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T38712 MArgaritta first possest, / IF I remember well my Breast, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 574 3: 575 NUMB. 2. / Love's CHRONICLE: / OR, THE / Changing HEART. Love’s CHRONICLE: OR, THE Changing HEART. Love’s CHRONICLE: OR, THE Changing HEART. Cowley, Abraham Printer WILLIAM DICEY 1707-1707

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MArgaritta first possest, If I remember well my Breast, Margaritta first of all; But when a while the wanton Maid With my restless Heart had plaid, Martha took the flying Ball. Martha soon did it resign To the Beauteous Katherine, Beauteous Katherine gave Place, Though loth and angry she to part With the Possession of my Heart To Elisas conquering Face.
Elisa till this Hour might reign, Had she not Evil Counsels taen; Fundamental Laws she broke, And still new Favourites she chose, Till up in Arms my Passions rose, And cast away the Yoke. Mary then and gentle Ann Both to reign at once began, Alternately they swayd; And sometimes Mary was the Fair, And sometimes Ann the Crown did wear, Sometimes I Both obeyd.
Another Mary then arose, And did rigorous Laws impose, A mighty Tyrant she! Long, alas, should I have been Under that Iron-Sceptred Queen, Had not Rebecca set me free. When fair Rebecca set me free, Twas then a golden Time for me, But soon those Pleasures fled; For the gracious Princess dyd In her Youth and Beautys Pride, And Judith reigned in her stead. One Month, 3 Days and half an Hour, Judith held the Sovreign power, Wondrous beautiful her Face, But so weak and small her Wit That she to govern was unfit, And so Susannah took her Place. But when Isabella came Armd with a resistless Flame, And th Artillery of her Eye, Whilst she proudly marchd about Greater Conquests to find out, She beat out Susan by the Bye. But in her Place I then obeyd Black-eyd Bess her Vice-Roy Maid, To whom ensud a Vacancy;
Thousand worse Passions then possest The Inter-regnum of my Breast, Bless me from such an Anarchy! Gentle Henrietta then And a third Mary next began, Then Joan, and Jane, and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Katherine, And then a long et cetera. But should I now to you relate The Strength and Riches of their State, The powder, patches, and the pins, The Ribbons, Jewels, and the Rings, The Lace, the paint, and Warlike things That make up all their Magazines: If I should tell the Politick Arts To take and keep Mens Hearts, The Letters, Embassies, and Spies, The Frowns, and Smiles, and Flatteries, The Quarrels, Fears and Perjuries, Numberless, Nameless Mysteries! And all the little Lime-Twigs laid By Maschiavill the Waiting-Maid; I more voluminous should grow, (Chiefly if I like them should tell All change of Weathers that befel) Than Holinshead or Stow.
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