%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The GENEVA BALLAD; / OR THE / Occasional Conformist Display'd. Butler, Samuel University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/28/2021 37147

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T114500 OF all the Factions in the Town, / Mov'd by French Springs or Flemish Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 80 The GENEVA BALLAD; / OR THE / Occasional Conformist Display'd. The GENEVA BALLAD; OR THE Occasional Conformist Displayed. Butler, Samuel ?-?

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I. OF all the Factions in the Town, Mov'd by French Springs or Flemish Wheels, None treads Religion upside down, And tears Pretences out at Heels, Like Splaymouth, with his Brace of Caps, Whose Conscience may be scann'd, perhaps, By the Dimension of his Chaps. II. He whom the Sisters so adore, Counting his Actions all Divine, Who, when the Spirit hints, can roar, And, if occasion serves, can whine; Nay, he can bellow, bray and bark; Was ever sike a Beuk-learn'd Clerk? Can speak all Lingua's in the Ark. III. To draw in Proselytes like Bees, With pleasing Twang he tones his Prose; He gives his Handkerchief a Squeeze, And draws John Calvin through the Nose. Motive on Motive he obtrudes, With Slip-stocking Similitudes; Eight Uses, and so he concludes. IV. When Monarchy began to bleed, And Treason got a fine New Name; When Thames was Balderdash'd with Tweed, And Pulpits did like Beacons flame; When Jeroboams Calves were rear'd, And Lord was neither lov'd nor fear'd, This Gospel-Comet first appear'd. V. Soon his Unhallow'd Fingers stript His Sov'reign Leige of Pow'r and Land, And, having smote his Master, slipt His Sword into his Fellow's Hand: So he that wears his Eyes, may note Oft-times a Butcher binds a Goat, But leaves his Boy to cut his Throat. VI. Poor England felt his Fury then Outweigh'd Q. Marys many Grains; His very Preaching slew more Men Than Bonners Faggots, Stakes or Chains. With Dogstar-Zeal, and Lungs of Boreas, He fought and taught, and what's notorious Destroy'd his Lord, to make him Glorious.
VII. Hark! how he opens with full Cry! Haloo, my Hearts! beware of Rome. Cowards that are afraid to dye, Thus make Domestick Broils at Home. How quietly Great ANNE might Reign, Wou'd all their Hotsputs cross the Main, And preach down Popery in Spain. VIII. The Starry Rule of Heaven's fix'd. There's no Dissention in the Sky; And can there be a Mean betwixt Confusion and Conformity? A Place divided never thrives; It's bad when Hornets dwell in Hives, But worse when Children play with Knives. IX. I wou'd as soon turn back to Mass, Or change my Phrase to Thee and Thou, Let the Pope ride me like an Ass, And his Priests milk me like a Cow, As buckle to th' Smectimnuan Laws, The bad Effects of th' Good Old Cause. That has Doves Plumes, but Vultures Claws. X. For 'twas the Holy Kirk that Nurs'd The Brownists and the Ranters Crew, Foul Error's Mothy Vesture first Was woaded in the Northern Blue: And what's the Enthusiastick Breed, But Men of Knipperdolings Creed? Th'are Covenanters run up to Seed. XI. Yet, they all cry they love the Queen, And make boast of their Innocence; Nothing so vile is to be seen, But may be colour'd with Pretence. But when all's done, one thing I'll swear, No Subject like th' Old Cavalier, No Traitor like Jack Presbyter.
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