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2.284 R234397 1 O rare Popery O Rare Popery ALas! I am taken most monstrous ill, / Sweet Writer bring hither your Paper and Quill, And leave my Legacies, delicate Legacies, / Chancellors Legacies, O. [with variations] date from content: Jefferys, Death of; imprint unclear: Printed in the Year, 16[89?]. Pepys 2.284 Rollins (1) IV:279-282; Wing S5333. 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: 284 The STATSE-MAN'S / Last Will and Testament; / OR, / His worthy Legacies left to his beloved Cronies, for whom he had a particular kindness. The STATSE-MAN'S Last Will and Testament; OR, His worthy Legacies left to his beloved Cronies, for whom he had a particular kindness. The Statesman's Last Will and Testament; or, His Worthy Legacies Left to His Beloved Cronies, for Whom He Had a Particular Kindness. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 188 x 285 cropped left and right edges, uneven inking, set-off from another ballad vertical rule 1689 Printed in the Year, 16[89?] Weinstein: content

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ALas! I am taken most monstrous ill, Sweet Writer bring hither you Paper and Quill, For here I am ready to make my last Will, And leave my Legacies, delicate Legacies, Chancellors Legacies, O. My wonderful portions I here will divide, According as Merit my reason shall guide, Let Lucifer have my invincible Pride, Sing O brave Legacy, etc.
My Covetous heart now as bitter as Gall, I leave to old Misers in hopes that they shall, Like me get in Gold here the Devil and all, Sing O rare Legacies, etc. My small Guts let honest Musitioners take, That they of the same may Fiddle strings make, And then scrape my Guts till their very hearts ake, Sing O brave Legacy, Chancellors Legacy, A delicate Legacy, O.
And as for my Nose I will leave that alone To my dearest Friend that makes pitiful moan, Because he has never a Nose of his own, Sing O rare Legacy, etc. My unruly Tongue which run at that rate, And bantred men out of their reason of late, I leave it to Fish Women at Billingsgate, Sing O rare Legacy, etc. My Brains I bequeath but I know not to who, But hold, I remember the Jesuit Crew, They'll serve them for plotting more mischief to do; Sing O rare Legacy, etc. My old empty Skull to the Pope now shall go, In token of Favours which he did bestow, 'Twill make him a lusty large Punch Bowl I know, Sin O rare Legacy, etc. My honoured Reverend Father the Pope, He sent his sweet Son here a sanctified Rope, But I have no need of the same now I hope, I'll leave that Legacy, delicate Legacy, to one of the Jesuit Crew. My lusty large Conscience which Bribes did receive, To some Corrupt Lawyer I freely do leave, That honest Men he may of Living bereave, A worthy Legacy, etc. My Body I into the West do return, To satisfie those that with Anger do burn, Thus for my bad deeds I may do one good turn, Sing O rare Legacy, etc. Now sign it and seal it according to Law, The Major shall ne'er keep the Minor in awe, Nor wrong them so much as the weight of a straw Of these my Legacies, Chancellors Legacies, delicate Legacies, O.
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Printed in the Year, 16[89]