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Since Anna is gone    `An answer to...ballad entitled Since Hanover is come'  Will home to H[anove]r be trudging.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 1 
Born to a triple kingdom I submit    `K. J[ames] to the P[rinces]s A[n]ne'  Than all the wonders of her gentle reign.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 7 
Blame not your fate ye hawkers shrill    `On proclamations'  By pamphlet proclamations.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 7v 
May the act against vagrants reach the P[retende]r    `On the Act against vagrants'  Till they fix him at last in the parish w[h?]ere born.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 7v 
Today the picture does to him belong    `Another on the same' [Kennett]  Judas compar'd to Kennett is a saint.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 7v 
You're out to think yourself by Judas meant    `On Kennett'  The ancient traitor or the new false brother.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 7v 
Searcher of hearts almighty Providence    `A prayer' [Jacobite]  And on th us[urper]'s head a double portion light.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 8 
Bothm[ar] is Father Peters in disguise    [no heading]  That sent a better king than thee to France.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 8v 
O people of England when will you be wise    `A caveat for England' [Jacobite]  And the nation is curst till great J[ames] is call'd in.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 8v 
A secretary late a damsel took    `On S[tanho]pe'  The times are turn'd and you must turn your A.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 9 
I love with all my heart    [`The double meaning']  Tho' few will take my part Resolve to live and die.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 9 
When the famous Phrygian moralists of old    `A fable'  Feel the dire stork the Whigs insult the log.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 9 
For an apple of gold    `Strange news from St. James's'  At a dish of our coffee or tea.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 9v 
Behold he comes to make thy people groan    `Pasquin to the Queen's statue at St. Paul's during the procession Jan. 20th. 1714'  To stem by force his madness and despair.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 11v 
It is said that our Prince    `On Ld. Mayor's Day, 1714'  To see them all butt as they go.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 12 
Soon as young Jotham heard his brethren's fate    `Jotham's parable, Judges 9. 7'  Abimelech the jest and scorn of Christendom.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 13 
Ye ladies fair of old England    `The fair lady's doleful petition' [electress Sophia Dorothea, divorced wife of George I]  You'll be enslav'd or he uncrown'd. | With a fal, la, la, la, la.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 15 
Ye cuckolds all of fam'd Cheapside    `The answer to the lady's petition' [electress Sophia Dorothea, divorced wife of George I]  Like eighty-eight and forty-one. | With a fal, la, la, la, la.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 17 
Hail reverend Tripos guardian of the law    `On Tyburn. Printed in the State Poems 1705'  But righteous laws shall vouch all thou shalt execute.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 18v 
As Nero laughing saw fierce fire consume    `Nero the second' [1714/15]  And speed'ly call K[ing] James from exile home.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 19 
To all you Tories far from court    `The Whig's new court tune__to all you ladies now at land'  Then you're to blame if unprepar'd. | With a fal, la, la, la, la.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 20 
If men are deem'd for loyalty    `A parallel between the D[uke] of O[rmonde] and M[arlborou]gh'  His actions reach the skies.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 23v 
From happy climes where virtue never dies    `Cato's ghost' [1715]  Shall find his generous labor was not lost.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 27 
When G[eorge] the great Elector of Han[ove]r    `The Dutch embassy'  They march'd away and so the farce was done.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 27 
Boast not of B[olingbro]ke's retreat    `The Bull__ke [Bolingbroke] ballad'  All smiling join in chorus.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 30 
Old Oliver's dead and rotten    `The credulous robber cheated...'  By my troth they may kiss my a[rse].  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 32v 
We who were never yet at quiet    `The Whigs' address. [headed:] May it please your Majesty...'  Your faithful subjects or we lie all.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 34 
What Briton can survey that heavenly face    `On the Chevalier's picture' [1714]  Each other and restore Brit[anni]a's bliss.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 35 
Whilst w[ho]res rul'd Ch[ar]les those very wh[o]res I rul'd    `John C[hurch]ill [duke of Marlborough]'s life and times'  A friend a[t] bar shall drive him home again.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 36 
Actions alike should bear an equal shame    `Judas and Ch[urch]ill compared'  Hang but the last the parallel's complete.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 36v 
When Israel first provok'd the living Lord    `An allusion'  As B[isho]p B[urne]t did exceed St. Paul.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 36v 
When England shall her principles betray    `Prophecy made in 1297, found at Oxford in 1641'  Which cannot end till Caesar has his due.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 37 
When English no more shall be spoken at court    `Another prophecy'  First Luther then Calvin then the devil and all.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 38 
G[eorge] Lewis now us[ur]ps the British throne    `B[ritai]n undone by Lewis'  At worst you'd had a bastard of your own.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 38v 
King Charles of modern pious fame    `The favorites'  Was govern'd by the devil.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 39 
Whig's the first letter of his odious name    `An acrostic on Wh[ar]ton'  Noll's soul and Ireton's live within him yet.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 39v 
Good Lord shorten    `On Wharton'  With his father's fanatical face.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 40 
Oh w[h]ere art thou St. Taffy    `A Welsh song on March the 1st'  And so retrieve her glory.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 40 
When his loved Germans George was forced to leave    æLet each have his ownÆ  Each prince to govern where heÆll govern well.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 41b 
King am I    `Soliloquy' [echo]  So you must | Echo.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 42 
Shall mimic kings long fill the British throne    `Query'  And nature smile on the propitious day.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 42 
Strike up my discontented muse    `A new song to the tune of The King shall [enjoy] his own again'  When J[ames] the Th[ir]d comes from L[orrai]n[e].  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 42v 
Bring in a bowl I'll toast a health    `A song to the tune of O'er the hills and far away'  And bla' him back that's blown away.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 45 
Great monarch hasten to thy native shore    `England's address to her sov[erieign]'  And willing nations own their lawful k[ing].  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 45v 
England beware for the people are come    `The blessed tribe'  Sure none but the devil himself can come after.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 46 
What alteration what a change of things    `The citizen's complaint'  The rightful heir and we will ask no more.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 46v 
Permit us Sir your lowly slaves    `The poets' address'  Better than hitherto you've done the playhouse.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 53 
What Partridge doth predestinate    `A song. To the tune of the K[ing] shall enjoy his own again'  And all canting knaves shall forever be slaves | When the king enjoys his own again.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 56v 
A wicked old peer    `Hell in an uproar a song'  Will bring in the house of Hanover.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 58 
You that are loyal    `A health to the King' [Jacobite]  When M[arlborough] is flown and Whigs are all undone | Then the K[ing] shall enjoy his own.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 58v 
What shall a c[uckol]d thus possess our c[row]n    `Britain's advice and prayer'  In triumph let him reign and die in peace.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 59 
Quoth the Duke to a Duke brother Duke let us see    `Dialogue between M[arlborou]gh and Ar[gy]ll'  You must know brother Duke I pretend to a brace.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 59v 
In a Council of State    `On choosing a motto: Dieu et mon droit. A song'  Though the other be gone in a trice.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 60 
Behold our crimes ye foreign shores and see    `On the Thanksgiving Day. Jan. the 20th 1714/15'  May Jove with thunder strike him headlong down.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 63v 
Hail happy Albion thou art strangely blest    `On the same' [Thanksgiving Day, Jan. 20th. 1714/14]  Thou hast the evil but thou want'st the touch.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 64 
With sullen pomp great p[rinc]e thy triumphs pass    `Another on the same' [Thanksgiving Day, Jany. 20. 1714/15'  The people's voice like that of God's was still.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 64 
The golden age is now at length restor'd    `A spiritual hymn on the same [Thanksgiving Day, Jany. 20th. 1714/15], by some called The golden age'  This day old Noll to judgment brought the king.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 65v 
Shall sham Thanksgivings never be suppress'd    `Another on the same' [Thanksgiving Day, Jany. 20th. 1714/15]  Whilst he triumphant wears an injur'd m[onar]ch's cr[ow]n.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 67 
When savage Goths from Rhine return    `A prophecy by Merlin'  For lo her own Augustus reigns.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 67v 
When a D[ut]ch c[uckol]d with two horns    `Another prophecy' [Jacobite]  And bring both well and peace.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 69 
Is this Brit[ann]ia this that once-blest state    `Q. Anne's ghost to Albion'  Which will resettle Albion's m[onar]chy and laws.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 70v 
Here's a health to the King Sir    `A health to the King. A song' [Jacobite]  Would ask what King I mean.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 71 
How bold is G[eorge] to venture o'er    `On G[eor]g[e]'s coming over'  And leave you to the axe's fate |Quite bumsick.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 71v 
A dispensation just as Lent e'er begins    `An epigram'  What must we first give thanks and then repent.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 73 
Oh isle infatuate! Oh nation most unwise    `A prediction'  Whilst shame and vengeance crust a rebel crew.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 73 
When pride provok'd old Satan to revolt    `[King] William [III]'s legacy'  On this side hell when Nassau leads the way.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 73v 
The P[rinc]e through fundament profound    `Top and tail'  The King at one end's weak at both the P[rin]ce.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 74 
When the devil and G[eorge] went to it to fight    `A scuffle between G[eorge I] and the devil'  Yet I must confess Sir your h[or]ns are the stronger.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 74 
Of three ungracious kings the last and worst    `The succession a tale'  Or hope a better change or fear a worse.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 74v 
Windsor at length be to your country just    `Advice to the electors of New Windsor'  For Anna ever to the Church was kind.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 75 
Since that for Windsor we have got the day    `On gaining the election'  And though she's dead make Anna live again.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 76 
On March the one and twentieth day    `On G[eorge]'s speech, March the 21st. 1714/15'  To give them hose and shoon.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 77 
My country dear I have forsook    `The bread and butter song. To the tune of The children in the wood' [1714/15]  And I have got my ends.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 79v 
Tonight us[urp]ing ty[ran]ny attend    `A prologue to Jane Gray'  And rule in mercy with a right divine.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 81 
Oh who could have thought    `A song' [Jacobite]  And hang up old C[hurch]ill their master.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 82 
I am very much concern'd to find    `Marlborough's speech to the soldiers' [1715]  And love King George of kings the best.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 83 
When royal Anna rul'd this land    `The burning of the shirts or the soldiers' complaint against their sackcloth linen__to the tune of the K[ing] shall enjoy his own'  And the King enjoy his own again.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 85v 
Whilst Albion to her rebel sons a prey    `On May the 29th 1715'  K[ing] J[ames] the Th[ir]d as he did Ch[arles] before.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 87v 
Here Sarum lies of late so wise    `Burnet's epitaph'  For M[arlborou]gh and his Duchess.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 90v 
If heaven is pleas'd when sinners cease to sin    `Burnet's elegy'  Then all are pleas'd for B[urne]t's in his grave.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 91 
The corpse of Gil Burnet lies under this stone    `Another epitaph on [Gilbert] Burnet'  If Christ han't redeem'd him the devil must take him.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 91 
A prelate hurl'd    `Strange news from the dead'  Went hand in hand together.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 91v 
Burnet forever has the Whigs forsook    `Wh[ar]ton's funeral ticket'  Be the region light on dark.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 93v 
Good Lord shorten    `On Wh[ar]ton'  With his father's fanatical face.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 94 
Whig's the first letter of his odious name    `An acrostic on Wh[ar]ton'  Noll's soul and Ireton's live within him yet.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 94v 
Industrious unfatigu'd in faction's cause    `Wh[ar]ton's character'  Abhorred by Heaven and long since doom'd to Hell.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 95 
I long observ'd disquiet in your face    `Verses fixed on King James the 2nd's statue in the time of the great eclipse April the 22nd. 1715'  The people's freedom and the t[yran]t's doom.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 95v 
As the pale moon the sun's bright orb o'ershades    `On the eclipse found in the King['s] Bench walks in the Temple'  So let the c[uckol]d to the K[ing] give way.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 97 
That solemn day the world's great Savior died    `On the secret committee sitting on Good Friday and Easter Sunday at the time of the great eclipse'  Peep'd in the cockpit and then hid his light.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 97 
The devils were brawling when B[urne]t descending    `Hell in an uproar'  Great G[eorge] live forever Amen cried all Hell.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 97v 
Old B[urne]t they say    `Dialogue between the Devil and Dr. Pead'  The devil has got his due.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 98v 
Ev'ry man to great J[ame]s drink a health    `A health to the King to the tune of Let ev'ry man take a glass in his hand'  To the honor of J[ame]s our K[in]g.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 100 
Great Jove look down on us poor Whigs    `The Whigs' prayer'  Or have no god at all.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 101 
The scourge of heaven the prophet's lifted rod    `The plagues of Nod'  Look up ye slaves__deliverance is nigh.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 102 
Shall then so bright a day forgotten be    `On June the 10th. 1715'  T'our longing eyes our sun eclipse'd restore.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 103 
A hero's noble merits to rehearse    `A pindaric ode on the 10th of June, 1715'  And whilst there's joy and mirth far be all strife and fray.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 104v 
Appear O J[ames] approach thy native shore    `The landing in Scotland'  Let J[ames] to J[ames} succeed with better fate.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 107 
Tis done 'tis done the wond'rous cause succeeds    `On the report of his [the Pretender's] cor[ona]tion'  Our J[ame]s is crown'd and B[unsw]ick put to flight.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 108 
Forgive us O ye new immortal pair    `On the death of James earl of Derwentwater: who was beheaded on Tower Hill Feb: the 24th 1715/16 (St. Matthew's Day)'  Sure fate will drain the sacred current dry.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 108v 
Long have I studied for some mighty name    `On the death of the Lord Viscount Kenmure who was beheaded at the same time and place [24 Feb. 1715/16, at Tower Hill]  But faction rage remorse and endless care.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 110v 
What you said last we all allow    `A letter from the maypole in the Strand to the maypole at Farnham...'  Be never saw'd for blocks.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 112v 
Tis not so strange that Wal[pole's] tam'd    `The Farnham maypole's answer to that in the Strand'  For disaffected timber.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 114 
Here lies the relics of a martyred earl    `L[or]d Der[wentwate]r's epitaph' [1716]  To set three nations and its head together.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 115v 
Whilst with delusive hopes of pardon fed    `Ger[man] mercy'  It's death your honors for your lives to pawn.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 115v 
Dearest of men in best of causes lost    `An acrostic on the Ld. D[erwentwate]r's name'  Rear up their heads and hallelujahs sing.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 116 
When I survey this mighty frame    `A sacred ode to K[ing] G[eorge]'  Offending thee no more.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 116v 
As G[eorge] essay'd the royal ship to move    `On the ship's not launching named the Royal George'  And would not launch in a P[retende]r's sight.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 119v 
Dear prisoner whom fate hath hither sent,    `Advice to the gentlemen prisoners'  Thou mayst enjoy a perfect freedom.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 119v 
Illustrious Sir you are this nation's care    `Acrostic on J[ame]s S[tuar]t'  To give you aid then to your th[ro]ne advance.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 120 
Bow England thy inglorious head in dust    `A pattern for England'  Than those that freed themselves and righted J[ame]s.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 120v 
When royal youth shall we be blest again    `In imitation of the 5th ode of Horace liber the 4th'  And consecrate with mirth, the Rest[oratio]n Day.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 121v 
B[rito]ns awake, old England begs your aid    `On the standing army'  And J[ames] the T[hir]d the just [h]is own retriev'd.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 124v 
What people are so void of common sense    `In Ovid's epistles Dido to Aeneas'  To vote succession from a native Prince.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 125 
When stars appear before sunset    `On the stars appearing before sunset'  And make the W[hi]gs knock under.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 125 
Had I with Plato's eloquence been fill'd  Savage, Richard, 1698_1743?  `To the King'  And in the temple we anoint you his.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 125v 
When dames of Britain shall espouse    `A prophecy on June the 10th. 1716 &c.'  May hope to see a Rest[ora]tion.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 126 
Ye hypocrites leave off your pranks    `On [Thanksgiving Day] June the 7th. 1716'  For God accepts no thanks for murder.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 126v 
Blest be this day thrice happy be the morn    `On June the 10th 1716'  And let K[in]g J[ame]s live long we all do pray.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 127 
Blest be this day thrice happy be the morn    `The same [`On June the 10th 1716'] altered'  That we may also keep his restoration day.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 128v 
Kneller thy pencil take with shame    `On Sir Godfrey Kneller painting G[eorge]'s picture'  You drew a G[eorge] a Cromwell he.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 130 
Oh H[anove]r boast no more of thy power    `A trip to H[anove]r. A song to the tune of Lilliburlero'  Is more than your father is able to pay.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 133 
Divinity and justice hand in hand    `On Mr. Paul and Mr. Hall'  Abjur'd their K[ing] and Barabbas did approve.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 134 
See there he goes unto the nation's joy    `The procession to H[anover]'  And J[ame]s the T[hir]d live long we all do pray.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 135 
Oh gloomy day! Oh melancholy scene    `On August the 1st. 1716'  From thence outshine the twenty-ninth of May.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 137 
What shall the bells in merry peals thus roll    `Another on the same' [August 1st 1716]  For An[n]a's virtues shall in J[ame]s survive.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 138v 
The princess somewhat in disorder    `The princess's lock a merry tale'  His pocket light and heavy-hearted.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 140v 
Old English kings were wont to speak    `The proxy' [1715]  Proximity of blood.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 143 
Bur[ne]t's to heaven gone if Whigs go there    `Burnet's funeral ticket'  If nonresistance be the Holy Ghost.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 144 
Come come great M[onar]ch come away    `Revolution upon revolution'  Except to dance the Tyburn jig. | Coragio, coragio, coragio.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 145 
An eloquent knight in the height of his speech    `G[eor]ge prefers his whore before his hon[o]r'  Tho' himself be the jest his wh[o]res shall be spar'd.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 148v 
A strange crew at St. J[ame]s's are harbor'd now    `The English court made a D[ut]ch b[aw]dy house for the K[in]g'  To swing their D[ut]ch caresses with a French pain.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 149 
Let Whigs remember the fourth of November    `A song__on May the twenty-ninth'  We banter the Church we own.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 150v 
Let B[ritai]n now a grateful homage pay    `On June the 10th. 1716'  That did an exil'd K[ing] and sinking state.  BL1  Add. 29981  f. 151v