A new answer to an argument against a standing army Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A55909 of text R23047 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3513). 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. 2 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 A55909 Wing P3513 ESTC R23047 12367122 ocm 12367122 60435 2248593551

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A55909) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 60435) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 222:7) A new answer to an argument against a standing army Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1697] In verse. Attributed to Matthew Prior. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Place and date of publication from Wing. eng Standing army. Great Britain -- Military policy -- Poetry. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A new answer to an argument against a standing army. Prior, Matthew, 1697 2 245 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. 2003-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-06 Sampled and proofread 2003-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A NEW ANSWER TO AN ARGUMENT AGAINST A Standing Army . WOuld they who have Nine Years look'd Sow'r , Against a French and Popish Pow'r , Make Friends with both in half an Hour ? This is the Time . Would they discreetly break that Sword , By which their Freedom was restor'd , And put their Trust in Lewis Word ? This is the Time . Would you turn Hero's into Pads , And crush the Sp'rits of our brave Lads , And make them look like Bedlam Mads ? This is the Time . Would they leave England unprotected , To shew how well they are affected , And get themselves next Bout Elected ? This is the Time . Against the Souldiers Lusts and Gullets , Would they preserve their Wives and Pullets , And break our Guns to save our Bullets ? This is the Time . Would they oblige a Winter-Sea , Their prudent Orders to obey , Or keep a straying Wind in pay ? This is the Time . Wou'd they but say what th' are pursuing , Who th' are advancing , who undoing , Which sort of Men do threaten ruin ? This is the Time . I pray then let 'em shew their Games , Fix us to one of their Extreams ; A Common-wealth , or else K. Iames ? This is the Time .