The loyal garland containing choice songs and sonnets of our late unhappy revolutions, very delightful and profitable, both to this present, and future ages / published by S.N. a lover of mirth.

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Title: The loyal garland containing choice songs and sonnets of our late unhappy revolutions, very delightful and profitable, both to this present, and future ages / published by S.N. a lover of mirth.
Publication: London :: Printed by T. Johnson, for T. Passenger ...,; 167[3].
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Subject terms: Ballads, English.; Folk songs, English.
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LAy by your pleading, Law lies a bléeding, Burn all your studies down▪ and throw away your reading

2. Small power the word has,
And can afford us,
Not half so much priviledge as the sword does.

3. It fosters your Masters,
It plaisters Disasters,
It makes ye servants quickly greater than thée master

4. It venters, it enters,
It séeks and it centers,
It makes a prentice frée in spite of his Inde••∣te••••

5. It talks of small things,
But it sets up all things,
This masters Money, though Money masters all things

6. It is not season,
To talk of reason,
Nor call it Loyalty, when the sword will have it Treason

7. It conquers the Crown too,
The Grave and the Gown too,
First it sets up a Presbyter, & then it pulls his down to

8. This subtile Disaster,
Turns Bonnet to Beaver
Down goes a Bishop, Sirs, and up starts▪ Weavit

9. This makes a Lap-man,
To preach and to pray man,
And makes a Lord of him that was but a Drap ••an.

10. Far from the Gulpit,
Of Sa••bey's Pulpit,
This brought an Hebrew Iron-monger to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Pulpit.

11. Such pitiful things be,
More happier than Kings be,
They get the upper-hand of Thimblebee and Slingsber.

2. No Gospel can guide it,
No Lw can decide it.
In Church or State, till the Sword hath san∣ctifi'd it.

13. Down goes your Law-tricks,
Far from the Matricks,
Spring up holy Hewsons power, & pull'd down St. Patricks.

14. This Sword it prevails too,
So highly in Wales too,
Shinkin ap Powel swears Cuts-plutterer nails too.

15. In Scotland this faster,
Did make such disaster,
That they sent their mony back for which they sold their Master.

16. It batter'd their Gunkirk,
And so it did their Dunkirk,
That he is fled, and swears the Devil is in Dunkirk.

17. He that can tower,
Or he that is lower,
Would be judg'd a fool to put away his power.

18. Take books and rent 'um,
Who can invent 'um,
When that the Sword replies, Negatur Argu∣mentum?

19. Your brave Colledge-Butlers,
Must st••op to the Sutlers,
There's ne're a Library like to the Cutlers,

20. The blood that was spilt, Sir.
Hath gain'd all the Gilt, Sir,
Thus have you séen me run my sword up to the Hilt, Sir.