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<HEAD>THE ANARCHIE,
<HI>Or the ble&s;t Reformation &s;ince</HI> 1640.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Being a new Song, wherein the people expre&s;&s;e their
thankes and pray for the Reformers.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To be &s;aid or &s;ung of all the well affected of the Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales, before they eate any Plumbroth at Chri&s;tma&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To a Rare New Tune.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>NOW that thankes to the Powers below,</L>
<L>We have e'ne done out our doe,</L>
<L>The Miter is downe,</L>
<L>And &s;o is the Crowne</L>
<L>And with them the Coronet too;</L>
<L>Come Clownes and come boyes,</L>
<L>Come hober de hoyes,</L>
<L>Come Females of each degree,</L>
<L>Stretch your throats, bring in your Votes,</L>
<L>And make good the Anarchy.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>And thus it &s;hall goe &s;ayes Alice,</L>
<L>Nay thus it &s;hall goe &s;ayes Amy;</L>
<L>Nay thus it &s;hall goe &s;ayes Taffie I trow,</L>
<L>Nay thus it &s;hall goe &s;ayes Jamy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ah but the <HI>Truth</HI> good people all,</L>
<L>The <HI>Truth</HI> is &s;uch a thing,</L>
<L>For it wou'd undoe, both Church and State too,</L>
<L>And cut the throat of our King,</L>
<L>Yet not the Spirit, nor the new light,</L>
<L>Can make this point &s;o cleare,</L>
<L>But thou mu&s;t bring out, thou Deified rout</L>
<L>What thing this truth is and where.</L>
<L>Speak <HI>Abraham,</HI> &s;peak <HI>Ke&s;ter,</HI> &s;peak <HI>Iudith,</HI> &s;peak <HI>He&s;ter;</HI></L>
<L>Speak tag and rag, &s;hort coat and long,</L>
<L>Truth's the &s;pell made us rebell,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>And murder and plunder ding dong.</L>
<L>Sure I have the truth &s;ayes <HI>Numph,</HI></L>
<L>Nay I ha' the truth &s;ayes <HI>Clemme;</HI></L>
<L>Nay I ha' the truth &s;ayes reverend <HI>Ruth,</HI></L>
<L>Nay I ha' the truth &s;ayes <HI>Nem.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Well let the Truth be where it will,</L>
<L>We're &s;ure all el&s;e is ours,</L>
<L>Yet the&s;e divi&s;ions in our Religions,</L>
<L>May chance abate our powers;</L>
<L>Then let's agree on &s;ome one way,</L>
<L>It skills not much how true,</L>
<L>Take <HI>Pryn</HI> and his Clubs, or <HI>Say</HI> and his Tubs,</L>
<L>Or any Sect old or new;</L>
<L>The Devils ith' Pack, if choyce you can lack,</L>
<L>We're foure&s;core Religions &s;trong,</L>
<L>Take your choyce, the major voyce</L>
<L>Shall carry it right or wrong:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Then weele be of this &s;ayes <HI>Megg,</HI></L>
<L>Nay weele be of that &s;ayes <HI>Tibb,</HI></L>
<L>Nay weele be of all &s;ayes pityfull <HI>Paul,</HI></L>
<L>Nay weele be of none &s;ayes <HI>Gibb.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Neighbours and Friends pray one word more,</L>
<L>There's &s;omething yet behind,</L>
<L>And wi&s;e though you be, you doe not well &s;ee</L>
<L>In which doore &s;its the winde;</L>
<L>As for Religion to &s;peake right</L>
<L>And in the Hou&s;es &s;en&s;e,</L>
<L>The matter's all one to have any or none,</L>
<L>If 'twere not for the pretence;</L>
<L>But herein doth lurke the key of the worke,</L>
<L>Even to di&s;po&s;e of the Crowne,</L>
<L>Dexterou&s;ly and as may be</L>
<L>For your behoofe in our owne.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Then lets ha' King <HI>CHARLES</HI> &s;ayes <HI>George,</HI></L>
<L>Nay lets have his &s;on &s;ayes <HI>Hugh,</HI></L>
<L>Nay then lets ha' none &s;ayes jabbering <HI>Ione,</HI></L>
<L>Nay lets be all Kings &s;ayes <HI>Prue.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Oh we &s;hall have (if we go on</L>
<L>In Plunder, Exci&s;e, and blood)</L>
<L>But few folke and poore to domineere ore,</L>
<L>And that will not be &s;o good:</L>
<L>Then lets re&s;olve on &s;ome new way,</L>
<L>Some new and happy cour&s;e,</L>
<L>The Countrys growne &s;ad, the City horne mad,</L>
<L>And both Hou&s;es are wor&s;e.</L>
<L>The Synod hath writ, the Generall hath&mdash;</L>
<L>And both to like purpo&s;e too,</L>
<L>Religion, Lawes, the Truth, the Cau&s;e</L>
<L>Are talk't of, but nothing we doe.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Come come &s;hal's ha peace &s;ayes <HI>Nell,</HI></L>
<L>No no but we won't &s;ayes <HI>Madge,</HI></L>
<L>But I &s;ay we will &s;ayes firy fac'd <HI>Phill,</HI></L>
<L>We will and we won't &s;ayes <HI>Hodge.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus from the rout who can expect</L>
<L>Ought but divi&s;ion;</L>
<L>Since Unity doth with Monarcie,</L>
<L>Begin and end in One;</L>
<L>If then when all is thought their owne,</L>
<L>And lyes at their behe&s;t,</L>
<L>The&s;e popular pates reap nought but debates</L>
<L>From that many Round-headed bea&s;t.</L>
<L>Come Royali&s;ts then, doe you play the men,</L>
<L>And Cavaliers give the word,</L>
<L>Now lets &s;ee at what you would be,</L>
<L>And whether you can accord;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>A health to King <HI>CHARLES</HI> &s;ayes <HI>Tom,</HI></L>
<L>Up with it &s;ayes <HI>Raphe</HI> like a Man,</L>
<L>God ble&s;&s;e him &s;ayes <HI>Doll,</HI> and rai&s;e him &s;ayes <HI>Moll,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;end him his owne &s;ayes <HI>Nan.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now for tho&s;e prudent Things that fit</L>
<L>Without end, and to none,</L>
<L>And their Committees that Townes and Cities</L>
<L>Fill with confu&s;ion;</L>
<L>For the bold Troopes of Sectaries,</L>
<L>The Scots and their partakers;</L>
<L>Our new Britti&s;h States, <HI>Col Burges</HI> and his Mates,</L>
<L>The <HI>Covenant</HI> and its Makers,</L>
<L>For all the&s;e weele pray, and in &s;uch a way,</L>
<L>As if it might granted be,</L>
<L><HI>Iack</HI> and <HI>Gill, Mat</HI> and <HI>Will,</HI></L>
<L>And all the World would agree.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>A pox take them all &s;ayes <HI>Be&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>And a plague too &s;ayes <HI>Margery,</HI></L>
<L>The Devill &s;ayes <HI>Dick,</HI> and his Dam too &s;ayes <HI>Nick,</HI></L>
<L>Amen and Amen &s;ay I.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>It is de&s;ired that the Knights and Burge&s;&s;es would take e&s;peci|all
care to &s;end downe full numbers hereof, to their re&s;pective
Counties and Burroughs, for which they have &s;erved Apprenti&s;hip,
that all the people may rejoyce as one man for their freedome.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>Jan: 11th 1647</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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