The Whigs laid open, or, An honest ballad of these sad times To a mery tune, called Old Symon the King. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A65644 of text R219502 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W1658B). 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 A65644 Wing W1658B ESTC R219502 99830969 99830969 35431 2240864333

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A65644) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 35431) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2086:08) The Whigs laid open, or, An honest ballad of these sad times To a mery tune, called Old Symon the King. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by N.T. at the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, [London] : 1683. Place of publication from Wing. Verse - "Now the plotters & plots are confounded,". Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The Whigs laid open, or, An honest ballad of these sad times. To a mery tune, called Old Symon the King. [no entry] 1683 1 447 3 0 0 10 0 0 2304.25 F The rate of 2304.25 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2005-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-01 Sampled and proofread 2006-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The WHIGS laid open , OR , An Honest Ballad of these sad Times . To a Mery Tune , called Old Symon the King . I. NOw the Plotters & Plots are confounded , And all their Designs are made known Which smellt so strong of the Round-head , And Treason of Forty One . And all the Pious Intentions For Property , Liberty , Laws , Are found to be only Inventions , To bring in their Good Old Cause . And all the Pious , &c. II. By their delicate Bill of Exclusion , So hotly pursu'd by the Rabble ; They hop'd to have made such Confusion , As never was seen at Old Babel . The● Shaftsbury's brave City Boys , And M—ths Countrey Relations , Were ready to second the Noise , And send it throughout the 3 Nations . Then Shaftsbury' s , &c. III. No more of the 5 th of November , T●at Dangerous Desperate Plot ; But ever with horruor remember Old Tony , Armstrong , and Scot. For Tony shou'd ne're be forgotten , Nor Ferguson's Popular Rules ; Nor M—th , or G G —y , when they 're rotten , For Popular , Politick Fools . For Tony shou'd , &c. IV. The Murder of Father and King , And Extinguishing all the right Line , Was a Good and a Godly thing ; And worthy the Whigs Design : The Hanging of Prelate , and Peer , And putting the Guards to the Sword , And Fleying , and Slashing Lord Mayors , Was to do the Work o' the Lord . The Hanging of , &c. V. But I hope they will have their Desert , And the Gallows will have its due , And Jack Ketch will be more Expert , And in time be as Rich as a Jew , Whilst now in the Tavern we Sing , All Joy to great York and his Right , A Glorious long Reign to our King ; But when They'v'e occasion we 'll Fight . Whilst now in the Tavern , &c. VI. The name of a Whig and a Tory , No more shall Disquiet the Nation ; We 'll Fight for the Church and her Glory , And Pray for this Reformation . That ev'ry Factious Professor , And ev'ry Zealous Pretender May humble 'em , to the Successor Of Charles , our Nations Defender . That every Factio●● &c.

Printed by N. T. at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden , 1683 ▪