EBBA 33845 - UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive

EBBA 33845

National Library of Scotland - Crawford

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THE
FIRST PSALM.

I.

THE Man is blest that hath not lent

To French Pistoles his Ear:

Nor rais'd himself as Traytors do,

Nor sat in Tricksters Chair.

II.

But in the Laws of Old England

Doth set his whole Delight:

And for those Laws doth exercise

Himself both Day and Night.

III.

He shall be like the Tree that grows

Fast by the River side:

Which bears the fiercest Storm that blows

And scorns the roughest Tides.

IV.

Whose Leaf shall never fade nor fall,

But flourish still and stand:

E'er so the Cause shall prosper well,

This Patriot takes in Hand.

V.

So shall not the Pretender's Crew;

They shall be nothing so:

But as the Dust which from the Earth

The Wind drives to and fro.

VI.

Therefore shall not the Jacobites

In Judgment stand upright:

Nor Papishes with Protestants

Come into Place and Sight.

VII.

For why the Friends of Hanover

At Westminster are known:

And eke all Schemes at Bar-le-duc

Shall quite be overthrown.