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2.287 R188663 1 Of all Delights the Earth doth yield Of All Delights The Earth Doth Yield GReat Britain is agreed, I hear; / It puts me in a slavish Fear, Pepys 2.287 Rollins (1) IV:283-286; Wing N767[a]aA. 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: 287 A NEW SONG/ OF THE/ Late Lord Chancellors/ Last VVill and Testament. A NEW SONG OF THE Late Lord Chancellors Last Will and Testament. A New Song of the Late Lord Chancellor's Last Will and Testament. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 195 x 296 all edges cropped, damaged surface, uneven inking headpiece: 44 x 137 1689 Printed in the Year, 1689. Weinstein: imprint

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G Reat Britain is agreed, I hear; It puts me in a slavish Fear, The Senators will be sad to me, When for my Faults I judg'd will be. To make my Will, I think it's time, Before my Breath I do resign.
Imprimis, To my Country dear, I do bequeath a Mark a Year. That they may mark and bear in mind, In every Age what I design'd, When I had got so near the Throne I thought the Day was all our own.
Item, I bequeath my Face, To he that cares not for Disgrace: And likewise I do bequeath my Brains, To Plotters that doth take great pains, Against the Law by damn'd Sedition, Defrauding Rights with Politician. My Soul unto the Pope I give, To keep it chary while he lives; To make himself a Drinking Cup, And with Confusion fill it up; And let him drink the Devil's Health, 'Twas Liquor that I lov'd my self. My Ears, I do bequeath 'em free, To Doctor Oates's Pillory, For they by right shou'd had the place, Whilst he, poor Man, bore the Disgrace, I us'd all my Skill and Art, To punish him with bitter Smart. And let some faithful Bearer carry, My Eyes unto our late Queen Mary, She had a Dimness in her Sight, Or else she had seen old Petre's Spight: He led her in a Brake of Thorn, And ere he left her Grace forlorn. The Devil take my accursed Tongue, Which did my Soul and Body wrong; 'Twas hang'd with Instruments of Deceit, And at the end a Golden Bait.
My silver Cord had such Delusion, Drawing the Nation to Confusion. My Heart I do bequeath, with all My Lights and Liver, and my Gall, Unto some bloody minded Butcher, For I delighted much in Slaughter: Long of my hanious Cruelness, There's many a Widow and Fatherless My Skin, I do give strict Command, That by some Tannar may be tann'd: 'Twill serve to make the Devil a Sack, To carry Petres on his Back, That he may ride Hackney to Hell, The posture will become him well. Unto the Pope of Italy, I do bequeath my Blood to He; 'Twill serve instead of Claret Wine, Then let him have his fill of mine, For he loves Blood with all his Heart, Then let him take it for his part. My Arms and Legs and all the rest, I do bequeath to savage Beasts; 'Twill serve the Eions in the Tower, My loathsome Carkess to devour, Hoping my Soul will mount on high So ends my Will, now let me die
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