%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A View of the POPISH-PLOT; / OR, / A Touch of the Cunning Contrivance of the Romish Faction, / from the Year Seventy-Eight, to this late Time. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1689 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/29/2008 20895

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2.281r R187664 1 The bonny Blacksmith Greensleeves The Bonny Blacksmith COme listen a while both Young and Old, / While I in brief to you will unfold, Which no body can deny. [with variation in penultimate stanza] date from imprint; hinged broadsheet with verso: The Scolding Wives Uindication: / OR, AN ANSWER to the / CUCKOLD'S COMPLAINT. / Wherein she shows what just Reasons she had to exercise Severity over / her insufficient Husband. [see V.App.ii.30]; original text faces left and in facsimile the text faces right Pepys 2.281r Rollins (1) IV:193-196; Wing V365A. Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 281 A View of the POPISH-PLOT; / OR, / A Touch of the Cunning Contrivance of the Romish Faction, / from the Year Seventy-Eight, to this late Time. A View of the POPISH-PLOT; OR, A Touch of the Cunning Contrivance of the Romish Faction, from the Year Seventy-Eight, to this late Time. A View of the Popish Plot; or, a Touch of the Cunning Contrivance of the Roman Faction, from the Year Seventy-Eight, to this Late Time. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, hinged, 203 x 318 cropped bottom edge, damaged surface, uneven inking, verso shows through 1689 Printed in the Year 1689. Weinstein: imprint

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COme listen a while both Young and Old, While I in brief to you will unfold, A Ditty as true as ever was told, Which no body can deny. In Seventy-Eight the Jesuit-Plot Was private, yet Hellish, and desperate hot, For which some at last did go fairly to Pot, Which no body can deny. Some Papist L----- did strive to devour A Protestant Monarch who then was in power, For which they were decently sent to the Tower, Which no body can deny. With Fire and Sword they thought to have marr'd The Protestants and not a Soul to have spar'd.
And therefore the Citizens stood on their Guard, Which no body can deny. As soon as the Crew of the Jesuits see They were to be punisht for this villany, They presently Murder'd Sir Edmund Godfrey, Which no body can deny. Then Harcourt and other sweet Sons of the [Nooze], Which nothing of Law in the least could excuse Why, these had the honour to die in their Shooes, Which no body can deny. With promises fair they were sweetly led on, To clearly [deny all] as much as they c[an] 'Till Coleman cry'd out, What belie[f is in Man]? Which no body can deny.
Then straight a false Rumor was rais'd in the Town, Some Courtiers did on the true Protestants frown, Nay, valiant brave Monmouth with speed they ran down, Which no body can deny. The hanious Distractions most violent hot, The Papists desir'd might have been forgot, Or otherwise call it a Protestant Plot, Which no body can deny. And then for a cunning and subtile Device, Some honest Men's lives was an absolute price, And thus all Affairs was turn'd round in a trice, Which no body can deny. Some persons for Favour, at Protestants fume, Thus R------ and S------- was brought to their doom, They fell by the fury and malice of Rome, Which no body can deny. The Monster became the grand Scourge of the Age, Ever since Popery mounted the Stage, But now he's shut up like a Bird in a Cage, Which no body can deny. Then those that discover'd the Jesuit Crew, And what they were seeking and plotting to do, These was to be Whipt, ay, and Pillory'd too, Which no body can deny. They never cou'd stop Doctor O------- his Mouth, Altho' he was then Degraded forsooth, Nay, Whipt and Imprison'd for speaking the Truth, Which no body can deny. Now he that first found out the Whipping Trade, Which did the D------- and J-------- Degrade, Let him by the same an Example be made, Which no body can deny. Then Jesuits stood for the upper hand, And in [the heigh]th of Defiance did stand, Against our Clergy and Laws of the Land, Which no body can deny. In order to [baffle] the Protestant Power, [The Bishops away] were sent to the Tower, [And a young Prince] of Wales was [Born the same] hour, 'Tis True, if they do not Lye. [The Jesuits then was] never at rest, [But still was contriving to] Murder the Test, [But now good] King William has quite spoyl'd the Jest Which no body can deny.
[Prin]ted in the Year 1689.