The Geneva ballad. To the tune of 48.

The Geneva ballad. To the tune of 48.

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The GENEVA BALLAD.

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The GENEVA BALLAD.

To the Tune of 48.

OF all the Factions in the Town,

Mov'd by French Springs or Flemish Wheels,

None treads Religion upside down,

Or tears Pretences out at heels,

Like Splay-mouth with his brace of Caps

Whose Conscience might be scan'd perhaps

By the Dimensions of his Chaps.

He whom the Sisters so adore,

Counting his Actions all Divine,

Who when the Spirit hints, can roar,

And if occasion serves can whine;

Nay he can bellow, bray or bark.

Was ever sike a Beuk-larn'd Clerk,

That speaks all Lingua's of the Ark.

To draw in Proselytes like Bees,

With pleasing Twang he tones his Prose,

He gives his Hand-kerchief a squeez,

And draws John Calvin through his Nose.

Motive on Motive he obtrudes,

With Slip-stocking Similitudes,

Eight Uses more, and so concludes.

When Monarchy began to bleed,

And Treason had a fine new name;

When Thames was balderdash'd with Tweed,

And Pulpits did like Beacons flame;

When Jeroboam's Calves were rear'd,

And Laud was neither lov'd nor fear'd,

This Gospel-Comet first appear'd.

Soon his unhallowed Fingers strip'd

His Sov'reign Liege of Power and Land,

And having smote his Master, slip'd

His Sword into his Fellows hand.

But he that wears his Eyes may note,

Oftimes the Butcher binds a Goat,

And leaves his Boy to cut her Throat.

Poor England felt his Fury then

Out-weigh'd Queen Mary's many grains;

His very Preaching slew more men,

Than Bonner's Faggots, Stakes and Chains.

With Dog-star Zeal and Lungs like Boreas,

He fought and taught; and what's notorious,

Destroy'd his Lord to make him Glorious.

Yet drew for King and Parlement.

As if the Wind could stand North-South;

Broke Moses's Law with blest intent,

Murther'd and then he wip'd his mouth.

Oblivion alters not his case,

Nor Clemency nor Acts of Grace

Can blanch an Aethiopian's Face.

Ripe for Rebellion he begins

To rally up the Saints in swarms,

He bauls aloud, Sirs, leave your Sins,

But whispers, Boys, stand to your Arms,

Thus he's grown insolently rude,

Thinking his Gods can't be subdu'd,

Money, I mean, and Multitude.

Magistrates he regards no more

Than St. George or the Kings of Colen;

Vowing he'l not conform before

The Old-wives wind their Dead in Woollen.

He calls the Bishop, Grey-beard Goff,

And makes his Power as mere a Scoff,

As Dagon, when his Hands were off.

Hark! how he opens with full Cry!

Halloo my Hearts, beware of ROME.

Cowards that are afraid to die

Thus make domestick Broils at home.

How quietly Great CHARLES might reign,

Would all these Hot-spurs cross the Main,

And preach down Popery in Spain.

The starry Rule of Heaven is fixt,

There's no Dissension in the Sky:

And can there be a Mean betwixt

Confusion and Conformity?

A Place divided never thrives:

'Tis bad where Hornets dwell in Hives,

But worse where Children play with Knives.

I would as soon turn back to Mass,

Or change my Phrase to Thee and Thou;

Let the Pope ride me like an Ass,

And his Priests milk me like a Cow:

As buckle to Smectymnuan Laws,

The bad effects o'th' Good Old Cause,

That have Dove's Plumes, but Vultur's Clawes.

For 'twas the Haly Kirk that nurs'd

The Brownists and the Ranters Crew;

Foul Errors motly Vesture first

Was Oaded in a Northern Blue.

And what's th' Enthusiastick breed,

Or men of Knipperdoling's Creed,

But Cov'nanters run up to seed?

Yet they all cry, they love the King,

And make boast of their Innocence:

There cannot be so vile a thing,

But may be colour'd with Pretence.

Yet when all's said, one thing I'll swear,

No Subject like th' old Cavalier,

No Traitor like Jack —

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The Geneva ballad. To the tune of 48.

Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.

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1674

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B01875

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Wing B6291A

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Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[339]

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99886992

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ocm99886992

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181660

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— The Geneva ballad. To the tune of 48., Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680..

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