THE Lecherous ANABAPTIST: OR, The Dipper Dipped. A New Protestant Ballad,  
To the Tune of Packington's Pound.  

1.  
O Ye Roundheads and whigs, for ever be silent,  
Cease to scandalise Tory, and honest Tantivy;  
I'll tell you strange News that happened nigh Lent,  
Which if you disprove, I swear I'll forgive ye:  
Of Protestant Francis,  
That tells us Romances,  
Of horrible Plots more strange than Miles Prances;  
For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,  
To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.   

2.  
This Protestant News-monger, and Munster Imp,  
Endeavoured to Switchel her upon the Sabbath,  
And made his Bibles his lecherous Pimp;  
But some think that they together near lay both:  
For the Maid was as chaste  
As Lucretia, at least,  
●ut had he been Tarquin, there had been the Jest;  
For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,  
To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.   

3.  
Then he offered one Bible if he might but Grope her,  
But the resolute Quean still stoutly denied him;  
quoth she, Master Frank you a Lecherous Fop are,  
And after that manner severely did chide him:  
You're the brethren's Teacher,  
An Anabaptist Preacher:  
replied he then to her, You a Papist and Bitch are;  
For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,  
To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.   

4.  
He writes twice a week News Domestic & Foreign,  
As Seditious as Care, Ben. Harris, or Curtis;  
Great Lies in abundance from France & from Lorraine  
But never says word of his Maid: what a Cur ' 'tis?  
He tells us strange Stories,  
Of Papists and Tories;  
But this I'll say for him, that his Maid no Whore is:  
For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,  
To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.   

5.  
Then Frank be not angry cause she would not comply,  
For Saints in this world have misfortunes & crosses:  
Suppose that she had the best Thing you could try,  
You could have but tickled it with your Probosses;  
After that you would curse,  
You were not starved at Nurse,  
Because you would then be twelve Bibles the worse:  
For Fra●● twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,  
To lie w●●● his Maid, but she slighted his offer.   

6.  
From this Godly deed, St. Francis, you're called,  
Because you endeavoured to save your Maid's Soul,  
Though Satan your Pious intentions forestalled,  
And the Scriptures could not prevail on the Fool:  
Though she would not grant,  
Yet deny it we can't,  
But that you deserved to be called a Saint;  
For Frank twelve Geneva good Bibles did proffer,  
To lie with his Maid, but she slighted his offer.    

LONDON: Printed for Benjamin Harris, 1681.