YOUNG JEMMY.
An Excellent New Ballad,
To an Excellent New Tune.
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[1]
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YOung Jemmy is a Lad
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That's Royally descended;
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With every Virtue clad,
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By every Tongue commended:
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A true and faithful English Heart;
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Great Brittains Joy and Hope,
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And bravely will maintain their Part,
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In spight of Turk and Pope.
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[2]
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Young Jemmy is a Lad
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That hates all base Pretences;
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No Tory Masquerade,
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With Popish Sham-Pretences;
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A Heart and Soul so Great and Just,
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Such Conduct and Command;
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A Champion in his Countries Trust,
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Young Jemmy still will stand.
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[3]
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Young Jemmy is a Youth,
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Who thinks it no Transgression
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To stand up for the Truth
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And Protestant Profession;
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But Oh! He fights with such Success,
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All Mortal Powers obey;
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No God of War but must confess
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Young Jemmy bears the sway.
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[4]
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At Jemmys powerful Voice
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The Drums and Trumpets sounded;
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And England did rejoyce
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When Jemmys Fame abounded.
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Of Jemmy the victorious Name
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Did through all Europe flie,
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And all the Nations did proclaim
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His matchless Gallantry.
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[5]
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In Mastricht and in France,
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In Germany and Flanders,
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Young Jemmy did advance
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Amongst the Chief Commanders:
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By Sea and Land his Fame did flie,
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And all the Nations round
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Of Jemmys Constant Victory
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And Valour did resound.
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In Scotland Jemmys Hand
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Dispers'd the Whig and Tory;
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And Bethwel-Bridge will stand
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To his Eternal Glory:
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There he the Rebels Force withstood,
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And did Their Might oppose,
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Both for the King and Countries Good,
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In spight of all his Foes.
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[7]
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But Oh! unhappy Fates!
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A Curse on Pride and Malice;
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The Popish Plotting-States
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Have banish'd him the Palice:
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They turn'd him out of Grace of late,
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Of Dignity and Fame,
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And every mighty Place of State,
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Yet Jemmys still the same.
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[8]
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Maliciously they Plot
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(Against all Sense and Reason)
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'Gainst Shaftsbury and Scot,
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To Cloak their Popish Treason:
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Tories and Papists all agree
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To blast his spotless Fame;
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But, 'spight of all their Policy,
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Young Jemmys still the same.
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For, still to lose his Bloud
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Young Jemmy does importune,
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And for his Countreys Good
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To spend his Life and Fortune,
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For to support the Church and State,
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Our Liberties and Laws,
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Against their Malice, Plots and Hate
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That wou'd our Rights oppose.
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[10]
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Let all good men implore
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For Jemmys Restauration,
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Whose Conduct must restore
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The Ruins of our Nation;
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That he to Charless Praise may live
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Our Freedom to maintain,
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When Jemmy shall his Fame retrieve,
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And be in Grace again.
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