A Free-Parliament-Letany.
To the tune of An old Souldier of the Queenes.
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MOre Ballades; -- here's a spick - & - span new Supplication;
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By Order of a Committee for the Reformation
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To be read in all Churches, and Chappels of this Nation,
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Upon pain of Slavery, and Sequestration
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From Fooles, and Knaves, in our Parl'ament Free
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Libera nos Domine.
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From those that ha' more Religion, & lesse Conscience, then their fellows:
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From a Representative, that's fearfull, & jealous;
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From a starting Jadish people, that is troubled with the yellows
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And a Priest that blowes the cole ---- (a Turd in the Bellows)
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From Fooles, & Knaves, etc.
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From Shepheards, that leade their Flocks into the Briers;
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And then, Fleece 'um. ----- From Vow-breakers, & King-tryers:
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--- Of Church- and Crown-Lands from both Sellers, and Buyers:
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From the Children of him, that's the Father of Lyars.
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From Fooles, & Knaves, etc.
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From the Doctrine, and Discipline of * now, and anon;
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Preserve us, & our wives: from * John T, & Saint * John
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Like Master, like Man, every way but one:
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The Master ha's a large conscience, and the Man, ha's none.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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*Sedgewick
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*John a Nokes
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*John a Stiles
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From Major - Generalls, - Army - Officers; and that Phanatique crewe:
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From the Parboyl'd Pimp Scot; - and from Goodface the Jewe:
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From old Mildmay, that in Cheapside mistook his * Queue
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And from him that w'ont Pledge ---- give the Devil his due,
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From Fooles, & Knaves, etc.
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Repulsed by a
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*Citizens wife
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From longwinded speeches, and not a wise word,
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From a Gospell-Minstry settled by th' sword
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From the Act of a Rump, that stinks whent 't is stirr'd;
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From a Knight of the Post, and a Cobbling Lord.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From all the rich people that ha' made us poore;
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From a Speaker that creepes to the House by a Backdore:
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From that Badger Robinson, (that limps, and bites sore:)
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And that dog in a doublet Arthur, ---- that will do so no more.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From a certaine Sly Knave with a beastly name:
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From a Parl'ment that's wilde, and a people, that's tame:
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From Skippon, Titchbourne, Ireton, - and another of the Game;
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From a Dunghill Cock, and a Hen of the Same
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From all those that sate in the High Court of Justice;
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From Usurpers, that stile themselves the Peoples Trustees:
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From an old Rump, in which neither Profit nor Gust is;
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And from the recov'ry of that which now in the dust is.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From a Backsliding Saint, that pretends t' Acquicesce;
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From crossing of Proverbs (let 'um Hang that confesse)
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From a Sniveling cause, in a Pontificall dresse:
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And two * Lawyer's, with the Devill, and his Damm in a messe.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From those that trouble the waters, to mend the Fishing;
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And fight the Lords' Battels, under th' Devils Commission:
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Such as eate up the Nation, while the Government's a dishing
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And from a people when it should be doing, stands wishing.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From an everlasting mock-Parliament; ------ and from none;
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From Strafford's old freinds; -- Harry, Jack, and John
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From the Solliciters' Wolfe-Lawe, deliver our King's sonne;
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And from the Resurrection of the Rump that is dead, and gone.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From Forreigne invasion, and Commotions at home;
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From our present distraction, and from worse to come:
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From the same hand again; Smectymnuns or the Bumme,
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And from taking Geneva in our way to Rome.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From a Hundred thousand pound Tax, to maintaine Knaves and Whores:
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(But it is well giv'n, to these, that turn'd those out of dores)
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From undoing ourselves in Plastring old sores;
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He that set them aworke, let him pay their scores.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From Saints, and Tender-Consciences in Buff.
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From Mounson in a Fome; and Haslerigg in a Huff;
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From both men and women that think they never have enough.
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And from a Fools Head that looks through a Chaine and a Ruff.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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From those that would divide the Gen'rall and the City:
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From Harry Martins Whore, that was neither Sound nor Pretty.
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From a Faction, that ha's neither Braine, nor Pitty;
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From the Mercy of a Phanatique Committee.
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From Fools, and Knaves, etc.
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Preserve us Good Heaven from entrusting those
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That ha' much to get, and little to Loose:
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That Murther'd the Father, and the Son would depose.
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(Sure they can't be our Friends, that are their Countrys Fooes.
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From Foole, and Knaves, etc.
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From Bradshaws Presumption, and from Hoyle's Despaires,
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From Rotten Members; blind Guides; Preaching Aldermen; and false May'rs.
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From Long Knives, Long Eares, Long Parliaments, and Long Praye'rs.
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In mercy to this Nation, ----- Deliver us and our Heirs.
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From Fooles, and Knaves, etc.
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Libera nos Domine.
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