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1 Packington's Pound. Packington's Pound Packington's Pound. ALL you that have Stock, and are Mad for a Peace, / Come listen a while, and I'll give your Hearts ease; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 60 THE / French Preliminaries. THE French Preliminaries. THE French Preliminaries. 1712-1712

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ALL you that have Stock, and are Mad for a Peace, Come listen a while, and I'll give your Hearts ease; And let all True Churchmen Rejoice when they see How Low the French creep to the New Min------y. A great Poet lately was sent into France For a General Treaty to make some Advance; In Return of whose Visit, a Knight newly made, And a Governing Man of the French South-Sea Trade, Came with a full Power, as he says, from the King, These Tidings of Gladness for Britain to bring. I. He declares that the King will do all that is fitting To acknowledge Her Majesty Queen of Great-Britain; For which if you scruple to take his bare Word, Pray think how that Monarch us'd William the Third, Whom he own'd, and disown'd, and set up the Pretender, And with him still noses our Church's Defender. He also protests that the Crown shall descend, As at present 'tis settl'd, for that very End. II. That he will bona fide, and freely consent, That whoever is able may take Care to prevent The French and the Spaniards being under One Yoke, Which is easily done when th' Alliance is broke; For he horribly fears lest an Excess of Power The Quiet of Europe may chance to devour. III. He also intends the Allies One and All, (For he scorns to except the Great or the Small,) If they'll be but contented with what he will give 'em, Shall find he's a Man that will never deceive 'em; Their Trade shall be Safe, tho' he does not declare To Inquisitive Folks in what Manner, or Where. IV. As the King will maintain the Peace when concluded, So for fear that the Dutch should think they are deluded;
Of them on a sudden he's grown very Tender, And Consents for their Good that they may Surrender Whate'er has been taken in Flanders this War, And he'll then yield them back a very good Barr. But as for the Title of States High and Mighty, Which some People use on Purpose to fright ye, The Republick of Holland does Properer seem, For Republicks of late are in mighty Esteem. V. The King consents likewise, that instead of Spain A Barrier shall for the Empire remain. VI. Tho Dunkirk was Bought by the King pretty Dear, And has cost Money since, as may plainly appear, His Majesty's willing however to Swear He'll raze all the Works at the End of the War, If he may but a proper Equivalent have, That is, What his Majesty thinks fit to Crave: But as England, he's told, is now grown so Poor, That for what her King Sold for Some Pence and One Whore, An Equivalent cannot be rais'd by that Nation, But shall be referr'd to the Negotiation. VII. Once more by his Faith, an Oath none e'er doubted, He swears in this Peace no Prince shall be Outed; For he does not expect Charles should be so sullen, As at last to exclude Bavaria and Cologne. Thus you have heard the vast Offers the Frenchmen have made For these Realms, our Allies, and Dear South-Sea Trade. And Abel declares they're return'd very glad Of the Civil Reception which there they have had. So all you that have Stock, and are Mad for a Peace, Think of what has been said, and 'twill give your Hearts Ease, And let all true Church-men rejoice when they see How Low the French creep to the New Min------y.
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