The Whigs laid open, or, An honest ballad of these sad times To a mery tune, called Old Symon the King. 1683 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A65644 Wing W1658B ESTC R219502 99830969 99830969 35431

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A65644) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 35431) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2086:08) The Whigs laid open, or, An honest ballad of these sad times To a mery tune, called Old Symon the King. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by N.T. at the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, [London] : 1683. Place of publication from Wing. Verse - "Now the plotters & plots are confounded,". Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.

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The WHIGS laid open, OR, An Honeſt Ballad of theſe ſad Times. To a Mery Tune, called Old Symon the King. 〈♫〉 I. NOw the Plotters & Plots are confounded, And all their Deſigns are made known Which ſmellt ſo ſtrong of the Round-head, And Treaſon of Forty One. And all the Pious Intentions For Property, Liberty, Laws, Are found to be only Inventions, To bring in their Good Old Cauſe. And all the Pious, &c. II. By their delicate Bill of Excluſion, So hotly purſu'd by the Rabble; They hop'd to have made ſuch Confuſion, As never was ſeen at Old Babel. The Shaftsbury's brave City Boys, And M—ths Countrey Relations, Were ready to ſecond the Noiſe, And ſend it throughout the 3 Nations. Then Shaftsbury's, &c. III. No more of the 5th of November, T at Dangerous Deſperate Plot; But ever with horruor remember Old Tony, Armſtrong, and Scot. For Tony ſhou'd ne're be forgotten, Nor Ferguſon's Popular Rules; Nor M—th, or G—y, when they're rotten, For Popular, Politick Fools. For Tony ſhou'd, &c. IV. The Murder of Father and King, And Extinguiſhing all the right Line, Was a Good and a Godly thing; And worthy the Whigs Deſign: The Hanging of Prelate, and Peer, And putting the Guards to the Sword, And Fleying, and Slaſhing Lord Mayors, Was to do the Work o'the Lord. The Hanging of, &c. V. But I hope they will have their Deſert, And the Gallows will have its due, And Jack Ketch will be more Expert, And in time be as Rich as a Jew, Whilſt now in the Tavern we Sing, All Joy to great York and his Right, A Glorious long Reign to our King; But when They'v'e occaſion we'll Fight. Whilſt now in the Tavern, &c. VI. The name of a Whig and a Tory, No more ſhall Diſquiet the Nation; We'll Fight for the Church and her Glory, And Pray for this Reformation. That ev'ry Factious Profeſſor, And ev'ry Zealous Pretender May humble 'em, to the Succeſſor Of Charles, our Nations Defender. That every Factio •• &c.

Printed by N. T. at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, 1683