%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / WONDERFUL TRANCE; / OR, / The French King in a DREAM. / ON / The Happy Arrival of King WILLIAM into ENGLAND. H., M. 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 04/20/2016 34442

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R224510 GIVE Ear, give Ear, to what I do relate, / With dreadful Sighs; O sad and dreadful Fate! Houghton Library Bute Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 4: 98 THE / WONDERFUL TRANCE; / OR, / The French King in a DREAM. / ON / The Happy Arrival of King WILLIAM into ENGLAND. THE WONDERFUL TRANCE; OR, The French King in a DREAM. ON The Happy Arrival of King WILLIAM into ENGLAND. THE WONDERFUL TRANCE; OR, The French King in a DREAM. ON The Happy Arrival of King WILLIAM into ENGLAND. H., M. ?-?

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GIVE Ear, give Ear, to what I do relate, With dreadful Sighs; O sad and dreadful Fate! That I so long have liv'd in Honour great, And now at last with Shame forc'd to retreat; Who made no thought (by War) but out of hand, To Conquer all the Habitable Land; Enlarge my Borders, yea, and King to be O're the whole World, to all Eternity: What rage, what madness, now I undergo, That I should prove Frances final overthrow? O how the thoughts of that suppress my Heart With tortur'd grief, yea, with a darting smart! My warlike Men, they lay their Honours down, Which forces me to be of no Renown; My Captains love the Runegado's Race, And durst not look King WILLIAM in the Face; My Centinels are drove from place to place, Alas! I am quite ruin'd with disgrace; Whatere I do, or take in hand, or see, It still falls cross unto my Majesty; My Foes turn'd Friends, my Friends turn'd Foes again, Till I was quite forsaken on the Main: With England great, a Peace I would fain make, Which makes my Crown and Sceptre sore to shake; My Subjects dread Men born in English Land, For when they come, we cannot them withstand; Who with Prosperiry do still abound, My Royal Robes to level with the Ground; Myself to Death commit: I plainly see, Appear the day of my Mortality: Yea, lest my Sorrows may example need, They will the Trojan Miseries exceed;
For my Birth-day, lest Comfort I should see, Was black with Clouds, and foul as foul may be: I now am tortur'd with a Conscious Guilt, For Blood by me too often hath been spilt, That now for Vengeance cries; yea, Innocent, By which God's Wrath to punish me is bent: To many Souls have I an Object been To leave this World, ere half their days were seen, Which me disturbs; yea, in the silent Night, With Ghostly Shades, they do my Sleep affright; Do what I can, before my Face they flee And shreek; in no place can I quiet be. Smart Stripes do sound before me, Hell-brands smoak, Twisted with Snakes, my wicked Soul to choak; They witness unto me, yea, day by day, When dead, I shall be snatched quite away To Parts far distant, from th' Elyzian Coast, With damned Shades, shall dwell my horrid Ghost: I am Deceit, Deceitful is my Name; When Bears their Natures change, then I my frame; When Paris shall in England planted be, When Fish build Nests on every Bough and Tree, When raging Seas without a rowling Wave, Then I'll enjoy what I shall never have: Ere this will be, ere Ethiops to white turn, My Body must resort toth' silent Urn, My Bones shall rest nowhere, but secret Cries Shall me torment, in endless Miseries; Whilst Great King William triumphs here on Earth, Will Crowned be with everlasting Mirth; His Soul to Heaven, Angels safe will bring To God; there Hallelujahs for to sing, To him who was, who is, and 'ere will be, The King of Kings to all Eternity.
Licens'd, Octob. 15. 1692. Per M.H.