Rebellion given over House-keeping:
OR,
A General Sale of Rebellious Houshould stuff.
Being a Pleasant New Song.
To the Tune of, Old Simon the King .
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R Ebellion hath broken up House,
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and hath left me Old Lumber to sell:
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Come hither and take your choice,
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I'le promise to use you well.
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Will you buy the Old Speaker's Chair,
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which was warm, and easie to sit in,
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And oftentimes hath been made clean,
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when as it was fouler then fiting:
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Says Old Simon the King,
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says O[l]d Simon the King,
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With his thread-bare Cloaths, and his Mamsey Nose,
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sing hey ding, ding, a ding ding.
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Will you buy any bacon flitches?
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they're the fattest that ever were spent;
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They're the sides of the old Committees,
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fed up with th' long parliament.
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Here's a pair of bellows and tongs,
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and for a small matter i'le sell'em;
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They're made of the Presbiters Lungs,
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to blow up the Coals of Rebellion,
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Says old Simon the King, etc .
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I had thought to have given them once
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to some Black-Smith for his Forge;
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But now I have consider'd on't,
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I for them have found other use:
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For i'le give them to some Choir,
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to make the Organ to roar,
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And the little Pipes squeek higher
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then ever they did before,
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Says old Simon the King,
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says Old Simon the King,
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With his Thread-bare Cloaths, and his mamsey Nose
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sing hey ding, ding, a ding ding.
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Here,s a couple of Stools for sale,
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the one square and t'other is round;
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Betwixt them both the Tail
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of the Rump fell unto the Ground.
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Will you buy the States Council Table,
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which was made of the good wain-Scot;
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The frame was a tottering Bable
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to uphold th'independent plot;
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Says old Simon the King, etc .
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Here's the Beeson of Reformation,
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which should have made clean the Floor;
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But it swept the wealth out of th 'Nation
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and left us Dirt good store.
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Will you buy the States Spining wheel,
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which spun for the Ropers Trade?
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But better it had stood still,
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for now in has spun a Fair Thred?
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Says old Simon the king, etc.
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Here's a very good Clyster Pipe,
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which was made of a Butchers stump?
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And oft-times it hath been us'd
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to cure the Colds of the Rump.
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Here's a lump of Ignorance,
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which once was a Justice of peace,
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Who Nel and the Devil did serve;
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but now it is come to This,
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Says old Simon the King, etc .
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Here's a Role of States Tobacco,
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if any Good Fellow will take it:
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It's nither Virginia nor Spanish,
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but i'le tell you how they do make it;
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Tis Covenant mixt with Engagement,
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with an Abjuration Oath;
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And many of them did take it
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complain it was foul in the Mouth,
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Says Old Simon the King, etc .
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Yet the Ashes may happily serve
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to sure the Scab of the Nation,
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When they have an itch to serve,
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a Rebellion by Innovation,
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A Lanthorn here is to be bought,
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the like was scarce e're begotten:
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For many a Plot't has found out,
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before they ever were thought on,
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Says old Simon the King, etc .
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Will you buy the Rumps great Saddle,
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which once did carry the Nation;
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And here's the Bitt and the Bridle,
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and Curb of Dissimulation?
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Here's the Breeches of the Rump,
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With a fair dissembling Cloak,
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And a Presbiterian Jump,
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with an Independent Smock,
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Says old Simon the King, etc .
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Will you buy a Conscience ne'r turn'd,
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which served the High Court of Justice?
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And stretch'd until England it mourn'd,
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but Hell will buy that if the worst is:
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Here's Joan Crumwels Kitching-stuff-Tub,
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wherein is the Fat of the Rumpers,
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With which she Old Noll's Horns did rub,
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when he was got drunk with full Bumpers :
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Says Old Simon the King, etc .
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Here's the Purse of the Publique Faith ,
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here's the Model of Sequestration,
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Here are the old wives who on good troth,
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lent Thimbles to ruine the Nation:
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Here is Dick Crumwel's Protectorship,
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and here is Lambert's Commission,
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And here is Hugh Peters his Scrip,
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cram'd with the Tumultuous Petitions.
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Says Old Simon the King, etc .
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Here's Olivers Brewing Vessels,
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and here's his Dray and his Slings:
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Here's Hewsons Aul and his Bristles,
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with divers other odd things.
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And what doth the price belong
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to all these matters before ye?
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I'le sell them all for an old song,
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and so I do end my story
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Says old Simon the King,
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Says old Simon the King,
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With his thread-bare cloaths, & a Mamsey Nose
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Sing hey ding, ding, a ding ding.
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FINIS.
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