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.
[1]
DId you not hear of a Peer that was Try'd?
With a fa, la, la, la, la.
That looks like a Cask with a Tap in his side;
With a fa, la, la, la, la.
This Noble Peer to the Bar was call'd;
The Witnesses swore, but the Fore-man out-baul'd;
With a fa, la, la, la, la.
[2]
Then up Sir Samuel did start;
Wit a fa, la, &c.
And found the Bill not worth a F [...];
With a fa, la, &c.
With that the Court kept such a stir,
The Fore-man shou'd prove so silly a Sir,
With a fa la, &c.
[3]
The Witnesses for the King swore plain;
With a fa, la, &c.
But had they been so many again;
With a fa la, &c.
The Jury before such Truths receiv'd,
Nor them, nor St. Peter they wou'd have believ'd;
With a fa la, &c.
[4]
The Witnesses brought him a Traytor in;
With a fa, la.
But the Jury found it another thing;
With a fa, la, &c.
For he who did still his King oppose,
Is made a True Subject in spight of the Laws;
With a fa, la, &c.
[5]
Thus this Great Lord of High Renown;
With a fa, la, &c.
Th' Exalted Idol of the Town;
With a fa, la, &c.
Is clear'd by Ignoramus-sway,
For B [...]traying the Church and the King in a day;
With a fa, la, &c.
[6]
The Rabble to shew their Loyalty;
With a fa, la, &c.
Did in full shouts with the Jury agree;
With a fa, la, &c.
They Bonfires made, with great Applause,
And all to maintain the Good Old Cause;
With a fa, la, &c.
[7]
And now in spight of King and Queen;
With a fa, la, &c.
More Jollity was in the Streets to be seen;
With a fa, la, &c.
Th [...]n on the Twenty Ninth of May.
Though it was the Restauration-day;
With a fa, la, &c.
[8]
Another passage I chanc'd to hear;
With a fa, la, &c.
That the Dr. is fallen from the Front to the Rear [...]
With a fa, la, &c.
He to the Saints does now incline,
Abjures the King, and with Rebels Combine;
With a fa, la, &c.
[9]
Yet these pretend for to Inherit;
With a fa, la, &c.
(As Heirs do Estates) the Light of the Spirit;
With a fa, la, &c.
Yet let them say or do what they will,
They'l find themselves Ignoramus still;
With a fa, la, &c.
[10]
But had it been a Popish Lord;
With a fa, la, &c.
One Witness then had serv'd in a word;
With a fa, la, &c.
They had not then enquir'd so far;
But found it, and never have stept from the Bar:
With a fa, la, &c.
[11]
If by this Law the Charter be lost;
With a fa, la, &c.
Will Tony's Estate repay the Cost?
With a fa, la, &c.
The Boys will then find out the Cheat,
And De Witt the old Canibal in his Retreat;
With a fa, la, &c.
[12]
They'l Curse that Pate that studied to bring;
With a fa, la, &c.
Plague to the Countrey, and Ruine to th' King;
With a fa, la, &c.
Divested thus of 'Chitophel's Pride,
They'l do him that Justice which Juries deny'd;
With a fa, la, &c.