THE
CLOAK'S
KNAVERY.
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Come buy my new Ballad,
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I have't in my Wallet,
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But 'twill not I fear please everu Palat:
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Then mark what ensu'th,
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I swear by my youth,
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That every line in my Ballad is truth:
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A Ballad of wit, a brave Ballad of worth:
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'Tis newly printed, and newly come forth.
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'Twas made of a Cloak that fell out with a Gown,
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That crampt all the Kingdom and crippl'd the Crown.
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COME buy my New Ballad,
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I have't in my Wallet,
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Tho twill not, I fear, please every Palate:
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Then mark what ensu'th,
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For I swear by my Youth,
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That every Line in my Ballad is Truth:
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A Ballad of Wit, a brave Ballad of Worth,
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'Tis newly Printed and newly come Forth.
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'Twas made of a Cloak that fell out with the Gown,
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That cramp'd all the Kingdom and crippl'd the Crown.
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Ill tell you in Brief
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A Story of Grief
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That happen'd when Cloak was Commander in Chief:
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It tore Common-Pray'rs,
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Imprison'd Lord Mayors,
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In one Day it voted down Prelates and Play'rs,
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It made People perjur'd in Point of Obedience,
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And the Cov'nant did cut off the Oath of Allegiance.
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Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down,
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That cramp'd, etc.
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It was a Black Cloak,
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In good Time be it spoke
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It kill'd many Thousands, but never struck Stroke;
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With Hatchet and Rope,
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The forlorn Hope,
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It join'd with the Devil to pull down the Pope;
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It set all the Sects in the City to Work,
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And rather than fail 'twould have brought in the Turk.
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Then let us Endeavour, etc.
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It Seiz'd on the Tow'r Guns,
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Those fierce Demi-gorgons,
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It set up the Bag-pipes, but pull'd down the Organs,
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The Pulpits did Smoak,
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Our church it did Choak,
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And all our Religion was turned to a Cloak;
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It brought in lay Elders could not Write or Read:
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It set publick Faith up, but pull'd down the Creed;
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Then let us endeavour, etc.
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This Pious Impostor
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Such Fury did Foster,
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It left us no Penny nor no Pater Noster;
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It threw to the Ground
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Ten Commandments down
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And set up twice Twenty Times Ten of its own:
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It routed the King and Villains elected
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To plunder all those whom they thought Disaffected
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Then let us Endeavour, etc
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To blind Peoples Eyes
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This Cloak was so Wise,
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It took off Ship Money, but set up Excise:
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Men brought in their Plate
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For Reasons of State
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And gave it to Tom Trumpeter and his Mate:
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In Pamphlets it wrote many specious Epistles
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To Couzen poor Wenches of Bodkins and Whistles.
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Then let us Endeavour, etc.
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In Pulpits it moved,
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And was much Approved
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For Crying out, Fight the Lord's Battles beloved;
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It Bobtail'd the Gown,
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Pull'd Prelacy down,
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It trode on the Mitre to reach at the Crown;
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And into the Field it an Army did bring
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To aim at the Council but shoot at the King.
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Then let us Endeavour, etc.
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It raised up States
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Whose Politick Pates
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Do now keep their Quarters on our City Gates;
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To Father and Mother
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To Sister and Brother
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It gave a Commission to kill one another:
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It took up Men's Horses at very low Rates
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And Plunder'd our Goods to secure our Estates.
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Then let us Endeavour, etc.
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This Cloak did proceed
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To a Damnable Deed,
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It made the best Mirrour of Majesty Bleed:
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Tho' Cloak did not do't
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It set it on Foot
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By rallying and calling his Journey Men to't:
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For never had come such a bloody Disaster
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If Cloak had not first drawn a Sword at his Master.
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Then let us Endeavour, etc.
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Tho some of 'em went hence
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By sorrowful Sentence,
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This lofty long Cloak is not mov'd to Repentance;
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But he and his Men,
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Twenty Thousand times Ten,
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Are Ploting to do their Tricks over again:
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But let this proud Cloak to Authority stoop,
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Or Catch will provide him a Button and Loop,
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For we'll ever endeavour, etc.
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