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R185785 1 The King's Delight: or, True Love is a Gift for a Queen King's Delight, The The King's Delight: or, True Love is a Gift for a Queen AS I was walking through / Hide-park, as I us'd to do; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 359 A TURN-COAT of the TIMES: / Who doth by Experience, profess and protest, / That of all Professions a Turn coat's the best. A TURN-COAT of the TIMES: Who doth by Experience, profess and protest, That of all Professions a Turn coat's the best. A TURNCOAT of the TIMES: Who doth by Experience, profess and protest, That of all Professions a Turncoat's the best. 1696-1696 W.O.

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AS I was walking through Hide-park, as I usd to do; some two or three months ago, I laid me all along, Without any fear of wrong, And listend unto a Song; It came from a powdered Thing, As fine as a Lord or a King, he knew not that I was got so nigh, And thus he began to sing: I am a Turn-coat Knave, Although I do bear it brave; and do not shew all I have; I can with tongue and pen Court every sort of Men, And kill em as fast agen. With Zealots I can pray, With Cavileers I can play, with Shop-keepers I can cogg and lye, And couzen as fast as they.
When first the wars began, And Prentices lead the van, twas I that did set them on; When they cryed Bishops down In Country, Court and Town, Quoth I, And have at the Crown: The Covenant I did take, For form and fashions sake; but when it would not support my Plot, Twas like an old Almanack. When Independency Had Superiority, I was of the same degree; When Keepers did command, I then had a holy hand, In Deans and in Chapters land, But when I began to spy Protectorship drew nigh, and Keepers were thrown ore the bar, Old Oliver, then cryd I.
When Sectarifts got the day, I used my yea, and nay, to flatter and them betray: In Parliament I gat, And there a Member sat, To tumble down Church and State, For I was a trusty Trout In all that I went about; and there we did vow to sit till now, But Oliver turnd us out. We put down the House of Peers We killed the Cavileers, and tipled the Widows tears; We sequested Mens estates, And made em pay monthly rates To Trumpeters and their Mates. Rebellion we did Print, And altered all the Mint; no Knavery then was done by Men, But I had a finger int. When Charles was put to flight, Then I was at Worster fight, and got a good booty byt; At that most fatal fall I killd and plunderd all, The Weakest went to the wall; Whilst my merry Mates fell on, To pillaging I was gone, there is many (thought I) will come by and by, And why should not I be one?
We triumphed like the Turk, We cripled the Scottish Kirk, that sets us at first to work; When Cromwell did but frown, They yielded every Town, St. Andrews Cross went down; But when old Noll did die, And Richard his Son put by, I knew not how to guide my plow, Where now shall I be? thought I. I must confess the Rump, Did put me in a dump, I knew not what would be trump; When Dick had lost the day, My gaming was at a stay, I could not tell what to play; When Monk was upon that Score, I thought I would play no more, I did not think what he would be at, I ner was so mumpt before. But now I am at Court, With Men of the better sort, to purchase a good Report; I have the eyes and ears Of many brave noble Peers, And flight the poor-Cavileers; Poor Knaves they know not how, To flatter, cringe and bow, for he that is wise, and means to rise, He must be a Turn-coat too.
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