A trimmer's confession of faith: or, The true principles of a Jack of both-sides. Tune of, VVhich no body can deny. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06195 of text R226834 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T2278). 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 B06195 Wing T2278 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[202] 99886964 ocm99886964 181526 2240886710

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06195) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181526) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[204]) A trimmer's confession of faith: or, The true principles of a Jack of both-sides. Tune of, VVhich no body can deny. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for R. Kell, near West-Smithfield, London, : 1694. Verse: "Pray lend me your ears, if you've any to spare,". Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng eebo A trimmer's confession of faith: or, The true principles of a Jack of both-sides. Tune of, VVhich no body can deny. Licensed according to order. anon 1694 1 578 2 0 0 0 0 0 34.6 C The rate of 34.6 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 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Trimmer's Confession of Faith : Or , The True Principles of A Jack of Both-Sides . Tune of , Which no body can deny .

Licensed according to Order .

I. PRay lend me your Ears , if you 've any to spare , You that love Common-wealth , as you hate Common-Pray'r , Who can in a Breath pray , Dissemble and Swear ; Which no Body can deny . II. I 'm sometimes o' th' wrong side , and sometimes the Right ; To day I 'm a Jack , and tomorrow a Mite : I for either King pray , but for neither dare sight ; Which no Body can deny . III. I 'm sometimes a Rebel , and sometimes a Saint , sometimes can Swear , and at other times Cant ; There 's nothing but Grace ( I thank God ) that I want : Which no Body can deny . IV. Old Babylon's Whore I cannot endure her ; I 'm a Sanctified Zealot , there 's none can be purer : For-Swearing I hate , like any Non-Juror ; Which no Body can deny . V. Of Gracious King William I am a great Lovea , Yet I side with a Party that prays for Another ; I drink ihe King's Health , take it one way or t'other : Which no Body can deny . VI. Precisely I creep like a Snail to the Meeting ; Where Sighing I meet with such sorrowful Greeting , Makes me hate a long Pray'r , and five hours prating : Which no Body can deny . VII . ●●…d there I Sing Psalms , as if never weary ; I must confess , when I 'm frolick and merry , ●●e Musick I find in a Boat to the Ferry : Which no Body can deny . VIII . I pledge ev'ry Health my Companions drink round ; I can say Heavens bless , or the Devil confound : I can hold with the Hare , and run with the Hound : Which no Body can deny . IX . I can pray for a Bishop , and curse an Arch-Deacon ; I can seem very sorry that Charlerey's taken ; I can any thing say , to save my own Bacon : Which no Body can deny . X. Sometimes for a good Common-wealth I am wishing ; O Oliver ! Oliver ! give us thy Blessing ; For in troubled Waters I vow I love Fishing : Which no Body can deny . XI . The Times are so ticklish , I vow and profess , I know not which Party or Cause to embrace ; I 'll besure to side with those that are least in distress ; Which no body can deny . XII . With the Jacks I rejoyce that Savoy's defeated ; With the Whigs I seem pleased he 's so bravely retreated ; Friends and Foes are by me both equally treated , Which no body can deny . XIII . Each Party , we see , now are full of great hope ; There 's some for the Devil , and some for the Pope ; And I am for any thing , but for a Rope : Which no body can deny .

London , Printed for R. Kell , near West-Smithfield . 1694.