A New song to the tune of A beggar I will be &c. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A52995 of text R42207 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing N774AA). 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 A52995 Wing N774AA ESTC R42207 24394979 ocm 24394979 109690 2240897560

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A52995) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109690) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1708:29) A New song to the tune of A beggar I will be &c. 1 broadside. s.n., [London : 1687?] Without music. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. First line of text reads: Pray listen well, while I describe a Trimmer in the Church. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Church and state -- England -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century. eebo A New song to the tune of A beggar I will be &c. [no entry] 1687 1 402 1 0 0 0 0 0 24.88 C The rate of 24.88 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A New SONG . To the Tune of , A Beggar I will be , &c. PRay listen well , while I describe a Trimmer in the Church , Who Preaches oft , but for the Pray'rs he 'l leave you in the lurch ; For a Trimmer He will be , will be ; for a Trimmer he will be . And here in the Pulpit , a Trimmer you will find With Trimming coldness in his Mouth , but Treason in his Mind ; For a Trimmer , &c. This Trimmer , to play the Rogue with a better Grace , Chose , out of the whole Land , to marry into Cromwell's Race ; Thus a Trimmer , &c. This Trimmer the Engagement took during Cromwell's Reign , But at the Restauration he spew'd it up again ; Yet a Trimmer , &c. Thus this Trimmer , when uppermost , he chose the Rebels side ; But when the King came in again , he strait swam with the Tide ; For a Trimmer , &c. This Trimmer so profits by his Prince's coming in , That from a Non-Conformist-Preacher , up he starts a Dean ; Yet a Trimmer , &c. This Trimmer , as soon as he Preferment gets , Immediately discovers he has not left his Cheats , But a Trimmer still , &c. What worse could this Trimmer do , his Function to disgrace , Than being got into the Church , the Altar to deface ? Thus a Trimmer , &c. No sooner is a foolish Lord for a Traytor known , But he justifies his Loyalty , and confirms it by his own ; For a Trimmer , &c. This Trimmer instructs this Traytor how to die ; But when he 's question'd for 't , he sticks not at a Lie ; T●us a Trimmer , &c. This Trimmer has a Brother Scot , as great a R — e as he , Supporter , and Speech-maker chief , to th' whole Conspiracy ; For Trimmers they , &c. This Trimmer Scot to stay to swing was loth , But has left his Brother Trimmer here , I hope will hang for Both ; For Trimmers They will be , will be ; for Trimmers They will be . FINIS .