VVhat if the KING should come to the City?
More questions concerning new matters of weight,
Being some of those humors which many conceit,
Being lately composed in a pleasant new Ditty,
What if the King should come to the City.
WHat if the King should come to the City,
how would he be entertain'd I trow?
With tryumph and joy w [...]th rigor or pitty,
Many conjecture and some doe know
Would not the Turn-pike Captain then
guard his great shot
for fear of a Plot.
and lock up his Wickets
whilst he studies
to secure his Guns and his men.
Will not the Troop of riders in Scarlet
humbly stoop at his Majesties féet
Believe it who list for me he's a varlet
that credits a miracle before he sée't
will they not rather
ask him whither
he means to persist
and doe what he list
Or to joyn with his Parliament & Assembly
When they are all agreed together.
wil not your Schismatick shopkepers mutter
professing in verity they are undone
and cannot for a King their commoditys utter
wishing him beyond Ierico or the Moone
Will not they boldly give it out
that all this toyle
is only to spoyle
and rout out the purity
of the blessed Reformation
they were late about.
Will not your Tafity Pioners riot;
I mean those dainty Citizens wives,
That déep in their trenches left husband & diet
to save their own and Childrens lives:
will not they murmur
at this Crosse,
did wée goe about
to kéep the King out,
And you to let him and his Ruffins enter
our precious wares to tumble and tosse.
The second part,
to the same tune.
HOw stands ye opinions of such as did grumble
that they should be governed under a King,
Will they be contented themselvs for to humble,
unto their dread Soveraign in every thing,
Or will they not rather séem to be
more obstinate,
▪against him and the State,
so much that others
boldly professe
themselvs to be King as well as he,
Will not the numerous multitude méet him
to sée his returning home againe,
Or rather the chief of the City to gréet him.
and in Royall manner his Grace entertain,
And shall not the factions then forbeare,
whose brains are so weak
that still they must speak
forth Treason against
his Royall Person
else can they not live contented here.
Will not the Royallists frame their Petitions,
and humbly desire his Grace to consent
And that he would sign to all good Propositions,
and also agrée with his great Parliament.
Whereby to release them from those Banns
which they for his sake
upon them did take,
and that they after
may have such fréedome
as fréely t'enjoy their goods and their lands.
The Prentices they which doe monthly desire
a day for their recreation to take,
Now at his returning perhaps will require
a barter and all for his Majesties sake,
And though they allow two dayes for one,
yet they'l be content,
and think it well spent,
when as they behold
his Majesty setled
in Peace and Dignity upon his Throne.
Thus in the conclusion to so wrap up the story,
to think that the King and the State wil agrée.
Good men will be glad though knavs may be sorry
but hang up all such as is sorry for me,
For this shall ever be my Prayer,
God prosper and blesse
the King and all his,
and eke the Parliament,
which endeavours
daily to kéep this Land from all care.