EBBA 32352

Huntington Library - Bindley (formerly Luttrell)

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Advice to the City or the Wiggs Loyalty explaind

Remember ye wiggs what was formerly done, remember your mischeifs in forty and one, when

freind oppossd freind, & father the son, then then the old cause, went rarely on the cap sat aloft. and low was the

crown, the Rable got up, and the nobles went down, Lay elders in tubbs. ruld Bishops in robes. who

mournd the sad fate and dreadfull disaster, of their royall master. by rebells betraid. Then-

London be wise & baffle their power and let them play the old game no more, hang hang up the Sheriffs. those baboons in

power, those popular theives. those rats of the Tower, whose canting tale the rable beleives in a hurry, and never sorry

merrily they still go on, fye for shame weer to tame, since they clame the combatt, Tan ta ra ra ra tan, ta ra ra ra,

Dub, a dub, a let the Drum beat the strong militia guard the throne.

chorus follows every verse.

When faction posseses the popular voice

The cause is supplyd still with nonsence & noise

And Tony their speaker the rable leads on

He knows if wee prosper that he must run

Carolina must be his next station of ease

And London be rid of her worst desease

From plotts and from spies

From treason and lyes

We shall ever be free

And the law shall be able

To punish a Rebell

as cuning as he: then London etc.

Rebellion nere wanted a loyall pretence

These Villains swear alls for the good of their Prince

Oppose our elections to show what they dare

And loosing their Charter arrest the Mayor

Fool Ji[?]ks was the first oth cuckouldly crew

With Ells and Jeakll and Hubb[?]rd the Jew

Famd sparks of the town

For wealth and renown

Give the Divill his due

And such as we feare

Had their Soveraigne been there

had arrested him too: then London etc.

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