%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> ANOTHER / BALLAD: / Called the / Libertines Lampoone: / OR, / The Curvets of Conscience. Butler, Samuel University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1674-1674 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/10/2018 36154

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R30700 1 Thomas Venner, Or 60 [unknown] Thomas Venner, Or 60 AS I examin'd my Conscience, / All by my self; Halloo my Conscience whither wilt thou go. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. : ANOTHER / BALLAD: / Called the / Libertines Lampoone: / OR, / The Curvets of Conscience. ANOTHER BALLAD: Called the Libertine's Lampoon: OR, The Curvets of Conscience. Butler, Samuel 1674-1674 F.K. and Edward Thomas

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AS I examin'd my Conscience, All by myself; My head was full of Nonsence: After seven times turning, Worse then a burning, I found she was a Wayward Elf. Ceremonious Oaths, and humane Laws offend her, She's constant as a Weather-cock, and as a Milstone tender; E'ne such another Protestant, as the old Witch of Ender. Halloo my Conscience whither wilt thou go. Treason she says is Religion, Sacriledge Zeal; A Crow she calls a Pidgeon: She tells you further, Plundering and Murther, Do Service to the Common-weal. Justice she esteemeth to be a very slow thing, Power Ecclesiastick, she reckons as a low thing, And for an Act of Parliament she counts it next to nothing; Halloo my Conscience, etc. A Nonconformist to please her, Lately declar'd: She's more a Prince then Caesar; Say what she will say, These fellows still say, She must and ought to be heard. Though Mallice can corrupt her, and Avarice can taint her, Pride can blow her up, and Hypocrisie can paint her, And when Truth cryes her down Sedition can Saint her. Halloo my Conscience, etc. Changes she can Ring a hundred More then are good, Else it might be wondred, In the mutations, Of these three Nations How upon her Legs she hath stood. For under the old Rumpers she was enforc'd to truckle, Cromwel and his Janisaries made her glad to buckle, And when the King came in, she got the trick to smuckle. Halloo my Conscience, etc.
When Smec and the Independant Began to Clash: She could foresee the end on't; And as soon as the day First brake at Breda, She kept herself out of the lash. Although of the Surplice she never had a Rag on, Of all her nimble tricks, this she hath cause to brag on, She pitcht upon her Feet when Bell fought with the Dragon Halloo my, etc. Quite from bending and bowing, She is declin'd: To Theeing, and to Thouing, Sects and perswasions All Modes and Fashions, Of every sort and kind. She was a Brownist lately, an Anabaptist newly, And then she fell to plainly, Verily and Truly: But errors have no end, and factions want a Thule. Halloo my, etc. Such is her intricate winding No Man can trace, She loaths to hear of binding: She's free and willing, Although it be by killing To run the Fanatick Race. He that can restrain her, may fix the stars that wander, Cure the fits of Jealousie, or gag the Mouth of Slander: Sail without a Rudder: and rectifie Meander. Halloo my, etc. Drunk with the Doctrine of Tub-men See how she reels, From Men of Law to Club-men, This way and that way, No man knows what way, Unsteadfast as Phaetons Wheels: In Faith none more fervent, in Charity none colder, As fiery as Bucephalus, and then blind Byard bolder: She's too untame for Earth, and none but Hell can hold her. I, I, 'tis thither, thither, she may go.
LONDON, Printed for F.K. and Edward Thomas, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain, 1674.