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<HEAD>The Tories Confe&s;&s;ion Or, A merry &s;ong in An&s;wer to The WHIGS Exaltation:</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune of <HI>Forty One.</HI></OPENER>
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<HEAD>[1]</HEAD>
<L>A Pox on Whigs we'l now grow wi&s;e</L>
<L>Let's cry out guard the Throne,</L>
<L>By that we'l damn the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e</HI></L>
<L>And make the Game our own</L>
<L>Religion, that &s;hall &s;toop to us,</L>
<L>and &s;o &s;hall Liberty,</L>
<L>We'l make their Laws as thin as Lawn,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch Tory Rogues are we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[2]</HEAD>
<L>When once that Preaching Whineing Crew</L>
<L>are cru&s;h'd and quite undone,</L>
<L>The Poor we'l bani&s;h by our Laws,</L>
<L>and all the re&s;t we'l burn.</L>
<L>Then <HI>Abbey-Lands</HI> &s;hall be po&s;&s;e&s;t</L>
<L>by tho&s;e who&s;e Right they be,</L>
<L>We'l cry up Laws, but none we'l u&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch Tory Rogues are we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[3]</HEAD>
<L>The Name of <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> we hate,</L>
<L>the Whigs they know it well,</L>
<L>And &s;ince we can't it longer hide</L>
<L>let's Truth genteely tell.</L>
<L>Now Dam me is good Manners grown,</L>
<L>and tends to Gallantry,</L>
<L>We'l S&mdash; the Nation out of Doors,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch cur&s;ed Rogues are we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[4]</HEAD>
<L>What care we for a Parliament,</L>
<L>no Money comes from thence,</L>
<L>Would they but give us Coyn enough,</L>
<L>we'd &s;pend the Nations pence.</L>
<L>The&s;e two-penny States-men all &s;hall down,</L>
<L>a glorious &s;ight to &s;ee,</L>
<L>To fini&s;h all we'l plunder' um too,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch Sons of Whores are we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[5]</HEAD>
<L>We'l build more Univer&s;ities,</L>
<L>for there lies all our hope,</L>
<L>And to th' Crape Gown we'l cringe &amp; creep</L>
<L>&s;uppo&s;ing 'twere a Pope;</L>
<L>Say what he will we'l him believe,</L>
<L>if true or fal&s;e it be,</L>
<L>And while he prays we'l Drink his Health,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch Tory Rogues are we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[6]</HEAD>
<L>What pimping Whig &s;hall dare controule,</L>
<L>or check the lawfull Heir,</L>
<L>We'l take the Ra&s;call by the Pole,</L>
<L>and Pox of all his Hair.</L>
<L>Then here goes hone&s;t <HI>James</HI>'s Health,</L>
<L>come drink it on your Knee,</L>
<L>Dzowns we'l have none but hone&s;t &s;ouls,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch Tory Rogues as we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[7]</HEAD>
<L>The&s;e Crafty <HI>Whigs</HI> are &s;ubtle Knaves</L>
<L>to give um all their due,</L>
<L>And yet we bauk'd the Popi&s;h Plot,</L>
<L>though they had &s;worn it true.</L>
<L>For this you know who we may thank,</L>
<L>But <HI>Mum</HI> for that, yet we</L>
<L>Are bound to pray and prai&s;e him for't,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch Tory Rogues are we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[8]</HEAD>
<L>When all the&s;e zealous <HI>Whigs</HI> are down,</L>
<L>we'l drink and fall a roaring,</L>
<L>And then &s;et up the Tripple Crown,</L>
<L>'twill Saint us all for whoreing.</L>
<L>When we have quite in&s;lav'd um all,</L>
<L>our &s;elves cannot be free.</L>
<L>Then prithee Devil claim thy own,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for hey to Hell go we.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>[9]</HEAD>
<L>We'l chu&s;e their Sheriffs and Juries too</L>
<L>and then pretend 'tis Law,</L>
<L>We'l bring more Iri&s;h o're to &s;wear</L>
<L>'gain&s;t tho&s;e they never &s;aw:</L>
<L>We'l &s;eize their Charters, then they mu&s;t</L>
<L>come beg um on their Knee,</L>
<L>If this won't do we'l call the French,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>&s;uch cur&s;ed Rogues are we.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>LONDON</HI> Printed for <HI>H. B.</HI> MDCLXXXII.</P>
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