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                <text>English Execution Ballads</text>
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            <text>Stand forth ye damn'd deluding Priests of Baal,&#13;
And sound from out each Trumpet Mouth a Call&#13;
Let it be loud and shrill, that ev'ry Man &#13;
May hear the noise, from Beersheba to Dan;&#13;
To summon all the Faction, that they may&#13;
In doleful Hums and Haws, bewail this day,&#13;
And to their Just Confusion howl and roar,&#13;
For the great Bully of their Cause, is now no more.&#13;
&#13;
But now methinks I hear the Faction cry,&#13;
Ohone! Where's all thy Pomp and Gallantry?&#13;
Thy Great Commands, they Interest and thy State?&#13;
The many Crouds which did upon thee wait?&#13;
When thou like Atlas on thy shoulders bore,&#13;
That mighty World which we so much adore&#13;
That Pageant Heroe, Off-spring of a Whore.&#13;
&#13;
Behold ye stubborn Crew, the certain Fate&#13;
That waits upon the hardened Reprobate.&#13;
See; the effects of Treason's Terrible,&#13;
In this life Infamy, and i'th' next a Hell,&#13;
While Heav'n attends on Kings with special Care,&#13;
The Traitor to himself becomes a snare:&#13;
Drove out like Cain, to wander through the World,&#13;
By his own thoughts into Distraction hurl'd,&#13;
Despis'd by all, perplext with hourly fear,&#13;
And by his Friends push't like the hunted Deer,&#13;
Like a mad Dog, still houted as he ran,&#13;
A just Reward for th' base Rebellious man. &#13;
&#13;
How often has kind Heaven preserv'd the Crown,&#13;
And tumbled the Audacious Rebel down?&#13;
How many Warnings have they had of late?&#13;
How often read their own impending Fate?&#13;
That still they dare their wicked Acts pursue,&#13;
And know what Heaven has ordain'd their due?&#13;
That man who cou'd not reas'nably desire&#13;
To raise his Fortunes, and his Glories higher,&#13;
Who did enjoy, unto a wish, such store,&#13;
That all his Ancestors scarce heard of more,&#13;
Shou'd by his own procuring fall so low,&#13;
As if he'd study'd his own overthrow,&#13;
Looks like a story yet without a Name,&#13;
And may be stil'd the first Novel in Fame?&#13;
So the fam'd Angels, Turbulent as Great,&#13;
Who always waited 'bout the Mercy-Seat,&#13;
Desiring to be something yet unknown,&#13;
Blunder'd at all, and would have graspt the Crown,&#13;
Till Heaven's Great Monarch, saw they wou'd Rebel,&#13;
Then dasht their Hopes, and damn'd them down to Hell.&#13;
&#13;
And now methinks I see to th'fatal place&#13;
A Troop of Whiggs with Faction in each Face,&#13;
And Red-swoln Eyes, moving with mournful pace,&#13;
Pitying the Mighty Sampson of their Cause,&#13;
Cursed their Fates, and Railing at the Laws.&#13;
The Sitters too appear, with sniveling ryes&#13;
To celebrate their Stallions Obsequies;&#13;
From th' Play-house and from Change, how they resort,&#13;
From Country, City, nay, there's some from Court,&#13;
From the Old C---ss wither'd and decay'd,&#13;
To a Whigg Brewers Youthful Lovely Maid.&#13;
Gods! What a Troop is here? sure Hercules&#13;
Had found enough so many Whores to please.&#13;
&#13;
Repent, ye Factious Rout, Repent and be&#13;
Forewarn'd by this bold Traytors Destiny.&#13;
Go home ye Factious Dogs, and mend your Lives;&#13;
Be Loyal, and make honest all your Wives.&#13;
You keep from Conventicles first, and then&#13;
Keep all your Wives from Conventicling Men.&#13;
Leave off your Railing 'gainst the King and State,&#13;
Your foolish Prating, and more foolish Hate.&#13;
Obey the Laws, and bravely act your parts,&#13;
And to the Church unite in Tongues and Hearts;&#13;
Be sudden too, before it proves too late,&#13;
Lest you partake of this bold Traytors Fate.&#13;
&#13;
And if the Faction thinks it worth the Cost,&#13;
(To keep this Bully's Name from being lost)&#13;
To raise a Pillar, to perpetuate&#13;
His Wond'rous Actions, and Ignoble Fate,&#13;
Let 'em about it streight, and when 'tis done,&#13;
I'le Crown the Work with this Inscription.&#13;
&#13;
Bold Fame thou Ly'st! Read here all you&#13;
That wou'd this Mighty Mortal know;&#13;
First, he was one of low degree,&#13;
But rose to an Hyperbole.&#13;
Famous t'excess in ev'ry thing,&#13;
But duty to his God, and King;&#13;
In Oaths as Great as any He,&#13;
That ever Grac'd the Tripple Tree;&#13;
So Absolute, when Drencht in Wine,&#13;
He might have been the God o' th' Vine.&#13;
His Brutal Lust was still so strong,&#13;
He never spar'd, or old, or young;&#13;
In Cards and Dice he was well known,&#13;
T'out-cheat the Cheaters of the Town.&#13;
&#13;
These were his Virtues, if you'd know&#13;
His Vices too pray read below.&#13;
&#13;
Not wholly Whig, nor Atheist neither,&#13;
But something form'd of both together,&#13;
Famous in horrid Blasphemies,&#13;
Practic'd in base Adulteries.&#13;
In Murders vers'd as black, and foul&#13;
As his Degenerated Soul.&#13;
In's Maxims too, as great a Beast,    *His Father&#13;
As *those his honest Father drest.      was a Groom.&#13;
The Factious Bully, Sisters Stallion:&#13;
Now Hang'd, and Damn'd, for his Rebellion.</text>
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            <text>English</text>
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            <text>1684-1686 </text>
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            <text>LONDON, Printed for William Bateman, in the / Old Change.</text>
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            <text>Male</text>
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            <text>Tyburn</text>
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            <text>Huntington Library - Bridgewater, Shelfmark: HEH 134747; &lt;a href="https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/32147/image"&gt;EBBA 32147&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>Executed for Conspiring the Death of His most Sacred Majesty, and Royal Brother, June 20. 1684. With some Satyrical Reflections on the whole Faction.</text>
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              <text>AN ELEGIE On the never to be forgotten Sir Thomas Armstrong Knight; </text>
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