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R229249 1 To a New Playhouse Tune Flatteries of Fate, The To a New Playhouse Tune COme cheer up your Hearts, Boys, and all hands to work, / We'll be happy and Blest, spight of Devil and Turk; And all long before a Hundred Years hence. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 105 The True English Prophet: / OR, / ENGLANDS Happiness / Much Sooner Than / A Hundred Years Hence. The True English Prophet: OR, ENGLAND'S Happiness Much Sooner Than A Hundred Years Hence. Printer J. Bradford ?-? J. Bradford

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I. COme cheer up your Hearts, Boys, and all hands to work, We'll be happy and Blest, spight of Devil and Turk; Our Land you must know, shall speedily flow With that dear Milk and Honey, Call'd plenty and Money If we would be but Loyal, and with patience dispence Ours would be the day before a Hundred Years hence. II. Our Grand mighty foes will be soon dead and Rotten, Our Grumblers all husht, their Treasons forgotten: The Gout, Stone, and Pox, will have then done the work Of Europes Old Blood-hound The most Christian Turk: Peace, Blessing, and plenty their smiles will dispence, And all long before a Hundred Years hence. III. The sneaking old Miser, that hoards up hir Store, And daily exclaims that these times make him poor, By his Dung shall be choak'd, and his coyn it shall fly To Enrich those poor Subjects Of known Loyalty And then we shall role in mill'd Crowns, Shillings, pence. And all long before a Hundred Years hence. IV. And what tho thus long we mourn'd the sad wants Of a Glass of Good Bourdeaux, and a Cup of fine Nants, We soon will have Wine, and Brandy most certain, A Quart for a Shilling, And Two pence a Quartern; Proud Monsieur that favour wall be forc'd to dispence. Much sooner indeed than a hundred Years hence V. The expences of Warr we soon will regain And fetch Back our Coyn tho' its over the Main; Whilst Monsiurs devices and all his deceit Like our late English Clippers Shall meet a Defeat That so we may rowle in Mill'd Shillings, Crown, Pence, Much sooner indeed than a Hundred Years hence.
VI. The Gallant at Rome pays Excise for his Whore, And for Coats proud Lewis his Subjects makes poor; Then why should we grudge a small Tribute to give To the Royal brave Heroe That our lives did retrieve From Fire and Faggot, that our Joys may commence, Much sooner indeed then a hundred years hence. VII. We Children shall get, and for their Heads we will p[ay] That the Bald-pated Tribe may not lead 'em astray, We'll turn up the Smock, and lay Girls on their Back[s] We'll Soldiers procure, And raise the Kings Tax, Being firmly assur'd that our Joys will commence, Much sooner indeed than a Hundred Years hence. VIII. The Monopolizers that Ruin our Trade Will all be suppressed, and none shall invade Our True English Rights, as in the late Reign; For pardons the Pope Our Coyn shall nere Drain Our Farmers and Weavers new joys shall commence, And all long before a Hundred Years hence IX. Our Cathedral St Paul that Rome dos annoy In Glory any Splender shall Peters outvie Our Orphans be rich, and all swim in delights Altho at the present We pay for our Lights; Great WILLIAM secure us in the present Tense That we may'nt be Bug-beard a Hundred Years hence. X. Thus certain of Plenty, let's freely agree, To pay our Great Caesar our Hand, Heart, and Kn[ee] The Heroe whose Sword for our Liberty draws, Who faces Bloud, Danger, And Death in our Cause. Some few Months, we hope, will his warm Beams d[ispence] And our Heirs Bless his Name a Hundred Years Hence
FINIS. London, Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in New-street, without Bishopsgate, near Hand-Alley,