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5.134 R188514 2 The Sages of Old The Sages of Old The Sages of Old Let the Souldiers Rejoyce Let the Soldiers Rejoice Let the Soldiers Rejoice THe Sages of old, in Prophecy told, the cause of a Nation's undoing; But the/ true English breed, no Prophets do need, For each man here seeks his own ruin; author noted by Rollins as the author from whose song this ballad is expanded; date from content. Pepys 5.134 Rollins (1) VII:129-131; Wing D2742[a]A 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: 134 THE/ Loyal STATES-MAN:/ OR, A/ Plain Discription of these Present Times. THE Loyal STATES-MAN: OR, A Plain Discription of these Present Times. The Loyal Statesman: Or, A Plain Description of These Present Times. 1/2 sheet folio, 282 x 165 cropped right edge, creased surface, set-off from another ballad visible decorative initial, vertical rules 1693 Pritned for C. Bates, next the Crown-Tavern in West-Smithfield. C. Bates Weinstein

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THe Sages of old, in Prophecy told, the cause of a Nation's undoing; But the true English breed, no Prophets do need, For each man here seeks his own ruin; By grumbling and jarrs, we promote Civil warrs, And preach up false Tenets too many; We snarle and we bite, we rail and we fight for Religion, yet no man has any.
II. Then him let's commend, That's true to his friend, And a Miss that can wittily prattle, That delights not in blood, But draws when he shou'd, And bravely ne'r shrinks from a Battle; That rails not at Kings, Nor at politick things, Nor treason does speak when he's mellow; But takes a full glass. To King William's success, This this is the honest brave fellow. III. Church-scruples and jars, Plunge all Europe in wars, English Caesar espouses our quarel; Predestin'd to stand Against Lewes le Grand, And wear his now flowrishing lawrel: The cause that is best, Now comes to the test, For Heav'n will no longer stand newter, But pronounce the great doom, For old Luther or Rome, And prevent all our doubts for the future.
IV. 'Twould turn a wise brain, To consider what pain Fools take to become Polititians: Fobs, Bullies, and Cits, All set up for Wits, And ingeniously hatch new devisions; Some shew their hot zeal, For a new Common-weal, And some for a new Restoration; Thus cavel and braw l, Till the Mounsier gets all, And best proves the wit of the Nation. V. Tho' we med'cines apply, Yet the feaver swells hi[g]h, First caus'd by a Catholick knot, Which no cure can gain, Till the breathing a vein, Corrects the mad pulse into quiet: Yet what e'er disease, On our Country may seize, Let's drink to its healing condition; And rather wish William Were Victor in France, Then Lewis were England's Phisitian.
Printed for C. Bates, next the Crown-Tavern in West-Smithfield.