A pack of hell-hounds, to hunt the devill: set forth in a new ballad, To an old tune This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09679 of text R181398 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 5KB 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 B09679 Wing P154 ESTC R181398 ocm 64551541

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A pack of hell-hounds, to hunt the devill: set forth in a new ballad: to an old tune. n/a 1660 1 667 6 0 0 0 0 0 89.96 D The rate of 89.96 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Pack of Hell-hounds , To Hunt the DEVILL : Set forth in a New Ballad : To an old Tune . 1. You that are opprest With the Viperous Nest Of Hell-nounds near WARRINGTON , Do but listen a while , And with all their guile , I 'le discover them every one . 2. The first was a Captain , And some say a Chaplain , Yet it was but an ATKIN-like Crew ; When Lambert was forsaken , Th' other Side he had taken , But soon was casheer'd for a JEW . 3. The next's a Lieutenant , Yet Fletcher nor Beamont Did never decypher the man : To the face hee 'l speak fair , And yet hee 'l not spare , In private to ●ill , if he can . 4. For his ●●●ng 〈…〉 to the Grave ; Others say hee 's an Excize-man , But I 'm sure no Wise man Can count him for ought but a K — . 5. Then comes the King's Ensign , Whose onely Design Was for to Trappan all his Friends ; They have made him a Corporal , That he may discover all , Whereby for to work their base ends . 6. To these take a Quaker , Who was once an Ale-Draper , And with gravity sang Robbin Hood : With Horses and Cheese He can cheat whom he please , For Religion is onely his hood . 7. The next is a Serjeant , Whose Conscience is not Argent , But Sable , since ROWTON was fought : Awry stands his Head , And he ne're sleeps in bed , Lest the DEVIL should take him for nought . 8. And just such an other , Is his Elder Brother , Whose heart is as hollow as his PUMP ; A Presbyter Knave , A Perjured Slave , That serves the DEVIL and the RUMP . 9. This Curr hath a WHELP Which is without help ; For being board with a Carryers T — Hath made her so wide , That to stay the Tyde Shee still wears a Bung in her Arse . 10. This precious Lasse , I cannot yet passe , Your Patience therefore let me begg ; Were 't not for her base caryage , We should often had a Marryage For all her NOVEMBER LEGG . 11. But here 's the WATCH-MAKER , Now turned a horse Taker , With a bundle of Oaths on his Back ; Set but down what hee'st swear , True of fals hee 'l not care , A thousand in an hower for to take , 12. To this Ro●ues Assistance , A MOOR 〈…〉 ock cames s●uttering in : To his neighbor hee 's a Waster , And hee cheated his Maister , And to IVDAS is very nere of Kin . 13. And since Birds of a Feather Will still flock together , Comes an-other as Vile and profane ; Though his neck be somewhat shorter , Yet if fitted to a halter , Would make it as long as a CRANE . 14. And heere I 'l discover , A pittyful Glover , Who with impudence still boast's it out ; Yet if TOM THUMB were but here , And had a Rush to his Spear , The URCHAN durst scarce say Cat out , 15. But lo here is the bargain , The flower of the Garden , A Mary-gould sure by his hue ; Though the widows are at Strife , Which shall be his Wife A Turne-coat can never be true . 16. And thus I 'le conclude , With this impious brood , Of CERBERVS that cursed Tyke : Doe but set the RUMP aside , And if HELL were tryde , I think you can scarce finde the like . FINIS .