EBBA 32136
Huntington Library - Bridgewater
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ASONGof the Light of the three Nations turnd into
DARKNES
Or Otes made Free-man of Whitingtons Colledge, for Perjury,
Scandalum Magnatum, and something like Treason.
To an excellent old Tune called Cavalilly-man.
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COme all our Caballers & Parliament Votes
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That stickld for hanging & cuting of throats,
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Lament the misfortune of perjured Otes.
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Who first must be Pillord and after be Hangd.
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What Devil suspected this, 5 years agon,
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When I was in hopes to hang up half the Town,
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I Swore against Miter and Cursed the Crown.
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But now must be Pillord and after be Hangd.
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I cursed the Bishops and hangd up the Priests,
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I swore myself Doctor yet never could Preach,
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But a Cant full of Blasphemy all I could reach.
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I now must be Pillord, and after be Hangd.
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Now Otes is i th Cubboard & Manger with Colt,
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The Caldron may boyl me for fear I should molt,
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here Ive ner a Bum for a Wheel-Barrow jolt.
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Yet now must be Pillord and after be Hangd.
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My forty Commissions and Spanish black Bills,
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Invisible Armys lodgd upon Hills,
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Such old perjurd Nonsence my Narrative fills.
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That I now must be Pillord and after be Hangd.
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My twelve pounds a Week I want to support
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For stinking i th City and fouling the Court,
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Like Devil in Dungeon Im now hamperd fort.
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Yet first must be Pillord and after be Hangd
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They hang us in order, the Devil knows how,
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Zounds all that ere put one paw to the Plow,
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I ner feard the Devil would fail me till now.
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That I first must be Pillord & after be hangd
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For Calling the Duke a Papist and Traytor,
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I often have calld the King little better,
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Im fast by the heels like a Beast in a Fetter.
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I first must be Pillord and after be Hangd.
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I swore that the Queen would Poyson the King,
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That Wakeman had monys the Poyson to bring,
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When I knew in my heart there was no such thing.
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I now must be Pillord and after be Hangd.
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Im Resolvd to be hangd dead drunk like Hugh Peter
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If I can but have my Skin stuft with good Liquor,
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Then I shall limp to old Tapskie much quicker.
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But I first must be Pillord and after be hangd
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London Printed for J. Dean, Bookseller in Cranborn-street near Newport House in Leicester-Fields 1684.
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