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R220368 2 NONE [unknown] NONE [unknown] O Thrice Illustrious Famous City LONDON, / What Tongue can say that e're thou yet wert BEhold ye impious Fiery Brands of Hell, / Who with your Grand-sire Lucifer do dwell, London's the Town of Chief Renown, let En--vy do her worst, shall wear the Crown. London's the Town of Chief Renown, let En--vy do her worst, shall wear the Crown. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 50 Upon Sight of LONDONS Stately New Buildings, / Anno Domini MDCLXXII. / The FIRST PART, / Admiring it as a WONDER. Upon Sight of LONDON'S Stately New Buildings, Anno Domini MDCLXXII. The FIRST PART, Admiring it as a WONDER. Printer William Godbid ?-?

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Upon Sight of LONDONS Stately New Buildings, Anno Domini MDCLXXII.
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1. O Thrice Illustrious Famous City LONDON, What Tongue can say that e're thou yet wert undon! Or who can think thou ever so shalt be, Since Fire, which All Consumes, Increaseth Thee. 2. Inferiour unto None, before thou wert, But now the Glory of the World thou art: Thou far transcends that Phoenix which of old In Antient Stories to us have been told. 3. Who when the Revolution of her time Is come, She Burns to Ashes: But in Prime Again to Admiration she Revives, And in her wonted State again she Lives. 4. Which seems a Miracle unto the Eyes Of all the Studious, Learned, and the Wise: And unto those who oft have heard 'tis so, Yet know not whether it be True or No. 5. But this strange wonder which thou shew'st is such As cannot well be wondred at too much: I for my part, so often as I view Thy vast incomparable Buildings New, 6. Do stand agast to think thereon, and say, To work thy Ruin, sure Fire's not the way: Fire only as with Gold it works with Thee, In purging forth thy Dross doth Clarifie.
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1. BEhold ye impious Fiery Brands of Hell, Who with your Grand-sire Lucifer do dwell, And put in practice his Foul Hellish Trade By Fier-Plots! With Fire you'll All be paid. 2. Though little you do dream of such a thing, Your Sin's a Crying Sin, and will it bring, In th' end assuredly, to your Dire Cost: Behold, I say, how all your Labour's lost! 3. What you intended for our woe to be, Is turned otherwise, (our Joy) you see: Our Glory, and our great Renown is seen, Which otherwise perhaps had not yet been. 4. Go, go ye Envious Dolts; go learn more Wit, Improve your Folly; make some use of it: (Who of necessity a Virtue makes, Deserves due Praise, for that good course he takes.) 5. I'le put you in a way what you shall do, Go set a Fire on ROME and PARIS too; And all your old Built Towns; go Burn them down, That they may be Rebuilt like LONDON Town. 6. If all your Wit, and Skill, and Art can do it, (And I believe you'l stretch your Brains unto 't:) O then brave Boyes, perchance you'll seem to be! Yet still Rich LONDON cryes, Vail Bonnet unto Me.
An Advertisement to the Reader, or rather Singer. WHo is desir'd to take notice, That the MUSICK Ayre (for Quantities and Humour is chiefly naturalliz'd to Accord with the First Staff of the Ballad; yet so consider'd upon in the Formality, that it may tollerably well suit with the whole: However, it begs the favour of the understanding Performer to help it a little in certain places; viz the First Note of the Treble would some- times be made a Quaver as in the beginning of the Second Staff, Thus, In--fe-riour, etc. Likewise the Last Note and Word of the Fifth Staff would be made a Quaver, and so suddainly proceed to the Sixth Staff with a Quaver again: Also the First Staff of the Second Part would be altered thus with an odd Note, Be--hold ye im-pious, etc. As by good consideration will be thought very ne- cessary: For 'tis impossible that an Ayre should be so contriv'd, as to agree exactly in proper Life and Humour to every word of so many several Staves as here are. Let this little hint suffice for all, only, pray Sing the whole Song over very slowly, and make your Pauses properly in all places; And because there are added two Feet to the Last Line of the Ballad, alter the conclusion, Thus, Yet still Rich London cries, Vail Bonnet un---to me.
The Ayre with its Thorough-Bass. O Thrice Illustrious Famous Ci---ty LONDON, what Tongue can say that e're thou yet wert undon! Or who can think thou ever so shalt be, since Fire which All Consumes, Increaseth Thee? CHORUS. London's the Town of Chief Renown, let En--vy do her worst, shall wear the Crown.
LONDON, Printed by William Godbid, for the Author. 1672.