THE
Loyal Subjects Happy Choice:
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Englands Happiness in a Protestant King and a Free Parliament.
To the Tune of, Touch of the Times. Licensed according to Order.
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LEt true-hearted English-men freely Rejoyce,
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To think they have made such a Fortunate Choice
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Of Parliament-men, who Assemble this Day,
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The Rights of the Church and the Crown to display:
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To Rescue our Laws and our Liberties too,
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From such as the Nation do seek to undo:
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Let all Loyal Subjects with this be content,
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A Protestant King and a Free Parliament.
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Let Murmurers cease any more to complain,
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And high-minded Papists lay by their Disdain;
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For all their sly Projects we care not a pin,
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Since Englands true Honour this Day does begin;
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And the Twenty'th of March we for ever will keep,
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As the Day that Great-Brittain awoke from her sleep:
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Then let all true Subjects with this be content,
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A Protestant King and a Free Parliament.
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The true Church of England may lift up her Head,
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Since in her own Bosom this Senate was bred;
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Whose worthy brave Members are taught to maintain
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The Rights of their Mother, 'gainst Schismaticks vain:
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No Commonwealth-broachers shall longer prevail,
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Away with the Rump and her Factious Tail:
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And let all true Subjects with this be content,
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A Protestant King and a Free Parliament.
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Nor need the Dissenters to live at less ease,
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Since they may their Liberty have as they please;
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Provided they keep but the Peace of the Realm,
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And render due Homage to those at the Helm:
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All People from highest to lowest Degree,
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Henceforward may happily live and be Free:
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Then let all true Subjects with this be content,
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A Protestant King and a Free Parliament.
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No Bishops, no King, is a Proverb most true,
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And he that wou'd part 'em is worse than a Jew;
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And they are no better than Spiritual Thieves,
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Who threaten to pull off the Bishops Lawn Sleeves
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But both Lords and Commons their Cause to assert,
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Against all Phanaticks who have been so pert:
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Then let all true Subjects with this be content,
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A Protestant King and a Free Parliament.
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This Parliament also will stand by the King,
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In Wars and in Peace, and in every thing;
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With their Lives and Estates they will freely oppose
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The French and the Irish, and all other Foes:
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When the Rebels are Conquer'd, then over to France,
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Our Army will lead Monsieur Lewis a Dance,
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Which will give all English-men hearty content,
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To have such a King and a Free Parliament.
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The French being Conquer'd, and all things in Peace,
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Our Nation will thrive, and our Trading encrease;
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Then Coin will be plenty, both Silver and Gold,
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The want of which thing makes a Young Man look Old
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Such Plenty of Coin will in England be seen,
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As these many hundreds of years has not been:
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These blessings will follow by th' mutual consent
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Of such a good King and a Free Parliament.
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Then rouse up Great-Brittain and slumber no more;
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For thee many Fortunes are laid up in store;
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'Tis Written upon the Old Pillars of Fate,
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This Year shall Eclipse all thy Enimies State:
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Peace, Plenty and Riches, our Nation shall Crown,
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Whilst the Devil and's Imps at our Happiness frown
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All this will prove true by the mutual consent
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Of William our King and a Free Parliament.
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Printed for W. Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck-Lane,
J. Millet, at the Angel in Little-Brittain, and A. Milbourn,
at the Stationers-Arms in the Little Old-Baily: Where
Country Chapmen and others, may be Furnished with all
sorts of New and Old Small Books and Ballads, at Rea-
sonable Rates.
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