EBBA 31119
British Library - Roxburghe
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J------n B-------ss Ballad continued.
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IX.
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DO ye appear in any Page,
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That W------son has printed?
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This active Author of the Age,
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Neer by your Rules was stinted.
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X.
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No Priest more powerfully can preach,
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Without all Contradiction.
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To prove this, please peruse the Speech
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Of ill-h----d M---gy D------son.
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XI.
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Ere she was strung, the wicked Wife
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Was Sainted by the Flamen;
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But now since shes returnd to Life,
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Some say shes the old samen.
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XII.
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He led her by the Hand a Show,
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By which she made some Gilders,
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Which he might borrow; wherefore no?
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As he does from his E------rs.
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XIII.
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But above all who speak or write,
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C------rgie claims my Praises,
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Who out of Colours red and white;
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The deepest Doctrine raises.
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XIV.
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O lovely Laird! eke pious Priest;
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A Text thou tightly stretches.
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Thy Sermons are no more a Jest,
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Than thy Assembly-Speeches.
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XV.
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When thou into hid Mystry keeks,
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How dearly does thou charm one:
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Fair fa the Wife that cuffd his Cheeks;
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Who left thy good lang Sermon.
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XVI.
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Go on Great Men! and never irk,
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When nows the solemn Season,
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While leagud in Votes, to free the Kirk
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From Learning, Sense and Reason.
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