The loyal and true hearted subjects good will to King and Common-wealth. For all the merchants that with lead doth trade, and minors, I these verses here have made, for their sweet pleasure mirth, and great delight, I took the pains these verses to indite, but my good will to King and country here to all true subjects plainly shall appear. To the tune of, The Dukes wish, or Ile ask no more. Houghton, Thomas, Gent. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04157 of text R209764 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2931). 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. 4 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 B04157 Wing L2931 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[10] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[564] 99887219 ocm99887219 183645 2264219011

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04157) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183645) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[10]; A5:2[436]) The loyal and true hearted subjects good will to King and Common-wealth. For all the merchants that with lead doth trade, and minors, I these verses here have made, for their sweet pleasure mirth, and great delight, I took the pains these verses to indite, but my good will to King and country here to all true subjects plainly shall appear. To the tune of, The Dukes wish, or Ile ask no more. Houghton, Thomas, Gent. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for Thomas Passenger at the three bibles on London-bridge, [London] : [between 1680-1682] Signed: By Thomas Houghton. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "Minors of Minervals where ere you be ..." Item at A5:2[436] imperfect: trimmed at head affecting title. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The loyal and true hearted subjects good will to King and Common-wealth. For all the merchants that with lead doth trade, and minors, I these verses h Houghton, Thomas, Gent. 1682 1 523 6 0 0 0 0 0 114.72 F The rate of 114.72 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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MInors of Minervals where e're you be You Lead Merchants that Trade by Sea From the Store , Low down a while and give Ear to me And he ask no more , I would have a Grove with Ore quick With a 〈…〉 ib of Ore thirty foor thick , That 's great store , That would yield me ten Thousand Load a Week And , &c. This Ore i 'd have dooth sole and stool Or else you 'd count me an unwise fool , Of Wit poor , And Wind my Workmens heat to cool , And , &c. This Ore I 'd have from Water frée , To the depth of Seventy seven and thrée That 's fourscore , And Ten Thousand yards of length to be And , &c.

THen would I build up stately Toes And would possess my ground with Stoes , All Men before , So that no Ranglers could me oppose , And i 'de ask no more . Then Lead I would desire to see 〈…〉 At fifty pound a fodder to be , And never Lower , Likewise all Trading good to be , And , &c. And then I would desire to see Each man worth fifty pound to be ; None i' 〈…〉 have poor , And to live in peace and Vnity , And , &c. Likewise I would desire to see Two sons born to his Majesty , Them i 'd adore , And the Crown worn by the Heir to be And , &c. And then a Bride I 'de take to me , A Virgin pure I 'de have her to be , Her I 'de adore , And one to be come of honesty , And , &c. Then if Fortune of us smil'd I 'd have her to conceive with child , Her death before , And to be delivered of two Sons méek & mild And , &c. My Sons I would bring my so well With learning high for to excel Ten thousand score , And to obey the true Gospel And &c. My Heir I would desire to sée Chief Counsellor to His Majesty My death before , And the Youngest Chief Admiral of the Sea And , &c. Then i 'd desire the true Gospel Might increase and among us owel , They are finners poor , And then our Souls by Christ to be fréed from Hell , Then i 'd ask no more . By Thomas Houghton .

Printed for Thomas Passenger at the three bibles on London-bridge .