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The Whig Rampant:
OR, EXALTATION.
Being a Pleasant New Song of 82. To a New Tune of, Hey Boys up go We.

NOw now the Tories all shall stoop,
Religion and the Laws,
And Whigs of Common-wealth get up,
to Top the Good old Cause:
Tantivy-Boys shall all go down,
and Haughty Monarchy;
The Leathern-Cap shall brave the Crown
Then Hey Boys up go We.

When once that Anti-ceristian Crew
are Chrushd and overthrown,
Wel teach the Nobles how to bow,
and keep the Gentry down;
Good Manners has a bad repute,
and tends to P[r]ide we see,
Wel therefore cry all Breeding down,
And Hey Boys up go We.

The Name of Lords shall be abhord,
for evry Mans a Brother,
What Reason then in Church or State,
one Man should Rule another?
Thus having Pilld and Plunderd all,
and Leveld each Degree,
Wel make their plump young daughters fall
And Hey Boys up go We.

What though the King and Parliament,
cannot accord together,
We have good cause to be content,
this is our Sun-shine Weather:
For if Good Reason should take place,
and they should both agree,
z---- whod be in a Round-Heads case,
For hey then up go We.

WEl down with all the Versities
where Learning is profest:
For they still practice and maintain
the Language of the Beast:
Wel exercise in ery place,
and Preach beneath a Tree:
Wel make a Pulpit of a Cask,
For hey then upgo we.

The Whigs shall rule Committee-Chair,
who will such Laws invent,
As shall Exclude the Lawful Heir
by Act of Parliament:
Wel cut his Royal Highness down,
en shorter by the Knee:
That he shall never reach the Throne,
Then Hey Boys up go We.

Wel smite the Idol in Guild-Hal,
and then (as we were wont)
Wel cry it was a Popish-Plot,
and Swear those Rogues have dont:
His Royal Highness to un-throne,
our Interest will be:
For if he ere enjoy his own,
Then Hey Boys up go we.

Rebellion was a Thriveing Trade
on this our English Coast:
When Pauls-Church was a Stable m[?]
then Troopers Ruld the Roast:
Then Loyalty was calld a Crime,
in Ann o Forty-Three:
A Godly Reformationtime,
For Hey then up went we.

When three great Nations sweat in b[?]
and many thousand slain:
The bosome of the Earth bestrewd,
then Godliness was Gain:
But now the Days are alterd since,
as College plain did see:
If we Rebel against our Prince,
to Tybh go we urn y

Wel break the Windows which the W[?]
of Babylon has Painted,
And when their B----s are pulld down,
Our Deacons shall be Sainted:
Thus having quite Enslavd the town,
pretending to set Free,
At last the Gallows claims its own.
Then Hey Boys up go We.


FINIS.
Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in West Smithfield.

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