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<DATE>2007-12-07</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>An Excellent New
BALLAD,
Of the PLOTTING HEAD.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>How &V;nhappy is <HI>Phillis</HI> in Love.</HI> Or, <HI>Let <HI>Oliver</HI> now be forgot,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>YOu Presbyters now Relent,</L>
<L>For your Plotting is all in vain,</L>
<L>Since <HI>College</HI> does now Repent,</L>
<L>And hourly does complain;</L>
<L>That all your contrivance is nothing,</L>
<L>And <HI>M&mdash;</HI> yet prove a Slowthing:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ah little Pate!</L>
<L>Politick Pate!</L>
<L>Thy Policy now is grown quite out of Date.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now all the Caball Men of Fortune,</L>
<L>With <HI>Toney,</HI> the Head of the Crew</L>
<L>Who the People did often Importune,</L>
<L>To Swear things that never were true:</L>
<L>Oh! this is the Fox of the Nation,</L>
<L>Who made your Sedition a Fa&s;hion,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ah little Pate!</L>
<L>Ill was thy Fate!</L>
<L>For to bring thy &s;elf to this wretched E&s;tate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now where's thy Policy <HI>Toney,</HI></L>
<L>The Nation &s;o much did Admire,</L>
<L>Ha'&s;t lo&s;t both thy Wit, and thy Money</L>
<L>Since Friends with thy Fortune Expire;</L>
<L>Had not <HI>Harris</HI> &s;poke truth at's la&s;t Hour,</L>
<L>Thou ne're had&s;t been &s;ent to the <HI>Tower,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ah little Pate!</L>
<L>What is thy Fate!</L>
<L>Wilt thou have thy Head fixed fa&s;t on a Gate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Poor <HI>Stafford</HI> indeed you out-witted,</L>
<L>And thought to have done all the re&s;t,</L>
<L>But now your Quaint Policy's fitted</L>
<L>And you left to make up the jea&s;t;</L>
<L>Except you Invoke your Friend <HI>Tory,</HI></L>
<L>To turn, and to Swear a New Story:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ah little Pate!</L>
<L>What is thy Fate!</L>
<L>Alas mu&s;t thy Head now be fix't on a Gate?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Zealots that live in the City,</L>
<L>Are griev'd, for to &s;ee your &s;trang Fate;</L>
<L>Though yet they your Fortune may pitty,</L>
<L>They'l finde out your Trea&s;ons too late:</L>
<L>For the Devil you faithfully &s;erved,</L>
<L>Has left you, to what you de&s;erved</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ah little Pate!</L>
<L>Damn'd little Pate!</L>
<L>To cau&s;e this de&s;traction and Cur&s;e in the State.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like Lucifer &s;wel'd with Ambition,</L>
<L>And to&s;t from a Heavenly Seat;</L>
<L>So you from a wretched Condition,</L>
<L>Was by your King's Favour, made Great</L>
<L>But like the wor&s;t of all Creatures,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Treacherie's &s;een in his Features;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>For you little Pate,</L>
<L>To bring in a State,</L>
<L>Would venture your Head being fix't on a Gate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You thought that when <HI>Hide</HI> was Tran&s;planted,</L>
<L>That you &s;hould have grown in his place,</L>
<L>But his Off-&s;pring, who never were Daunted</L>
<L>Your Actions did hourly Trace;</L>
<L>For you <HI>(Janus</HI> like) have two Faces,</L>
<L>And fit your &s;elf for all Places;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ah little Pate!</L>
<L>Politick Pate!</L>
<L>Which for Trea&s;on at la&s;t, will be fix't on a Gate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Confe&s;s all thy Traterous Actions,</L>
<L>Con&s;ider the Blood hath been Shed;</L>
<L>Lay open thy yet hidden Factions,</L>
<L>Of which thou art &s;urely the Head;</L>
<L>Pull out thy Tap of Sedition,</L>
<L>Gain Mercy by true Contrition.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ah little Pate!</L>
<L>Politick Pate!</L>
<L>Or el&s;e may thy Head be fa&s;t fix't on a Gate.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P>Printed for <HI>R.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> in the Year. 1681.</P>
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