A New SONG, In Praise of the Loyal Company of STATIONERS, Who (after the general forfeit,) for Their singular Loyalty, obtain'd the first CHARTER of LONDON, Anno 1684.
To the Tune of,
Winchester Wedding.
[...]
1.
IN
London was such a Quarter,
The like was never known,
About the forfeited CHARTER
Betwixt the
Court and the
Town;
The Masters went crouding before,
The Prentices i'th' Rear did fall,
There were ten thousand and more,
Attended to lead up the Brawl:
Kit Arm'd with a Fork and a Spade,
And
Bob with a Shovel and Fork,
But
Tender was for a surrender,
And now it began to work.
2.
Quoth
Willy what lose the CHARTER?
I'll sooner lose my Head;
Quoth
Robin I'll die a Martyr
Before that shall ever be said:
Quoth
John you may shut up your Shopping,
Your CHARTER was all your Shield,
For every Sea-man of
Wapping,
May be Freeman now of the
Guield;
Quoth a
Butcher; the Beggerly
French
Will out of our Mouths cat the Bread;
But the
Weaver, he cock'd up his Beaver,
And valiantly march'd at the Head.
3
But
Stationers Hall so Loyal,
The CHARTER by which they meet,
The gift of his Ancesters Royal,
Did humbly lay at His Feet:
Whose Suit he so far befriendeth,
Their Liberties know no bound,
Their CHARTER her wings extendeth
through
London, and many miles round.
And now from the
Bigot and
Whig,
(To distinguish the good men, and true)
The Table is purg'd, and the Rabble
With the Members excluded withdrew.
4
With limping
Dick, the
Zealou
[...],
Went doating yea, and nay,
And squinting
Jack so Jealous.
Lest Loyalty got the day.
With these
Jack Thumb was reckon'd;
And hungry
Will of the wood;
And
I rank the first, and the second,
And
George that will never be good,
And thus they did trip it along,
Whilst
William led up the Brawl,
But
Jonny did storm above any,
To be turn'd out of the Hall.
5.
Jack gave his right hand to
Harry,
VVho now his place had lost,
And swore if the day they carry,
The
Loyal shou'd pay for the Rost.
But
Robin who made a tryal,
And found how the Jig wou'd go,
Resolv'd to change sides, and be Loyal,
But all the
Dissenters said no;
Thus whilst to the CHARTER or Law,
They would no obedience yield,
The glory was still
True Tory,
Is Master of the Field.
6.
Now to the
Stationers Honour,
The CHARTER is on Record;
Great
CHARLES the Bountiful
Donor,
Their Franchises has restor'd;
To whose everlasting Glory,
Thy Honour will still redound;
That they are the first in story,
VVho
London's CHARTER did found;
Then to the brave Founder a Health,
VVho first did our Freedom create,
A Bumper to
CHARLES; to the
Rumper
A Halter, and
Armstrong's Fate.
Printed by N. T. at the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, 1684.