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<HEAD>PLOT OR NO PLOT OR, Sir W&mdash;m and his Spy foil'd.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A New BALLAD.</HEAD>
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<L>Y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lords, and ye Commons, give Ear to my Ditty,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ile I tell of a Plot lately hatch'd in the City,</L>
<L>You have heard how Mountain once brought forth a Mou&s;e</L>
<L>Such a Labour I &s;ing&mdash;No Offence to the H&mdash;</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down</HI></L>
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<L>A Sett of <HI>True Britons,</HI> who've ne'er &s;old a Vote,</L>
<L>And &s;corn'd for Court-Favour to alter their Note,</L>
<L>Met together at Dtnner, as thinking with Rea&s;on,</L>
<L>Roa&s;t Beef in <HI>Old England</HI> cou'd ne'er be deem'd Trea&s;on.</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>Tho' they met, as they tell you no Mi&s;chief intending,</L>
<L>Yet the Proof of the Pudding is found in the &s;pending;</L>
<L>For as Children are frighten'd with Tales of a Gho&s;t,</L>
<L>So our Courtiers they're &s;car'd with the Sound of a Toa&s;t.</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>Nor think this Alarm of our Mini&s;try &s;trange;</L>
<L>For who knows what's meant by the <HI>Royal Exchange;</HI></L>
<L>Thed the Words <HI>Ah&s;ent Stewards</HI> &s;mell &s;trong of Rebelling,</L>
<L>Since to make 'em High-Trea&s;on&mdash;wants only the Spelling</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>Sir <HI>W&mdash;m</HI> &s;u&s;pecting &s;ome horrid De&s;ign,</L>
<L>That endanger'd his Place and the Prote&s;tant Line,</L>
<L>Di&s;patch'd a Court-Engine, who&s;e Ear and who&s;e Eye,</L>
<L>Might remark what was doing&mdash;&s;ome call him a <HI>Spy.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>But &s;ome, who were &s;urely no Friends to the Crown,</L>
<L>Not liking the Face of our Spy, knock'd him down:</L>
<L>The Knight &s;ore enraged at this cruel Di&s;a&s;ter,</L>
<L>Thought a Plot for his Noddle would prove a good Plai&s;ter</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>Be&s;ides, as he held, in &s;uch dangerous Times,</L>
<L>For <HI>Tories</HI> to eat and to drink were high Crimes;</L>
<L>So no Meal-Tub or Harlequin <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">uppy before,</L>
<L>Produced &s;uch a Plot as this Dinner, e &s;w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">re.</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>To the H^e he complain'd then, and &s;traight was appointed</L>
<L>To &s;earch out this Scheme 'again&s;t the Lords High Anointed</L>
<L>But like <HI>Scrub,</HI> when his Plot he reveal'd to Friend <HI>Martin</HI></L>
<L>Knowing not what to make on't, he thought made it certain</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>For &s;o clo&s;ely the&s;e <HI>Tories</HI> their Project had &s;mother'd,</L>
<L>That the more he enquir'd the le&s;s he di&s;cover'd:</L>
<L>So finding not one Wrinkle more in his A&mdash;,</L>
<L>The H&mdash;e all concluded this Plot but a Farce.</L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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<L>Our State&s;men then cried, &s;ince we've made &s;uch a Pother</L>
<L>And this Plot's too young, let us cook up another;</L>
<L>For altho' our Knight's Credit has chanc'd to mi&s;carry,</L>
<L>Sure all will believe <HI>Honest Gentleman Horry.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Derry Down.</HI></L>
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