An excellent new ballad, of the plotting head To the tune of, How unhappy is Phillis in love. Or, Let Oliver now be forgot, &c.

An excellent new ballad, of the plotting head To the tune of, How unhappy is Phillis in love. Or, Let Oliver now be forgot, &c.

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An Excellent New BALLAD, Of the PLOTTING HEAD.

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An Excellent New BALLAD, Of the PLOTTING HEAD.

To the Tune of, How Ʋnhappy is Phillis in Love. Or, Let Oliver now be forgot, &c.

YOu Presbyters now Relent,

For your Plotting is all in vain,

Since College does now Repent,

And hourly does complain;

That all your contrivance is nothing,

And M— yet prove a Slowthing:

Ah little Pate!

Politick Pate!

Thy Policy now is grown quite out of Date.

Now all the Caball Men of Fortune,

With Toney, the Head of the Crew

Who the People did often Importune,

To Swear things that never were true:

Oh! this is the Fox of the Nation,

Who made your Sedition a Fashion,

Ah little Pate!

Ill was thy Fate!

For to bring thy self to this wretched Estate.

And now where's thy Policy Toney,

The Nation so much did Admire,

Ha'st lost both thy Wit, and thy Money

Since Friends with thy Fortune Expire;

Had not Harris spoke truth at's last Hour,

Thou ne're hadst been sent to the Tower,

Ah little Pate!

What is thy Fate!

Wilt thou have thy Head fixed fast on a Gate.

Poor Stafford indeed you out-witted,

And thought to have done all the rest,

But now your Quaint Policy's fitted

And you left to make up the jeast;

Except you Invoke your Friend Tory,

To turn, and to Swear a New Story:

Ah little Pate!

What is thy Fate!

Alas must thy Head now be fix't on a Gate?

The Zealots that live in the City,

Are griev'd, for to see your strang Fate;

Though yet they your Fortune may pitty,

They'l finde out your Treasons too late:

For the Devil you faithfully served,

Has left you, to what you deserved

Ah little Pate!

Damn'd little Pate!

To cause this destraction and Curse in the State.

Like Lucifer swel'd with Ambition,

And tost from a Heavenly Seat;

So you from a wretched Condition,

Was by your King's Favour, made Great

But like the worst of all Creatures,

Whose Treacherie's seen in his Features;

For you little Pate,

To bring in a State,

Would venture your Head being fix't on a Gate.

You thought that when Hide was Transplanted,

That you should have grown in his place,

But his Off-spring, who never were Daunted

Your Actions did hourly Trace;

For you (Janus like) have two Faces,

And fit your self for all Places;

Ah little Pate!

Politick Pate!

Which for Treason at last, will be fix't on a Gate.

Confess all thy Traterous Actions,

Consider the Blood hath been Shed;

Lay open thy yet hidden Factions,

Of which thou art surely the Head;

Pull out thy Tap of Sedition,

Gain Mercy by true Contrition.

Ah little Pate!

Politick Pate!

Or else may thy Head be fast fix't on a Gate.

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Printed for R. [...] in the Year. 1681.

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An excellent new ballad, of the plotting head To the tune of, How unhappy is Phillis in love. Or, Let Oliver now be forgot, &c.

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1681

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A84276

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Wing E3805

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ESTC R228937

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99899682

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99899682

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133871

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— An excellent new ballad, of the plotting head To the tune of, How unhappy is Phillis in love. Or, Let Oliver now be forgot, &c.,

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Printed for R. Moor (blacked out), in the year,. [London] :: 1681.. (Verse - "You presbyters now relent,".) (A Tory attack on Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury.) (Place of publication from Wing.) (Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.)

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