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The Roxburghe ballads . En a ©ialoijicall Qiscourse rjettoccn a ©uirister ant) an ©njanist. Tune of, The Cathedral Service. WEe may now abj ure our singing,For Ceremonies bringingInto the Church, and ringing For the downfall of the Organs,Alas, poor Organs ! A Quirister may hang himselfe,For wanting his diviner pelfe;Hes taen now for a Clergy Elfe,Being drownd in Superstition ! Alas, fond Superstition! The Wren is now defil*d ins nest, [Math. Wren, p. 612. And signed with the mark o the Beast,And powderd now for a Lent Feast, Which made him seem a regulus. [Lat. for Wren. Alas, poor regulus !
The Roxburghe ballads . En a ©ialoijicall Qiscourse rjettoccn a ©uirister ant) an ©njanist. Tune of, The Cathedral Service. WEe may now abj ure our singing,For Ceremonies bringingInto the Church, and ringing For the downfall of the Organs,Alas, poor Organs ! A Quirister may hang himselfe,For wanting his diviner pelfe;Hes taen now for a Clergy Elfe,Being drownd in Superstition ! Alas, fond Superstition! The Wren is now defil*d ins nest, [Math. Wren, p. 612. And signed with the mark o the Beast,And powderd now for a Lent Feast, Which made him seem a regulus. [Lat. for Wren. Alas, poor regulus ! Let Ceremonies then deploreTheir Fortune greater than before, [The Prentices against them roar,] [Lost line, conject. Down Idols, Crosses, Ceremonies, Alas, poore Ceremonies ! jfinifl. Anno Dom. 1642. London : Printed for George Kirbg. 615 [Woods Collection, 401, art. 147. Apparently Unique.] 215I?eto $ame at CarU0; ©r, %ty Cjjrte jfcimble ^Jjuffling CScaterg, To a pleasant New Tune, or, What you Please. [See NoteJ]. J. W. E. YOu Gallants all that love to play at Cards to pass the time away,I will tell yon a new Game, if you will please to learn the a game you have not seen, Play with all the knaves withoutKing or Queen. There were three Cheaters met together, to see if they could cheat each other;The first was an Irish-man so hot, the second was a cheating Scot,The third an English-man so round : Yet he would play for an English Crown. [«*• ^ct. Pound. The game it was so strange and true, the standers-by as ner yet knewHow the game was to be plaid, or how the Cards were cut and laid :For there xoas a secret in the thing, that the Knave of Clubs shouldbeat the King. The Irish-man began the game, but knew not how to play the same, But quarrelled with the English-man, for holding the Cards so under-hand : [above the King. For he did not know the thing, that the Knave of Clubs should be 61G A New Game at Cards. The Scotch-man he began to deal, he shuffled and cut,
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