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<DATE>2009-02-06</DATE>
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<NAME>Megan Marion</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B090011.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>THE Riddle of the Roundhead. An Excellent New BALLAD.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Now at la&s;t the Riddle is Expounded.</HI></OPENER>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>NOw at la&s;t the Riddle is Expounded,</L>
<L>Which &s;o long the Nation has Confounded;</L>
<L>For the Roundhead</L>
<L>Begins the Game again,</L>
<L>Which &s;o well they play'd in Forty four,</L>
<L>Now with greater hope;</L>
<L>For the fine Sham-Plots will ne'er give over,</L>
<L>Till they piou&s;ly have routed King and Pope.</L>
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<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Anthony</HI> that Worm of Reformation,</L>
<L>Who of Commonwealths has laid Foundation,</L>
<L>Which the Nation</L>
<L>So hotly does pur&s;ue;</L>
<L>Let him be rewarded in the <HI>Tower,</HI></L>
<L>For his Merits due:</L>
<L>By that bu&s;ie Plotting head laid lower,</L>
<L>We may perhaps e&s;cape what might en&s;ue.</L>
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<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Perkin</HI> makes fine Legs to th' &s;houting Rabble,</L>
<L>Who to make him King he thinks are able;</L>
<L>But the Bauble</L>
<L>Is only &s;hew'd for u&s;e:</L>
<L>The &s;illy Idiot &s;erves but for a Tool &s;till,</L>
<L>For Knaves to work their Feats,</L>
<L>And will remain a dull mi&s;taken Fool &s;till,</L>
<L>For all their damn'd Cabals and <HI>Wapping</HI> Treats.</L>
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<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>The mo&s;t zealous Parliament devoted,</L>
<L>For the Publick good devoutly Voted,</L>
<L>Pray note it,</L>
<L>That the Duke mu&s;t ne'er be King;</L>
<L>And like hone&s;t faithful Loyal Subjects,</L>
<L>His Maje&s;ty implore,</L>
<L>To &s;ign their pious and Religious Projects,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e the threaten'd King mu&s;t Reign no more.</L>
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<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>The renowned Work of Reformation,</L>
<L>To be carry'd on throughout the Nation,</L>
<L>In a pa&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>They Vote the Canons down;</L>
<L>Acts and Statutes all mu&s;t be confounded,</L>
<L>Law and Ju&s;tice too,</L>
<L>To make way for the proud Rebellious Roundhead,</L>
<L>That they once more the Nation may undo.</L>
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<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>Lords and Bi&s;hops both are u&s;ele&s;s Voted,</L>
<L>And the Factious Crew who gravely Plotted,</L>
<L>Are noted.</L>
<L>For Lords and Commons too:</L>
<L><HI>Whigs</HI> and <HI>Brumighams</HI> with Shams and Stories,</L>
<L>Are true Prote&s;tants&punc;</L>
<L>And Prote&s;tants are <HI>Ma&s;querad<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> and <HI>Tories,</HI></L>
<L>The Modern Reformation of the Saints.</L>
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<LG N="7">
<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>Old Queen <HI>Be&s;s</HI> that made the be&s;t Indentures,</L>
<L>Good King <HI>Jemmy</HI> too again&s;t Di&s;&s;enters,</L>
<L>He ventures,</L>
<L>To turn them out of doors;</L>
<L>To take in <HI>Quakers, Puritans</HI> and <HI>Ranters,</HI></L>
<L>The Parliament implores,</L>
<L>To build a Kirk of <HI>Whigs</HI> and <HI>Covenanters,</HI></L>
<L>And make a Lawful Race of Sons of Whores.</L>
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<LG N="8">
<HEAD>8.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Rowley</HI> now with Wi&s;dom and grave Rea&s;on,</L>
<L>To prevent the &s;wift approaching Trea&s;on,</L>
<L>In &s;ea&s;on</L>
<L>Put a period to their &s;trife;</L>
<L>In <HI>Oxford</HI> all their Stratagems confounded,</L>
<L>The Rogui&s;h <HI>Joyner</HI> too:</L>
<L>And may no better Fate attend the Roundhead</L>
<L>That wou'd the Church and Monarchy &s;ubdue</L>
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<HEAD>9.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Oxford</HI> Loyal Youths who &s;corn to Sham us,</L>
<L>With a perjur'd Bill of <HI>Ignoramus,</HI></L>
<L>Or name us</L>
<L>For Loyal, Traytors known;</L>
<L>Soon found a flaw i'th' bottom of the <HI>Joyner,</HI></L>
<L>By Ju&s;tice and the Laws,</L>
<L>Of Church and Commonwealth and Undermine</L>
<L>Who fell a Martyr in the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>10.</HEAD>
<L>Now for &s;hame ye Zealots be confounded,</L>
<L>Boa&s;t no more Allegiance, &s;ince a Roundhead</L>
<L>Is grounded</L>
<L>Upon the Holy Sham:</L>
<L>How dare ye talk of Loyalty, a Hater</L>
<L>Of Ju&s;tice, King and Laws,</L>
<L>Since the <HI>Whiggi&s;h</HI> Prote&s;tant is found a Trayto<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And dies a Martyr in the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>N. Thomp&s;on.</HI> 1681.</P>
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