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<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="1" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 40 -->
<HEAD>The Humble Petition Of the Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IF <HI>Charles</HI> thou wilt but be &s;o kinde</L>
<L>To give us leave to take our minde</L>
<L>Of all thy &s;tore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When we thy loyall Subjects finde</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t nothing left to give behinde.</L>
<L>Wee'l aske no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t for Religion it is meet,</L>
<L>We make it goe upon new feet,</L>
<L>I was lame before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One from <HI>Geneva</HI> would be &s;weet</L>
<L>Let <HI>Warwick</HI> fetch't home with his Fleet,</L>
<L>Weel ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let us a Con&s;ultation call,</L>
<L>Of hone&s;t men, but Round heade all,</L>
<L>God knowes wherefore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Allow them but a place to bill,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t Bi&s;hops Courts Apocryphall,</L>
<L>Wee'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let him be hang'd that Surplice weares,</L>
<L>And Tippet on his &s;houlders beares;</L>
<L>Wr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Whore.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="2" REF="2"><!-- PDF PAGE 41 -->
<LG>
<L>Secure us from our needle&s;&s;e feares;</L>
<L>Let <HI>Prin</HI> and <HI>Burton</HI> have their eares;</L>
<L>Wee'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Reforme each Univer&s;ity,</L>
<L>And in them let no learning be;</L>
<L>A great eye-&s;ore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From thence make James Arminians flee,</L>
<L>Should any have Free-will but wee?</L>
<L>Wee'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Le&s;t the Elect &s;hould goe a&s;tray,</L>
<L>Let Coblers teach them the right way,</L>
<L>To Heavens doore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And le&s;t their &s;oules &s;hould weare away,</L>
<L>Let them the Si&s;ters underlay;</L>
<L>Wee'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next for the Bi&s;hops Hierarchie,</L>
<L>Oh the word &s;ounds &s;o &s;curvily,</L>
<L>Lets hear't no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It nere was taught, the Apo&s;tles by</L>
<L>Lay-Elders may the place &s;upply;</L>
<L>Wee'l ask no more,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next for the State we think it fit,</L>
<L>That Mr. <HI>Pym</HI> &s;hould governe it,</L>
<L>He's very poore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The money that's for Ireland writ,</L>
<L>Let them have the Devill a bit,</L>
<L>Wee'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For ordering the Militia,</L>
<L>Let us enact a new new way,</L>
<L>Nere heard before.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>Let the great Coun&s;ell beare the &s;way,</L>
<L>If you will give us leave, you may;</L>
<L>Wee'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In this we will not be denide,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e in you we'l not confide;</L>
<L>We know wherefore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Citizens their plate provide,</L>
<L>Doe you but bring in yours be&s;ide,</L>
<L>We'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now if you will make <HI>Hull</HI> your owne,</L>
<L>There's one thing more we mu&s;t &s;et downe,</L>
<L>Forgot before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sir <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;hall then give up the Towne,</L>
<L>If you will but re&s;igne your Crowne;</L>
<L>We'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> An&s;wer, to the afore&s;aid
Petition.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I <HI>Charles</HI> your King will be &s;o kinde,</L>
<L>To give you leave to take your minde,</L>
<L>Of all my greate&s;t &s;tore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I you loyall Subjects finde,</L>
<L>And you tho&s;e Members have re&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>Which I have ask'd before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Or when Religion is all your cares,</L>
<L>And London has &s;uch heads of theirs,</L>
<L>As they have had before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Warwick</HI> from Geneva dares,</L>
<L>New printed bring the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">n p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">yers,</L>
<L>And reade them publick ore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When all your Con&s;ultations tend,</L>
<L>To pay what you have made men lend,</L>
<L>God knowes why or wherefore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When you will no more &s;ay you'l &s;end,</L>
<L>And bring me &s;urely to an end,</L>
<L>I know you'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When your <HI>Sme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">im<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ius</HI> Surpli&s;&s;e weares,</L>
<L>Or Tippet on his &s;houlder beares,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e rags of Babylons Whore.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>When <HI>Prin, Burton,</HI> and <HI>Ba&s;twick</HI> dires,</L>
<L>With your good leaves but &s;hew their cares,</L>
<L>I know they'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When what I have borrowed I &s;hall &s;ee</L>
<L>You have paid each Univer&s;ity,</L>
<L>Out of the City &s;tore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And Doctors Chaplaines Fellowes be</L>
<L>Free willers of Plurality,</L>
<L>I know you'l ask no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the Elect &s;hall make &s;uch ha&s;t,</L>
<L>By the Brethren to be imorac't</L>
<L>In Tubs behind the doore;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When Coblers they &s;hall preach their la&s;t,</L>
<L>All Conventickles on a Fa&s;t,</L>
<L>I know you'le aske no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whhn Bi&s;hops all the hou&s;e adorn,</L>
<L>And Round-heads for their ab&s;ence mourne,</L>
<L>A great, a great eye &s;ore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When every Citizen le&s;&s;e &s;corns,</L>
<L>Lord <HI>Wentworths</HI> head, then <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI>
hornes,</L>
<L>I know you'le aske no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When you no more &s;hall dare hereafter,</L>
<L>A needle&s;&s;e thing, and gaine much laughter,</L>
<L>To aske things granted before;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Pim</HI> is &s;ent to Irelands &s;laughter,</L>
<L>And nere more hops to mary his Daughter;</L>
<L>I know hee'le aske no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When you have found a cleer way</L>
<L>For ordering the Militia,</L>
<L>Which I neer heard before;</L>
</LG>
<PB N="8" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 43 -->
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Atkin&s;on</HI> on the Trayning day,</L>
<L>Should dare his Office to bewray,</L>
<L>I know hee'le aske no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When naught to me &s;hall be denied,</L>
<L>And you &s;hall all in me confide,</L>
<L>There's rea&s;on good therefore;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Denmarke</HI> &s;hall for me provide,</L>
<L>And all the <HI>Scots</HI> be on my &s;ide,</L>
<L>I'le make you aske no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>La&s;t when you &s;hall make <HI>Hull</HI> my owne,</L>
<L>The one thing more I will &s;et downe,</L>
<L>Which I forgot before;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I am got into the Towne,</L>
<L>I'le make ten more be&s;ides that clowne,</L>
<L>Shall never aske no more.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FJNJS.</TRAILER>
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<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 43 -->
<HEAD>Oxford <HI>Riddle.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THere dwells a People on the Earth,</L>
<L>That reckons true Alleagiance Trea&s;on,</L>
<L>That makes &s;ad Warre a holy mirth,</L>
<L>Calls madne&s;&s;e Zeale, and non&s;ence Rea&s;on;</L>
<L>That findes no Freedome but in &s;lavery,</L>
<L>That makes Lyes truth, Religion Knavery,</L>
<L>That Rob and Cheat with yea and nay,</L>
<L>Riddle me, Riddle me, what are they?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That hate the fle&s;h, yet firke their Dames,</L>
<L>That make Kings great by curbing Crownes,</L>
<L>That quench the fire, by kindling flames,</L>
<L>That &s;ettle Peace, by Plundring Townes,</L>
<L>That govern with implicite Votes,</L>
<L>That &s;tabli&s;h truth, by cutting throats,</L>
<L>That ki&s;&s;e their Ma&s;ter, and betray,</L>
<L>Riddle me, riddle me, who are they?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That make Heaven &s;peake by their Commi&s;sion,</L>
<L>That &s;top Gods Peace, and boa&s;t his power,</L>
<L>That teach bold Bla&s;phemy and Sedition,</L>
<L>And pray high Trea&s;on by the houre,</L>
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<L>That Dam all Saints but &s;uch as they are,</L>
<L>That wi&s;h all Common, except prayer,</L>
<L>That I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Riddle me, riddle me, who are they?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That to enrich the Common wealth,</L>
<L>Tran&s;port large Gold to For<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">igne parts,</L>
<L>That hou&s;'t in <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> by &s;tealth;</L>
<L>Yet lord it here within our gates,</L>
<L>That are &s;taid men, yet only &s;tay.</L>
<L>For a light night to runne away,</L>
<L>That borrow to lend, and rob to pay,</L>
<L>Riddle me, riddle me, what are they?</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FJNJS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Oxford</HI> by <HI>Leonard Litchfield.</HI>
1643.</P>
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