A
Trick for Tyburn:
OR A
PRISON RANT.
BEING
A SONG of the Prisoners of Newgate, at the
GAOL-DELIVERY.
To the Tune of Hark the Thundering Canons Rore
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TRumpets sound and Steeples Ring
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Every Loyal Subject Sing,
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With a Health to James our King
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For his Pardon granted.
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Prisoners half Dead that lay,
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Closd in Stone, instead of Clay,
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Have their Liberty to Day,
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Which before they wanted.
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Newgate lately did bring forth
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Seventy Children at a Birth,
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All in Wantonness and Mirth,
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At a Gaol-Delivery.
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But her Keepers they Ly In,
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Money sick for want of Sin;
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They will look both Pale and Thin,
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Till a new Recovery.
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Now the Doors are open wide,
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Jack may take his Mare and Ride;
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With a Leg on every side;
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And the Jade be flinging.
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Take her Halter Ketch, and try
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Whats the nearest course to Die;
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And well write thine Elegy,
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Hes Hangd for want for want of Hanging.
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Henceforth we will Steal no more,
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Tho we should be ner so Poor,
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If (by chance) we take a Whore
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In single Fornication.
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We Get a Soldier to the King,
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Or a Sea-man who doth bring
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From the Indies everything,
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It doth not Wrong the Nation.
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We were Rebels (more than Base)
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To abuse an act of Grace:
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Well ner dot in any Case;
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Well Legal be and Loyal.
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If the French begin to Reel,
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English Hearts are true as Steel;
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Well make their Breasts our Bullets feel
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For James our King the Royal.
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Should our Case be ner so bad,
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We will never be so mad
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As to go upon the Pad,
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Whilst our Life endureth
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This Rogue that was a great Trapan,
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Is two parts turnd a Civil Man,
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And honestly Drinks off his Can,
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And nothing deadly feareth.
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We wish that those that cannot pay
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Their Debts, may have a Jubiley;
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That Poor Men for the King may Pray
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At his Great Coronation.
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To see the Usurers go Mourn
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And take with Jack a second Turn,
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When their Bills and Bonds they Burn;
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Would over-joy the Nation.
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Whitington did build an House
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Enough to Starve a Rat or Mouse,
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But left Allowance for a Louse,
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To give Poor Men the Fever.
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But James the Great hath found a way
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To turn his Scepter to a Key,
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And give his Children all the Play;
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God Bless him then for Ever.
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