From the King's Pamphlets, British Museum. - (A. D. 1655.) To the
tune of "An Old Courtier of the Queen's."

More ballads! - here's a spick and span new supplication,
By order of a Committee for the Reformation,
To be read in all churches and chapels of this nation,
Upon pain of slavery and sequestration.
From fools and knaves in our Parliament free,
LIBERA NOS, DOMINE.

From those that ha' more religion and less conscience than their
fellows;
From a representative that's fearful and zealous;
From a starting jadish people that is troubled with the yellows,
And a priest that blows the coal (a crack in his bellows);
From fools and knaves, etc.

From shepherds that lead their flocks into the briars,
And then fleece 'em; from vow-breakers and king-tryers;
Of Church and Crown lands, from both sellers and buyers;
From the children of him that is the father of liars;
From fools and knaves, etc.

From the doctrine and discipline of NOW AND ANON,
Preserve us and our wives from John T. and Saint John,
Like master like man, every way but one, -
The master has a large conscience, and the man has none;
From fools and knaves, etc.