Plot or no plot, or Sir W---m and his spy foil'd. A new ballad. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43671 of text R181892 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. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43671 489263237 ocn 489263237 Wing P2600A

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Jacobites -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Plot or no plot, or Sir W---m and his spy foil'd. :A new ballad. n/a 1679 2 484 4 0 0 0 0 0 82.64 D The rate of 82.64 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 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
PLOT OR NO PLOT OR , Sir w — m and his Spy foil'd . A New BALLAD . Y● Lords , and ye Commons , give Ear to my Ditty , ●●ile I tell of a Plot lately hatch'd in the City , You have heard how Mountain once brought forth a Mouse Such a Labour I sing — No Offence to the H — Derry Down A Sett of True Britons , who've ne'er sold a Vote , And scorn'd for Court-Favour to alter their Note , Met together at Dtnner , as thinking with Reason , Roast Beef in Old England cou'd ne'er be deem'd Treason . Derry Down . Tho' they met , as they tell you no Mischief intending , Yet the Proof of the Pudding is found in the spending ; For as Children are frighten'd with Tales of a Ghost , So our Courtiers they 're scar'd with the Sound of a Toast . Derry Down . Nor think this Alarm of our Ministry strange ; For who knows what 's meant by the Royal Exchange ; Thed the Words Ahsent Stewards smell strong of Rebelling , Since to make 'em High-Treason — wants only the Spelling Derry Down . Sir w — m suspecting some horrid Design , That endanger'd his Place and the Protestant Line , Dispatch'd a Court-Engine , whose Ear and whose Eye , Might remark what was doing — some call him a Spy . Derry Down . But some , who were surely no Friends to the Crown , Not liking the Face of our Spy , knock'd him down : The Knight sore enraged at this cruel Disaster , Thought a Plot for his Noddle would prove a good Plaister Derry Down . Besides , as he held , in such dangerous Times , For Tories to eat and to drink were high Crimes ; So no Meal-Tub or Harlequin ●uppy before , Produced such a Plot as this Dinner , e sw●re . Derry Down . To the H e he complain'd then , and straight was appointed To search out this Scheme ' against the Lords High Anointed But like Scrub , when his Plot he reveal'd to Friend Martin Knowing not what to make on 't , he thought made it certain Derry Down . For so closely these Tories their Project had smother'd , That the more he enquir'd the less he discover'd : So finding not one Wrinkle more in his A — , The H — e all concluded this Plot but a Farce . Derry Down . Our Statesmen then cried , since we 've made such a Pother And this Plot 's too young , let us cook up another ; For altho' our Knight's Credit has chanc'd to miscarry , Sure all will believe Honest Gentleman Horry . Derry Down .