%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Papists Lamentation for / the loss of their Agent William Viscount Stafford, together with the dread / they are possessed with, fearing that more will quickly follow him the / same way. / Preparations will be made / For those that cursed Plots have laid, / For to be brought to Tryal fair, / And now they'r filled with dispair University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1662-1662 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/21/2011 30413

The University of California makes a claim of copyright only to original contributions made by Early Modern Center participants and other members of the university community. The University of California makes no claim of copyright to the original text. Permission is granted to download, transmit or otherwise reproduce, distribute or display the contributions to this work claimed by The University of California for non-profit educational purposes, provided that this header is included in its entirety. For inquiries about commercial uses, please contact:

Patricia Fumerton Early Modern Center - English Department University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93105 United States of America EMail: pfumer@english.ucsb.edu

R216055 2 A Fig for France UNKNOWN A Fig for France Fair Phillis your prevailing charms UNKNOWN Fair Phyllis Your Prevailing Charms LAment, lament you Saints of Rome, / Since Stafford hath receiv'd his doom, Sure 'tis he hates such horrid things / As Massacres, and killing Kings. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 76 3: 77 The Papists Lamentation for / the loss of their Agent William Viscount Stafford, together with the dread / they are possessed with, fearing that more will quickly follow him the / same way. / Preparations will be made / For those that cursed Plots have laid, / For to be brought to Tryal fair, / And now they'r filled with dispair 1662-1662 J. Conyers

This document follows the guidelines specified for TEI.

XML Generated Automatically at 4/21/2011 11:48:29 AM Using EMC

XBallad Parsing Engine developed by Carl Stahmer.

TEI Template developed by Gerald Egan and Modified by Carl Stahmer

All apostrophes are encoded as '.

Any dashs occurring in line breaks have been removed;

All dashs are encoded as ‐ and all em dashes as —.

 Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/ health alcohol animals/ nature Bible/ biblical figures buildings/ architecture catastrophe children class clothing/ appearance country/ nation crime death economics/ commerce entertainments family folklore gender holidays/ seasons infidelity labor/ craft law London love maritime marriage military/ war monstrosity mythology/ Classical news nobility/ court politics/ government procreation punishment race/ ethnicity religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/ sexuality supernatural/ magic The New World travel trickery/ deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/ crass humor youth/ age Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 4/21/2011 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America country/ nation punishment religious types & sects Ballads, English 17th century Broadsides, England 17th century 4/21/2011 11:48:29 AM XBallad Mellon, Gillian Created XML Version of Ballad 4/21/2011 11:48:29 AM Transcription Supervisor McAbee, Kristina, Nebeker, Eric Transcription of ballad manuscript 4/21/2011 11:48:29 AM Double-Key Comparison and Merging Nebeker, Eric Transcription of ballad manuscript 4/21/2011 11:48:29 AM Transcriptionist Two Hehmeyer, Paxton Transcription of ballad manuscript 4/21/2011 11:48:29 AM Transcriptionist One Becker, Charlotte Transcription of ballad manuscript 7/24/2008 Bibliographer Giles Bergel Initial Ballad Catalogue Record Created 10/29/2010 Checker Grafals Michael Edited Ballad Catalogue Record 10/15/2008 Checker Shannon Meyer Edited Ballad Catalogue Record
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The Papists Lamentation for</hi></seg> <seg n="2" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">the loss of their Agent <hi rend="bold">William Viscount Stafford,</hi> together with the dread</hi></seg> <seg n="3" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">they are possessed with, fearing that more will quickly follow him the</hi></seg> <seg n="4" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">same way.</hi></seg> <lb/> <seg n="5" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">Preparations will be made</hi></seg> <seg n="6" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">For those that cursed Plots have laid,</hi></seg> <lb/> <seg n="7" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">For to be brought to Tryal fair,</hi></seg> <seg n="8" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">And now theyr filled with dispair</hi></seg> <lb/> <seg n="9" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">Tune of, Fair Phillis your prevailing charms, or A Fig for France.</hi></seg>
LAment, lament you Saints of Rome, Since Stafford hath receivd his doom, And we poor Souls are left behind Perplext and troubled in the mind, We see that God did strangly blast, And brought to light your Plot at last. Sure tis he hates such horrid things As Massacres, and killing Kings. Let us lament his Rigid Fate, Who for Romes cause we know of late Did like a stubborn Papist dye In hopes to live eternally, But in our Consciences we know It is unlikely to be so, For God doth hate such bloody things As Massacres, etc.
Some others daily we Expect, That took such courses indirect, Must follow him the selfsame way, And on the Block their Heads must lay, But if impartially we speak, The Devil did their ruine seek, For God doth hate such bloody things As Massacres, etc. See how the Stratagems of Rome, Have wrought these bloody Actors doom, That have been fifteen years about, What some few years have quite brought out, And Stafford he hath led the Van, A Traytrous wretch and wicked man, Tis sure God hates such bloody things As Massacres, etc.
This is a Tenet of our Faith No other Church in Europe hath, Never to rest till we have done The work the Devil sets us on, Yet though in Plots our lives we spend, Theyl come to nothing in the End For God doth hate such bloody things As Massacres, etc. Though all the Wits of France and Spain More Plots contrive, twill be in vain, And let his holiness the Pope, On whom we Papists fix our hope, Spend all his dayes in such designs, The Heavens will still find Countermines And blast such wicked bloody things As Massacres, etc, The Protestants we plainly see, Protections have of high degree, That none can do them any wrong Who in their faith are firm & strong, But idle worshippers do fall By hellish Plots, in deadly thrall. For God doth blast such bloody things As Massacres, etc.
Then let us all renounce and fly From this our strange Idolatry, That our designs may prosperous be Else tis in vain we plainly see, For who with heaven doth not advise In vain are their conspiracies. For God doth hate such bloody things As Massacres, etc. But we have stubborn hearts and do Resolve against whats just & true, Since Popes can Absolution give For our misdeeds we do believe This makes us all less care to take Though oft it makes the Actors quake, For God doth hate such bloody things As massacres, etc. Tis strange to think what Friends we had In England where our hearts now sad, Were once with joy compleatly filld, To think what blood would there be spilld, And in a moment we were lost, Our Plots discoverd, all things crost, For God doth hate such bloody things As Massacres, and killing Kings.
London printed for J. Conyers at the black Raven in Duck-lane