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R15606 1 Lay by your Pleading, Law lies a bleeding Lay by your Pleading Lay by your Pleading, Law Lies a Bleeding SInce Reformation / With Whig's in Fashion, They sham us, and flam us, / And ram us, and damn us, / And then, in spight of Law, come off with Ignoramus. British Library - Luttrell Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 102 IGNORAMUS: / An Excellent New Song. IGNORAMUS: An Excellent New Song. ?-?

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[1] SInce Reformation With Whigs in Fashion, There's neither Equity nor Justice in the Nation. Against their Furies, There no such Cure is, As lately hath been wrought by Ignoramus-Juries. Compaction of Faction, That breeds all Distraction, Is at the Zenith Point, but will not bear an Action. They sham us, and flam us, And ram us, and damn us, And then, in spight of Law, come off with Ignoramus. [2] Old Tony Plotted, Brimighams Voted, And all the Mobile the Holy Cause promoted. They preach'd up Treason, At ev'ry season, And taught the Multitude Rebellion was but Reason, With Breaches, Impeaches, And most Loyal Speeches, With Royal Bloud again to glut the thirsty Leeches. The sham us and flam us, etc. [3] such a Jury Wou'd pass no Tory, Were he as Innocent as a Saint in Glory: But let a Brother Ravish his Mother, Assassinate his King, he wou'd find no other. They shamed, and blamed, At Loyallists aimed; But when a Whigs repriev'd, the Town with Beacons flamed. They sham us, and flam us, etc. [4] This Ignoramus With which they sham us, Wou'd find against a York, to raise a M---th-amus Who clears a Traytor; And a King Hater [A]gainst his Lawful Prince wou'd find sufficient matter. They sought it, and wrought it, Like Rebels they fought it, [A]nd with the price of Royal Martyrs bloud they bought it. They sham us, and flam us, etc.
[5] At the Old-Baily, Where Rogues flock daily, A greater Traytor far then Coleman, White or Staley, Was late Indicted, Witnesses cited, But Tony was set free; so the King was righted. Princes, Offences Prov'd in all senses; But 'gainst Tony there's no Truth in Evidences. They sham us, and flam us, etc. [6] But wot you what, Sir? They found it not, Sir; 'Twas ev'ry Jurors Case, and there lay all the Plot, Sir. For at this season, Shou'd they do reason, Which of themselves shou'd scape, if they found it Trea-son? Compassion in fashion, The Int'rest of th' Nation: Oh, what a Godly point is self-preservation! They sham us, and flam us, etc. [7] what is Conscience In Baxters own sense, When Int'rest lies at stake, an Oath and Law is Non-sense. Now they will banter Quaker and Ranter, To find a Royallist, and clear a Covenanter. They'l wrangle and brangle, The Soul intangle, To save the Traytors Neck from the old Triangle. They flam us, and sham us, etc. [8] Alass! for pity Of this good City, What will the Tories say in their Drunken Dity? When all Abettors, And Monarch Haters, The Brethren damn'd their Souls to save malicious Tray-tors. But mind it, long winded, With prejudice blinded, Lest what you now reject, another Jury find it. Then sham us, and flam us, And ram us, and damn us, When against King and Law you find an Ignoramus.
LONDON: Printed in the year MDCLXXXI.