The Cryes
OF
Westminster.
Or a Whole Pack of Parliametary Knavery opened, and set to sale.
Come Customers, come: Pray see what you lack,
Hers Parliament Wares of all sorts in my Pack.
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WHo buyes any Parliament Priviledges?
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My new Priviledges.
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Twill teach you many pretty things,
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And raise you above Gods or Kings.
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These are the Cryes of Westminster,
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That are heard both far and neer.
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But a while I pray stand by,
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And you shall hear another cry.
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Who buyes the Parliaments Declaration against
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the King: New, new, new.
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Twill surely unblinde your eyes,
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That you may read a hundred lyes:
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Thus goe the Cryes, etc.
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Buy a new Ordinance to repair Churches:
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A new Ordinance, new, new, new.
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The Achans now restore the Wedge,
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To salve their Saintships Sacriledge.
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Thus goe the cryes, etc.
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Buy a new Ordinance of the Commons,
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against Sage-players. New-lye printed, and
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new-lye come forth.
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Saints now alone must Act for Riches,
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The Plott out-smells old Atkins breches.
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Thus goe the Cryes, etc.
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Buy a new Order of Parliament, That none
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shall make any more Addresses to the King, or
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receive any Message from him, upon pain of
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High-treason, Imprisonment, death, or plun-
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dering: But when these shall swing in a string,
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true Subjects will obey their King.
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Challonner, Mildmay, Martin, Veine,
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Are fitting of their crowns to reigne.
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These are the Cryes, etc.
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Buy a new Plott, found out by Sir John Wray,
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to blow up the Thames, or the City to betray,
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tis as true as all the rest, before nere known by
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man nor beast.
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Twill keep you still in Jealousies and Fears,
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And sets you all together by the Ears.
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Thus goe the cryes, etc.
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Buy the Four Bills sent by the Parliment,
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from Selden and my Lady Kent; after long De-
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bate of this blessed Parliament; Who buyes
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the Four Bills here. Great CHARLES he will
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not betray his Trust unto such as they; his Ho-
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nors still intire, his Conscience tryd nine times
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ith Fire, the Devill give all his foes their hire
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and raise them toward heaven above a halter
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nyer.
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Let all the People say, Amen,
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For we shall nere have Peace till then.
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Thus goe the cryes, etc.
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Who byes any Bishops Houses, or their
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goods, Books, houshold-stuffe or hoods, here
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are good pasture grouds, corn, hay and grasse
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in all our Rouds, if it be not all good, the De-
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vill confounds. Amen.
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May all the Trees to gibbits turn,
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Or firing make, to hang or burn,
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Thus goe the cryes, etc.
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Have you any old Arrears for the Army, ile
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give you tickets for em; have you any Subsidies,
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Poll-money, Loanes or Contributions, have
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you any Plate, Horse, or Armes, old bodkins
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or Thimbles or wedding Rings, have ye any;
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Have you any more Irish Adventures for sale of
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lands, or a trick for one meal a week. City
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Loans have you any; or Assessments for the
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Scotts; have you any Five and Twenty Parts,
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weekly or monthly Assessments for Essex, Fair-
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fax, Manchesters, the Scots or Irish Army, Free-
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Quarter have you any. Have you any of his
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Majesties Revenue to sell, Old Sequestrations
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or Plunder; have you any more Exizes, or For-
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tification-money, or Fynes for Delinquents
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Compositions, etc. or a new Ordinance for
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400000l. the moneth.
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This is our Liberty for to pay
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The Saints that now King Charles betray.
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Thus goe the cryes of Westminster,
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That are heard both far and neer,
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But a wile I pray stand by,
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And you will hear another cry.
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