The Loyal apprentices protestation This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49343 of text R2902 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L3338). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A49343 Wing L3338 ESTC R2902 13672198 ocm 13672198 101156 2240859162

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A49343) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 101156) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 794:11) The Loyal apprentices protestation 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by A.B. and sold by Randal Taylor ..., [London] : 1681. Dated in manuscript: "24 June, 1681." Place of publication from Wing. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century eebo The loyal apprentices protestation. [no entry] 1681 2 327 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Loyal Apprentices PROTESTATION . ALas ! What Times are those we 're like to see , When Men are stigmatiz'd for LOYALTY ; And called Tivies , Tories , and what not , And worse abus'd than those concern'd I' th' PLOT ? And we Poor 'Prentices , how we 're abus'd , Because to side with Faction we refus'd : Had we with Clubs and Staves run to Whitehall , And there demanded Things Irrational : Run into Churches , and tore Common-Prayers , Pull'd out the Good old Bishops by the Ears , And rent the Surplices , those decent Wares ; Reviv'd but Forty One again ; O then , Instead of VERMIN , we 'd been Gentlemen ! But hold Impartial , We are not so mad For to displease our KING , to make thee glad , I know full well that 's it thou 'dst have Us do , But know dull Ass , we 'll not be advis'd by you . Thou simple Sot , the very worst of Fools , Dost think to make of Us Forty One Tools ; By Publishing thy damn'd fallacious Stories , To asperse those Loyal Men , whom thou call'st Tories ? Who can expect peaceable Times to see , Whilst thou art thus fomenting Enmity ? And is this the way t' Extirpate the Pope ▪ Judge now thy self if thou do'nt merit R But on , thou damn'd Incendiary , Print what you will , We London APPRENTICES will be Loyal still : We ever lov'd our KING , and ever shall ; And for his Service , our Lives and Fortunes all Doth lye prepar'd , whilst he has need to call . In the mean time We Apprentices will Sing , And clap our Hands , and say , God save our King .

Printed by A. B. and sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall , 1681.