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<HEAD>The Ballad of the CLOAK: <HI>Dr. The Cloaks Knavery.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>From Hunger and Cold:</HI> Or, <HI>Packington's Pound.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>COme buy my new Ballet,</L>
<L>I have't in my Wallet,</L>
<L>But 'twill not I fear plea&s;e every Pallet:</L>
<L>Then mark what en&s;u'th,</L>
<L>I &s;wear by my Youth,</L>
<L>That every Line in my Ballad is truth,</L>
<L>A Ballad of Wit, a brave Ballad of worth,</L>
<L>'Tis newly Printed, and newly come forth:</L>
<L><HI>'Twas made of a Cloak that ell out with a Gown,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I'le tell you in brief,</L>
<L>A Story of Grief,</L>
<L>Which happen'd when Cloak was Commander in Chief:</L>
<L>It tore Common-Prayers,</L>
<L>Impri&s;on'd Lord Mayors,</L>
<L>In one day it voted down Prelates and Players:</L>
<L>It made people in point of Obedience,</L>
<L>And the Covenant did cut off the Oath of Allegiance,</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>It was a Black Cloak,</L>
<L>In good time be it &s;poke,</L>
<L>That kill'd many thou&s;ands, but never &s;truck &s;troak:</L>
<L>With Hatchet and Rope,</L>
<L>The Forlorn Hope,</L>
<L>Did joyn with the Devil to pull down the Pope:</L>
<L>It &s;et all the Sects in the City to work,</L>
<L>And rather then fail, 'twould have brought in the <HI>Turk:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<L>It &s;eiz'd on the Tow'r Guns,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e fierce Demi-Gorgons,</L>
<L>It brought in the Bag-pipes, and pull'd down the Organs</L>
<L>The Pulpits did &s;moak,</L>
<L>The Churches did Choak,</L>
<L>And all our Religion was turn'd to a Cloak:</L>
<L>It brought in Lay-Elders could not write nor Read,</L>
<L>It &s;et publick Faith up, and pull'd down the Creed:</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Pious Impo&s;ter,</L>
<L>Such fury did fo&s;ter,</L>
<L>It left us no Penny, nor no Pater-No&s;ier;</L>
<L>It threw to the ground,</L>
<L>Ten Commandments down,</L>
<L>And &s;et up twice twenty times ten of its own:</L>
<L>It routed the King, and Villians Elected,</L>
<L>To plunder all tho&s;e whom they thought di&s;affected:</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>To blind peoples eyes,</L>
<L>This Cloak was &s;o wi&s;e,</L>
<L>It took off Ship-money, but &s;et up Exci&s;e;</L>
<L>Men brought in their Plate,</L>
<L>For Rea&s;ons of State,</L>
<L>And gave it to <HI>Tom Trumpeter</HI> and his Mate:</L>
<L>In Pamphlets it writ many &s;pecious Epi&s;tles,</L>
<L>To cozen poor Wenches of Bodkins and Whi&s;tles:</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>IN Pulpits it moved,</L>
<L>And was much approved,</L>
<L>For crying out &mdash; <HI>Fight the Lords Battle Beloved;</HI></L>
<L>It bob-tayl'd the Gown,</L>
<L>Put Prelacy down,</L>
<L>It trod on the Myter to reach at the Crown:</L>
<L>And into the field it an Army did bring,</L>
<L>To aim at the Council but &s;hot at the King:</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>It rai&s;ed up States,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Politick Pates,</L>
<L>Do now keep their Quarters on the City Gates:</L>
<L>To Father and Mother,</L>
<L>To Si&s;ter and Brother,</L>
<L>It gave a Commi&s;&s;ion to Kill one another:</L>
<L>It took up Mens Hor&s;es at very low rates,</L>
<L>And Plunder'd our Goods to &s;ecure our E&s;tates;</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>This Cloak did proceed</L>
<L>To a Damnable deed,</L>
<L>It made the be&s;t Mirror of Maje&s;ty bleed:</L>
<L>Thought Cloak did not do't,</L>
<L>He &s;et it on Foot,</L>
<L>By Rallying and calling his Journey-men to't:</L>
<L>For never had come &s;uch a Bloody Di&s;a&s;ter,</L>
<L>If Cloak had not fir&s;t drawn a Sword to his Ma&s;ter:</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Though &s;ome of them went hence,</L>
<L>By &s;orrowful Sentence,</L>
<L>This lofty long Cloak is not mov'd to Repentance;</L>
<L>But he and his Men,</L>
<L>Twenty Thou&s;and times ten,</L>
<L>Are plotting to do their Tricks over agen:</L>
<L>But let this proud Cloak to Authority &s;toop,</L>
<L>Or <HI>CATCH</HI> will provide him a Button and Loop:</L>
<L><HI>Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That ba&s;ely did &s;ever the Head from the Crown.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Let's pray that the King,</L>
<L>And his Parliament,</L>
<L>In Sacred and Secular Things may con&s;ent:</L>
<L>So Righteou&s;ly firm,</L>
<L>And Religiou&s;ly free;</L>
<L>That Papi&s;ts and Athei&s;ts &s;uppre&s;&s;ed may be:</L>
<L>And as there's one Deity doth over-reign us,</L>
<L>One Faith, and one Form, &amp; one Church may contain us:</L>
<L><HI>Then peace, Truth and plenty, our Kingdom will Crown,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And all popi&s;h plots and their plotters &s;hall down.</HI></L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>P. Brooksby,</HI> near the Ho&s;pital-Gate, in We&s;t-&s;mithfield.</P>
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