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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Wi&s;h upon Wi&s;h,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">or <HI>Dangerfields</HI> Lamentation.</HEAD>
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<P>Being a true relation, of a Di&s;covery of all the Rogueries of Captain <HI>Dangerfield,</HI> who now is Clo&s;e Pri&s;oner in his Maje&s;tys Gaol of <HI>Newgate,</HI> for acting the D. of M. in &s;everal Countries in <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>The Old Mans Wi&s;h.</HI></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>Was I once again out,</L>
<L>I would never come here,</L>
<L>Nor never tran&s;gre&s;s</L>
<L>Again&s;t King with a &s;ear:</L>
<L>And all Rogueries &s;hun,</L>
<L>With a Cur&s;e to my fate,</L>
<L>And ne're more concern</L>
<L>With Church or with State.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern my &s;elf</HI></L>
<L><HI>By an ab&s;olute &s;way,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And grow wi&s;er and better,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Before I go away,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ambition and Faction</HI></L>
<L><HI>I &s;wear &s;hall decay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ambition and Faction</HI></L>
<L><HI>I &s;wear&mdash;&s;hall decay</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A wooden Cravat</L>
<L>I believe I &s;hall wear,</L>
<L>And after a Rope</L>
<L>Will come to my &s;hare.</L>
<L>But I'le turn obedient</L>
<L>To Prince and to State,</L>
<L>And ne're again &s;hams</L>
<L>From malice create.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Tyburn</HI> I mi&s;s</L>
<L>I will grow more wi&s;e,</L>
<L>And to the three Nations</L>
<L>Be fully precize,</L>
<L>And will do all</L>
<L>The good that I can,</L>
<L>And will turn from a Knave</L>
<L>To a true Loyal man.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wou'd my &s;ins were accquitted,</L>
<L>And liberty given,</L>
<L>I'd for&s;ake all Fanaticks,</L>
<L>And thank my good Heaven.</L>
<L>But now 'tis too late,</L>
<L>My Roguery's known,</L>
<L>In vain I do prate</L>
<L>Now in Pri&s;on I'm thrown.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O cur&s;e on their guilt</L>
<L>That made me to &s;wear</L>
<L>Again&s;t hone&s;t men,</L>
<L>That alive I wi&s;h were:</L>
<L>I'd govern my hate</L>
<L>With a ple&s;ant new look,</L>
<L>And my malice abate,</L>
<L>And not &s;wear on a Book.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To take a mans life,</L>
<L>Wrongfully away,</L>
<L>It is a bad act,</L>
<L>For to &s;wear wrong, I &s;ay:</L>
<L>But a Cur&s;e me attend</L>
<L>That did &s;wear to a lye,</L>
<L>But now I am in hold,</L>
<L>And afraid I &s;hall dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I wi&s;h I were dead,</L>
<L>I &s;hou'd &s;uffer no more,</L>
<L>But now at the la&s;t</L>
<L>I mu&s;t pay a long &s;core.</L>
<L>The Popi&s;h Plot is in <HI>Newgate,</HI></L>
<L>O there he is laid,</L>
<L>There, or at <HI>Tyburn,</HI></L>
<L>He mu&s;t dye, he's afraid.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now my &s;ufferings</L>
<L>Is like unto <HI>Oates,</HI></L>
<L>With grief I am perplext,</L>
<L>And am quite out of &s;orts.</L>
<L>No <HI>M&mdash;th,</HI> no, no,</L>
<L>No more ile di&s;gui&s;e,</L>
<L>The Cloak, and the Star</L>
<L>Ile leave off and be wi&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>May I govern,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Ab&s;alom Chamberlain.</HI></P>
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