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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB N="26" REF="1">
<HEAD>THE Catholick BALLAD: OR, AN INVITATION TO POPERY, Upon Con&s;iderable Grounds and Rea&s;ons.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Eighty eight.</HI></OPENER>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> SInce Pop'ry of late is &s;o much in debate,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> And great &s;trivings have been to re&s;tore it,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> I cannot forbear openly to declare,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music"> That the Ballad-makers are for it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We'll di&s;pute no more then, the&s;e Heretical Men,</L>
<L>Have expo&s;ed out Books unto laughter,</L>
<L>So that many do &s;ay, 'twill be the be&s;t way,</L>
<L>To &s;ing for the Cau&s;e hereafter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O the Catholic Cau&s;e! now a&s;&s;i&s;t me my Mu&s;e,</L>
<L>How earne&s;tly do I de&s;ire thee!</L>
<L>Neither will I pray to St. <HI>Bridget</HI> to Day,</L>
<L>But only to thee to in&s;pire me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whence &s;hould Purity come, but from Catholic <HI>Rome?</HI></L>
<L>I wonder much at your folly?</L>
<L>For St. <HI>Peter</HI> was there, and left an old Chair,</L>
<L>Enough to make all the World holy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For this facted old wood, is &s;o excellent good,</L>
<L>If our Doctors may be believ<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</L>
<L>That whoever fits there, needs never more fear,</L>
<L>The danger of being deceived.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If the Devil him&s;elf &s;hould (God ble&s;s us) get up,</L>
<L>Though his Nature we know to be Evil,</L>
<L>Yet whil&s;t he &s;at there, as divers will &s;wear,</L>
<L>He would be an infallible Devil.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now who &s;its in the Seat, but our Father the Pope?</L>
<L>Which is a plain Demon&s;tration</L>
<L>As clear as Neon-day, we are in a right way,</L>
<L>And all others are doom'd to Damnation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If this will not &s;uffice, yet to open your Eyes,</L>
<L>Which are blinded with bad Education;</L>
<L>We have Arguments plenty, and Miracles twenty,</L>
<L>Enough to convince a whole Nation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If you give but good heed, you &s;hall &s;ee the Ho&s;t bleed.</L>
<L>And if any thing can per&s;uade ye,</L>
<L>An Image &s;hall &s;peak, or at lea&s;t it &s;hall &s;queak</L>
<L>In the honour of our Lady.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You &s;hall &s;ee without doubt, the Devil ca&s;t out,</L>
<L>As of old by <HI>Erra Pater;</HI></L>
<L>He &s;hall skip about and tear like a dancing Bear,</L>
<L>When he feels the Holy Water.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If yet doubtful you are, we have Reliques mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L>We can &s;hew you the &s;acred Manger;</L>
<L>Several loads of the Cro&s;s, is good as e're was,</L>
<L>To pre&s;erve your Souls from danger.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Should I tell you of all it would move a Stone-wall,</L>
<L>But I &s;pare you a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e for pity,</L>
<L>That each one may prepare, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> up his <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>For the <HI>Second P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> of my Ditty.</L>
</LG>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><PB N="27" REF="1">The Second Part.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>NOw li&s;ten again to tho&s;e things that remain,</L>
<L>They are matters of weight, I a&s;&s;ure you;</L>
<L>And the fir&s;t thing I &s;ay, throw your Bibles away,</L>
<L>'Tis impo&s;&s;ible el&s;e for to cure you.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O that pe&s;tilent Book! never on it more look,</L>
<L>I wi&s;h I could &s;ing it out louder:</L>
<L>It has done Men more harm, I dare boldly <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ff<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rm</L>
<L>Than th' Invention of Guns and Powder.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As for matters of faith, believe what the Church &s;aith,</L>
<L>But for Scripture, leave that to the learned;</L>
<L>For the&s;e are Edge-tools, &amp; you Laymen are Fools,</L>
<L>If you touch them y'are &s;ure to be harmed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But pray what is it for, that you make all this &s;tir?</L>
<L>You mu&s;t read, you mu&s;t hear and be learned:</L>
<L>If you'll be on our part, we will teach you an Art,</L>
<L>That you need not be &s;o much concerned.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be the Churches good Son, and your work is half done,</L>
<L>After that you may do your own plea&s;ure:</L>
<L>If your Beads you can tell, and &s;ay <HI>Ave Mary</HI> well,</L>
<L>Never doubt of the heavenly trea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For the Pope keeps the Keys, and can do what he plea&s;e,</L>
<L>And without all peradventure,</L>
<L>If you cannot at the Fore, yet at the back-Door</L>
<L>Of Indulgence you may enter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But fir&s;t by the way, you mu&s;t make a &s;hort &s;tay</L>
<L>At a place railed Purgatory,</L>
<L>Which the Learned us tell, in the builings of Hell,</L>
<L>Is about the middlemo&s;t Story.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis a mon&s;trous hot place and a Mark of di&s;grace,</L>
<L>In the Torment on't long to endure:</L>
<L>None are k<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pt there but fools, and poor pitiful &s;ouls</L>
<L>Who can no ready Money procure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And a hand&s;um round Sum you may quickly begon,</L>
<L>To the Church has wi&s;ely ordein'd,</L>
<L>And they who build Cro&s;&s;es and pay well for Ma&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>Would not there be too long detein'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And that 'tis a plain c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e, as the No&s;e on ones Face,</L>
<L>They are in the &s;ure&s;t condition,</L>
<L>Since none but poor Fools, &amp; &s;ome niggardly Owls,</L>
<L>And can call into utter perdit on.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And they faileth you then O ye great and rich Men,</L>
<L>For that you will not hearken to rea&s;on,</L>
<L>And as long as y have pence, y'need &s;cruple no of &s;ence</L>
<L>For Murther, A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">te<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y, Trea&s;on.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And ye &s;weet natar'd Women, who hold all things common,</L>
<L>My addre&s;&s;es to you are mo&s;t hearty,</L>
<L>And to give you your due, you are to us mo&s;t true,</L>
<L>And we hope we &s;hall gain the whole party.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If you happen to fall, your Pennance is &s;mall,</L>
<L>And although you cannot forg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> it,</L>
<L>We have for you a cure, if of this you be &s;ure,</L>
<L>To con<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;s before you go to it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There is one rea&s;on yet, which I cannot omit,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e who affect the <HI>French</HI> Nation,</L>
<L>Hereby we advance the Religion of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>The Religion that's only in fa&s;hion.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If the&s;e rea&s;ons prevail, (as how can they fail?)</L>
<L>To have Popery entertain'd,</L>
<L>You cannot conceive, and will hardly believe,</L>
<L>What benefits hence may be gain'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For the Pope &s;hall us ble&s;s (that's no &s;mall happi|ne&s;s)</L>
<L>And again we &s;hall &s;ee re&s;tored</L>
<L>The <HI>Italian</HI> Trade, which formerly made</L>
<L>This Land to be &s;o much adored.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O the Pictures and Rings, the Beads and fine things,</L>
<L>The good Words as &s;weet as Honey,</L>
<L>All this and much more, &s;hall be brought to our Door</L>
<L>For a little dull <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Money.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then &s;hall Iu&s;tice and Love, and whatever can move,</L>
<L>He re&s;tored again to our <HI>Britain:</HI></L>
<L>And Learning &s;o common, that every old Woman</L>
<L>Shall &s;ay her Prayecs in <HI>Latin.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then the Church &s;hall bear &s;way, and the State &s;hall obey,</L>
<L>Which is now lookt upon as a wonder,</L>
<L>And the proude&s;t of Kings, with all Temporal things,</L>
<L>Shall &s;ubmit and trickle under.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And the Parliament too, who have tak'n us to do,</L>
<L>And have handled us with &s;o much Terror;</L>
<L>May chance on that &s;core ('tis no time to &s;ay more)</L>
<L>They may chance to acknowledge their Error.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If any Man yet, &s;hall have &s;o little Wit,</L>
<L>As &s;till to lie Refratory;</L>
<L>I &s;wear by the Ma&s;s, he is a meer A&s;s,</L>
<L>And &s;o there's an end of the Story.</L>
</LG>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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