The fovr-legg'd elder, or, A horrible relation of a dog and an elders maid to the tune of The lady's fall. Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A28206 of text R210623 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B2965A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A28206 Wing B2965A ESTC R210623 99835008 99835008 39661 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A28206) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 39661) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1790:7) The fovr-legg'd elder, or, A horrible relation of a dog and an elders maid to the tune of The lady's fall. Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1647] By John Birkenhead. Cf. Wing. Imprint from Wing. Verse - "All Christians and lay-elders too". Annotation on Thomason copy: "Septemb. 1st". Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (reel 246) and in the Harvard University Library (reel 1790). eng Presbyterianism -- Humor -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. Ballads, English -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. A28206 R210623 (Wing B2965A). civilwar no The fovr-legg'd elder, or, A horrible relation of a dog and an elders maid to the tune of The lady's fall. Birkenhead, John, Sir, Sir 1647 900 8 0 0 0 0 0 89 D The rate of 89 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-04 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-05 Andrew Kuster Sampled and proofread 2006-05 Andrew Kuster Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE FOVR-LEGG'D ELDER OR , A horrible Relation of a Dog and an Elders Maid . To the Tune of The Lady's fall . ALL Christians and Lay-Elders too for shame amend your Lives , I 'le tell you of a Dog-trick now , which much concernes your Wives : An Elder's Maid neare Temple-Barre ( ah what a Queane was she ) Did take an ougly Mastive Cutte where Christians use to be ; Help House of Commons , House of Peeres , oh now or never help , Th' Assembly hath not sate four yeares , yet hath brought forth a Whelp . One Evening late she stept aside , pretending to fetch Eggs , And there she made her selfe a Bride to one that had foure leggs : Her Master heard a rumblement , and wonder'd she did tarry , Not dreaming ( without his consent ) his Dog would ever marry : Oh house of Commens , house of Peeres , &c He went to peep , but was affraid and hastily did run To fetch a Staffe to helpe his Maid , not knowing what was done , He tooke his Ruling Elders Cane , and cry'd out helpe , helpe here , For Swash our Mastive and poore Jane are now sight Dog sight Beare . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c But when he came he was full sorry , for he perceiv'd their strife , That 'cording to the Directory they two were Dog and Wife : Oh ( then said he ) thou errant queane , why hast thou me beguil'd , I wonderd Swash was growne so leane , poore Dog hee 's almost spoyl'd . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c. I thought thou hadst no carnall sence but what 's in other Lasses , And could have quench'd thy cupiscence according to the Classes , But all the Parish see it plaine since thou art in this pickle , Thou art an Independent queane , and lov'st a Conve●ticle . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c. Alas now each Malignant Rogue will all the World perswade That she that 's Spouse unto a Dog may be an Elders Maid , They 'l jeere us if abroad we stirre , good Master Elder stay , Sir , of what Classis i● your Curre ? and then what can we say ? Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c. They 'l many gracelesse Ballads sing of a Presbyterian , That a Lay-Elder is a thing made up halfe Dog halfe Man ; Out , out , said he , and smote her downe , was mankind growne so scant ▪ There 's scarce another Dog in towne had tooke the Covenant . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c. Then Swash began to looke full grim , and Jane did thus reply , Sir , you thought nought too good for him , you fed your Dog too high , T is true , he tooke me in the lurch , and leapt into my arme , But as I hope to come to Church I did your Dog no harme . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c. Then she was brought to Ne●gate gaole and there was naked stript , They whipt her till the cord did faile , as Doggs use to be whipt ▪ Poore City Maids shed many a teare when she was lash'd and lang'd , And had she bin a Cavalir surely she had been hang'd , Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , Her's was but Fornication doomd , for which she felt the lash , But his was Buggary presumd , therefore they hanged Swash : What had become of Bishops then , or Independency , For now we find both Doggs and Men stand for Presbytery . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres &c. She might have tooke a Sowgelder ▪ with Synod-men good store , But she would have a Lay-Elder with two leggs and two more : Go tell th' Assembly of Divines , tell Adoniram Blew , Tell Burgesse , Marshall , Case , and Vines , tell Now and-anon-too . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c. Some said she was a Scotish Girle , or else ( at least ) a Witch , But she was borne in Colchester , was ever such a Bitch ▪ Take heed all Christian Virgins now , the Dog-star now prevailes , Ladies beware your Monkeys too , for Monkeys have long tailes . Oh house of Commons , house of Peeres , &c. Blesse King & Queen and send us peace as we had seven yeares since ▪ For we remember no Dog-dayes while we enjoy'd , our Prince : Blesse sweet Prince Charles , two Dukes , three Git Lord save His Majestie , Grant that his Commons , Lords & Earles may lead such Lives as He. Oh House of Commons , House of Peeres , Oh now or never helpe , Th' Assembly hath not sate four yeares , yet hath brought forth a Whelp . FINIS .