%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent New / BALLAD, / Of the PLOTTING HEAD. 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 37171

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R228937 1 How Unhappy is Phillis in Love. Or, Let Oliver now be forgot, &c. How Unhappy Is Phyllis in Love; Let Oliver Now Be Forgotten How Unhappy Is Phyllis in Love. Or, Let Oliver Now Be Forgot, etc. YOu Presbyters now Relent, / For your Plotting is all in vain, Ah little Pate! / Politick Pate! / Thy Policy now is grown quite out of Date. [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: 92 An Excellent New / BALLAD, / Of the PLOTTING HEAD. An Excellent New BALLAD, Of the PLOTTING HEAD. An Excellent New BALLAD, Of the PLOTTING HEAD. ?-? R. [Moo]r

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YOu Presbyters now Relent, For your Plotting is all in vain, Since College does now Repent, And hourly does complain; That all your contrivance is nothing, And M--- yet proves a Slow thing: Ah little Pate! Politick Pate! Thy Policy now is grown quite out of Date. Now all the Caball Men of Fortune, With Toney, the Head of the Crew Who the People did often Importune, To Swear things that never were true: Oh! this is the Fox of the Nation, Who made your Sedition a Fashion, Ah little Pate! Ill was thy Fate! For to bring thyself to this wretched Estate. And now where's thy Policy Toney, The Nation so much did Admire, Ha'st lost both thy Wit, and thy Money Since Friends with thy Fortune Expire; Had not Harris spoke truth at's last Hour, Thou ne're hadst been sent to the Tower, Ah little Pate! What is thy Fate! Wilt thou have thy Head fixed fast on a Gate. Poor Stafford indeed you out-witted, And thought to have done all the rest, But now your Quaint Policy's fitted And you left to make up the jeast; Except you Invoke your Friend Tory, To turn, and to Swear a New Story: Ah little Pate! What is thy Fate! Alas must thy Head now be fix't on a Gate?
The Zealots that live in the City, Are griev'd, for to see your strang Fate; Though yet they your Fortune may pitty, They'l finde out your Treasons too late: For the Devil you faithfully served, Has left you, to what you deserved Ah little Pate! Damn'd little Pate! To cause this destraction and Curse in the State. Like Lucifer swel'd with Ambition, And tost from a Heavenly Seat; So you from a wretched Condition, Was by your King's Favour, made Great But like the worst of all Creatures, Whose Treacherie's seen in his Features; For you little Pate, To bring in a State, Would venture your Head being fix't on a Gate. You thought that when Hide was Transplanted, That you should have grown in his place, But his Off-spring, who never were Daunted Your Actions did hourly Trace; For you (Janus like) have two Faces, And fit yourself for all Places; Ah little Pate! Politick Pate! Which for Treason at last, will be fix't on a Gate. Confess all thy Traterous Actions, Consider the Blood hath been Shed; Lay open thy yet hidden Factions, Of which thou art surely the Head; Pull out thy Tap of Sedition, Gain Mercy by true Contrition. Ah little Pate! Politick Pate! Or else may thy Head be fast fix't on a Gate.
Printed for R. [Moo]r, in the Year. 1681.