The statesman's last will and testament; or, His worthy legacies left to his beloved cronies, for whom he had a particular kindness. Tune of, O rare Popery. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05963 of text R227368 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S5333). 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 B05963 Wing S5333 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[80] 99887287 ocm99887287 181997 2264219780

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05963) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181997) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[80]) The statesman's last will and testament; or, His worthy legacies left to his beloved cronies, for whom he had a particular kindness. Tune of, O rare Popery. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). s.n.], [London : Printed in the year, 1689. Verse: "Alas! I am taken most monstrous ill ..." Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The states-man's last will and testament; or, His worthy legacies left to his beloved cronies, for whom he had a particular kindness. Tune of, O rare anon 1689 1 503 1 0 0 0 0 0 19.88 C The rate of 19.88 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 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 STATES-MAN'S Last Will and Testament ; OR , His worthy Legacies left to his beloved Cronies , for whom he had a particular kindness .

Tune of , O rare Popery .

ALas ! I am taken most monstrous ill . Sweet Writer bring hither your Paper and Duill , For here I am ready to male my last Will , And leave my Legacies , delicate Legacies , Chanchellors Legacies , O. My wonderful portions I here will divide , According as Merit my reason shall guide , Let Lucifer have my invintible Pride , Sing O brave Legacy , &c. My Covetous heart now as hitter as Ball , I leave to old Misers in hopes that they shall , Like me get in Gold here the Devil and all , Sing O rare Legacies , &c. My small Guts let honest Musitioners take , That they of the same may Fiddle strings make , And then scrape my Guts till their very heartsake , Sing O brave Legacy , Chancellors Legacy , A delicate Legacy , O. And as for my Pole I will leave 〈…〉 , To my dearest Friend that makes pitiful moan , Because he has never a Nose of his own , Sing O rare Legacy , &c. My unruly Tongue which run at that rate , And banteed men out of their reason of late , I leave it to Fifth Women at Billingsgate , Sing O rare Legacy , &c. My Brains I bequeath but I know not to who , But hold , I remember the Jesuit Crew , They 'll serve them for pletting more mischief to do ; Sing O rare Legacy , &c. My old empty Skull to the Pope now shall go , In token of Favours which he did bestow , 'T will make him a lusty large Punch Bowl I know , Sin O rare Legacy , &c. My honoured Keverend Father the Pope , He sent his sweet Son here a sandiked Rope ; But I have no need of the same now I hope , I 'll leave that Legacy , delicate Legacy , no one of the Jesuit Crew . My lusty large Conscience which Brives did receive , To some Corrupt Lawyer I freely do leave , That honest Men he may of Living hereane , A worthy Legacy , &c. My Body I into the West do return , It will make the Wives there a good butter Churnn , Thus for my bad deeds I may do one good turn Sing O rare Legacy , &c. Now sign it and seal it according to Law , The Major shall ne'er keep the Minor in awe , Nor wrong them so much as the weight of a straw , Of these my Legacies , Chanchellors Legacies , delicate Legacies , O. FINIS .

Printed in the Year , 1689.