Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries/Volume 2

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Political Ballads

Vol. II.

London
Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.
New-street Square

Political Ballads
of the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Annotated
By W. Walker Wilkins

“More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels”—Selden’s Table-talk

In Two Vols.

Volume the Second

London
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
MDCCCLX

Contents
Of
The Second Volume.
William III.
A. D. Page
1689. Rome in an Uproar 3
Pandora’s Box 7
A Litany recommended to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 13
1690. The Trimmer 16
1691. The Weasel Uncased 19
Lay by your Reason 27
1696. The Poll Act 32
1694. England’s Triumph for her Conquest in Flanders 34
Ballad on the Capitation 41
1695. The Belgic Boar 44
1696. A new Ballad on the late horrid Conspiracy 52
A Ballad on the Taxes 57
Anne.
1707. Queen Anne, or the auld Grey Mare 61
1710. The Age of Wonders 68
A new Ballad 74
1710. The Age of Mad Folks 83
The Westminster Combat 88
Salisbury Steeple reversed 94
1711. The Truth at last 99
The Thanksgiving 104
An excellent new Song 109
A new Song 113
On Guiscard’s Stabbing Robin 116
1712. Plot upon Plot 120
1712. The Soldier’s Lamentation for the Loss of their General 124
1713. Nothing but Truth 131
The Merchant à la Mode 136
The Raree Show 141
George I.
1715. A Lamentation for the late Times 153
The Vagabond Tories 157
A new Song 164
Ormond the Brave 168
Bishop Burnet’s Descent into Hell 170
1716. The Pretender’s Charge against the Tories 174
The Tories’ Answer 178
The Pretender’s Flight, and Sorrowful Lamentation for his late Disappointment in Scotland 182
1717. The Christening 186
1719. The Seven Wise Men of England 191
1720. A South Sea Ballad 198
The South Sea Ballad 203
1724. The Devil o’er Lincoln 206
1724. The Devil o’er Lincoln 206
George II.
1730. The Statesman 213
1731. The Norfolk Gamester 222
An Ode for the New Year 228
1732. The Honest Jury 232
1733. Britannia Excisa: Britain Excis’d 237
The Countryman’s Answer to the Ballad called “Britannia Excis’d” 242
1734. The Modern Patriots 246
1736. The Tinker turn’d Politician; or, Caleb’s Metamorphosis 252
1740. Admiral Hosier’s Ghost 259
1741. The late Gallant Exploits of a famous Balancing Captain 264
Argyle’s Advice to Sir Robert Woalpole 269
1742. A New Court Ballad 272
Robin will be Out at Last 280
The Statesman’s Fall 284
A New Ode to a great number of Great Men newly made 289
The Old Coachman 296
1743. Sandys and Jekyll 299
Harvey and Jekyll 306
1753. The Jews’ Triumph 311
1755. The Unembarrassed Countenance 317
1756. The Converts 322
The Letter of a certain Admiral 329
1757. The Secret Expedition 333
Index of Names 339