%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / PARLIAMENTS / Thanks to / The Citie: / For their kinde complyance with them in all their Treasons from time / to time committed against His Maiesties Honor, Crowne / and Dignitie. / DEDICATED / To the Loyall and treacherous Citizens; the valiant and cowardly / Citizens; the wise and foolish Citizens; the wealthy and / poor Citizens; the square and Round-headed / Citizens; the honored, and the Horn- / ed Citizens. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1648-1648 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/23/2012 32179

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R221403 YOu Loyall Citizens, / J call you as you were, Sqare-headed Citizens, / J call you as you were, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 71904 THE / PARLIAMENTS / Thanks to / The Citie: / For their kinde complyance with them in all their Treasons from time / to time committed against His Maiesties Honor, Crowne / and Dignitie. / DEDICATED / To the Loyall and treacherous Citizens; the valiant and cowardly / Citizens; the wise and foolish Citizens; the wealthy and / poor Citizens; the square and Round-headed / Citizens; the honored, and the Horn- / ed Citizens. THE PARLIAMENTS Thanks to The Citie: For their kinde complyance with them in all their Treasons from time to time committed against His Maiesties Honor, Crowne and Dignitie. DEDICATED To the Loyall and treacherous Citizens; the valiant and cowardly Citizens; the wise and foolish Citizens; the wealthy and poor Citizens; the square and Round-headed Citizens; the honored, and the Horned Citizens. THE PARLIAMENT'S Thanks to The City: For their kind compliance with them in all their Treasons from time to time committed against His Majesty's Honor, Crown and Dignity. DEDICATED To the Loyal and treacherous Citizens; the valiant and cowardly Citizens; the wise and foolish Citizens; the wealthy and poor Citizens; the square and Round-headed Citizens; the honored, and the Horned Citizens. 1648-1648

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YOu Loyall Citizens, I call you as you were, In times of old till now, For many a hundred yeer. What is the reason now you are Disloyall growne, And have forsaken quite The Royall English Crowne? You Treacherous Citizens, I call you, as you are, How comes it so to passe that you with Judas share? Blot out your Dagger now your Arms their chiefest grace; Jack Straw in stead shall put his Thatching-Knife in place. You Valiant Citizens, I call you, as you were, Time out of mind, untill this present Conquering yeare: It pities me to see how hartless you are growne, That dare not budge nor stir for to preserve your owne. You cowardly Citizens, I call you as you are, Our miseries they increase, be sure you shall have share: How beardless boyes doe tread, (the world will laugh to see) Your honor in the dust, with shame and Obloquie.
You wise grave Citizens, I call you as you were, Whilst you your selves maintaind your Priviledges cleare: My heart doth burst to see your King, your Laws, your Rights, Abusd, infringd, orethrowne all by your oversights. You foolish Citizens, I call you, as you are, Of Goods, of Rights, of Lives, you shall be stripped bare; Where are your eyes become? you cannot see at all How neare you are unto a lamentable fall. You wealthy Citizens, I call you as you were, Whilst in protection you were of your Soveraigne deare: But now the case is alterd the clean contrary way, Your Riches are become the plundring Souldiers prey. You poore base Citizens, I call you as you are, In what a case are you? how mean, how vile, how bare? What you yourselves have got, nor you, nor yours enjoy. Dam-me its mine will sweare some upstart Souldiers boy.
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Square-headed Citizens, I call you as you were, Whilst you the helme of Justice most equally did steere, But now your giddy heads have turnd you all so round, Of Law, or of Relig[i]on we can have nothing found. Round-headed Citizens, I call you as you are, For by your orbed forms, You put all out of square: The Kingdom quite undone, your selves shall not escape, Expect no further bliss, but Murder, Theft and Rape. You honored Citizens. I call you as you were, Whilst you reservd a strength, to keep your selves from fear; But all your Holds are lost, by your grave wisedomes pates, If you your Houses keep, Its more then is your fates. You horned Citizens, I call you as you are, What cockolds could endure Corrivalls thus to share? Content I doe confess, It is a Wittalls part, Let nothing I have said, pray strike you to the heart. Farewell kinde Citizens, all things but Horns are deare, And no one may we thanke but you, for this same geare.
A Challenge From KENT, And the Counties of Surrey, Sussex, Essex and Hertford-shire; TO The Citie of LONDON, for her treachery ready to be undone. TAme, cowardly, Kuckold- ly Citizens; that for your Treachery and Disloyalty are grown shameless be- fore men; perjurd before God, Traytors to your King; Robbers and murderers to your Countrey; a Reproch to your Religion, a di- shonour to your Nation, and a hissing to the whole World; the chief Protectors, upholders, and Abbetors of Traytors, Murderers, Theeves, and Schismaticks; and a Pay-master unto them that are o- ver head and ears in Blood, Tyranny Rapine and Oppression; That have made London (once the Phaenix of the world, that burnd in Loyall flames to Soveraignity, till it re- newd its Honor with its Age, and its Prosperity with its Peace; a Citie at unitie with itself, that feard God, honoured the King, were obedi- ently governed by his Lawes, and became Rich and happy in all bles- sings whatsoever;) Till you with the superfluity of your Money- bagges have waged Traytors in Rebellion against your lawfull King, to the undoing of all the Kingdom; turned your Citie (once the Paragon of Beauty,) into the Pat- tern of Deformity; your Phaenix into an Owle, to be whooted at by all Nations, and made the crowne and Pride of England, (by your treache- ry) to be the Scare-crow, and scorn of the world. WEE the long abused People of England, that now justly take up Arms to redeem our King, Re- ligion, Lawes and Liberties of the Subject from the Tyranny and Ar- bytrary cruelties of a Factious and over-awing Prvalent Party; Will and require you the Citizens of London (as you will recover your crackd credits) to doe the like with all convenient speed; Else we shall doe our utmost to stop all Provisions from comming to your Citie; and use the uttermost of our indeavors to reduce both you and your Citie to the Obedience of his Majestie, and all criminaries what- soever to the tryall of the knowne Lawes of the Land. God save the King. FINIS. Printed in the Yeer, when the city stincks for fear. 1648.