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5.112 R185516 1 Which no body can deny Greensleeves Which Nobody Can Deny PRay lend me your Ears, if you've any to spare,/ You that love Common-wealth, as you hate Com-/ mon-Pray'r, Which no Body can deny. date from imprint; Battle of Marsaglia (1693) Pepys 5.112 Wing T2278A 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: 112 A Trimmer's Confession of Faith:/ Or, The True Principles of/ A. Jack of Both-Sides. A Trimmer's Confession of Faith: Or, The True Principles of A Jack of Both-Sides. A Trimmer's Confession of Faith: Or, the True Principles of a Jack of Both Sides. 1/2 sheet folio, 280 x ?190 cropped left edge, holed horizontal rules 1694 London: Printed for James Thomlinson near/ East-Smithfield, 1694. James Thomlinson Weinstein: imprint

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I. PRay lend me your Ears, if you've any to spare, You that love Common-wealth, as you hate Common-Pray'r, Who can in a Breath Pray, Dissemble and Swear; Which no Body can deny. II. I'm sometimes o'th' wrong side, and sometimes the right; To day I'm a Jack, and tomorrow a Mite: I for either King pray, but for neither dare fight; Which no Body can deny. III. I'm sometimes a Rebel, and sometimes a Saint, I sometimes can Swear, and at other times Cant; There's nothing but Grace (I thank God) that I want; Which no Body can deny. IV. Old Babylon's Whore I cannot endure her; I'm a Sanctifi'd Zealot, there's none can be purer: For-Swearing I hate, like any Non-Juror; Which no Body can deny. V. Of gracious King William I am a great lover, Yet I side with a Party that prays for another; I drink the King's Health, take it one way or t'other: Which no Body can deny. VI. Precisely I creep like a Snail to the Meeting; Where Sighing I meet with such sorrowful Greeting, Makes me hate a long Pray'r, and five hours Prating: Which no Body can deny. VII. And there I sing Psalms, as if never weary; Yet I must confess, when I'm frolick and merry, More Musick I find in a Boat to the Ferry: Which no Body can deny.
VIII. I pledge ev'ry Health my Companions drink round; I can say Heavens bless, or the Devil confound; I can hold with the Hare, and run with the Hound; Which no Body can deny. IX. I can pray for a Bishop, and curse an Arch-Deacon; I can seem very sorry that Charleroy's taken; I can any thing say, to save my own Bacon; Which no Body can deny. X. Sometimes for a good Common-welath I am wishing; O Oliver! Oliver! give us thy Blessing; For in troubled Waters I vow I love fishing; Which no Body can deny. XI. The Times are so ticklish, I vow and profess, I know not which Party or Cause to embrace; I'll be sure to side with those that are least in distress; Which no Body can deny. XII. With the Jacks I rejoyce that Savoy's defeated; With the Whigs I seem pleased he's so bravely retreated Friends and Foes are by me both equally treated, Which no Body can deny. XIII. Each Party, we see, now are full of great hope, There's some for the Devil, and some for the Pope; And I am for any thing, but for a Rope; Which no Body can deny.
London: Printed for James Thomlinson near East-Smithfield, 1694.