IGNORAMUS-Justice:
OR,
The ENGLISH-LAWS turn'd into a GIN,
To let KNAVES Out, and keep HONEST MEN In.
An Excellent New SONG. To the Tune of, Sir Egledemore.
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DId you not hear of a Peer that was Try'd?
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With a fa, la, la, la, la.
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That looks like a Cask with a Tap in his side;
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With a fa, la, la, la, la.
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This Noble Peer to the Bar was call'd;
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The Witnesses swore, but the Fore-man out-baul'd;
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With a fa, la, la, la, la.
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Then up Sir Samuel did start;
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Wit a fa, la, etc.
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And found the Bill not worth a F---;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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With that the Court kept such a stir,
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The Fore-man shou'd prove so silly a Sir,
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With a fa, la, etc.
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The Witnesses for the King swore plain;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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But had they been so many again;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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The Jury before such Truths receiv'd,
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Nor them, nor St. Peter they wou'd have believ'd;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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The Witnesses brought him a Traytor in;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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But the Jury found it another thing;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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For he who did still his King oppose,
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Is made a True Subject in spight of the Laws;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Thus this Great Lord of High Renown;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Th' Exalted Idol of the Town;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Is clear'd by Ignoramus-sway,
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For Betraying the Church and the King in a day;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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The Rabble to shew their Loyalty;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Did in full shouts with the Jury agree;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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They Bonfires made, with great Applause,
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And all to maintain the Good Old Cause;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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And now in spight of King and Queen;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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More Jollity was in the Streets to be seen;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Then on the Twenty Ninth of May.
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Though it was the Restauration-day;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Another passage I chanc'd to hear;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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That the Dr. is fallen from the Front to the Rear;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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He to the Saints does now incline,
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Abjures the King, and with Rebels Combine;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Yet these pretend for to Inherit;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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(As Heirs do Estates) the Light of the Spirit;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Yet let them say or do what they will,
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They'l find themselves Ignoramus still;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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But had it been a Popish Lord;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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One Witness then had serv'd in a word;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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They had not then enquir'd so far;
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But found it, and never have stept from the Bar.
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With a fa, la, etc.
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If by this Law the Charter be lost;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Will Tonys Estate repay the Cost?
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With a fa, la, etc.
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The Boys will then find out the Cheat,
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And De Witt the old Canibal in his Retreat;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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They'l Curse that Pate that studied to bring;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Plague to the Countrey, and Ruine to th' King;
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With a fa, la, etc.
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Divested thus of Chitophels Pride,
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They'l do him that Justice which Juries deny'd
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With a fa, la, etc.
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