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

R31473 YOu Presbyters now Relent, / For your Plotting is all in vain, Ah little Pate! / Politick Pate! / Thy Policy now is grown quite out of Date. [with var.] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 135856 An Excellent New / BALLAD / Of the PLOTTING HEAD. An Excellent New BALLAD Of the PLOTTING HEAD. An Excellent New BALLAD Of the PLOTTING HEAD. 1681-1681 P.M.

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YOu Presbyters now Relent, For your Plotting is all in vain, Since College does now Repent, And hourly does complain; That all your contrivance is nothing, And M--- yet proves a Slowthing: Ah little Pate! Politick Pate! Thy Policy now is grown quite out of Date. Now all the Caball Men of Fortune, With Toney, the Head of the Crew Who the People did often Importune, To Swear things that never were true: Oh! this is the Fox of the Nation, Who made your Sedition a Fashion, Ah little Pate! Ill was thy Fate! For to bring thy self to this wretched Estate. And now wheres thy Policy Toney, The Nation so much did Admire, Hast lost both thy Wit, and thy Money Since Friends with thy Fortune Expire; Had not Harris spoke truth ats last Hour, Thou nere hadst been sent to the Tower, Ah little Pate! What is thy Fate! Wilt thou have thy Head fixed fast on a Gate. Poor Stafford indeed you out-witted, And thought to have done all the rest, But now your Quaint Policys fitted And you left to make up the jeast; Except you Invoke your Friend Tory, To turn, and to Swear a New Story: Ah little Pate! What is thy Fate! Alas must thy Head now be fixt on a Gate?
The Zealots that live in the City, Are grievd, for to see your strang Fate; Though yet they your Fortune may pitty, Theyl finde out your Treasons too late: For the Devil you faithfully served, Has left you, to what you deserved Ah little Pate! Damnd little Pate! To cause this destraction and Curse in the Stat[e.] Like Lucifer sweld with Ambition, And tost from a Heavenly Seat; So you from a wretched Condition, Was by your Kings Favour, made Great But like the worst of all Creatures, Whose Treacheries seen in his Features; For you little Pate, To bring in a State, Would venture your Head being fixt on a Ga[te.]
Printed for P.M. in the Year. 1681.