AND POPERY, BRASS MONEY AND WOODEN SHOES.

AND WHOEVER DENIES THIS TOAST MAY HE BE SLAMMED, CRAMMED AND JAMMED INTO THE MUZZLE OF THE GREAT GUN OF ATHLONE, AND THE GUN FIRED INTO THE POPE'S BELLY, AND THE POPE INTO THE DEVIL'S BELLY, AND THE DEVIL INTO HELL, AND THE DOOR LOCKED, AND THE KEY IN AN ORANGEMAN'S POCKET, AND MAY WE NEVER LACK A BRISK PROTESTANT BOY TO KICK THE ARSE OF A PAPIST, AND HERE'S A FART FOR THE BISHOP OF CORK.

1, The reference to brass money refers to the money made by James II using brass cannon.

2. The reference to wooden shoes refers to the French who persecuted the Huguenots.

3. The Protestant Bishop of Cork was preaching against the practice of toasting the dead, saying it was like the popish one of saying mass for the dead.

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