EBBA 36956
British Library - 839.m.22
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THE
HUMBLE PETITIONS
OF HIS
MAJESTIES
Truly Loyal PROTESTANT Subjects, by
some called PRESBYTERIANS, for a bles-
sed Reformation.
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May it please your Majesty,
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WOULD you but banish all your friends,
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And let our Petitioners have their Ends--
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Call 'em good Subjects and make 'em a-mends;
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This is the time.
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Would you your power of Pardon lose,
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And give us leave to call all those
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(You know your friends) the Kingdomes Foes;
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This etc.
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Would your Majesty please to prefer all those
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Who to a Subsidy Bill Hollow out (Noes).
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So by making one friend to assure you ten Foes;
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This etc.
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Would you lets have the Souldiery at our Command,
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Disinherit your Brother out of hand,
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And so intail a War upon the Land;
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This etc.
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Would you give M. leave to undo
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Himself and all the Nation too;
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And him that opposes it think your Foe;
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This etc.
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Would your Majesty please to stile all those Papists,
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That are not either rank Presbyterians or Atheists,
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And ne're think of th' mistake till it too late is;
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This etc.
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Would you the Lord President disgrace,
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And lets call him Papist to his face,
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And put our friend Harris in L'Estranges place;
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This, etc.
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Would you hang Scroggs, 'tis no matter for reason,
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And all those that won't be perjur'd in season--
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And give us a Patent for talking of Treason;
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This etc.
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Would your Majesty let us invent and disclose
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Grand frailties in you which nobody knows
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And let ours be wink't at, though much greater than those;
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This etc.
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Would you lets into the Prerogative search,
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Lets murder the Bishops and Plunder the Church,
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Lead the Lords by the Nose, and then leave 'em in the Lurch;
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This etc.
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Would you let us the good Old Cause renew.
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Tax evil Counsellors and Tacitly you
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First Straffordize Lauderdale, and next your self too;
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This is the time.
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And your Petitioners shall ever pray, etc.
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