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<HEAD><HI>A Trimmer's Confe&s;&s;ion of Faith:</HI> Or, The True Principles of A Jack of Both-Sides.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>VVhich no body can deny.</HI></OPENER>
<HEADNOTE><P>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</P></HEADNOTE>
<LG>
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<L>PRay lend me your Ears, if you've any to &s;pare,</L>
<L>You that love Common-wealth, as you hate Com|mon-Pray'r,</L>
<L>Who can in a Breath pray, Di&s;&s;emble and Swear;</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Which no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<L>I'm &s;ometimes o'th' wrong &s;ide, and &s;ometimes the Right;</L>
<L>To day I'm a <HI>Jack,</HI> and tomorrow a <HI>Mite:</HI></L>
<L>I for <HI>either</HI> King <HI>pray,</HI> but for neither dare <HI>&s;ight;</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>VVhich no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<L>I'm &s;ometimes a Rebel, and &s;ometimes a Saint,</L>
<L>&s;ometimes can Swear, and at other times Cant;</L>
<L>There's nothing but Grace (I thank God) that I want:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>VVhich no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<L>Old <HI>Babylon</HI>'s Whore I cannot endure her;</L>
<L>I'm a Sanctified Zealot, there's none can be purer:</L>
<L>For-Swearing I hate, like any Non-Juror;</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>VVhich no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<L>Of Gracious King <HI>William</HI> I am a great Lovea,</L>
<L>Yet I &s;ide with a Party that prays for Another;</L>
<L>I drink ihe King's Health, take it one way or t'other:</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Which no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<L>Preci&s;ely I creep like a Snail to the Meeting;</L>
<L>VVhere Sighing I meet with &s;uch &s;orrowful Greeting,</L>
<L>Makes me hate a long Pray'r, and five hours prating:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Which no Body can deny.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2+ letters">d there I Sing P&s;alms, as if never weary;</L>
<L>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, when I'm frolick and merry,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">e Mu&s;ick I find in a Boat to the Ferry:</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Which no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<L>I pledge ev'ry Health my Companions drink round;</L>
<L>I can &s;ay Heavens ble&s;s, or the Devil confound:</L>
<L>I can hold with the Hare, and run with the Hound:</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>VVhich no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<L>I can pray for a Bi&s;hop, and cur&s;e an Arch-Deacon;</L>
<L>I can &s;eem very &s;orry that <HI>Charlerey</HI>'s taken;</L>
<L>I can any thing &s;ay, to &s;ave my own Bacon:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Which no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<L>Sometimes for a good Common-wealth I am wi&s;hing;</L>
<L>O <HI>Oliver! Oliver!</HI> give us thy Ble&s;&s;ing;</L>
<L>For in troubled VVaters I vow I love Fi&s;hing:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>VVhich no Body can deny.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>XI.</HEAD>
<L>The Times are &s;o tickli&s;h, I vow and profe&s;s,</L>
<L>I know not which <HI>Party</HI> or <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> to embrace;</L>
<L>I'll be&s;ure to &s;ide with tho&s;e that are lea&s;t in di&s;tre&s;s;</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>VVhich no body can deny.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>XII.</HEAD>
<L>With the <HI>Jacks</HI> I rejoyce that <HI>Savoy</HI>'s defeated;</L>
<L>VVith the <HI>Whigs</HI> I &s;eem plea&s;ed he's &s;o bravely retreated;</L>
<L>Friends and Foes are by me both equally treated,</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Which no body can deny.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>XIII.</HEAD>
<L>Each Party, we &s;ee, now are full of great hope;</L>
<L>There's &s;ome for the <HI>Devil,</HI> and &s;ome for the <HI>Pope;</HI></L>
<L>And I am for any thing, but for a Rope:</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Which no body can deny.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. Kell,</HI> near <HI>West-Smithfield.</HI> 1694.</P>
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