%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Londons Lamentation: / OR, / An Excellent New Song / On the LOSS of / LONDON's CHARTER[.] 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 07/06/2021 37167

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R969 1 Packington's Pound Packington's Pound Packington's Pound YOu Free-men, and Masters, and Prentices mourn, / For now You are left with your Charter forlorn: Oh London! Oh London! Thou'dst better had None, / Than thus with Thy Charter to vie with the Throne. [with variation] British Library - 1872.a.1 Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 58 Londons Lamentation: / OR, / An Excellent New Song / On the LOSS of / LONDON's CHARTER[.] Londons Lamentation: OR, An Excellent New Song On the LOSS of LONDON's CHARTER[.] London's Lamentation: OR, An Excellent New Song On the LOSS of LONDON's CHARTER. Printer N.T. ?-?

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I. YOu Free-men, and Masters, and Prentices mourn, For now You are left with your Charter forlorn: Since London was London, I dare boldly say, For your Ryots you never so dearly did pay; In Westminster-Hall Your Dagon did fall, That caus'd You to Ryot and Mutiny all: Oh London! Oh London! Thou'dst better had None, Than thus with Thy Charter to vie with the Throne. II. Oh London! Oh London! how cou'dst Thou pretend Against thy Defender Thy Crimes to defend? Thy Freedom & Rights from kind Princes did spring, And yet in contempt Thou withstandest thy King: With bold brazen Face They pleaded thy Case, In hopes to the Charter the King wou'd give place: Oh London! Thou'dst better no Charter at all, Than thus for Rebellion thy Charter shou'd fall. III. Since Britains to London came over to dwell, You had an old Charter, to buy and to sell; And whilst in Allegiance each honest man lives, Then you had a Charter for Lord May'r and Shrieves: But when, with Your Pride, You began to backslide, And London of Factions did run with the Tide, Then London, Oh London! time to withdraw, Lest the floud of Your Factions the Land over-flow. IV. When Faction and Fury of Rebels prevail'd; When Coblers were Kings, and Monarchs were jayl'd; When Masters in Tumults their Prentices led, And the Tail did begin to make war with the Head;
When Thomas and Kate Did bring in their Plate, T'uphold the Old Cause of the Rump of the State[,] Then tell me, Oh London! I prethe now tell, Hadst thou e'r a Charter to Fight and Rebel? V. When zealous Sham-Sheriffs the City oppose, In spight of the Charter, the King and the Laws, And make such a Ryot and Rout in the Town, That never before such a Racket was known; When Ryoters dare Arrest the Lord Mayr, And force the King's Substitute out of the Chair[:] Oh London! whose Charter is now on the Lees, Did Your Charter e'r warrant such actions as these. VI. Alas for the Brethren! what now must they do, For choosing Whig-Sheriffs and Burgesses too? The Charter with Patience is gone to the pot, And the Doctor is lost in the depth of the Plot. St. Stephens his Flayl No more will prevail, Nor Sir Roberts Dagger, the Charter to bail: Oh London! Thou'dst better have suffer'd by Fire, Than thus thy old Charter shou'd stick in the Mire. VII. But since with your Folly, your Faction and Prid[e,] You Sink with the Charter, who strove with the Tid[e,] Let all the Lost Rivers return to the Main From whence they descended; They'l spring o[ut] again[;] Submit to the King In everything, Then of a New Charter New Sonnets we'll sing[:] As London the Phoenex of England ne'r dies, So out of the Flames a new CHARTER will rise[.]
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