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COme, honest Country-man, what News dost bring? / Countr. Faith, Master John, they say you're like to swing. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 251 1: 251 (1) / The Last Observator: / OR, THE / Devil in MOURNING. / A / DIALOGUE / BETWEEN / John Tutchin and his Countryman. (1) The Last Observator: OR, THE Devil in MOURNING. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN John Tutchin and his Countryman. (1) The Last Observator: OR, THE Devil in MOURNING. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN John Tutchin and his Countryman. ?-?

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Obser. COme, honest Country-man, what News dost bring? Countr. Faith, Master John, they say you're like to swing. Obs. Thou know'st I once for Hanging did Petition. Countr. Ay [?]e th' effects of Preaching up Sedition; But the most general Report supposes, You'll on the Pillory tell Peoples Noses. When that day comes, ------ Your trusty Farmer here most humbly begs You'll let him give you a small Treat of Eggs. Obs. Jesting apart; Hast with thee brought some Nancy, Or Protestant March-Beer to raise my fancy? Inspir'd by that, my Thoughts will quicker flow, And I'll by far out-hymn the fam'd de F------. Coutr. No, not a drop. I'm to be gull'd no more; Too much you have trespass'd on the ancient Score. I'll be no longer with Whig-Birdlime caught, Ne'er stir, I wou'd not save thee for a Groat. Misled by thee, I left my Herds and Flocks, And must turn Politician with a Pox. Obs. And where's the harm to know the Springs of State? Countr. It only hasten'd Hone's and Rouses Fate. Obs. Happen the worst, I've Friends will pay my Cost. Countr. You reckon Nobs, I fear, without your Host. Obs. Won't merciful Low-Church espouse my Cause? Countr. They'll leave you to the Mercy of the Laws. Obs. But then the Whiggs will back me Tooth and Nail. Countr. Yes, those are saving Cards that never fail. Obs. Old-Nick thus uses Witches, as they tell us, And drops the gaping Wretches at the Gallows.
(2) Will none my Person then from malice skreen? Say, Countryman, What think'st thou of my Queen? Countr. S'life not a word of Her, thou Scandal-Pedlar, Thy Loyalty's as Rotten as a Medlar. After such Libelling the Royal-Race, How dar'st thou sue to Majesty for Grace? Obs. What, am I then by all the World forsaken? Countr. E'en get your Friends the Jews to save your Bacon: Or should you to the Devil's Church repair, None will suspect you'd venture Play-house Air. Obs. Howe'er I'm thus abandon'd by the rest, Yet while I'm still with thy dear Friendship blest--------- Countr. Nor Friendship, nor Relief expect from me, Through all thy thin pretences now I see: No more with sowr Republicans I'll herd, But pluck those prating Raskals by the Beard. No more with Mercenary Scribes take part, But get me home, and mind my Plough and Cart: Scow'r o'er my Grounds by break of Day, old Tutchin, And freely pay my Taxes without grudging. No more Notch'd Levi's holy Buckram hear, But with my Betters to the Church I'll steer. Dance with our Lads and Lasses on the Green, Then steal a harmless Buss------And so God save the QUEEN.
FINIS. On Tuesday next will be publish'd a Dialogue by the same Hand with this, between William Fuller of the Queens-Bench, Gent. and John Tutchin of Sedition-Hall in Scandalshire, Esq;. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, or the Republican Unmasq'd; wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head Heroes, in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of January, by them called Anthems; for five Years last. The Fourth Edition with Editions, Corrected. Dedicated to the Observator. The Stage-Beaux toss'd in a Blanket: Or, Hypocrisie Alamode; expos'd in a true Picture of Jerry------ a pretending Scourge to the English Stage. A Comedy, With a Prologue on Occasional Conformity, being a full Explanation of the Poussin Doctors Book; and an Epilogue on the Re- formers, Spoken at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-lane. Certamen Epistolate: Or Eight Letters be- tween an Attorney and a Dead Parson; Joe Hainess Third Letter, being a Supplement to the Second Part of Letters from the dead to the Living. Never before Printed. With a Collection of Letters, By Mr. Thomas Brown. The Source of our present Pears discover'd; or plain Proof of some late Designs against our present Constitution and Government: Containing Remarks and Scandalous Libels and Pam- phlets publish'd of late, and a Justification of some Passages in a late Book, Intituled, The History of the lost Sessions of Parliament, written by the Author of the History of the last Parliament; Price 1s.