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N62234 O Mee, O mee, our Parliament, / Which I hop'd aye would last, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 439408 THE / COMMITTEE-MANS / Last VVill and Testament: / VVith the Lamentation of his miserable and sad condition, being / at the point of death. THE COMMITTEE-MANS Last VVill and Testament: VVith the Lamentation of his miserable and sad condition, being at the point of death. THE COMMITTEEMAN'S Last Will and Testament: With the Lamentation of his miserable and sad condition, being at the point of death. 1647-1647

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1. O Mee, O mee, our Parliament, Which I hopd aye would last, Must now dissolve, the Armys bent, They shall repentance tast. 2. And I that have thrivd very well, Must now my selfe go hang, I am esteemd an Infidell, Which makes my heart-strings twang. 3. Those good men that have sate seven yeares, For to reforme their Nation The vulgar now them scoffes and jeers, In an opprobrious fashion. 4. O they will never have more plate Brought into Goldsmiths Hall, And Im afeard preposterous Fate Hath nuld their Votings all. 5. Theres no man now cares what we say, Nor will obedience give, Our Orders now none will obey, But as they list will live. 6. O that it ere should come to passe, The King should hope to be A Monarch, as of late he was, And we our ruine see! 7. No man will now stirre at our call, But each man fully sees, That they have been deceived all, And now curse their Trustees. 8. I shall no more get in one day Five Marks, due for my fitting, For why, the sturdy Commons say, We with their coyne are flitting. 9. Maynard is gone, and Hollis too, But we are left behind, And Lewis now is gone to view, Cambro-Britannias kind. 10. And Walter Long is run away, And Nicolls that Esquire, Colonel Harley durst not stay, But left us in the fire.
11. O the brave dayes that I have seene, Which splits my heart in twaine! Now I can say such dayes have beene, Nere shall be seen againe. 12. When I could sequestrations make, For my own profit best, And from men what I listed take, Theyd thank me for the rest. 13. But now alls gone, alls lost, and we A true account must give; Which if it be followed rigorously, Who can gain a reprieve? 14. O Derrick, I do thee implore, To cast me gently off; That so I do not stink, before Thou dost my breeches doff. 15. And now I do my farewell take Of King and Parliament; Yet fore I goe, my Will will make, Pray heare my Testament. I That have livd the longest that I can, And now must die, a false Committee-man, Do give my soule to him that gave it me, But would the Devill should a sharer be: Or els, because the devill was at my call, I give him this my body, soule and all, In hope, movd by my love, he may prefer Me when in hell, to be his Treasurer; For that in casting up accounts, Im skild, And have my bags with filched money fild. My cheating quirks I to Promoters give, And such as by the Peoples crimes do live: My base dissembling, vile hypocrisie I give the Elders of the Presbyterie. My trecherie, and falsnesse to my King, I give to the Scotch Nations mannaging; That they, well stockt, may gainst another day, Not faile succeeding Princes to betray. All I have bad I have bequeathd, and more Alas I have not: I spent all before.
FINIS. Printed in the Yeere 1647.