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Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
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The second Part, To the same Tune.

LIke the Egyptian Locus
thou and all the rest,
Which did so much provoke us,
The North wind now doth scatter,
But tis no matter
I hope twill spoyle your nest:
So that I thinke that cursed Generation,
Of Vipers which so much did vexe our Nation
Shall never meete againe to wrong us in such fashion
Oh thou Projector whither wilt thou stray.

Didst thou the hangman cozen,
he'd rather meete with thee
Than sometimes halfe a dozen
Which at monethly Sessions
Makes their confessions,
though they condemned be.
And now I thinke there's many Ballet Singers,
With thirsty throates for thy returning lingers,
They'd laugh to see thy name in Print betwixt their fingers
Oh thou Projector etc.

Had'st thou the wings of a Swallow,
To fly so swift,
No other Birds could follow:
That the pretty Jennit
Lesse than a Lenit,
to flye had not the shift:
Else surely she would never stay behinde thee,
But take her flight, and use the meanes to finde thee,
And Ide be glad to know what fortune hath asign'd thee
O thou Projector etc.

If thou be still bent to travell,
then learne to play
The Mountebanke and cavill,
With each man of fashion
In what Nation
thou art dispos'd to stay.
Then see that neither honest man nor cheater
In juggling trickes doe shew themselves compleater
Twill make them thinke they art and skill to be the greater.
O thou Projector etc.

Thou exceed'st Hocus Pocus
at presto be gone,
As late when thou forsooke us
Thou didst it so trimly,
And so nimbly
as twas perceiv'd by none.
Though Hocus be at sleight of hand so cunning
Thou sleight of foote performed by thy running
But sure thou thoughts it time some dangers to be shunning.
Oh thou Projector, etc.

Thus to conclude my ditty,
if thou thyselfe doe save
The greater is the pitty,
That so great Oppressor
Should have lesser
than he deserves to have.
But now perforce I see we must forsake thee
Thou art got to farre, for me too overtake thee,
Yet whilst I stay behinde, Ile cry a halter shake thee.
O thou Projector whither wilt thou stray,


Finis.
John Lookes.
London Printed for F. Grove, dwelling on Snow hill.

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