The Dutch bribe, a ballad. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08965 of text R174775 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D2896A). 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. 2 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 B08965 Wing D2896A ESTC R174775 64551190 ocm 64551190 184534 2248535077

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08965) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184534) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2866:32) The Dutch bribe, a ballad. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1700] Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The Dutch bribe, a ballad. [no entry] 1700 1 323 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2012-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-05 Sampled and proofread 2013-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE DUTCH BRIBE , A Ballad . I. YOUR Cheese we have eat , and a Toast with it drank , That you never might vote , nor eke ever frank , And that you might hang , spite of all you 've in Bank , Upon Tyburn Tree . II. IOWN you was once honest John call'd indeed , But now you're Excise-John , in HONEST JOHN's stead , And at last you 'll be John , that 's excis'd by the Head Upon Tyburn Tree . III. HAD you not been a Blockhead , could you ever think , To bribe Folks with Cheese , and not a Drop drink ; Depend on 't we 'll see you yet hang till you stink Upon Tyburn Tree . IV. SINCE Honour and Honesty you have forsaken , May your ill gotten Wealth be all from you taken , And your fat Carcass hang , until it grow Bacon , Upon Tyburn Tree . V. WOWE Cooper of Fife ! but your Cary to please , Like Rats or like Mice , to be caught with his Cheese ; Your Member , I hope , he will soon get a Heze Upon Tyburn Tree . VI. DESSERTS now at Cooper must surely be rare , If for Cheese without Apples you vote for Mynheer ; But had he his Deserts , he 'd soon swing in the Air Upon Tyburn Tree . VII . PRAY remember my Text and the Words of my Sermon , And let not this Blunderbuss catch you like Vermin , Which if you shou'd do , may you all soon be swarming Upon Tyburn Tree . VIII . SURE a stupider Fellow ne'er open'd a Mouth , To think with his Cheese he cou'd cure Cooper Drouth ; Jack-Catch do your Duty , so tuck up the Youth Upon Tyburn Tree .