EBBA 20826
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Loyal PROTESTANT / Or, A defiance to Traytors, being a most pleasant and delightful new Play Song. / Romes fury now by Heaven is quite supprest, / And yet the Scarlet Beast can take no rest, / We live seeure beneath the Monarchs wings, / Who justly may be stil'd the best of Kings. | |
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| Date Published | 1680 |
| Author | Thomas D'Urfey |
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| Imprint | LONDON / Printed for J. Conyers at the Black / Raven in Duck Lane. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 2.215 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 2.215 |
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| Title | The Loyal PROTESTANT / Or, A defiance to Traytors, being a most pleasant and delightful new Play Song. / Romes fury now by Heaven is quite supprest, / And yet the Scarlet Beast can take no rest, / We live seeure beneath the Monarchs wings, / Who justly may be stil'd the best of Kings. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune of, Let Traytors plot on. |
| First Lines | LEt Traytors Plot on till at last they'r undone, / By hurting their braines to destroy us; |
| Refrain | Let Caesar live long, let Caesar live long, / For ever be happy, and ever be young, / And he that dares hope to change King for a Pope / Let him dye, let him die, whilest Caesar lives long. [with minor variation}] |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?210 x 247 |
| Condition | cropped top edge, uneven inking |
| Ornament | cast fleurons |