Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries/Volume 2

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.

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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