Have amongst you my Masters.  

GIve ear, give ear, unto my Ditty,  
All you good people love this City;  
'Tis high time you repent.  
For if th'offended Army come  
This City will be quite undone:  
Your cases I lament.   

When you your outworks should defend,  
Some villain whom you think your friend  
May set the town on fire.  
Then will they straight to plunder fall,  
And in an instant rob you all:  
Then they have their desire.   

If once the Army do appear  
Within ten miles, they come too near,  
They have so many friends.  
Send all they call for, with new Ropes  
About their necks; there may be hopes  
That may make some amends.   

For thus much from me understand,  
What e'er they ask they may command;  
Take heed you do not dally.  
If they shall find with them you halt,  
And take you tripping in a fault,  
You'll pay dear for your folly.   

Make ready those who laid the plot  
(Who e'er they were) to call the Scot.  
They have undone the Nation:  
Then make the Synod ready next,  
Who have so much abused the Text  
For th' church's Reformation.   

To bring the Scotch Presbytery in,  
They with Rebellion did begin,  
Then preached the mitre down.  
These new Pope's thought they could dispense  
With Treason or the like offence;  
Especially their own.   

Or else (methinks) they durst not sure  
The King, and Bishops both abjure  
When they the Covenant took.  
Though many oaths they all have taken,  
By this they have the King forsaken,  
If they be pleased to look.   

Next bring in those who did devise  
Your Sequestrations, and Excize;  
Down with their goldsmith's Hall,  
Or rather hell, for none comes there,  
But he himself must first forswear;  
And that's the worst of all.   

Besides he must himself confess  
A grand Malignant, that's no less  
Than Traitor in their sense:  
And make himself a Traitor, more  
Than ever he was yet before,  
By a far worse offence.   

He must use their forged seal ere he  
From their Committees can be free:  
That's Treason Paramount.  
This favour they to us afford.  
To make us traitors on Record,  
And in the law's account.   

But oh! those subtle men must not  
(Above all others) be forgot,  
We Jew's of Malta call;  
Who lately have a new trick found,  
To make men for their own compound.  
These get the devil and all.   

The State we know it lately hath  
Borrowed too much on public Faith;  
These juggling Jews they say,  
By Ordinance of Parliament  
Get threescore pounds at least per cent.  
And they have present pay.   

Th' abused who the money lent,  
Are with this great loss well content  
They may some part secure:  
Thus are their private Stocks employed,  
And all their Creditors destroyed,  
By those their Loans ensure.   

Brave soldiers couple these together  
Like hellhounds, and then send them hither;  
Try them but in the Tower.  
Let brave Judge Jenkins give them Law,  
And honest Will▪ th' Inditements draw,  
They will dispatch in an hour.   

Yet I dare swear that they should find  
Ith' good old Judge a noble mind,  
And should more justice have  
With mercy and with judgement mixed,  
(For so true Justice should be fixed)  
Then ever yet they gave.   

If th' Army do their sovereign own,  
And shall restore him to his crown,  
'Twill be a glorious thing.  
Though in their hearts the Prophets lied,  
It will prove true they prophesied  
he'll be a glorious King.   

Thou wilt deserve immortal glory,  
And famous be in every story,  
If this be done by thee.  
Though th' English were well-near as bold,  
As the Scots were their sovereign sold,  
Fairfax will glorious be.   

we'll bonfires make, our Bells shall ring,  
Our Children shall thy praises sing;  
I hope that day to see,  
That we who now thy Prisoners are,  
Shall have in thee so great a share,  
To love and honour thee.   
FINIS.