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A30551
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The Ballad of the cloak, or, The Cloaks knavery to the tune of From hunger and cold, or, Packington's pound.
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1681
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Wing B604; ESTC R35739
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The BALLAD of the CLOAK Or The Cloaks Knavery To the Tune of From Hunger and Cold or Packington's Pound COme buy my new Ballet I have 't in my Wallet But 't will not I fear please every Pallet Then mark what ensu'th I swear by my Youth That every Line in my Ballad is truth A Ballad of Wit a brave Ballad of worth 'T is newly printed and newly come forth 'T was made of a Cloak that fell out with a Gown that crampt all the Kingdom and crippl'd the Crown I 'le tell you in brief A story of Grief Which happen'd when Cloak was Commander in Chief It tore Common Pray'rs Imprison'd Lord May'rs In one day it voted down Prelates and Prayers It made People perjur'd in point of Obedience And the Covenant did out off the Oath of Allegiance Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down That crampt all the Kingdom and crippl'd the Crown It was a Black Cloke In good time be it spoke That kill'd many thousands but never struck stroke With Hatchet and Rope The Forlorn Hope Did joyn with the Devil to pull down the Pope It set all the Sects in the City to work And rather than fail 't would have brought in the Turk Then let us endeavour c. It seiz'd on the Tow'r Guns Those fierce Demi-Gorgons It brought in the Bag-pipes and pull'd down the Organs The Pulpits did smoak The Churches did Choak And all our Religion was turn'd to a Cloak It brought in Lay-Elders could not write nor read It set Public Faith up and pull'd down the Creed Then let us endeavour c. This pious impostor Such fury did foster It left us no Penny nor no Pater-Noster It threw to the Ground Ten Commandements down And set up twice Twenty times ten of its own It routed the King and Villains elected To plunder all those whom they thought disaffected Then let us endeavour c. To blind Peoples Eyes This Cloak was so wise It took off Ship-money but set up Excise Men brought in their Plate For Reasons of State And gave it to Tom Trumpeter and his Mate In Pamphlets it writ many specious Epistles To cozen poor Wenches of Bodkins and Whistles Then let us endeavour c. In Pulpits it moved And was much approved For crying out Fight the Lards Battels beloved It bobtail'd the Gown Put Prelacy down It trod on the Miter to reach at the Crown And into the Field it an Army did bring To aim at the Council but shoot at the King Then let us endeavour c. It raised up States Whose politic Pates Do now keep their Quarters on the City Gates To Father and Mother To Sister and Brother It gave a Commission to kill one another It took up Men's Horses at very low Rates And plunder'd our Goods to secure our Estates Then let us endeavour c. This Cloak did proceed To a damnable Deed It made the best mirror of Majesty bleed Though Cloak did not do 't He set it on Foot By rallying and calling his Journey-men to 't For never had come such a Bloody Disaster If Cloak had not first drawn a Sword at his Master Then let us endeavour c. Though some of them went hence By sorrowful Sentence This lofty long Cloak is not mov'd to Repentance But he and his Men Twenty Thousand times ten Are plotting to do their tricks over agen But let this proud Cloak to Authority stoop Or DUN will provide him a Button and Loop Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down That basely did sever the Head from the Crown Let 's pray That the King And His Parliament In Sacred and Secular Things may consent So Righteously firm And Religiously free That Papists and Athests suppressed may be And as there 's one Deity doth over-reign us One Faith and one Form and one Church may contain us Then Peace Truth and Plenty our Kingdom will crown And all Popish Plots and their Plotters shall down Reprinted Corrected Revised and Enlarged by the Author