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N68231 1 Packington's Pound Packington's Pound Packington's Pound COME buy my new Ballet, / I hav't in my Wallet, 'Twas made of a Cloak that fell out with a Gown, / That cramp'd all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 289777 The Ballad of the CLOAK: / Or, The Cloak's Knavery. The Ballad of the CLOAK: Or, The Cloak's Knavery. The Ballad of the CLOAK: Or, The Cloak's Knavery. Printer JOHN WHITE 1730-1730

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COME buy my new Ballet, I havt in my Wallet, But twill not, I fear, please every Pallet; Then mark what insuth, I swear by my Youth, That every Line in my Ballad is Truth, A Ballad of Wit, a brave Ballad of Worth, Tis newly printed and newly come forth: Twas made of a Cloak that fell out with a Gown, That crampd all the Kingdom, and crippld the Crown. Ill tell you in Brief, A Story of Grief, Which happend when Cloak was Commander in Chief: It tore Common-Prayers; Imprisond Lord Mayors. In one Day it voted down Prelates and Players: It made People in Point of Obedience, A Covenant did cut off the Oath of Allegiance. Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down, That crampd all the Kingdom and crippld the Crown. It was a black Cloak, In good Time be it spoke, That killd many Thousands, but never struck Stroke:
With Hatchet and Rope, The Forlorn-hope, Did join with the Devil to pull down the Pope; It set all the Sects in the City to work, And rather than fail, twould have brought in the Turk. Then let us, etc. It seizd on the Tower-Guns, Those fierce Demi-gorons; It brought in the Bag-pipes, and pulld down the Organs; The Pulpits did smoke, The Churches did choak, And all our Religion was turnd to a Cloak: It brought in Lay-elders could not write or read, It set publick Faith up, and pulld down the Creed. Then let us, etc. This pious Imposter, Such Fury did foster, It left us no Penny, nor no Pater Noster; It threw to the Ground Ten Commandments down, And set up twice twenty Times ten of its own: It routed the King; and Villains elected To plunder all those whom they thought disaffected. Then let us, etc.
To blind Peoples Eyes This Cloak was so wise, It took off Ship Money, but set up Excise; Men brought in their Plate, For Reasons of State, And gave it to Trumpeter and his Mate; In Phamphlets it writes many specious Epistles, To cozen poor Wenches of Bodkins and Whistles. Then let us, etc. In Pulpits it moved, And was much approved, For crying out------Fight the Battle of the Lord, Belovd! It bob-taild the Gown, Put Prelacy down, It trode on the Mitre to reach at the Crown; And into the Field it an Army did bring, To aim at the Council, but shot at the King. Then let us, etc. It raised up States, Whose politick Pates, Do now keep their Quarters, on the City-Gates: To Father and Mother, To Sister and Brother, It gave a Commission to kill one another: It took up Mens Horses at very low Rates, And plunderd our Goods to secure our Estates. Then let us, etc. This Cloak did proceed, To a damnable Deed, It made the best Mirror of Majesty bleed: Tho a Cloak did not dot, He set it on Foot, By rallying and calling his Journey-Men tot: For never had come such a bloody Disaster, If Cloak had not first drawn a Sword at his Master. Then let us, etc. Lets pray that the King And his Parliament, In sacred and secular Things may consent: So religiously firm, And religiously free, That Papists and Atheists suppressed may be: And as theres one Deity doth rule over us, One Faith, and one Form, and one Church may contain us, Then Peace, Truth and Plenty, our Kingdom shall crown, And all Popish Plots, and there Plotters shall down.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by JOHN WHITE.