. The Roxburghe ballads. l conquests cloyd,Ten thousand of the Kings best Friends destroyd:But thou rt the first, and shall recorded be,That rid him of one Secret Enemy:What titter Victim coud great Essex hringT atone his crime against an Injurd King ?But here thy rage too desperate appears,To dye a Martyr to thy doubts and ! dire Revenge ! Oh ! too officious steel,To make that Wound which Time can never thou but few days courage to with-stand,Jack Catch had done the Business to thy Ob, Despair ! more desperate than thy Guilt,That durst not trust thy self to stand
. The Roxburghe ballads. l conquests cloyd,Ten thousand of the Kings best Friends destroyd:But thou rt the first, and shall recorded be,That rid him of one Secret Enemy:What titter Victim coud great Essex hringT atone his crime against an Injurd King ?But here thy rage too desperate appears,To dye a Martyr to thy doubts and ! dire Revenge ! Oh ! too officious steel,To make that Wound which Time can never thou but few days courage to with-stand,Jack Catch had done the Business to thy Ob, Despair ! more desperate than thy Guilt,That durst not trust thy self to stand the Tilt;Lest thy false Tongue shoud through thy Throat impartThe bloody Treasons that opprest thy Heart. This must convince the World, and thy wrongd Prince,Thou with thy Guilt hadst rather hurry hence,Than stay to Justifie thy Innocence. London. Printed for /. Smith. 1683. 319 [Trowbcsh Collection, V. 212.] 3Jacft Mttfys il?eto &ons; ©r, 0 Wanting to Conspirator To the Tune of, ... [Left blank thus in original].. I Hang and Behead, Until you be Dead,0 Dire !Haw-Head, Bloody-Bones, Fling members and stonesIn the Fire. Is t not better be merry, with Claret and 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
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