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R211474 1 JEWS Corant Greensleeves Jew's Courante HAve you not seen a Barthol'mew Baby / A Pageant of policy as fine as may be, Which no body can deny. British Library - Luttrell Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 225 VANITY OF VANITIES / OR / SIR HARRY VANE'S / PICTURE. VANITY OF VANITIES OR SIR HARRY VANE'S PICTURE. ?-? Charls Gustavus

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HAve you not seen a Barthol'mew Baby A Pageant of policy as fine as may be, That's gone to be Shown at the Mannor of Raby, Which nobody can deny. There was never such a prostitute Sight, That e're profan'd this purer Light, A Hocus Pocus jugling Knight, Which nobody can deny. He was taken for a Delphick Tripus, Another doubt-solving Oedipus, But the Parliament made him a very Quibus, Which nobody, etc. His cunning State tricks and Oracles, His lying wonders and Miracles, Are turned into Parliament Shackles, Which nobody, etc. Goodly great Sir Onesimus VANE, The Annointed King of Saints not Reign? I see all Godlinesse is not Gain, Which nobody, etc. John a Leyden that Munsters Jing, Was a Fool and an Asse to this pretty Thing, But the Parliament hated the name of a King, Which nobody, etc. This holy Saint hath pray'd till he wept, Prophesied and Divin'd while he slept, But fell in a T--- when aside he stept, Which nobody, etc. He sate late in the House so discontent, With his Arms folded and his Brows bent, Like Achitophel to the Parliament, Which nobody, etc. He durst not speak of a Concubine, Nor gave more Councel to any Design, But was musing on a Hempen Line, Which nobody, etc. He see Mr. Prin take a great deal of Pain, To get in with the rest as Members Again, But they were Voted as use-lesse as VANE, Which nobody, etc.
They gave him a Conge with such a Vote; 'Twas thought they had learned it by Rote, Ever since he went down to Graves end by Bote, Which nobody, etc. For all his Ceremonious Cringing, He shall undergo a notable Swindging, There is now no more need of his Engine, Which nobody, etc. When first the English War began, His Father was a Court Trepan, And 'rose to be a Parliament Man, Which nobody, etc. So from the Father came unto the Son, Whom Wo and Mis'ry now do wait upon, For Counselling Protector John, Which nobody, etc. A Gemini they were, Pollux and Castor, One was a Teacher the other a Pastor, And both like R--- betrayed their Master, Which nobody, etc. The Devil ne're see such two Sir Harrys, Such a pest'lent pair nor neer nor far is, No not at the Jesuits Sorbon of Paris, Which nobody, etc. They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat, They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat, For turning in pan there was ne're such a Cat, Which nobody, etc. His dainty project of a Select Senate, Is Damned for a blasphemous Tenet, T'was found in the budget ('tis said) of Monk Bennet, Which nobody, etc. Of this State and Kingdoms he is the Bane, He shall have the reward of Judas and Cain, And 'twas he that overthrew Charls his Wain, Which nobody, etc. Should he sit where he did with his Mischievous brain, Or if any his Councels behind do remain, The house may be called the Labour in Vain, Which nobody can deny.
London, Printed for Charls Gustavus.