EBBA 33614
National Library of Scotland - Crawford
Ballad XSLT Template
1688
To the Tune of Lilli Bolero. etc.
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I
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The Pillars of Popery now are blown down
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One Thousand Six hundred Eighty & Eight.
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Which has frighted our Monarch away from his Crown
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One Thousand Six hundred Eighty and Eight.
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For myn Heer did appear & they Scamperd for fear
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One Thousand Six hundred Eighty and Eight.
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For myn Heer did appear and they Scamperd for fear
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One Thousand Six hundred Eighty and Eight.
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II
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That Mirror of Mothers and wonder of Wives
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With her Joy of three Titles are fled for their lives
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III
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George Jeffrys who boasted his face was of Brass
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Is now Metamorphosd into a Welsh Ass
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IV
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That Curse of 3 Kingdomes dam'd Petresis is fled
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Who with Romes Ignis Fatuus our Monarch Misled
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V
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Great Da-- whose Presence made Pregnant thee Q--
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Now Shee has withdrawn is no more to be seen
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VI
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Old Mordants good Service shall doubly be paid
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For his fetching the Q-- now his Lordship is stayd
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VII
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That Sink of Sedition the wise Observator
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Shall Receive the just Merit that's due to a Traytor
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VIII
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Our Renegade Rhimer the Cudgelld and kickd
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For his Hinde & his Panther shall once more be lickd
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IX
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Now old Obadiah quitts Ave Maria
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To Sings Lamentations worse then Jeremiah
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X
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That Wittall and worse who Comanded the Tower
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With that Shrimp of a Souldier Sweet Cecill did Scoure
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XI
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All our Preists are gon back with our Jesuits and Monks
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And our Nunns to their former Profession of Punks
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XII
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Twoud tire your Patience to number the Rest
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You may guess by the Paw at the Bulk of the Beast
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