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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Free-Parliament-Letany.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the tune of <HI>An old Souldier of the Queenes.</HI></OPENER>
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<HEAD>1</HEAD>
<L><HI>MOre Ballades;</HI>&mdash;here's a &s;pick - &amp; - &s;pan new <HI>Supplication;</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>Order</HI> of a <HI>Committee for the Reformation</HI></L>
<L><HI>To be read in all Churches, and Chappels of this Nation,</HI></L>
<L>Upon pain of <HI>Slavery, and Seque&s;tration</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> in our <HI>Parl'ament Free</HI></L>
<L>Libera nos Domine.</L>
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<HEAD>2</HEAD>
<L>From tho&s;e that ha' <HI>more Religion, &amp; le&s;&s;e Con&s;cience,</HI> then their fellows:</L>
<L>From a <HI>Repre&s;entative,</HI> that's <HI>fearfull, &amp; jealous;</HI></L>
<L>From a <HI>&s;tarting Jadi&s;h people,</HI> that is troubled with the <HI>yellows</HI></L>
<L>And a <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> that <HI>blowes the cole</HI>&mdash;(a Turd in the Bellows)</L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> &amp; <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>3</HEAD>
<L>From <HI>Shepheards,</HI> that leade their <HI>Flocks</HI> into the <HI>Briers;</HI></L>
<L>And then, <HI>Fleece</HI>' um.&mdash;From <HI>Vow-breakers, &amp; King-tryers:</HI></L>
<L>&mdash;<HI>Of Church-</HI> and <HI>Crown-<HI>Lands</HI></HI> from both <HI>Sellers,</HI> and Buyers:</L>
<L>From the <HI>Children</HI> of him, that's the <HI>Father</HI> of <HI>Lyars.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles, &amp; Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>4</HEAD>
<L>From the <HI>Doctrine,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;cipline</HI> of <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Sedgewick</NOTE> <HI>now, and anon;</HI></L>
<L>Pre&s;erve <HI>us,</HI> &amp; our <HI>wives:</HI> from <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">John a Nokes</NOTE> John T, &amp; Saint <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">John a Stiles</NOTE> John</L>
<L><HI>Like Ma&s;ter,</HI> like <HI>Man,</HI> every way but one:</L>
<L>The <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> ha's a <HI>large con&s;cience,</HI> and the <HI>Man,</HI> ha's <HI>none?</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Foooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>5</HEAD>
<L>From <HI>Major-Generalls, -Army-Officers;</HI> and that <HI>Phanatique crewe:</HI></L>
<L>From the <HI>Parboyl'd Pimp <HI>Scot;</HI></HI> - and from <HI>Goodface</HI> the <HI>Iewe:</HI></L>
<L>From old Mildmay, that in Cheap&s;ide mi&s;took his <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Repul&s;ed by a Citizens wife</NOTE> <HI>Que&uuml;e</HI></L>
<L>And from him that w'ont <HI>Pledge&mdash;<HI>give the Devil his due,</HI></HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles, &amp; Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>6</HEAD>
<L><HI>From longwinded &s;peeches, and not a wi&s;e word,</HI></L>
<L>From a <HI>Go&s;pell-Min&s;try &s;ettled</HI> by th' <HI>&s;word</HI></L>
<L>From the <HI>Act</HI> of a <HI>Rump,</HI> that <HI>&s;tinks</HI> whent 't is <HI>&s;tirr'd;</HI></L>
<L>From a <HI>Knight of the Po&s;t,</HI> and a <HI>Cobbling Lord.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>From all the <HI>rich people</HI> that ha' made <HI>us poore;</HI></L>
<L>From a <HI>Speaker</HI> that creepes to the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> by a <HI>Backdore:</HI></L>
<L>From that <HI>Badger Robin&s;on,</HI> (that <HI>limps, and bites &s;ore:</HI>)</L>
<L>And that dog in a doublet Arthur,&mdash;<HI>that will do &s;o no more.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>8</HEAD>
<L>From a certaine <HI>Sly Knave</HI> with a <HI>bea&s;tly name:</HI></L>
<L>From a <HI>Parl'ment</HI> that's <HI>wilde,</HI> and a <HI>people,</HI> that's <HI>tame:</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Skippon, Titchbourne, Ireton,</HI> - and another of the <HI>Game;</HI></L>
<L>From a <HI>Dunghill Cock,</HI> and a <HI>Hen</HI> of the <HI>Same</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>9</HEAD>
<L>From all tho&s;e that &s;ate in the <HI>High Court</HI> of <HI>Ju&s;tice;</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>&V;&s;urpers,</HI> that &s;tile them&s;elves the <HI>Peoples Tru&s;tees:</HI></L>
<L>From an <HI>old Rump,</HI> in which neither <HI>Profit</HI> nor <HI>Gu&s;t</HI> is;</L>
<L>And from the <HI>recov'ry</HI> of that which now in the <HI>du&s;t</HI> is.</L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>10</HEAD>
<L>From a <HI>Back &s;liding Saint,</HI> that pretends t' <HI>Acquice&s;ce;</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>cro&s;&s;ing</HI> of <HI>Proverbs</HI> (let 'um <HI>Hang</HI> that <HI>confe&s;&s;e</HI>)</L>
<L>From a <HI>Sniveling cau&s;e,</HI> in a <HI>Pontificall dre&s;&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>And two <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Jacks both</NOTE> Lawyer's, with the Devill, and his Damm in a me&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>11</HEAD>
<L>From tho&s;e that <HI>trouble the waters,</HI> to mend the <HI>Fi&s;hing;</HI></L>
<L>And fight the <HI>Lords' Battels,</HI> under th' <HI>Devils Commi&s;&s;ion:</HI></L>
<L>Such as <HI>eate</HI> up the <HI>Nation,</HI> while the <HI>Goverment's</HI> a <HI>di&s;hing</HI></L>
<L>And from a people when it &s;hould be <HI>doing,</HI> &s;tands <HI>wi&s;hing.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>12</HEAD>
<L>From an <HI>ever la&s;ting <HI>mock - Parliament;</HI></HI>&mdash;and from <HI>none;</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Strafford's old freinds;&mdash;Harry, Jack,</HI> and <HI>John</HI></L>
<L><HI>From the Soliciters' Wolfe-Lawe, deliver our King's &s;onne;</HI></L>
<L>And from the <HI>Re&s;urrection</HI> of the <HI>Rump</HI> that is <HI>dead,</HI> and <HI>gone.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>13</HEAD>
<L>From <HI>Forreigne inva&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>Commotions</HI> at <HI>home;</HI></L>
<L>From our <HI>pre&s;ent</HI> di&s;traction, and from <HI>wor&s;e</HI> to <HI>come:</HI></L>
<L>From the <HI>&s;ame hand again; <HI>Smectymnuus</HI></HI> or the <HI>Bumme,</HI></L>
<L>And from taking <HI>Geneva</HI> in our way to <HI>Rome.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>14</HEAD>
<L>From a <HI>Hundred thou&s;and pound Tax, to maintaine Knaves and Whores:</HI></L>
<L>(But it is <HI>well giv'n,</HI> to <HI>the&s;e,</HI> that turn'd <HI>tho&s;e</HI> out of <HI>dores</HI>)</L>
<L>From <HI>undoing</HI> our &s;elves, to <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">tring old &s;ores;</HI></L>
<L><HI>He that &s;et them aworke, let him pay their &s;cores.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>15.</HEAD>
<L>From <HI>Saints,</HI> and <HI>Tender-Con&s;ciences</HI> in <HI>Buff.</HI></L>
<L>From Moun&s;on in a Fome; and <HI>Ha&s;lerigg</HI> in a Huff;</L>
<L>From both <HI>men</HI> and <HI>women</HI> that think they never have <HI>enough.</HI></L>
<L>And from a <HI>Fools Head</HI> that looks through a <HI>Chaine</HI> and a <HI>Ruff.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>16.</HEAD>
<L>From tho&s;e that would divide the <HI>Gen'rall</HI> and the <HI>City:</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Harry Martins Whore,</HI> that was neither <HI>Sound</HI> nor <HI>Pretty.</HI></L>
<L>From a <HI>Faction,</HI> that ha's neither <HI>Braine,</HI> nor <HI>Pitty;</HI></L>
<L>From the <HI>Mercy</HI> of a <HI>Phanatique Committee.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fools,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>17.</HEAD>
<L>Pre&s;erve us Good Heaven from entru&s;ting tho&s;e</L>
<L>That ha' <HI>much</HI> to <HI>get,</HI> and little to Loo&s;e:</L>
<L>That <HI>Murther'd</HI> the <HI>Father,</HI> and the <HI>Son</HI> would <HI>depo&s;e.</HI></L>
<L>(Sure they can't be <HI>our Friends,</HI> that are their <HI>Countrys Fooes.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Foole,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>18.</HEAD>
<L>From <HI>Brad&s;haws</HI> Pre&s;umption, and from <HI>Hoyle's De&s;paires,</HI></L>
<L>From Rotten Members; blind Guides; Preaching Aldermen; and fal&s;e May'rs.</L>
<L>From <HI>Long Knives, Long Eares,</HI> Long Parliaments, and Long Praye'rs.</L>
<L>In mercy to this Nation,&mdash;<HI>Deliver us and our <HI>Heirs.</HI></HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Fooles,</HI> and <HI>Knaves,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>Libera nos Domine.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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