The Religious Turncoat; Or, a Late jacobite Divine turned Williamite.  
Licenced according to Order.  
Tune of, London is a Fine Town.  

(1)  
I Loved no King in Forty One,  
When Prelacy went down;  
A Cloak and Band, I then put on,  
And Preached against the Crown.   

Chorus.  
A Turncoat is a Cunning Man,  
That Cants to Admiration;  
And Prays for any King, to gain  
The People's Approbation.   

(2)  
I showed them Paths to Heaven untrod,  
From popery to refine 'em;  
And taught the People to serve God,  
As if the Devil were in 'em.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(3)  
When Charles returned into our Land,  
The English Church Supporter,  
I shifted oft my Cloak and Band,  
And so became a Courtier.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(4)  
The King's Religion I professed,  
And found there was no harm in't;  
I Coged and Flattered like the rest,  
Till I had got Preferment.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(5)  
I taught my Conscience how to Cope  
With Honesty or Evil;  
And when I railed against the Pope,  
I sided with the Devil.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(6)  
When Royal James began his Reign,  
And Mass was used in Common,  
I shifted off my Faith again,  
And then became a Roman.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(7)  
I Orders took i'th' Church of Rome,  
And Read the Declarations,  
And proved that all the World must come  
To Transubstantiation.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(8)  
His Holiness the Pope to please,  
By the Lord's Assistance,  
To bring in popery with more ease,  
I preached up Nonresistance.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(9)  
Our Prince of Wales was soon betrayed,  
And then the Headstrong Rabble  
Grew angry with the Child, and made  
The Devil rock the Cradle.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(10)  
When Cause grew Sick, and King grew Tame,  
I fell from Priest to Pagan;  
Just as the Belgic Lion came,  
To quell the Romish Dragon.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(11)  
When William had possessed the Throne,  
And Cured the Nations Grievance,  
New Principles I then put on,  
And swore to him Allegiance.   

Chor.  
A Turncoat, etc.   

(12)  
And now Preach up King William's Right,  
Pray for his Foes Confusion;  
And shall remain a Williamite,  
Till another Revolution.   

Chorus.  
A Turncoat is a Cunning Man,  
That Cants to Admiration;  
And Prays for any King, to gain  
The People's Approbation.    

London, Printed for Rich. Kell, in West-Smithfield. 1693.