Identifier: roxburgheballads05chapuoft (find matches)
Title: The Roxburghe ballads
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Chappell, W. (William), 1809-1888
Subjects: English ballads and songs
Publisher: Hertford : Printed for the Ballad Society by S. Austin
Contributing Library: Pratt - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Sherry? tis Season,Than to have your Soul let out at your Poll, for Treason ? Tour Brains for to puzzle, like Walcot and Russel; conspiring;Tis better be swilling, than Plundring and Killing, and Firing. 320 Jack Ketchs New Song. Tis better to save ones neck, and be brave, or be Sotting ;Tban have a Chop with a Hatchet, or a Halter to stretch it; for Plotting. 16 The Drunk and the Brave, nor Traytor nor Knave can be ever;Their Deaths he defyes, but at Tilting he dies, or a Feaver. To be Traytors proclaimed, Describd, and be Namd, and (for) Money;This tis to be Cullies to the vilest of Bullies, Old Tony ! 24 To be frighted each Hour, with Newgate or Tower, and Trying,Conviction, and Sentence; at Tyburn repentance, and dying. Then leave Plotting and Treason to the void of all Reason, and Sense:Your Pardon, Jack cries, Tis the Whigs I advise : No offence. 32 (In Six-line Verses. White-letter. No woodcut: we bestow two. Reprintedby Nat Thompson in 1684 ; but the true date is July, 1683.J
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J.W.E. 321 (British Museum Collection, 1872, a. 1. fol. 32.) Cl)e JLopal Conquest; ©r, SDramimon of ^reagom 0 §>ong. To the tttne of, Lay by your Pleading, the Law lies a bleeding.(See pp. 199 to 203.) NOw Loyal Tories may triumph in glories,The Fatal Plot is now betrayd, the rest were Shams and Stories.Now against Treason we have Law and reason;And cvry bloody Whig must go to pot in time and season.No shamming, nor flamming, no ramming, nor Smuuwp,No Ignoramus Juries now, for Whiggs, but only Hanging ! 6 Look a little farther, place things in order, (==sir E- ■#• <?• Those that seek to kill their King, Godfrey might murther.Now theyre detected, by Heaven neglected, (Essex. In black despair cut their throats, thus Plutos works effected. No shamming, nor flamming, etc. 12 Catch grows in passion, and fears this New Fashion, (=Jack Ketch. Lest evry Traytor hang himself, and spoyl his profession. Tho four in a morning, Tyburn adorning, He cryes out for a score a time, to get

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