Close ×

Search EBBA

Advanced Search

EBBA 22418

Magdalene College - Pepys
Ballad XSLT Template
Scandalous FULLER Rewarded,
OR;
The Impostures Doom.
With FULLER's Lamentation and Confession, etc.
To the Tune of, Down with 'em, etc.

LET Knaves and Fools lament
At Fullers Punishment,
While honest Men of Sence
Laugh and sing:
But let all the whining Saints,
Who daily make Complaints,
Now rejoyce he has miss'd
the Hempen string, string, string.

Let Rogues in Saints disguise
Now comment upon his Lies,
While the mortifying Lash
Makes him Skip;
And exactly to the Notes
Of his Borther Titus Oates,
When he Dances to
The Tune of the Whip, whip, whip.

But before he takes his Dance
he is forced to Advance,
To an Ancient Wooden Castle
of very high Renown;
Where Multitudes attend him,
and many do befriend him
And wish he may never more
come down, down, down.

Sure all the hopeful Crew,
that believ'd his Lies were true,
And assisted him
so freely with their Coin;
Will now to save his Bum
raise him such a mighty Sum
As will quickly
Pay off all his fine, fine, fine.

Ye Brethren of the Tribe,
If e're you gave a bribe,
Let your Money fly about
at this time;
Or else I much Admire,
if such a common Lyar,
He is not rewarded
for his Crime, crime, crime.

Sure Oates and he were twins,
they'r so like in all their Sins;

For both Swearing and Lying
is their Rule,
Tho' one is Old and Grave
he is still as great a Knave
But Fuller he is much
the greater Fool, Fool, Fool.

Where's now his famous Plot
made about the Lord knows what,
And true Mother of a Child
of mighty high Renown!
His Witnesses from far,
And strange wonders at the Bar!
Alass they are quite tumbl'd
down, down, down.

Fuller's Lamentation and
Confession.

I weep at Disappointments,
and mourn for want of Oyntments;
The plaguy cursed stripes
are so smart;
But good Fortune was so choice
as makes me to rejoyce,
Because I escaped
the Cart, Cart, Cart.

Farewel to all that fed me,
and lov'd me as they read me,
Now fortune upon
me doth frown;
You silly Whiggish Sots
who were Nursers of my Plots,
You must all of you tumble,
tumble, down, down.

Let Plotters of all sizes
that Cheats and Lies devises,
Take warning by the
Punishment which now I undergo,
While I do weep and Languish
at this my dismal Anguish,
For forging that which
I did never know, know, know.


London, Printed for Whitherington and Jones, two Statues in Rome.

View Raw XML