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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Upon Sight of LONDONS Stately New Buildings, Anno Domini, <HI>M DC LXXII.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The FIRST PART, <HI>Admiring it as a WONDER.</HI></HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>O Thrice Illu&s;trious Famous City <HI>LONDON,</HI></L>
<L>What Tongue can &s;ay that e're thou yet wert undon!</L>
<L>Or who can think thou ever &s;o &s;halt be,</L>
<L>Since <HI>Fire,</HI> which <HI>All Con&s;umes,</HI> Increa&s;eth <HI>Thee.</HI></L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>Inferiour unto None, before thou wert,</L>
<L>But now the <HI>Glory of the World</HI> thou art:</L>
<L>Thou far tran&s;cends that <HI>Phoenix</HI> which of old</L>
<L>In <HI>Antient Stories</HI> to us have been told.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>Who when the <HI>Revolution</HI> of her time</L>
<L>Is come, She Burns to A&s;hes: But in Prime</L>
<L>Again to Admiration &s;he <HI>Revives,</HI></L>
<L>And in her wonted State again &s;he Lives.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>Which &s;eems a <HI>Miracle</HI> unto the Eyes</L>
<L>Of all the Studious, Learned, and the Wise:</L>
<L>And unto tho&s;e who oft have heard 'tis &s;o,</L>
<L>Yet know not whether it be True or No.</L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>But this &s;trange wonder which thou &s;hew'&s;t is &s;uch</L>
<L>As cannot well be wondred at too much:</L>
<L>I for my part, &s;o often as I view</L>
<L>Thy va&s;t incomparable Buildings New,</L>
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<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>Do &s;tand aga&s;t to think thereon, and &s;ay,</L>
<L>To work thy <HI>Ruin,</HI> &s;ure <HI>Fire's</HI> not the way:</L>
<L><HI>Fire only as with Gold it works with Thee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In purging forth thy Dro&s;s doth Clarifie.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>An Adverti&s;ement to the Reader, or rather Singer.</HEAD>
<P>VVHo is de&s;ir'd to take notice, That the <HI>M&V;SICK Ayre</HI> (for Quantities and Humour is chiefly naturalliz'd to Accord with the Fir&s;t Staff of the <HI>Ballad;</HI> yet &s;o con&s;ider'd upon in the Formality, that it may tollerably well &s;uit with the whole: However, it begs the favour of the under&s;tanding Performer to help it a little in certain places; <HI>viz</HI> the Fir&s;t Note of the <HI>Treble</HI> would &s;ome|times be made a Quaver as in the beginning of the Second Staff, Thus, <GAP DESC="music"><HI>In-fe-riour,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e the La&s;t Note and Word of the Fifth Staff would be made a Quaver, and &s;o &s;uddainly proceed to the Sixth Staff with a Quaver again: Al&s;o the Fir&s;t Staff of the Second Part would be altered thus with an odd Note, <GAP DESC="music"> <HI>Be-hold ye im-pious,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>As by good con&s;ideration will be thought very ne|ce&s;&s;ary: For 'tis impo&s;&s;ible that an Ayre &s;hould be &s;o contriv'd, as to agree exactly in proper Life and Humour to every word of &s;o many &s;everal Staves as here are. Let this little hint &s;uffice for all, only, pray Sing the whole Song over very &s;lowly, and make your Pau&s;es properly in all places; And becau&s;e there are added two Feet to the La&s;t Line of the <HI>Ballad,</HI> alter the conclu&s;ion, Thus, <GAP DESC="music"> <HI>Yet &s;till Rich</HI> London <HI>cries, Vail Bonnet un&mdash;to me.</HI><GAP DESC="music"></P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The SECOND PART, <HI>Suppo&s;ing it might be Fir'd by TREACHERY.</HI></HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>BEhold ye impious Fiery Brands of Hell,</L>
<L>Who with your Grand-fire <HI>Lucifer</HI> do dwell,</L>
<L>And put in practice his Foul <HI>Helli&s;h Trade</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>Fier-Plots!</HI> With <HI>Fire</HI> you'll All be paid.</L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>Though little you do dream of &s;uch a thing,</L>
<L>Your <HI>Sin's a Crying Sin,</HI> and will it bring,</L>
<L>In th' end a&s;&s;uredly, to your Dire Co&s;t;</L>
<L><HI>Behold,</HI> I &s;ay, <HI>how all your Labour's lo&s;t!</HI></L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>What you intended for our woe to be,</L>
<L>Is turned otherwi&s;e, (<HI>our Joy</HI>) you &s;ee:</L>
<L>Our <HI>Glory,</HI> and out <HI>great Renown</HI> is &s;een,</L>
<L>Which otherwi&s;e perhaps had not yet been.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>Go, go ye Envious Dolts; go learn more Wit,</L>
<L>Improve your <HI>Folly;</HI> make &s;ome u&s;e of it:</L>
<L>(VVho of nece&s;&s;ity a <HI>Virtue makes,</HI></L>
<L>De&s;erves due Prai&s;e, for that good cour&s;e he takes.)</L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>I'le put you in a way what you &s;hall do,</L>
<L><HI>Go &s;et a Fire on</HI> ROME <HI>and</HI> PARIS <HI>too;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And all your old Built Towns;</HI> go Burn them down,</L>
<L>That they may be <HI>Rebuilt like</HI> LONDON <HI>Town.</HI></L>
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<LG N="6">
<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>If all your <HI>Wit,</HI> and <HI>Skill,</HI> and <HI>Art</HI> can do it,</L>
<L>(And I believe you'l &s;tretch your Brains unto 't:)</L>
<L>O then brave Boyes, perchance you'll &s;eem to be!</L>
<L><HI>Yet &s;till</HI><LB>
<HI>Rich</HI> LONDON <HI>cryes, Vail Bonnet unto Me.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>The Ayre with its Thorough-Ba&s;s.</HEAD>
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<P>O Thrice Illu&s;trious Famous Ci&mdash;ty <HI>LONDON,</HI> what Tongue can &s;ay that e're thou yet wert undon! Or who can think thou ever &s;o &s;halt be, &s;ince Fire which All Con&s;umes, Increa&s;eth Thee?</P>
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<P><HI>CHOR&V;S.</HI> London's <HI>the Town of Chief Renown, let En&mdash;vy do her wor&s;t, &s;hall wear the Crown.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>William Godbid,</HI> for the Author, 1672.</P>
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