The WHIGS laid open, OR, An Honest Ballad of these sad Times.
To a Mery Tune, called Old Symon the King.
[...]
I.
NOw the
Plotters &
Plots are confounded,
And all their Designs are made known
Which smellt so strong of the
Round-head,
And Treason of
Forty One.
And all the Pious Intentions
For
Property, Liberty, Laws,
Are found to be only Inventions,
To bring in their
Good Old Cause.
And all the Pious,
&c.
II.
By their delicate
Bill of Exclusion,
So hotly pursu'd by the Rabble;
They hop'd to have made such Confusion,
As never was seen at Old
Babel.
The
[...]
Shaftsbury's brave City Boys,
And
M—ths Countrey Relations,
Were ready to second the Noise,
And send it throughout the 3 Nations.
Then Shaftsbury'
s, &c.
III.
No more of the 5
th of
November,
T
[...]at Dangerous Desperate Plot;
But ever with horruor remember
Old
Tony, Armstrong, and
Scot.
For
Tony shou'd ne're be forgotten,
Nor
Ferguson's Popular Rules;
Nor
M—th, or
G—y, when they're rotten,
For Popular, Politick Fools.
For Tony
shou'd, &c.
IV.
The Murder of Father and King,
And Extinguishing all the right Line,
Was a Good and a Godly thing;
And worthy the
Whigs Design:
The Hanging of Prelate, and Peer,
And putting the Guards to the Sword,
And Fleying, and Slashing Lord Mayors,
Was to do the Work o'the Lord.
The Hanging of,
&c.
V.
But I hope they will have their Desert,
And the
Gallows will have its due,
And
Jack Ketch will be more Expert,
And in time be as Rich as a
Jew,
Whilst now in the Tavern we Sing,
All Joy to great
York and his Right,
A Glorious long Reign to our King;
But when They'v'e occasion we'll Fight.
Whilst now in the Tavern,
&c.
VI.
The name of a
Whig and a
Tory,
No more shall Disquiet the Nation;
We'll Fight for the Church and her Glory,
And Pray for this Reformation.
That ev'ry Factious Professor,
And ev'ry Zealous Pretender
May humble 'em, to the Successor
Of
Charles, our Nations Defender.
That every Factio
[...]
&c.
Printed by N. T. at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, 1683▪