%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> VVhat if the KING should come to the City? / More questions concerning new matters of weight, / Being some of those humors which many conceit, / Being lately composed in a pleasant new Ditty, / What if the King should come to the City. 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 03/03/2016 35071

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R219490 WHat if the King should come to the City, / how would he be entertain'd I trow? HOw stands the opinions of such as did grumble / that they should be governed under a King, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 VVhat if the KING should come to the City? / More questions concerning new matters of weight, / Being some of those humors which many conceit, / Being lately composed in a pleasant new Ditty, / What if the King should come to the City. What if the KING should come to the City? More questions concerning new matters of weight, Being some of those humors which many conceit, Being lately composed in a pleasant new Ditty, What if the King should come to the City. What if the KING should come to the City? More questions concerning new matters of weight, Being some of those humors which many conceit, Being lately composed in a pleasant new Ditty, What if the King should come to the City. ?-?

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WHat if the King should come to the City, how would he be entertain'd I trow? With triumph and joy with rigor or pitty, Many conjecture and some doe know Would not the Turn-pike Captain then guard his great shot for fear of a Plot. and lock up his Wickets whilst he studies to secure his Guns and his men. Will not the Troop of riders in Scarlet humbly stoop at his Majesties feet Believe it who list for me he's a varlet that credits a miracle before he see 't will they not rather ask him whither he means to persist and doe what he list Or to joyn with his Parliament & Assembly When they are all agreed together.
wil not your Schismatick shopkepers mutter professing in verity they are undone and cannot for a King their commoditys utter wishing him beyond Jerico or the Moone Will not they boldly give it out that all this coyle is only to spoyle and rout out the purity of the blessed Reformation they were late about. Will not your Tafity Pioners riot; I mean those dainty Citizens wives, That deep in their trenches left husband & diet to save their own and Childrens lives: will not they murmur at this Crosse, did wee goe about to keep the King out, And you to let him and his Russins enter our precious wares to tumble and tosse.
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HOw stands the opinions of such as did grumble that they should be governed under a King, Will they be contented themselves for to humble, unto their dread Soveraign in every thing, Or will they not rather seem to be more obstinate, !gainst him and the State, so much that others boldly professe themselves to be King as well as he, Will not the numerous multitude meet him to see his returning home againe, Or rather the chief of the City to greet him. and in Royall manner his Grace entertain, And shall not the factious then forbeare, whose brains are so weak that still they must speak forth Treason against his Royall Person else can they not live contented here. Will not the Royallists frame their Petitions, and humbly desire his Grace to consent And that he would sign to all good Propositions, and also agree with his great Parliament. Whereby to release them from those Bands
which they for his sake upon them did take, and that they after may have such freedome as freely t' enjoy their goods and their lands. The Prentices they which doe monthly desire a day for their recreation to take, Now at his returning perhaps will require a barter and all for his Majesties sake, And though they allow two dayes for one. yet they'l be content, and think it well spent, when as they behold his Majesty setled in Peace and Dignity upon his Throne. Thus in the conclusion to wrap up the story, to think that the King and the State will agree. Good men will be glad though knavs may be sorry but hang up all such as is sorry for me, For this shall ever be my Prayer, God prosper and blesse the King and all his, and eke the Parliament, which endeavours daily to keep this Land from all care.
Printed in the Yeare 1660.