OLD JEMMY:
An Excellent New Ballad.
To an Excellent New Tune, called, Young Jemmy:
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[1]
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OLd Jemmy is a Lad
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Right lawfully descended;
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No Bastard born nor bred,
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Nor for a Whig suspended:
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The True and Lawful Heir to th' Crown,
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By Right of Birth and Laws,
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And bravely will maintain his own,
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In spight of all his Foes.
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[2]
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Old Jemmy is the Top
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And Chief amongst the Princes
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No Mobile gay Fop,
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With Brimigham pretences:
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A Heart and Soul so wondrous great,
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And such a conqu'ring Eye,
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That every Loyal Lad fears not
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In Jemmys Cause to die.
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Old Jammy is a Prince
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Of Noble Resolutions,
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Whose Powerful Influence
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Can order our Confusions:
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But Oh! He fights with such a Grace,
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No Force can him withstand;
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No God of War but must give place
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Where Jemmy leads the Van.
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[4]
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To Jemmy every Swain
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Does pay due Veneration;
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And Scotland does maintain
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His Title to the Nation.
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The Pride of all the Court he stands,
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The Patron of his Cause,
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The Joy and Hope of all his Friends,
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The Terrour of his Foes.
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[5]
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Maliciously they Vote,
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To work Old Jemmy's Ruin,
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And zealously promote
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A Bill for his undoing:
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Both Lords and Commons most agree
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To pull His Highness down;
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But ('spight of all their Policy)
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Old Jemmys Heir to th' Crown.
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[6]
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The Schismatick and Saint,
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The Quaker and the Athiest,
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Swear by the Covenant,
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Old Jemmy is a Papist;
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Whilst all the Holy Crew did plot
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To pull His Highness down,
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Great Albany the Noble Scot
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Did raise unto a Crown.
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Great Albany they swear,
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He before any other,
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Shall be immediate Heir
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Unto His Royal Brother,
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Who will, in spight of all his Foes,
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His Lawful Rights maintain,
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And all the Fops that interpose,
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Old Jemmys York again.
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[8]
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The Whigs and Zealots Plot
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To banish him the Nation,
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But the Renowned Scot
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Hath wrought his Restauration.
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With high Respects they treat his Grace,
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His Royal Cause maintain;
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Brave Albany (to Scotlands Praise)
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Is Mighty York again.
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Against his envious Fates
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The Kirk hath taught a Lesson;
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A Blessing on the States,
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To settle the Succession.
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They real were, both Knight and Lord,
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And will His Rights maintain;
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By Royal Parliament restor'd,
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Old Jemmys come again.
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[10]
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And now He's come again,
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In spight of all Pretenders,
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Great Albany shall Reign
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Amongst the Faiths Defenders.
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Let Whig and Brimigham repine;
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They shew their Teeth in vain;
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The Glory of the British Line,
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Old Jemmys come again.
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