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A Congratulatory POEM on the
WHIGGs Entertainment.

HOllow Boys, Hollow, Hollow once again!
Tother half Crown shall then reward your pain.
Alas, Poor Whigg, where wilt thou sneaking go,
Thy Wine is spilt, thy Pyes, and Cakes are Dough?
Down go the Coppers, Tables, Shelves and all,
And so Farewel to Haberdashers Hall!
Damnd Protestants! that when the Court abhort,
Dare eat, and drink without a Patent fort.
And what true Catholicks, no doubt, will say,
Was ten times worse, upon a Fasting day!
No Northern Healths would with Huzzas be crownd,
No Loyal Dammees there would rend the Ground.
These hungry Covenanting Currs, contrive
To gobble up the Kings Prerogative.
In Pasties, Plots, in Custard, Treason lies,
And hot Rebellion lurks in Pudding-Pyes.
Fear always through Perspective looks, and thus
A Sausage must be dubbd a Blunderbuss.
Poor Wood-cocks, Loyal Subjects counted be;
Condemnd by sly Phanaticks, Treachery.
Spitts Rapiers are to stab obedient Geese,
A Stately Pasty is a Mortar-piece.
Glasses are Hand-Granadoes, which may fall
At Charing-Cross, or Fire the Milky Hall.
Cooks Shops hatch close Designs upon the State
Gainst Calves, and Capons to ASSOCIATE;
Which if the Traitors freely wont confess,
Our Jurys them shall all-to-be-Address.
Those that were never marked by the Beast,
Shall neither Buy, nor Sell, nor Fast, nor Feast.
Whilst this Indulgence we to Friends afford,
Change rusty Cassocks for a glittring Sword.
But if they have nor Coat nor Gown to sell,
Godfreys Cravat will do the Job as well.


London, Printed for E. Smith, 1682.

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