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1 Chevy-Chase Chevy Chase Chevy Chase GOD prosper long this free-born Isle, / And make to Britons known! Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 64 A New Ballad. A New Ballad. ?-?

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I. GOD prosper long this free-born Isle, And make to Britons known! To talk of Peace is scarce worth While, Unless 'tis Good or None. II. Tho' Taxes may by Peace abate; Yet what Man gains a Tester, If Skin be patch'd o'er broken Pate, Before we cure the Fester? III. We have abjur'd; then rest assur'd, Ye Clergy or ye Lay-men! That noble Act must be secur'd, Or-else Lord help us! Amen. IV. With each Heart's-Vein dread Europes Chain! Since there no Thing more true is; Than that, if Spain must appertain To Anjou, He is Lewis. V. God save the Queen, if thus they mean, And from old Lew defend her! Since Five-and-Five is no more Ten, Than He is our Pretender. VI. He own'd King Will: and so wou'd still, To gain a breathing Truce; Then keep his Royal-Word, until To break it serv'd his Use. VII. So faithless Winds decoy the Ship, With Promise to persist; Then into some cross Corner slip, And drive her as they list. VIII. Who first a Mouse-trap did invent, And baited it with Bacon; This mythologic Warning meant, Be not by fair Words taken! IX. In-vain poor Souls have flock'd in Shoals, If Peace shou'd Slaves decree 'em; To offer-up, at Quire of Pauls, Their needless Psalm Te-Deum. X. It was not thus in Days of old, As Histories repeat;
For Men did then a Diff[']rence hold Vict'ry and Defeat. XI. Nor was the Secret often known, Thro' course of Ages past; The conqu'ring Side to be undone, The Conquer'd gain at last! XII. A Gamester, at a Hazzard-Bet, Wou'd think't a Bubble-Case; When Main is thrown and Stake is set, To loose it to Deux-Ace! XIII. Thus smitten Hearts feel cruel Darts, From a receding Eye; Which Parthian-like, as Love asserts, At-once can kill and fly. XIV. When injur'd Greeks beleagur'd Troy, And liv'd in Boots ten Years; They let the Place no Rest enjoy, Till burnt about their Ears. XV. Sly Proffers of tho'-wish'd-for Peace, With Sword in Hand, they heard; But scorn'd Hostilities shou'd cease, Till Wrongs were first repair'd. XVI. No less than Madness it was thought, At that wise Time-o'-day; To claim the Prize for which they fought, And then to give't away! XVII. Kind Vict'ry thus were like the Cow, Which crumps her Back and Tail; And, after yielding Milk enough, Frisks-round and spills the Pail. XVIII. Then, this Dispute to reconcile, Let's end where we begun; Nor talk of Peace as worth the While, Except 'tis Good or None. XIX. And so God bless our Gracious Queen! And may our Pray'rs ne'er cease; That his great Hand wou'd intervene, Be it a War or Peace!
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