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'Tis not so strange that Walp[o]l[e]'s tam'd
`The Farnham maypole's reply' [to `What you said last...']
As disaffected timber.
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p. 166; see also `'Tis no strange thingà'.
Tis the twenty-ninth of May
`A new toast, or a ballad on the twenty-ninth of May. To the tune of Over the [hills and far away]' [pr. 1715 (Foxon N233]
That they may rise, and Whigs may fall.
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p. 91
'Twas in the town of London
`The mayor and the mob. To the tune of Royal race was Shinkin' [pr. 1742? (Foxon M154)]
And lead the mob to Hell, Sir.
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p. 57
A glorious new prophetic star
`An epigram'
But knoweth Robin Goodfellow.
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p. 84
A mother dead, and am I from the throne
`On the prince's being forbidden mourning for his mother'
Let Kendal, at her peril, mourn for thee.
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p. 168
A pensioner is a corrupted thing
`The pensioner'
And drudges his low worthless life away.
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p. 132
A prelate hurl'd to the other world
`Strange news from the dead' [on Burnet]
Went hand and hand together.
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p. 124
A rich country farmer possest of a mill
`The Norfolk miller excised'
Get what you can Robin my family's large.
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p. 210
A robin who perching himself on a wall
`Honor and honesty displayed, in a dialogue between a robin on a wall and a frog in a pool' [on Sir Robert Walpole]
Being heartily stung with the frog's sharp replies.
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p. 14
A set of phrases, learnt by rote
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`The furniture of a woman's mind' [pr. 1750? (Foxon S857)]
So holla boys, God save the King.
Yale
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p. 165
A story I'll tell you a story at large
`On the fall of the bed's tester on K[ing] G[eorge], and the D[uche]ss of M[un]st[e]r [later Duchess of Kendal]'
For he's out of their debt if he ow'd them a shame.
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p. 165
A strange crew at St. James are harbor'd now,
`The English court made a Dutch b[awd]y house'
Your arms won't save you, for your horse must fly.
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p. 76
A Whig and a Tory o'er a pot of good ale
`The argument'
'Twas not to compare to good eating and drinking.
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p. 42
A wicked old peer
`Hell in an uproar'
Will bring in the house of Hanover.
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p. 12
Actions alike! Alike should be their shame
`Writ with a pencil in the Parliament House' [on Marlborough]
Hang but the last; the parable's complete.
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p. 49 (`should be their shame')
After venting all my spite,
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`An epistle to a lady who desired me to make verses on her' [pr. 1733 (Foxon S841)]
I to laugh, and you grow wise.
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p. 165 (`on Sir R[obert] W[alpole]')
Ah! who could have thought
`A lampoon'
And hang up old Churchill their master.
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p. 79
Albinus hence thy faults discern
`To Albinus. On the prodigal son'
And thou in peace thy days shall end.
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p. 66
All folks who pretend to religion and grace
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`On the place of the damned' [pr. 1731 (Foxon S897)]
How happy for us, that it is not at home.
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p. 120
All hail mighty monarch, tho' banish'd your throne
`On the same occasion' [the marriage of the Old Pretender]
He's a tyrant that rules by compulsion.
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p. 36
All in amaze, at what is past I stood,
`On the revolution'
And let the world turn which way 'twill for me.
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p. 66
All languid and pale
`A song to the tune of The Louvre'
And so sin no more.
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p. 60
All laud and praise to W[alpo]le be
`To the praise of R[obert] W[alpole]'
But die in perfect health.
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p. 130
All scribblers poor who write to eat
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl, 1694_1773
`On Sir Robert Walpole'
That ever tries to part you.
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p. 160
Aloud I heard the voice of fame
`On the birth of the prince' [the Young Pretender]
And trembling own their God.
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p. 100
Amongst British worthies in London's pantheon
`On the proposition for a statue designed for King W[illiam]'
Which would they worship, the man or the horse.
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p. 114
Appear O James, approach thy native shore
`A call to the righteous'
And James, shall James succeed with better fate.
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p. 9
Arise Britannia see around thy head
`On the King's landing in Scotland'
Resum'd his seat, and shone more awful than before.
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p. 134
As Amaryllis on the plain,
`A song, &c. The disconsolate shepherd'
As if he felt her pain.
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p. 59
As in the groves I walk'd alone
`A ballad occasioned by the report of the Queen being past recovery. The echo'
But thanks the gods, that him restore.
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p. 59
As Nero laughing saw fierce fire consume
`Nero the second' [on George I]
Let Nero's vices meet with Nero's doom.
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p. 33
As Satan o'er Lincoln was looking one day
`A dialogue between the gentleman that looks over Lincoln and the gentleman [George I] on Bloomsbury steeple'
He'll be glad to come off half as well at Cambray.
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p. 120
As Sh__ was pleading for bribes, and for pensions,
`Epigram'
The man like the boy souses o'er head and ears.
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p. 107
As soon as the wind came kindly about
`A song. To the tune of the abbot of Canterbury'
For the devil won't take you if I turn you away.
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p. 70
As the pale moon the sun's bright orb o'ershades
`Found in the King's Bench walk in the Temple just after the eclipse'
So lets the cuckold to the king give way.
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p. 5
As threat'ning storms insult the skies,
`On my Lord Bolingbroke's going over into France'
Return triumphant to our hemisphere.
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p. 67
At James' House is a fearful rout,
`The court scuffle, or, to him Towzer &c. a ballad. To the tune of Nobody &c.'
Instead of a child, to have gotten__nothing at all. Which &c.
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p. 7
At length this oak all canker'd round
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`A sequel to the fable of the oak and the dunghill. In imitation of Sternhold and Hopkins addressed to a certain pretended senator, lately preferred for his political writings'
Thou shalt submit to mine.
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p. 44
At Whitehall sits a High Commission
`On the judges going to Bristol'
Led a much better king than you, to France.
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p. 68
Be cautious Madam, how you thus provoke
`The caution' [to the Duchess of Marlborough, who cut down an oak planted by Charles II]
The fate may be your own another day.
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p. 63
Behold, by undiscerning fate,
Thurston, Joseph
`On a lady dangerously sick'
The roses fade, the lilies die.
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Behold! He comes to make the people groan
`Pasquin to the Queen's statue at St. Pauls, during the procession. Jan. the 20. 1714[/15]'
But beggars hors'd, unto the devil speed.
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p. 66
Behold our crimes, ye foreign shores and see
`A hymn on the 20. of Jan.' [anniversary of Charles I's trial]
God may with thunder strike the usurper down.
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p. 50
Blame not your fate, ye hawkers shrill
`On the proclamations'
By pamphlet proclamations.
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p. 85
Boast not of Bolingbroke's retreat
`The Tories' health'
Charles', or James', or Anna's ghost | All smiling join in chorus.
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p. 23
Born to a triple empire I submit
`On King James the Third'
Than all the wonders of her milder reign.
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p. 41
Bow Albion thy inglorious head in dust
`To England'
Than those that freed themselves, and righted J[ame]s.
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p. 149
Bra' Ormonde now is o' the main
`A song to the tune of Catherine Mogey'
Will bless this happy nation.
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p. 54
Bring a bowl! I'll toast a health,
`A ballad to a Scotch tune'
Him back again that's blawn awa'.
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p. 54
Britannia mourn, lament thy sinking state,
`Advice to Britain' [on George I]
Long live King James our true, and lawful king.
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p. 105
Britons behold the product of your isle
`[preface to] A collection of state flowers'
Then judge the vicious growth, and guess the men.
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p. 23
Britons now retrieve your glory
`A song'
Or you never can be blest.
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p. 156
Burleigh and Walsingham in former days
`An epigram in praise of modern unity'
Unite them__how__to hate and scorn the knight.
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p. 9
Burnet forever has the Whigs forsook,
`Wharton's funeral ticket'
Be the region, light or dark.
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p. 29
But since on knavish models G[eor]ge is split,
`Pighburgh and Kilmanseck [Kielmansegge]. The modest toast | We'll soon have pensions at the nation's cost | Beyond what Portland, or what Orkney boast'
To stem by force his madness, and despair.
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p. 67
But the false fox most kindly played his part
`Mother Hubbard's tale, where the fox is always represented as the emblem of craft and baseness is raised to be first minister of the kingdom of beasts'
That to give hugely to the box refus'd.
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p. 55
Cease to lament for Oxburgh's sudden fall,
`On Count Oxburghs [Oxborough]'
Whene'er our king or honor claims our breath.
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p. 162
Come Britons your case forget to implore
`The British merchants' toast'
Attend on the glorious two hundred and four.
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p. 206
Come come great monarch come away
`Revolution upon revolution. An old song made the the year 1688. revised in the year 1715'
Except to dance a Tyburn jig. | Couragio &c.
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p. 109
Come listen, my friends, to a story so new
`Robin Hood and the Duke of Lancaster. To the tune of the abbot of Canterbury' [pr. 1727 (Foxon R232]
Oh no: quoth the Duke__I'd be robbing myself. | Derry &c.
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p. 11
Dame Briton of the grange once fam'd
`A fable of an old woman and her doctor' [sometimes attrib. Matthew Prior]
Myself a beggar, and a fool.
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p. 33
Dear royal [James] I'll ne'er repent
`The loyalist'
To see a restoration.
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p. 151
Die Townshend, die, thy odious life resign
`On the Lord Townshend's being turned out from being Secretary of State'
Make some atonement for the guilty land.
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p. 170
Divinity and justice hand in hand,
`On the execution of Mr. Paul and Mr. Hall: July the 13: 1716'
When you so just a debt, shall to a farthing pay.
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p. 171
Dullness, to thee I consecrate my lays,
`An address to dullness'
And Io paeans rend the vaulted skies.
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p. 112
False Robin the little that lately was great
`A state riddle'
Found traps for his foes, and base tricks for his friends.
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p. 1
Farewell old year, for thou canst ne'er return,
`On the old year' [1714]
Farewell old England thou hast lost thy glory.
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p. 51
Farewell to all my shady bowers,
`A song. To the tune of I'll range around the shady bowers &c.'
And never never ask for more.
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p. 181
Folks talk of supplies
`Britain excised. Part the first' [pr. 1733 (Foxon B459]
He'll drive all such monsters to Hell. | Horse foot and dragoons....
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p. 145
For an apple of gold
`The coffee women turned courtiers. To the tune of Ye Commons and Peers'
At a dish of our coffee, or tea.
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p. 98
For liberty so long we fought in vain,
`A collect for the Restoration Day. May the 29'
While they are punish'd for a sprig of oak.
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p. 9
From bad health and bad weather and parties' dull strife,
`The true Englishman's wish'
And I ask for no more within the four seas.
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p. 40
From dreary realms where cold and famine reign,
`A speech deliver'd by the High German-speaking dog when he had audience at Kensington. Introduced by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle'
The land that made you monarch worship me.
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p. 3
From happy climes where virtue never dies,
Meston, William, 1688?_1745
`Cato's ghost,' [Jacobite verses on Addison's play, pr. 1715 (Foxon M209)]
Then find the generous labor is not lost.
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p. 116
From me dear Charles, inspir'd with ale,
Tunstall, William
`A ballad from a prisoner in the Marshallsea, to another at Newgate' [Sir Charles Wogan; pr. 1716 (Foxon T546)]
The cart would drive, and I be hang'd. | With a fa &c.
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p. 148
From stronger proofs, if I aright divine,
`Written on a window with a diamond'
You'll find them false and brittle as the glass.
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p. 135
From this auspicious night shall rise a star,
Dryden, John
`On the birth of St. George' [from Amphitryon (alt.)]
Shall be compell'd to happiness, by need.
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p. 38
Full fifty years it shall be
`Lilly's prophecy'
Then feed the fish.
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p. 43
Full forty years old England complain'd
`An historical ballad, humbly inscribed to the duumviri' [pr. 1730? (Foxon H252)]
For want of a halfpenny light.
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p. 105 (crossed out; incomplete?)
Gaffer Grubb, full of cares a good trade for his son
`The hiss. A tale'
That noddle of thine will ne'er do for a forge.
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p. 72
George Lewis now usurps the British throne,
`A remembrance to Great Britain'
Our lawful monarch's from their throne is forc'd.
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p. 71
Give ear to my wonderful ditty,
`A ballad. &c.
As they did in the year forty-one. | With a &c.
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p. 74
Go on brave Sirs in your immense design
`The Tories' advice to the secret cabal'
Hang but the latter: the parallel's complete.
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p. 140
Go on little Cap: stick close to Sir Bob
`On reading a certain speech [by Sir Abraham Elton] which ended with the terrible word Destruction' [pr. 1715? (Foxon O184)]
Are sure in Destruction to end.
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p. 1
God prosper long our gracious King,
`On New Year's Day. Supposed by Mr. Cibber'
Descend from f[oo]l to f[oo]l.
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p. 102
God prosper long our gracious Will;
`A song to the tune to Chevy Chase'
We ne'er shall see such, more.
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p. 130
God prosper long our noble king
`Safety and tranquility an excellent new ballad to [the] tune of Chevy Chase'
For this tranquility.
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p. 145
Good people give ear, and I'll tell you a story,
`The Pacific fleet'
So the scheme for the public is very well laid. | Which &c.
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p. 69
Good people pray for what is past
Were e'en as bad as they.
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p. 122; see also `Good people fastà', `O God we prayà'.
Good Robert king, we humbly pray
`The countryman's petition' [to Walpole]
That all they say are lies.
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p. 131
Great Britain now may well regret
`Old England's resentment. To the tune of Britain's new health'
Reduc'd again to anarchy | By Coningsmark's pretenders.
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p. 88
Great Jove! Look down on us poor Whigs
`Semper idem. Or the Whig's litany 1713'
Or have no god at all.
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p. 80
Great monarch, hasten to thy native shore
`England's most humble address to her lawful sovereign, of all princes the most accomplished and eminently endowed with all manner of virtues, yet exiled' [pr. 1718? (Foxon E323)]
And willing nations, own their rightful king.
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p. 123
Had I with Plato's eloquence been fill'd,
`To his sacred majesty King James the Third' [Foxon S110]
And in the temple, we anoint you His.
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p. 117
Hail happy Albion thou art strangely blest,
`On the Thanksgiving Day'
Thou hast the evil, but thou want'st the touch.
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p. 4
Hail! Minister by paradoxes great
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`A panegyrick on Car[dinal]: [Robert] W[alpole]'
Thy stars, or genius, never match'd before.
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p. 57
Happy the senate worthy of applause
`A panegyric on the Sanhedrim'
The traitor St. John's that vile informer.
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p. 123
Happy! Thrice happy is his fate
`Damocles' [on Walpole? pr. 1720? (Foxon D19)]
And crush at once th'inglorious line.
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p. 1
Hard is your fate since hither you are come,
`To the elector of Hanover'
Raving they can't do all the ill they would.
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p. 49
Have you heard of a plot to destroy the poor K[in]g
`The masquerade plot'
As much in the pistols, as was in the plot. | Which &c.
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p. 1
Have you not seen at country wake,
`To Caleb D'anvers esqr. [i.e., Nicholas Amhurst] a simile'
Old England must the piper pay.
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p. 107
Here Gascoigne lies that brave heroic he,
`An epitaph on Mr. Gascoigne'
Their utmost malice cannot reach thee, there.
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p. 160
Here lies the relics of a murder'd Earl
`An epitaph on the Earl of Derwentwater'
To join three nations, and their head together.
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p. 161
Here Scotus lies, of late as wise
`An epitaph on the late Bishop of Addlebury' [Gilbert Burnet, bp. of Salisbury]
For Marlborough and his Duchess.
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p. 5; see also `Here Sarum liesà'.
Here stands the monarch of a British throne
`Fixed on King George's statue'
None but his whores e'er found him flesh and blood.
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p. 15
Here's a health to the glorious twenty-four,
`On the number of members who voted against the late bill of excise being the same with the amount of the first eight square numbers in arithmetic...'
Than the mystical sum of two hundred and four.
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p. 106
Here's a health to the King and his royal successors,
`A loyal health on the marriage of the king [the Old Pretender]'
To the downfall of Whigs and fanatical Rumpers.
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p. 35
Here's a health to the King, whom the crown does belong to
`The health'
But we'll drink a health, a health to all true hearts.
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p. 70
How blest the days of Saturn's golden reign
`Golden age'
And Jack the advice to learn did not dispair.
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p. 149
How bold is George to venture o'er,
`On the King' [1714]
And leave you to obey your fate. | March Brunswick.
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p. 14
How vain Sir Knight is thy affected rage,
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`To a certain gentleman who takes the character of Cardinal Woolsey, to himself. An epigram'
Thy charity begins and ends at home.
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p. 62
I am a poet by my trade,
`A new crop of blockheads. Or the poetical harvest home'
Has furnish'd such a harvest home. | With a fa &c.
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p. 9
I am a saucy scribbler,
`A ballad'
Whilst he keeps open door. | And begging we may go....
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p. 137
I am a sturdy beggar
`The London merchants' triumph' [pr. 1733 (Foxon L239)]
No ribbon but a halter. | And to Tyburn they would go....
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p. 219
I am very much concern'd to find
`The Duke of Marlborough's speech to the First Regiment of Foot Guards, June the 2nd. 1715' [satire; pr. 1715 (Foxon S627)]
And love King George, of kings the best.
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p. 120
I have been of late to London
`A song'
You shall keep your places still.
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p. 148
I long observ'd disturbance in your face,
`Verses fixed on King James the Second's statue in the Privy Garden on the 22. of April 1715. in the midst of the eclipse'
Is the people's freedom: and the tyrant's doom.
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p. 25
I love with all my heart
`The reverse: to be read two ways'
Resolve to live and die.
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p. 117
I never din'd with Dennis or with Pope,
`Persius Scaramouche. By way of dialogue betwixt Mr. D'anvers [Nicholas Amhurst], and orator [John] Henley, by Griffith Morgan D'anvers M. A. formerly of Tr. College...in imitation of the first satire of Perseus' [pr. 1734 (Foxon D42)]
Go home and dine, and then pick up a wench.
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p. 53
I never meddl'd with intrigues,
`A true touchstone of the times. The freethinker's confession' [pr. 1719 (Foxon T533)]
I never will do so no more.
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p. 81
I sing of a meeting that happen'd of late
`On the peerage bill' [24 June 1719]
Yet he cares not a fig for his prerogative. | Which &c.
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p. 57
I sing the praise of heroes brave,
`A hymn. To the victory in Scotland' [25 June 1719]
'Tis very strange 'tween you and I.
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p. 77
I'll tell you a story, a story that new is
`On the bishop of Rochester. To the tune of the Archbishop of Canterbury'
You think him not yours, but the son of a whore. | Derry &c.
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p. 111
I'll tell you a tale of two boobies of note;
`A song. To the tune of 'twas early one morning &c.' [on `Cornutus' [Whig] and `Noddy' (Tory)]
As they fell out like fools; so like fools they'll fall in. | Sing hey ding, ho, ding....
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p. 10
If injur'd monarchs may their cause explore,
`A dialogue between K[ing] J[ames] and K[ing] W[illiam] on the Boyne the day before the battle'
For subjects are the surest guard of kings.
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p. 167
If men are doom'd for loyalty
`The fox unkennelled'
His actions reach the skies.
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p. 61
Impeachments, prosecutions,
`King George his annals. 1714...1721'
Now poverty and tears.
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p. 93
In a council of state
`The motto'
Tho' the other begone in a trice.
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p. 126
In Charles the Second's [golden] days
`The true turncoat, or, the vicar of Bray'
Except the times should alter. | And this is law, &c.
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p. 51; see also next, and `In good King Charles'sà'.
In Leister fields a goodly fabric stands
`A poem. &c.'
Deliver us from so vile a generation.
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p. 98
In the county of Norfolk that paradise land,
`The Norfolk lantern'
As may glare in the eyes of the whole British nation. | Which &c.
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p. 16
In the days of yore, when statesmen bore
`A song'
To have your head fix'd on a pole Sir.
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In the island of Britain, I sing of a knight
`The knight and the prelate' [pr. 1734 (Foxon K97)]
For no rope yet was made that could tie up a plum.
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In times long since gone
`Upon touching for the King's evil'
Since they're such as can never be cur'd.
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In vain long parchment-pedigrees adorn
`On quality'
How comes a lion by an ass's ear.
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Is there God, and shall this tribe
`A poem'
A glorious constellation.
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Jehovah preserve and restore to his own
`A song to the tune of Ianthe the lovely &c.' [on the Old Pretender]
And to thee what is thine.
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Kneller thy pencil take with shame
`Verses occasioned by Mr. Addison's poem on G[eorge]'s picture' [`Kneller, with silence...']
You drew a G[eorg]e, a Cromwell he.
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Let Britain now her grateful homage pay
`The birthday June the 10th 1715'
And bind with Ormonde's laurels, James['s] crown.
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Let bumpers go round,
`A song'
Huzza drink it round.
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Let burgundy flow,
`A song'
When High Germans are chas'd and the Whigs go to pot.
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Let England's church her sinking state deplore
`To the King's most excellent Majesty. The humble address of the Tower of London, presented by the secret committee June the 10th. Introduced by Mat__tie'
Give laws at will, and by the sword command.
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Let great men loll ingloriously in state
`The state weather-cocks' [pr. 1734 (Foxon S728)]
And this made Sidrophel secure you his.
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Let history record
[in later handwriting, inserted in a Jacobite volume, early 18th century]
You grand cock__
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Let misers tremble o'er their gold,
`A song. To the tune of Catherine Oggy'
The royal race of S[tuar]ts.
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Let the Act against vagabonds chase the Pretender:
`On the act of Parliament [against vagabonds]'
Which none will refuse, but a Whig, or a Rumper.
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Let the Tories look big,
`A song on K[ing] G[eorge II]'s speech to the Parliament'
Yet trade it does flourish amain. | Brave &c.
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Let Whigs remember the fourth of November,
`A song upon the fourth of November'
Yet we barter the Church which we own.
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Minerva has vow'd since the bishops do slight her,
`On wisdom's defeat in a learned debate' [sometimes attr. Jonathan Swift; pr. 1725 (Foxon O230)]
And the first law of nature is self-preservation.
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Moses held up his hand, his troop prevail'd
`On Sir R[ober]t W[al]p[o]le's gout'
When from his hand alone his forces live.
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Most gracious Sir, see here before you
`The city address'
And prove a chip off the right block.
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Most happy times are now foretold
`A prophecy'
And Wolston pray to Jesus.
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Munster in a great chagrin,
`An new English song, to an old French tune' [on George I and his mistress the Duchess of Munster, later Duchess of Kendal]
The next who will have a regard. | To my la la &c.
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My commons and peers, I once hop'd but in vain
`G[eor]ge the 2nd's speech to his Parliament'
That their money's all safe__betwixt me and the Queen. | Which &c.
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My lord__I just receiv'd I own
`The liverymen's answer to a letter dated at Whitehall, Jan. the 22. 1727/8' [pr. 1728 (Foxon L202)]
Your b[isho]ps L[or]ds and Commons.
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My lords and gentlemen to you
`G[eorge]'s speech to his myrmidons' [pr. 1719? (Foxon H249)]
Justice restor'd; and then__good night.
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My masters give ear, and a story you'll hear
`On the Knights of the Bath'
So for decency there we will leave 'em.
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No longer quacks disparage
`The empiric'
To all that's great lays claim Sir.
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Nothing so true as what you once let fall,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`Characters of women. An epistle to a lady' [pr. 1735 (Foxon P917)]
To you gave sense, good humor and a poet.
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Now thou hast seen aspiring Dudley's son,
`Epilogue to The Lady Jane Grey addressed to the Prince'
Rise upon him; and all his bastard brood.
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Of late as they say
`A song. To the tune of Dursley's [Durfey's?] f[ar]t' [pr. 1720? (Foxon E563)]
As fixt as the northern star. | With a &c.
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O! all ye horrors of eternal night,
`On the Bishop of Salisbury' [Gilbert Burnet]
He must, and shall, be passive there below.
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O! England beware for the people are come
`The Hanover crew'
Sure none but the devil himself can come after.
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O Granville with the load of life opprest
`To the Lord Lansdowne whilst he was in the Tower. From Catullus'
The tyrant's minions and our masters are.
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O lead me where my darling lies,
`Verses made by a father on the death of his dau[ghter]'
I'll dig my way to thee.
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O people of England when will you be wise,
`Remarks'
And England is curs'd till great James they bring in.
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O where art thou St. Taffy,
`A ballad. To the tune of Owen Tudor'
And so retrieve your glory.
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Oh who would boast himself of royal birth,
`An elegy on the King of Sweden'
You've lost a patron fit to imitate.
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O ye Commons and Peers who are bound by your pay
`On K[ing] G[eorge]'s speech to the Parliament'
When I've nothing to ask, and you nothing to spend.
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p. 153
Old English kings were wont to speak
`The proxy' [on George I]
Proximity of blood.
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Old Oliver's dead and rotten
`The credulous robber cheated by treacherous favorites'
By my troth they may kiss my a[rs]e.
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On a fair mead, a dunghill lay,
`The oak, and dunghill. A fable...the dunghill's answer' [pr. 1728 (Foxon B499)]
Worthless to mix with dung despis'd.
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On a summer's day
`A song'
God bless our royal J[ame]s.
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On March the one and twentieth day,
`A ballad to the tune of Chevy Chase' [on George I's first speech to Parliament, 1715]
In coach or cock-horse ride.
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Once on a time in sunshine weather
Prior, Matthew, 1644_1721
`Truth and falsehood. A fable'
Hath gone stark naked ever since.
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Our merry men feasted, 'twas all that they did,
`On the fleet's being gone from Spithead'
Is sail'd in as safe as e'er it sail'd out.
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Pimps, poets, wits, Lord Fanny, Lady Mary,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`Sober advice from Horace'
This fourth, let L__l Jeffrys, Onslow tell.
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Practice will make thy tow'ring muse experto,
`To Hurlothrumbo'
Thy next task be the praises of Roberto.
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Pray gentlemans come, now zee my vine zhow,
`A new ballad. The show-box. To the tune of Dear Cat'olic Brot'er'
It's to drink a good health to de noble King Jemmy.
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Pray Sir what news,
`The novelist'
Have got the devil and all.
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Prepare, prepare, prepare
`A song'
He'll serve for to guard the Hanover crew.
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Prithee Sammy reflect, can there be such a thing
`To Dr. C__l, on his sermon Jan. 30th'
So round about R__n, the play is the same.
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Quoth Charon in wrath what monsters I carry,
`Charon's complaint'
What strength can bear up, under__Churchill and Harley.
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Quoth King Robin my ribbons I find are too few
Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745
`On the Knights of the Bath' [1725]
Shall be qualified best for a dog in a string.
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Read it right and you will find
There much such canters left behind.
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Reading the gospel by our Lord, we find
`Occasioned by the bishops' having all but one voted against the proceedings of the South Sea directors'
Among twice twelve that seems an honest man.
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Rejoice ye good writers, your pens are set free,
Bath, William Pulteney, earl, 1684_1764
`The honest jury, or Caleb [D'anvers, i.e., Nicholas Amhurst] triumphant. To the tune of Packington's pound' [pr. 1729 (Foxon P1161)]
One good verdict more might secure all our laws.
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Rejoice ye Whigs, your idol's come again.
`On the Duke of Marlborough' [1715]
Ring not the bells you fools, but wring your hands.
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Rise Britons rise defend your injur'd cause,
`To the Britons'
Is, a German's absence and a Stuart's reign.
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Robber with pistol at my throat,
`On the oath'
And when I can by G[o]d I'll shoot thee.
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See him returning to his turnip soil
`Pasquin, the 2d. July the 7th. 1716'
The grin of monkey, from the laugh of man.
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See how a crafty vile projector picks
`The projector'
And daily courts the silly dame for more.
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See the close-fisted knight in form display,
`On the fable of the ass in the lion's skin'
With his friends Osborne and Squire Walsingham.
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See the welcome fleet appears
`A song &c.'
Has vouchsaf'd to hear our prayer.
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Seven planets they do grace the skies,
`The seven wise men of England. To the tune of To all ye ladies &c.' [Oxford, Sunderland, Townshend, Cowper, Robert and Horace Walpole, Edgcumbe; pr. 1719 (Foxon S352)]
Perhaps may have them all again.
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Shall mimic kings long fill the British throne,
`The queries. Post nubilia Phoebus'
And Nature smile on the propitious day.
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Shall then so bright a day forgotten be
`On the 10 of June' [the birthday of the Old Pretender]
For's restoration and his birthday too.
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Should now the subjects of a certain prince,
`The receiver, as bad as the thief' [on George I]
But Christians now no honesty retain.
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Shut, shut your door, good Jack! Fatigu'd I said,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`An epistle from...to Dr. Arbuthnot' [pr. 1734 (Foxon P802)]
Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n.
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Simon excepted then restor'd to grace
`An epistle to the Lord Guilford'
And take again thy prostituted dame.
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Since England was England there never was seen
`On G[eor]ge and C[aroli]na'
We can't keep our pence, and the Protestant line.
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Since various subjects various pens employ
`The court monkeys' [printed 1734 (Foxon C468)]
Than all the conquests he had gain'd before.
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Since your curiosity led you so far
`An epistle from Jack Sheppard to the Earl of Macclesfield on his being turned out'
Is the only favor your Lordship can hope.
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Sir Ralph a simple rural knight
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`The progress of patriotism'
And lies with every man she meets.
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Sir Robert brags that he has sunk
`On Sir Robert Walpole'
As tinkers mend a kettle.
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Sir Robert in a late parade
`On Mr. Walpole on the day of his installment'
That crowds were ready there to kiss.
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Sir Robert to show what to merit is due
`Mr. Walpole's blue garter'
Odd numbers are lucky, may he soon have the third.
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Sit still ye cowards and lament in vain,
`The remonstrance, occasioned by the murder of the Revd. Mr. Paul, and H. Hall esqr.'
And at the name of Britain, be no more.
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Some faithless folks have been so bold
`On the peace'
He that says yes, deserves a rope.
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Soon as young Jotham saw his brethren's fate,
`Jotham's prophecy. Judges the 9. and 47th and the following verses...The parable'
And th'oak with sullen anger, shook his head.
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Spain is the cause of all
`On the Congress. 1728'
The devil will take all.
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Stanley and Graham, you that liv'd and died
`On the much lamented death of James earl of Derwentwater who was beheaded Feb: the 14: 1715'
With lighted tapers that shall ever burn.
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Take heed, ye elders, let your guide be truth
`Advice to an old man'
Be good old boy, and do so no more.
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Talk no more of the wars or the Polander's king,
`The merry patriot. A ballad'
That we ne'er could endure to be led by the nose. | Derry &c.
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That ship's sure reduc'd to a pitiful case,
`The Co[n]gr[e]ss of asses'
That as met, they parted asses.
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That solemn day the world's great Savior died
`On the great eclipse which happened during the sitting of the Select Committee, who began their sessions on Good Friday; and sat all Easter Sunday' [22 April 1715]
Peep'd in the cock-pit and then hid his light.
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That the excise laws may not be extended
`The city's toast'
And the authors of the new scheme may be suspended.
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The admiral prudently comes up to town
`On the fleet'
And her navy in Portsmouth, is the terror of Spain.
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The country, and the town,
`A song, to the tune of Dumb &c.'
I would open my throat. | And no more gentle reader be dumb &c.
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The devils were brawling when Burnet descending
`Hell's holiday. Bishop Burnet died 17 March 1714'
Let George reign forever. Amen, cried all Hell.
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The first and greatest who betray'd long since
`The three Olivers'
Then sum up all, and you may guess a third.
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The genial day succeeds, that Anna gave,
`On the 6th. of February' [1715]
Your silent triumphs Brunswick, are but mine.
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The glory of this world to Whigs are given,
`The English choice or the glory of the Whigs'
Abjur'd their king and Barabbas did choose.
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The god of Indies now 'tis plain
`Some truths in plain English, occasioned by the arrival of the Spanish galleons'
Since greedy statemen rule the roost.
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The Golden Age is now at last restor'd
`The golden age'
This day old Noll, to judgment brought the King.
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The King in his council did order of late,
`On the clergy' [temp. George I]
Calls down three persons from heaven to tack it.
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The King my master your ally
`The speech of a certain ambassador to the King of France, on the birth of a dauphin versified'
And H__ce, shall with Fleury vie.
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The lion 'tis no matter how
`The lion's edict...Moral'
The safe way's to be gone; when folks are for hanging.
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The peasant must attend the painful plow,
`The fatigues of a great man'
And drain their money from them by degrees.
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The revolution is a blessed thing;
`An encomium on the happy revolution by the coherence of the years 1648 1688 and 1715'
The metropolitan of all the three.
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The sailor sighs as sinks his native shore,
Rogers, Samuel, 1763_1855
`The sailor. An elegy'
And clasps the maid he singled from the world.
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The scourge of heaven, the prophet's lifted rod,
`The plagues of Nod'
Look up ye slaves, deliverance is nigh.
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The subtle serpent to G[eorg]e B__ke said
`The contract' [between George I and the devil; with reference to Bolingbroke?]
Usurpers must expect whene'er they come.
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The time is now approaching
`The honest voters'
To choose an honest man. | And [a-voting we] &c.
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The town being full of confusion
`The Norfolk ballad' [on the Treaty of Vienna; pr. 1731 (Foxon N159)]
They may rise, and you be De Witted.
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The town being full of confusion
`The Norfolk ballad'
Tho' treaties you look up with ease.
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The twenty-eight[h] of May looks very dull
`The cart well lined'
And we'll have him, or none.
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The wealth of Europe now 'tis plain,
`Some truths in plain English'
Whilst Alberoni rules the roost.
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There are, I scarce can think it, but am told
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`A satire the 1st from the 2nd [book] of Horace in a dialogue between...and his learned council' [pr. 1733 (Foxon P886)]
My lords the judges laugh, and you're dismiss'd.
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Think not your friend Le Heup too free
`Le Heup's epistle to P. Frederick' [pr. 1727 (Foxon L94.8)]
To prove thyself true heir apparent.
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Thou perverse, adverse Caleb D'anvers,
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`On the treaty concluded at Seville'
To your own works. Sign'd Caleb D'anvers.
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Tho' George be gone over, yet to show his love to us,
`A ballad in honor of the present regency'
We must heartily pray, God would send home our king. | Which nobody &c.
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Tho' some would give Sir Bob no quarter
`On Sir R[ober]t W[al]p[o]le'
We'll freely vote to hang him then.
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Tho' the ungodly senate has decreed
`The vision. The 20 Psalm imitated from Buchanan' [pr. Edinburgh 1711 (Foxon T581)]
He'll hear our plaints; as thou hast heard his own.
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Three nations mighty Monarch crave
`The true Whig's address' [to George I]
We must plunder; you may reign.
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Three Wills with great and different talent born
`On the three celebrated namesakes' [William Windham, William Shippen, William Pulteney]
Can stem the torment of the people's state.
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Thus Wild said to Robin, make me undertaker
Wharton, Philip Wharton, 1st duke, 1698_1731
For as fast as they rob, they fill it again.
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'Tis done! Thou awful shade of Britain rise
`A copy of a paper dropped in the House of Commons upon the excise scheme' [pr. 1733 (Foxon O203)]
Still has he honest been, still faithful just and true.
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To all clergy in this land
`To all the clergy...')]
Pray give our service to your wives.
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To all our sisters now at Rome
`An epistle from the ladies of Drury, to those at Rome' [temp. George I]
You'll be welcome both to church and King.
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To all those liv'rymen of London,
`Lord Wharton's puppies to the tune of To all ye ladies now at land' [pr. 1734 (Foxon L262)]
As did these whelps, just so will you. | With &c.
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To all ye merchants now at land
`The sailors' song, or, Dunkirk restored. To the tune of To ye ladies' [pr. 1730 (Foxon S16)]
For Dunkirk's friends are Britain's foes.
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To all ye Tories far from court
`The new court: being a new song to an old tune To all ye ladies, now at land'
Then you're to blame if unprepar'd. | With a fa la la
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To be merry and wise, Mr. Fog,
`To Fog. A ballad'
And show the biter bit.
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To you German Sir, a petition I bring
`Tyburn's petition'
For I've got all the world when I've you in a string. | Which nobody can deny
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Tonight usurping tyranny attend
`Prologue on Jane Grey'
And rule in mercy with a right divine.
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Touch not your King the holy scripture teaches,
`Writ on the boards which encloses the church in Bloomsbury [with a statue of George I on its steeple]'
To see God's image on his Majesty.
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True British hearts you are requir'd to pray
`Verses thrown into houses on the tenth of June'
With one accord to render James his right.
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Tune your pipes ye jolly swains
`On King James' marriage. To the tune of Would fate but make Belinda mine, &c.'
Smil'd and blest, smil'd and blest | The happy pair.
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Upon the fruitful banks of Thame, whilst mournfully I sat,
Stacy, Edmond, fl. 1710_1715
`Britannia's memorial...by the author of The blackbird's song' [pr. 1715 (Foxon S687)]
Then in a cloud of ambient air, this rev'rend form withdrew.
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Welcome mighty King on shore
`The petition. &c.'
Tweedledum tweedle twee.
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What a cursed crew have we got
`A song'
Heaven send him quickly home.
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What a stately appearance they make now they're join'd,
`Another' [on the fleet]
They're safe in the front, as they are in the rear.
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What, and how great, the virtue and the art,
Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744
`The 2nd. satire of the 2nd book of Horace' [pr. 1734 (Foxon P893)]
Let us be fix'd, and our own masters still.
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p. 121
What different follies govern human fate
`[preface to] The court monkeys'
Here vulgar fools prevail, here apes of state.
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What! Fast and pray__
`On the 30 of Janry' [1696; found on the church door at Whitehall]
For unrepented sins, are ne'er forgiven.
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What fatal changes still increase
`Worse, and worse'
In Newgate put the nation.
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What shall a tyrant thus usurp our crown
`On the usurper' [George I]
In triumph let him reign, and die in peace.
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What stubborn still, base rebels take a view
`A poem on K[ing] J[ames] the 3d'
Eternal laurels grown around his grave.
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What this treaty will prove thou canst not divine,
`To Caleb D'anvers esq.' [i.e., Nicholas Amhurst]
His peace Robin holds. Prithee hold thine.
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What you said last we all allow
`A letter from the maypole in the Strand to the maypole at Farnham' [answered by `'Tis not so strange...'
Be never saw'd to blocks.
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p. 166
When a Dutch monster with horns
`A prophecy' [of the return of `James III']
And bring both wealth and peace.
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p. 36
When a German white horse is turn'd to an ass,
`Prognostic'
The man have his mare, and each rebel a rope.
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p. 159
When a strange whelp shall rule a land,
`A prophecy from Nostradamus' [of the return of the Old Pretender]
The evils done to work this fall.
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p. 49
When a wall in a pool
`A prophecy' [on Walpole and Bolingbroke, 1716]
Shall leave the man his own mare.
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p. 151
When dames of Britain shall espouse
`A prophecy found in an oak'
May hope a speedy restoration.
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p. 175
When Dioclesian o'er Rome bore sway,
`The Whig's idol, or the new-fashioned loyalty'
And that religion be; which was a crime before.
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When England shall her principles betray,
`An old prophecy made in the year 1297 by one Robert de Cressy, a British astronomer, but found amongst the manuscripts in Oxford in the year 1641' [supposedly on George I]
Which cannot end, till Caesar has his due.
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When first the duel reach'd the tender ear
`The Countess of Bristol to the Lord Hervey, after his duel with Mr. Pulteney'
Kiss'd her dear boy, and left him to repose.
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p. 105 (first ten lines)
When George the great elector of Hanover
`The Dutch embassy'
They march'd away, and so the farce was done.
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When grave divinity thought fit
`The review, or, the case fairly stated on both sides' [pr. 1734 (Foxon T324)]
His Lordship with a lady's mien.
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When his lov'd Germans George was forc'd to leave,
`On King George [I]' [pr. 1715 (Foxon L117)]
Each prince to govern, where he'll govern well.
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When I survey this mighty frame
Meston, William, 1688?_1745
`A sacred ode'
Offending Thee no more.
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When Israel [first] provok'd the living Lord,
`The allusion'
As Bishop Burnet did exceed St. Paul.
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p. 113
When kings by republican maxims are made
`The twelve impossibilities'
Then Rome will submit to the Ottoman court.
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When kings from heav'n deserv'd their crowns,
`A song'
With the fumes of a new reformation.
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When on us heav'n show'r'd blessings down
`Forty-one' [pr. 1719 (Foxon F207)]
Oh, the vile spawn of forty-one.
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When Rome of old; great Rome was all on fire
`On the late great fire in the city' [13 January 1715; George I attended a play]
And must till piety and right return.
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When royal youth must we be blest again
`In imitation of the 5th ode of Horace'
And consecrate with mirth the Restoration Day.
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p. 53
When Satan thought our Savior to betray
`On the same subject' [a contract between George I and the devil]
Satan had fled, and J[ame]s enjoy'd his own.
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p. 161
When savage Goths from Rhine return
`A prophecy. By Merlin the famous British astronomer found written upon an old wall in Saxon characters. Dated the year 482 about the time of the restoration of King Vortigern to the British throne, faithfully transcribed from the original' [on George I;
For lo, her own Augustus reigns.
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When shrugging quacks about me wait
`The Lord Wharton's will' [1715]
And leave her brats the world to range in.
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p. 134
When the devil and George, went to it, to fight,
`The combat'
But if it comes to the push, your horns are the longer.
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p. 157
When Torrington to save our fleet
`The Lord Bolingbroke, proved guilty of High Treason'
Till you come back like Burnet.
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When truth and loyalty are in disgrace
`A prophecy by the Bishop of Worcester before the restoration of King Charles the Second'
And future times shall reap the fruits of peace.
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When with politic sneer and with florid expression
`On the vote for the salt tax'
Are laugh'd at, at once both for beggars and fools.
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p. 130
When Woolstone, late his blasphemies profest,
`On breaking Mist's press'
And get it quite repeal'd next Parliament.
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p. 58
When York to heaven shall lift one single eye
`On the judges'
And [think] on love and politics no more.
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Whilst Britain destitute of aid
`On Farinelli'
Extracting gold from leaden brains.
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Whilst fierce Bellona threatn'd loud alarms,
`A collection of state flowers' [pr. 1734 (Foxon C285)]
For gold still brings its value from the mine.
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Whilst I was darling of your breast
`In imitation of the 9th ode of the 3d. book of Horace' [pr. 1719 (Foxon N304)]
'Twill serve us two, to bowse in.
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Whilst no repulse thy courage can abate
Higgons, Bevil, 1670_1735
`Mr. Bevill Higgon's address to the Earl of Oxford, in the beginning of his poem on the late peace'
These sad truths did appear.
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Whilst thick to court transported Tories run
`To the right honble. Earl of Oxford upon his not appearing at court' [pr. 1727? (Foxon T392)]
Forgive his father__not forget thine own.
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Whilst treble brass thy harden'd brow defends
`The reverse to Lord Oxford'
Can furnish halters to atone thy guilt.
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p. 92
Whilst Zarah from the royal ground
`On the Duchess of Marlborough's cutting down the oak in her garden which was planted by King Charles the 2nd himself; from an acorn growing on the Royal Oak' [1708]
But her, that owns the wood.
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Whither ye imperious Britons do you run,
`A poem'
Entails this curse, and will confound ye all.
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p. 131
Who's there? A Whig of quality,
`An account of what happened lately in Hell' [on Halifax, Burnet, and Wharton]
You'll have sufficient force to keep your own.
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p. 131
Whoe'er he be that to a taste aspires
Bramston, James, 1694?_1744
`The man of taste' [pr. 1733 (Foxon B396)]
Is blockhead, coxcomb, puppy, fool and sot.
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Whoe'er surveys the face of thee, brave youth
`Written under James Sheppard's picture. He was born the 10th of June 1700. and was executed at Tyburn the 17. of March 1718'
But own thy triumph, and the Roman's lost.
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Why do the people rage and foam
`An hymn, to a psalm tune'
Shall in short time be free.
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Why dost thou root me up ungrateful hand,
`The murmurs of the oak' [cut down by the Duchess of Marlborough in 1708]
To hang up traitors; or preserve a king.
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Why should honest men despair
`A poem'
God's justice or his power.
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Why should the bells in merry peals thus roll
`On the rejoicing on the 1st of Augst. Being the day of the Queen's death, and of G[eorg]e's accession to the throne' [pr. 1714 (Foxon O218)]
For Anna's virtue, shall in James survive.
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Windsor at length be to your country just
`Advice to the electors of the borough of New Windsor' [1715]
For Anna ever to the Church was kind.
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With favor and fortune fastidiously blest
`On Sir R[obert] W[alpole]'
'Tis the cur-dog of Britain and spaniel of Spain.
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With sullen pomp, great Prince thy triumph pass,
`On the 20. of January' [1715]
The people's voice, like that of God's rose still.
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Within a close gloomy retreat,
`A song. To the tune &c of Despairing beside a clear stream'
And give me a Stuart again.
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Would you see three nations bubbl'd
`On King James the 2d'
And drop plenty down in rain.
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Ye cuckolds all of fam'd Cheapside
`The reply to the fair prisoner [Sophia Dorothea, divorced wife of George I]'s doleful petition'
Like eighty-eight, or forty-one.
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Ye fair ladies of Old England
`The fair prisoner [Sophia Dorothea, divorced wife of George I]'s doleful petition composed by Bob the Sincere (for which he was disgraced at court) and dropped by Zachariah at the meeting house. N.B. the original is deposited in the Bibloth. Harliana'
You'll be enslav'd, or him uncrown'd.
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Ye knaves and ye fools, maids widows and wives,
`Britannia excised, part the second' [pr. 1733 (Foxon B462)]
Shall have their free choice to hang drown or break.
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Ye poets take heed how ye trust to the muse
Amhurst, Nicholas, 1697_1742
`An excellent new ballad called a bob for the court to the tune of In the days of my youth in The beggar's opera'
And so there's an end to a bob for the court.
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Yorkshire true sportsmen with a pack of hounds
`On the Norfolk hunting'
Run down whole kingdoms, with a pack of curs.
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You are the trees, the bramble is the thing
`The explanation' [of `Soon as young Jotham...']
Abimelech the scoff of Christendom.
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You ladies who ogle the prince and his train
`A court ballad'
And Lumley who from Argyll takes his cue.
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You Tories who the Whigs abhor
`On Whig, and Tory'
Or if 'tis right or wrong.
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