%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A SPEECH / Made to His EXCELLENCY / The Lord General MONCK / And the COUNCIL of STATE, / At Fishmongers-Hall in LONDON. / The Thirteenth of April, 1660. / At which time they were Entertained by that Honorable COMPANY. / Written by Tho. Jordan. / After a SONG of difference betwixt the Lawyer, the Soldier, the Citizen and the Countrey-man. / The CHORUS being ended. Enter the Ghost of MASSIANELLO Fisher-man of NAPLES. Jordan, Thomas University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1660-1660 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/09/2012 32559

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R221066 IS your Peace just? What Rock stands it upon? / Conscience and Law make the best Union. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 447800 A SPEECH / Made to His EXCELLENCY / The Lord General MONCK / And the COUNCIL of STATE, / At Fishmongers-Hall in LONDON. / The Thirteenth of April, 1660. / At which time they were Entertained by that Honorable COMPANY. / Written by Tho. Jordan. / After a SONG of difference betwixt the Lawyer, the Soldier, the Citizen and the Countrey-man. / The CHORUS being ended. Enter the Ghost of MASSIANELLO Fisher-man of NAPLES. A SPEECH Made to His EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK And the COUNCIL of STATE, At Fishmongers-Hall in LONDON. The Thirteenth of April, 1660. At which time they were Entertained by that Honorable COMPANY. Written by Tho. Jordan. After a SONG of difference betwixt the Lawyer, the Soldier, the Citizen and the Countrey-man. The CHORUS being ended. Enter the Ghost of MASSIANELLO Fisher-man of NAPLES. A SPEECH Made to His EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK And the COUNCIL of STATE, At Fishmongers Hall in LONDON. The Thirteenth of April, 1660. At which time they were Entertained by that Honorable COMPANY. Written by Tho. Jordan. After a SONG of difference betwixt the Lawyer, the Soldier, the Citizen and the Countryman. The CHORUS being ended. Enter the Ghost of MASSIANELLO Fisherman of NAPLES. Jordan, Thomas Printer W. Godbid 1660-1660

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IS your Peace just? What Rock stands it upon? Conscience and Law make the best Union. If you gain Birthrights here by Bloud and Slaughter, Though you sing now, youl howle for ever after: Trust my Experience, one that can unfold The strangest truest Tale that ere was told, In my degree, few men shall overtake me, I was as great as Wickedness could make me; This heart, this habit, and this tongue to boot Commanded Forty thousand Horse and Foot, In three weeks time, My fortune grew so high I could have matchd my Fishers Family With the best Bloud in Naples: Right and Wrong, And Life and Death attended on my Tongue, Till (by a quick verticitie of Fate) I find too soon what I repent too late; And, though a Rebell in a righteous clothing, My glow-worm glories glimmerd into nothing. Thus fell that Fisher-man that had no fellow, I am the Wandring Shade of Massianello; Who, since I was into Perdition hurld, Am come to preach this Doctrine to the world. Rebels though backt with Power, and seeming Reason, Time and Success, shall feel the fate of Treason. But stay! what Pictures this hangs in my sight? Tis valiant Walworth, the King-saving Knight: That stabd Jack Straw: Had Walworth livd within These four Months, where had Jack the Cobler been? It was a bold brave deed, an act in Season, Whilest he was on the Top-branch of his Treason. He looketh up to the Picture of Sir William Walworth (who stabd Jack Straw) that hangeth over the head of my Lord Ge- neral. But from that Shaddow, dropping down My eye, I see a Substance of like Loyalty. To the Lord General.
IF long renowned Walworth had the fate To save a King, You have to save a State; And, who knows what by Consequence? The Knight By that brave Deed, gaind every man his Right: And you, by this, may gain each Man his due, Not onely Trusty Hearts, but Traitors too: He drew bloud, you did not; tis all one sense, Theres but a Straws breadth in the difference: He savd the Town from being burnt, and You Have rescued it from Fire and Plunder too: He was this Companies good Benefactor, And You have been their Liberties Protector; For which, I heard them say, they would engage Their States, and Blouds, and Lives against all rage That shall oppose Your just Designes: And that You are the welcomst Guest, ever came at This Table; they say, All they can exhibit Is not so much a Treatment as a Tribute: They call you the First step to Englands Peace, The True fore-runner of our Happiness: A Parallel. And, joynd with these great Councillors, You are Our best Preservatives in Peace and War. You have a Loyal Heart, a Lucky Hand, Elected for the Cure of this Sick Land, Who by Protectors and unjust Trustees, Hath been Enslavd, and brought upon her Knees: To the Coun- cil of State. We humbly pray this may be thought upon Before the Kingdoms Treasure be quite gon: And hope you will (though Envy look a squint) When all is fit, Put a Just Steward int. Spoken by WALTER YOUKONY. CHORUS. Then may your fame out-live all Story, And prove a Monument of Glory; Kings and Queens (as Tribute due) On their knees shall pray for you, Whilst all True hearts confess with Tongue and Pen, A Loyal Subject is the best of Men.
LONDON, Printed by W. Godbid over against the Anchor Inn in Little Brittain. 1660.