Upon sight of Londons stately new buildings, anno Domini, MDCLXXII. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06372 of text R220368 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing U106). 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. 6 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 B06372 Wing U106 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[91] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[128] 99884990 ocm99884990 182797 2264211323

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06372) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182797) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[92]; A4:2[129]) Upon sight of Londons stately new buildings, anno Domini, MDCLXXII. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Printed by William Godbid, for the author., London, : 1672. Verse: "O Thrice Illustrious Famous City LONDON ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Fires -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo Upon sight of Londons stately new buildings, anno Domini, MDCLXXII. anon 1672 1 873 0 0 0 70 0 0 8018.33 F The rate of 8018.33 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Upon Sight of LONDONS Stately New Buildings , Anno Domini , M DC LXXII .
The FIRST PART , Admiring it as a WONDER . 1. O Thrice Illustrious Famous City LONDON , What Tongue can say that e're thou yet wert undon ! Or who can think thou ever so shalt be , Since Fire , which All Consumes , Increaseth Thee . 2. Inferiour unto None , before thou wert , But now the Glory of the World thou art : Thou far transcends that Phoenix which of old In Antient Stories to us have been told . 3. Who when the Revolution of her time Is come , She Burns to Ashes : But in Prime Again to Admiration she Revives , And in her wonted State again she Lives . 4. Which seems a Miracle unto the Eyes Of all the Studious , Learned , and the Wise : And unto those who oft have heard 't is so , Yet know not whether it be True or No. 5. But this strange wonder which thou shew'st is such As cannot well be wondred at too much : I for my part , so often as I view Thy vast incomparable Buildings New , 6. Do stand agast to think thereon , and say , To work thy Ruin , sure Fire 's not the way : Fire only as with Gold it works with Thee , In purging forth thy Dross doth Clarifie .
An Advertisement to the Reader , or rather Singer .

WHo is desir'd to take notice , That the MVSICK Ayre ( for Quantities and Humour is chiefly naturalliz'd to Accord with the First Staff of the Ballad ; yet so consider'd upon in the Formality , that it may tollerably well suit with the whole : However , it begs the favour of the understanding Performer to help it a little in certain places ; viz the First Note of the Treble would sometimes be made a Quaver as in the beginning of the Second Staff , Thus , In-fe-riour , &c.

Likewise the Last Note and Word of the Fifth Staff would be made a Quaver , and so suddainly proceed to the Sixth Staff with a Quaver again : Also the First Staff of the Second Part would be altered thus with an odd Note , Be-hold ye im-pious , &c.

As by good consideration will be thought very necessary : For 't is impossible that an Ayre should be so contriv'd , as to agree exactly in proper Life and Humour to every word of so many several Staves as here are . Let this little hint suffice for all , only , pray Sing the whole Song over very slowly , and make your Pauses properly in all places ; And because there are added two Feet to the Last Line of the Ballad , alter the conclusion , Thus , Yet still Rich London cries , Vail Bonnet un — to me .

The SECOND PART , Supposing it might be Fir'd by TREACHERY . 1. BEhold ye impious Fiery Brands of Hell , Who with your Grand-fire Lucifer do dwell , And put in practice his Foul Hellish Trade By Fier-Plots ! With Fire you 'll All be paid . 2. Though little you do dream of such a thing , Your Sin 's a Crying Sin , and will it bring , In th' end assuredly , to your Dire Cost ; Behold , I say , how all your Labour 's lost ! 3. What you intended for our woe to be , Is turned otherwise , ( our Joy ) you see : Our Glory , and out great Renown is seen , Which otherwise perhaps had not yet been . 4. Go , go ye Envious Dolts ; go learn more Wit , Improve your Folly ; make some use of it : ( Who of necessity a Virtue makes , Deserves due Praise , for that good course he takes . ) 5. I 'le put you in a way what you shall do , Go set a Fire on ROME and PARIS too ; And all your old Built Towns ; go Burn them down , That they may be Rebuilt like LONDON Town . 6. If all your Wit , and Skill , and Art can do it , ( And I believe you 'l stretch your Brains unto 't : ) O then brave Boyes , perchance you 'll seem to be ! Yet still Rich LONDON cryes , Vail Bonnet unto Me.
The Ayre with its Thorough-Bass .

O Thrice Illustrious Famous Ci — ty LONDON , what Tongue can say that e're thou yet wert undon ! Or who can think thou ever so shalt be , since Fire which All Consumes , Increaseth Thee ?

CHORVS . London's the Town of Chief Renown , let En — vy do her worst , shall wear the Crown .

LONDON , Printed by William Godbid , for the Author , 1672.