EBBA 38076
UCLA, Clark Library - Luttrell Ballads
| The Whiggish Poet's Recan- / tation: With an Account of his Misfortune in / his counterfeit Lawyers Gown. / When that I in a Lawyers Gown, / Was got amongst the Lawyers; / I in my chewce was quickly found, / I look'd more like a Sawyer. | |
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| Date Published | 1684 |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for M. Smelt, in the Year, 1684. |
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| Collection | UCLA, Clark Library - Luttrell Ballads |
| Location | UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library |
| Shelfmark | PR1213 .P74 f ** |
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| Title | The Whiggish Poet's Recan- / tation: With an Account of his Misfortune in / his counterfeit Lawyers Gown. / When that I in a Lawyers Gown, / Was got amongst the Lawyers; / I in my chewce was quickly found, / I look'd more like a Sawyer. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, No Ignoramus Juries now. |
| First Lines | THis is my Reformation, / and perfect Recantation, |
| Refrain | No Whining, nor Pining, / nor Loyalty declining; / But let the Law, keep Whiggs in Awe, / and check their damn'd designing. |
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| Notes | Luttrell no. 123. In contemporary manuscript beneath title: "4. Dec. 1684. A silly poem." |