A Ballad, call'd, The Hay-market Hectors.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.
1
I sing a woful Ditty,
Of a Wound that long will smart-a;
Giv'n, the more's the pity,
In the Realm of Magna Charta.
Youth, Youth, thou'dst better been slain by thy Foes,
Than live to be hang'd for cutting a Nose.
2
Our good King C--- the Second,
Too flippant of Treasure and Moisture,
Stoop'd from the Queen infecund,
To a Wench of Orange and Oyster.
Consulting his Catzo, he found it expedient
To engender Don Johns on Nell the Comedian.
3
The leach'rous Vain-glory
Of being lim'd with Majesty,
Mounts up to such a Story
This Bitchington Travesty;
That to equal her Lover, the Baggage must dare
To be Helen the Second, and Cause of a War.
4
And he our am'rous Jove,
While she lay dry-bobb'd under,
To repair the Defect of his Love,
Must lend her his Lightning and Thunder.
And for one Night prostitutes to her Commands,
His Monmouth, Life-Guards, O-Brian and Sands.
5
And now all fear of the French,
And the pressing need of Navy,
Are dwindled into a salt Wench,
And Amo, Amas, Amavi.
Now he'll venture his Subsidy so he cloven may see,
In Female Revenge, the Nose of Coventry.
6
O ye Hay-market Hectors,
How came you thus charm'd,
To be the Dissectors
Of one poor Nose unarm'd?
Unfit to wear Sword, or follow a Trumpet,
That would brandish your Knives at the word of a Strumpet.
7
But was't not ungrateful,
In Monmouth, Ap-Sidney, Ap-Carlo,
To contrive an Act so hateful,
O Prince of Wales, by Barlow?
For since the kind World had dispens'd with his Mother,
Might he not well have spar'd the Nose of John Brother?
8
Beware all ye Parliamenteers,
How each of his Voice disposes:
Bab May in the Commons, C. Rex in the Peers,
Sit telling your Fates on your Noses;
And decree, at the mention of every Slut,
Whose Nose shall continue, and whose shall be cut.
9
If the Sister of Rose,
Be a Whore so anointed;
That the Parliament's Nose
Must for her be disjointed?
Then should you but name the Prerogative Whore,
How the Bullets would whistle, the Cannons would roar!
