%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent New Song, / CALL'D, / The Full Tryal and Condemnation of JOHN / Duke of MARLBOROUGH. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/23/2014 33125

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I Now have an Ambition, In this great Time of News, To tell you the Deposition, Of the Christians, not the Jews, Against John Duke of Marlborough. Give Ear then, Sons of Britain, Of greater Crimes I sing, Than ever before were writ on, Since the time of a Queen or a King; All done by John Duke, etc. This Man by Constitution, Was made for Liberty; He help'd the late Revolution, On purpose to hurt Popery, Did this John Duke, etc. The next great Crime of many, His troublesom Pride to shew, Was marching to High Germany; And who gave 'em that damnable Blow, But this John Duke? etc. And more to mend the Matter, To his Shame and Reproach, An Army he made take Water, And their General sent by Coach: All prov'd on John Duke, etc. To shew his Whig-Devotion, On keeping the Sabbath-Day, He the Murder at hateful Ramelly began Upon a Whitsunday. O Heathen John Duke, etc. Tho busy in his Slaughtering, His Avarice ran so high, That rather than spare the most Christian King, He Ten Thousand Pounds gave to a Spy. O covetous John Duke, etc! At Audenard so ill to treat Foes, And make poor Widows of Wives; He took a Delight to beat those, That never beat him in their Lives. O cowardly John Duke, etc. Boufflers, a civil good Man, Safe in his Trenches close, From Mons he made run like a Footman, Tho bulwarkt as high as his Nose. Uncivil John Duke, etc. To every tender Christian Ear, When Crimes like these shall come, I know not how they may Abroad appear, I'm sure they sound oddly at Home: These Deeds of John Duke, etc.
Some Facts to make the French undone, I've prov'd upon him well; And truly what 'tis he has not done, Impossible 'tis to tell, Of this John Duke, etc. To prove that all these Things are so, And not what Folks devise, Was he ever the Man that once spar'd the Foe, Or ever affronted th' Allies, This same John Duke, etc. Ghent, Bruges and Tournay too, And late the strong Bouchain, Of his own Head he forc'd to obey too, Tho wanting his Brother Eugene; Hot-headed John Duke, etc. Of these immoral Things he brags, we take no notice at all; You see with his pitiful French bloody Rags, How he litter'd poor Westminster-Hall. O slovenly John, etc. Nay more he still would fly at, And all to mend the Peace; Lord! how can we ever be quiet, If we pardon such Crimes as these In any but John Duke, etc. Twelve Years it sadly true is, By taking Towns and Lines, And baffling the poor King Lewis, He has spoil'd the Pretender's Designs. O meddlesome John Duke, etc. Success still made him bolder, And by the Monsieur's Fall, He has pass'd on this Isle for a Soldier, But it seems he knows nothing at all. Earl P-----t says so of Marlbro. This Year for War he voted, But we resolved on none; For Monsieur was sure to be routed, And then High-Church had been undone By English John Duke, etc. You see the Troops don't need him, He's out, and in France they laugh; And send any other to head 'em, And I'll warrant old Bourbon is safe: Keep back but John Duke, etc. For he, as Fame confesses, That Kingdom meant to devour; For which, and his heinous Successes, He's broke, and our Fears are all o'er, Thus fell John Duke of Marlbro'.
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