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5.105 R187343 1 A true Touch of the Times Touch of the Times A True Touch of the Times NOW listen a while, while I here do relate/ The many strange Turnings in Matters of State, imprint cropped?; date from Rollins. Pepys 5.105 Rollins (1) IV:182-185; Wing P3838A 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. 5: 105 Protestant OBSERVATOR:/ OR,/ A Touch of the strange Turn of TIMES,/ From the Reign of Queen Mary in 1555, to this present Year. Protestant OBSERVATOR: OR, A Touch of the strange Turn of TIMES, From the Reign of Queen Mary in 1555, to this present Year. Protestant Observator: Or, a Touch of the Strange Turn of Times, from the Reign of Queen Mary in 1555, to this Present Year. 1/2 sheet folio, 292 x 186 all edges cropped, torn left and top edges horizontal and vertical rules 1689 [imprint cropped?] Weinstein: Rollins

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1. NOW listen a while, while I here do relate The many strange Turnings in Matters of State, Since bloudy Queen Mary and Bonner did Reign, Of whom the whole Kingdom had cause to complain: Those that would not Turn were adjudged to Burn, At which our bless'd Sion in Ashes did Mourn; Yet her noble Martyrs Religious and Loyal, Through Faith they did stand the sharp fiery Trial. 2. Soon after these Flames had prov'd Protestant's Doom, A hot burning Feaver did Mary consume: Then Lady Elizabeth she was made Queen, Whose Piety soon chang'd the sharp bloudy Scene; In spite of the Jesuites Envy and Malice, She was convey'd from a Prison to a Palace; From a Vail of Tears to a Sceptre and Crown, And quickly she tumbl'd Rome 's Wooden God's down. 3. A lasting Foundation she likewise did make, For Law and Religion, which Rome cannot shake: She had been preserv'd by a powerfull Hand, For to be a publick Good to this Land: In her blessed Reign she did baffle proud Spain , And studied the Protestant Rights to maintain; And after she had Reigned full Fourty four years, Her Death did occasion whole Showr's of Tears. 4. Then peaceable James came next to the Throne, Whose Learning and Wisedom all Persons must own: Tho' Peace and Religion was all his Desire, Rome 's Faction against his sweet Life did conspire: The Jesuites hot, may they ne'er be forgot, In that they contriv'd a damn'd Gun-powder Plot, To blow up the King, and his Great Parliament. But Heaven in Mercy their Plot did prevent. 5. Then after him Reigned Charles his Royal Son, Who thro' a whole Ocean of Sorrows did run, And then at the last, by most unhappy Fate, Was Murder'd and Martyr'd at his Palace-Gate; There like a meek Lamb he did patiently dye, Whose innocent bloud did for just vengeance cry; His Foes that were formerly used to frown, In private their Tears then ran trickling down.
6. Then Oliver came with his fiery Nose, The Common Prayer Service he soon did oppose, And Bishops turn'd out, with great Persons of State, They were like Old Almanacks, quite out of Date: Then Tinkers and Taylors did sit at the Helm, And Collonels with Coblers did Govern the Realm: Thus having quite turn'd out the Bishops and Peers, Then Canters and Ranters were haul'd in by the Ear. 7. Then Cromwell went hence in a horrid Whirl-wind, And left all his Coblers, and Tinkers behind. Then K. Charles , who long had been kept from his own, With Peace, Joy, and Triumph Return'd to his Throne Where many long years he did Flourish and Reign, And we had no Cause in the least to complain; To Eighty and four he the Sceptre did sway, Then dy'd with full Age, or else some other way. 8. Then the next was a Papist that came to the Crown. Whose Jesuites strove to run Protestants down, Great Monmouth then hearing what they did contrive, Unto this great Kingdom he soon did arrive, Resolving to stand for the Protestant's good, And Sealed the same with the Price of his Bloud, For Malice and Envy was frequently rife, Alas! he was merely betray'd of his Life. 9. The Protestant Laws must be next overthrown, To make some Ten thousands times worse of their own, And then was provided with great Cost and Care, A Project to bring forth a Catholick Heir: But oh! how the Friars did fret, swear and damn, 'Cause Protestants would not believe the quere Sham: Great William at length with an Army came here, And sent them away with a Flea in their Ear. 10. Now gracious King William is plac'd on the Throne, His Power let every Protestant own, And pray that the Heavens will always afford A Blessing along with his Conqu'ring Sword, Our Laws to Restore, down with Babylon 's Whore, That she may ne'er trouble this Kingdom no more: Then Blessings from Heaven will fall like a Dew, Upon our Great King, and His Parliament too .