EBBA 36602
British Library - Luttrell Ballads
| A / BALLAD / UPON THE / POPISH PLOT / Written by a Lady of Quality. / Whether you will like my song or like it not, / It is the downfall of the Popish Plot; / With Characters of Plotters here I sing, / Who would destroy our good and gracious King; / Whom God preserve, and give us cause to hope / His Foes will be rewarded with a Rope. | ||
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| Date Published | ? | |
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| Collection | British Library - Luttrell Ballads | |
| Page | 3.143 | |
| Location | British Library | |
| Shelfmark | C.20.f.5.(143.) | |
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| Title | A / BALLAD / UPON THE / POPISH PLOT / Written by a Lady of Quality. / Whether you will like my song or like it not, / It is the downfall of the Popish Plot; / With Characters of Plotters here I sing, / Who would destroy our good and gracious King; / Whom God preserve, and give us cause to hope / His Foes will be rewarded with a Rope. | The Second Part |
| Tune Imprint | To the TUNE of Packington's Pound. | of the same Tune. |
| First Lines | SInce Counterfeit Plots has affected this Age, / Being acted by Fools, and contriv'd by the Sage: | He had found out an Instrument fit for the Devil; / Whose mind had been train'd up to all that was evil: |
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| Notes | In manuscript beneath "POPISH PLOT": "1679." In manuscript beneath "Written by a Lady of Quality.": "ie / John Gadbury ye Astrologer." | |