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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140634.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A New Ballad of the Prote&s;tant Joyner. Or of <HI>Colledges</HI> Lamentation, &s;ince his Condemnation.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Tune of <HI>Tony,</HI> Or, <HI>How unhappy in love is</HI> Philander.</OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Man being hanged</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>Castle Front</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>[1]</HEAD>
<L>THe Prote&s;tant Joyner is carried</L>
<L>To <HI>Oxford</HI> to take his degree,</L>
<L>And there it is &s;aid will be married</L>
<L>All under the <HI>Willow-green</HI> Tree.</L>
<L>For &s;ince his Accompli&s;hes faulter,</L>
<L><HI>Jack Ketch</HI> has provided a Halter</L>
<L>For tho&s;e that did blame us;</L>
<L>And went for to &s;ham us:</L>
<L>Will find that the Bill was not <HI>Ignoramus.</HI></L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>[2]</HEAD>
<L>He's &s;well'd up with Treacherous Sedition,</L>
<L>And now of Rebellion is &s;ick,</L>
<L>He wants the <HI>Fore-man</HI> his Phy&s;itian</L>
<L>To find out &s;ome Pollitick trick,</L>
<L>For he Good-man's in the Tower,</L>
<L>And now lies beyond the power</L>
<L>Of Whig, or of Shrieve,</L>
<L>To give him Reprieve,</L>
<L>Or Coun&s;el him how him&s;elf to Retrieve.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>[3]</HEAD>
<L>May now all the Presbiter Faction</L>
<L>Look &s;ad at this <HI>Colledges</HI> fate,</L>
<L>Who was Ma&s;ter of Arts in Tran&s;action,</L>
<L>To make <HI>Tony</HI> Head of the State:</L>
<L>Since Libell's accounted witty,</L>
<L>He publi&s;hed throughout the City,</L>
<L>To blow up the fire</L>
<L>Of Ambitious de&s;ire,</L>
<L>For which in a Halter he's now like t' expire.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>[4]</HEAD>
<L>The Judges were kind to the Pri&s;oner,</L>
<L>And granted what e're he de&s;ired,</L>
<L>He had Presbiter, Prie&s;t, and Tap&s;ter</L>
<L>To &s;peak what e're he Required:</L>
<L>He had what e're he propounded,</L>
<L>Yet was by the witne&s;s confounded,</L>
<L>For the Prie&s;t di&s;appears,</L>
<L>Through &s;coffs, and through jeares,</L>
<L><HI>&amp; &s;hrunk out of the Court like a Rat without ears.</HI></L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>[5]</HEAD>
<L>Twelve men of the be&s;t of the County</L>
<L>Were cho&s;en to bring in the Fact,</L>
<L>They &s;corn'd a Reward or a Bounty,</L>
<L>Since for God and King <HI>Charles</HI> they did Act,</L>
<L>They brought him in guilty of Trea&s;on,</L>
<L>For which all the Judges &s;hew'd rea&s;on,</L>
<L>Then after being Ca&s;t,</L>
<L>His Sentence was pa&s;t,</L>
<L>For the Halter's the fir&s;t, &amp; the Fire the la&s;t.</L>
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<LG N="6">
<HEAD>[6]</HEAD>
<L>He now does begin to repent him,</L>
<L>And wi&s;hes he'd ne'r been a Fool,</L>
<L>But made u&s;e of the Talent was lent him;</L>
<L>Not work'd with &s;o dangerous a tool:</L>
<L>So wretched a Sott ne'r man &s;aw,</L>
<L>He's cut to Death with his Hand-Saw,</L>
<L>This, this is the fate,</L>
<L>When fools to be great,</L>
<L>will venture their lives to be Members of <HI>State</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG N="7">
<HEAD>[7]</HEAD>
<L>This Ra&s;cal who lived well in <HI>London</HI></L>
<L>And could not be Planeing at home,</L>
<L>But is by his foolery undone,</L>
<L>And to Execution mu&s;t come:</L>
<L>He thought to have been Head of the <HI>Colledg,</HI></L>
<L>But that was beyond his knowledge,</L>
<L>Thus fools who a&s;pire,</L>
<L>Will fall in the Mire,</L>
<L>And &s;till do come &s;hort of what they de&s;ire.</L>
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<LG N="8">
<HEAD>[8]</HEAD>
<L>God pre&s;erve Great <HI>Charles</HI> and his Councill,</L>
<L>And &s;ee that to Sentence they bring,</L>
<L>All Traytors that do pronounce ill,</L>
<L>Or talk of &s;o Gracious a King:</L>
<L>May they all by their Plot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> be confounded,</L>
<L>Both Papi&s;t, Whigg, and, Round-head,</L>
<L>And bring them t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hame,</L>
<L>Who &s;peak ill of his name,</L>
<L>for he's our King that the world does proclaim</L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>J. Clark</HI> at the Golden Lyon in <HI>Wa&s;t Smithfield.</HI></P>
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