THE
Leacherous ANABAPTIS
OR,
The Dipper Dipt.
A New Protestant Ballad,
To the Tune of Packingtons Pound.
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O Ye Roundheads and Whiggs, for ever be silent,
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Cease to scandalize Tory, and honest Tantivy;
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Ile tell you strange News that happened nigh Lent,
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Which if you disprove, I swear Ile forgive ye:
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Of Protestant Francis,
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That tells us Romances,
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Of horrible Plots more strange then Miles Prances;
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For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,
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To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.
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2.
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This Protestant News-monger, and Munster Imp,
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Endeavourd to Switchel her upon the Sabbath,
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And made his Bibles his leacherous Pimp;
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But some think that they together near lay both:
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For the Maid was as Chast
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As Lucretia, at least,
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But had he been Tarquin, there had been the Jest;
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For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,
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To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.
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3.
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Then he offerd one Bible if he might but Grope her,
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But the resolute Quean still stoutly denyd him;
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Quoth she, Master Frank you a Leacherous Fop are,
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And after that manner severely did chide him:
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Youre the Brethrens Teacher,
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An Anabaptist Preacher:
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[R]eplyd he then to her, You a Papist and Bitch are;
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For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,
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To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.
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4.
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He writes twice a week News Domestick & Forrain,
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As Seditious as Care, Ben. Harris, or Curtis;
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Great Lyes in abundance from France & from Lorrain
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But never says word of his Maid: what a Cur tis?
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He tells us strange Stories,
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Of Papists and Tories;
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But this Ile say for him, that his Maid no Whore is:
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For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,
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To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.
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5.
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Then Frank be not angry cause she would not comply,
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For Saints in this world have misfortunes & crosses:
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Suppose that she had the best Thing you could try,
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You could have but tickled it with your Probosses;
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After that you woud curse,
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You were not starvd at Nurse,
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Because you would then be twelve Bibles the worse:
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For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,
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To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.
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6.
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From this Godly deed, St. Francis, youre calld,
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Because you endeavourd to save your Maids Soul,
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Though Satan your Pious intentions forstalld,
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And the Scriptures could not prevail on the Fool:
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Though she woud not grant,
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Yet deny it we cant,
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But that you deservd to be called a Saint;
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For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,
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To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.
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