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EBBA 38005

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Miscellaneous
A / BALLAD / UPON THE / POPISH PLOT / Written by a Lady of Quality. / Whether you will like my song or like it not, / It is the down=fall of the Popish Plot; / With Characters of Plotters here I sing, / Who would destroy our good and gracious King; / Whom God preserve, and give us cause to hope / His Foes will be rewarded with a Rope.
Date Published 1679
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Collection University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Miscellaneous
Location University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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    TitleA / BALLAD / UPON THE / POPISH PLOT / Written by a Lady of Quality. / Whether you will like my song or like it not, / It is the down=fall of the Popish Plot; / With Characters of Plotters here I sing, / Who would destroy our good and gracious King; / Whom God preserve, and give us cause to hope / His Foes will be rewarded with a Rope.The Second Part
    Tune ImprintTo the TUNE of Packington's Pound.of the same Tune.
    First LinesSInce Counterfeit Plots has affected this Age, / Being acted by Fools, and contriv'd by the Sage:He had found out an Instrument fit for the Devil; / Whose mind had been train'd up to all that was evil:
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    Notes Cut apart.

    Numerous contemporary manuscript emendations throughout.