What if the KING should come to the City?
More questions concerning new matters of weight,
Being some of those humors which many conceit,
Being lately composed in a pleasant new Ditty,
What if the King should come to the City.
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WHat if the King should come to the City,
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how would he be entertain'd I trow?
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With triumph and joy with rigor or pitty,
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Many conjecture and some doe know
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Would not the Turn-pike Captain then
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guard his great shot
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for fear of a Plot.
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and lock up his Wickets
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whilst he studies
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to secure his Guns and his men.
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Will not the Troop of riders in Scarlet
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humbly stoop at his Majesties feet
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Believe it who list for me he's a varlet
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that credits a miracle before he see 't
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will they not rather
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ask him whither
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he means to persist
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and doe what he list
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Or to joyn with his Parliament & Assembly
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When they are all agreed together.
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wil not your Schismatick shopkepers mutter
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professing in verity they are undone
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and cannot for a King their commoditys utter
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wishing him beyond Jerico or the Moone
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Will not they boldly give it out
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that all this coyle
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is only to spoyle
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and rout out the purity
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of the blessed Reformation
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they were late about.
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Will not your Tafity Pioners riot;
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I mean those dainty Citizens wives,
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That deep in their trenches left husband & diet
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to save their own and Childrens lives:
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will not they murmur
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at this Crosse,
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did wee goe about
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to keep the King out,
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And you to let him and his Russins enter
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our precious wares to tumble and tosse.
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The second part, to the same tune.
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HOw stands the opinions of such as did grumble
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that they should be governed under a King,
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Will they be contented themselves for to humble,
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unto their dread Soveraign in every thing,
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Or will they not rather seem to be
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more obstinate,
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!gainst him and the State,
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so much that others
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boldly professe
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themselves to be King as well as he,
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Will not the numerous multitude meet him
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to see his returning home againe,
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Or rather the chief of the City to greet him.
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and in Royall manner his Grace entertain,
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And shall not the factious then forbeare,
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whose brains are so weak
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that still they must speak
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forth Treason against
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his Royall Person
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else can they not live contented here.
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Will not the Royallists frame their Petitions,
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and humbly desire his Grace to consent
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And that he would sign to all good Propositions,
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and also agree with his great Parliament.
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Whereby to release them from those Bands
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which they for his sake
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upon them did take,
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and that they after
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may have such freedome
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as freely t' enjoy their goods and their lands.
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The Prentices they which doe monthly desire
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a day for their recreation to take,
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Now at his returning perhaps will require
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a barter and all for his Majesties sake,
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And though they allow two dayes for one.
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yet they'l be content,
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and think it well spent,
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when as they behold
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his Majesty setled
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in Peace and Dignity upon his Throne.
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Thus in the conclusion to wrap up the story,
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to think that the King and the State will agree.
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Good men will be glad though knavs may be sorry
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but hang up all such as is sorry for me,
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For this shall ever be my Prayer,
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God prosper and blesse
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the King and all his,
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and eke the Parliament,
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which endeavours
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daily to keep this Land from all care.
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