The Ballad.  
On the Bishops  

1.  
ASsist me some good spirit with a high, with a high,  
Whilst I sing of a flight with a ho.  
Of in Auspicious Fowls,  
All sillier than Owls.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

2.  
Not so grave as Owls they be with a high, etc.  
Nor so wise in time you'll see with a ho.  
These Birds when they're Installed,  
All Magpies they are called.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

3.  
The platter faced Owl with a high, etc.  
Like a wise sober Fowl with a bo.  
Is bashful in the Light,  
And preys only in the Night.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

4.  
But our PRELATIC PIES with a high, &c  
Not so modest nor so wise with a ho.  
On Church and State they pray,  
In the open face of day.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

5.  
Peaceful Ssorks men believe with a high, etc.  
In Republics only live with a ho.  
But this chattering SUCK-EGG-PIE,  
Thrives best in Tyranny.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

6.  
'Tis a strange dapple thing with a high, etc.  
Against the people for a King with a ho.  
Be he Mogul or be he Turk,  
It's all one they'll do his work.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

7.  
'Tis as he shall them incline with a high, etc.  
For all their Right Divine with a ho.  
If he'll make his people slaves,  
They'll be his humble Knaves.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

8.  
They say Protestants they are with a high, etc.  
Yet they wish a POPISH HEIR with a ho.  
And it's plain they lie in the lurch,  
To give up State and Church.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

9  
Some say they are Learned Elves with a high, etc.  
And read Fathers like themselves with a ho.  
Silly Schoolmen they run o'er,  
And desire to know no more.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

10.  
Thus with their own dull Load with a high, etc.  
They jog along the Road with a ho.  
In a Track like Carrier's Horse,  
Each Nose in tother's Arse.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

11.  
It is small Learning when they with a high, etc.  
Learn but what others say with a ho.  
And never step aside,  
To learn any thing beside.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

12.  
Without knowledge in our Laws, with a high, etc.  
They would run down our Cause with a ho.  
By obedience implicit,  
To a King that does solicit.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

13.  
To Rule they would be content with a high, etc.  
By the Old Testament with a ho.  
Against Magna Charta they  
Bring Scripture into play.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

14.  
Their Auditors they abuse with a high, etc.  
With old Laws of the Jews with a ho.  
Meant by God no more for ours,  
Than they for higher Powers.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

15.  
To the Hab●as Corpus Bill with a high, etc.  
They'd oppose all their skill with a ho.  
All good Laws they would prevent,  
One and all not content.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

16.  
Let the Old Roman see with a high, etc.  
Claim Infallibility with a ho.  
But to ours it does belong,  
To be always in the wrong.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

17.  
Our MAGPY's a strange creature with a high, etc.  
Of a base Mongrel nature with a ho.  
'Tis called a Lord it's clear,  
But as true it is no Peer.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

18.  
The right Rev. BUGGERRING LORD with a high, etc.  
MAGPIE of Waterford with a ho.  
By a Common Jury tried,  
By a common Hangman died.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

19  
He acts a Lord for life with a high, etc.  
But no title has his Wife with a ho.  
Jus Divinum is his Word,  
For which we care not a Turd.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

20.  
They are Tapers without light with a high, etc.  
They present to your sight with a ho.  
Rich altars to your eyes,  
Without a Sacrifice.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

21.  
This Taffeta and Lawn with a high, etc.  
From the Whore of Rome did spawn with a ho.  
For which they and all their Fry,  
Would still keep very nigh.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.    

22.  
Let the MAGPIES then to Rome with a high, etc.  
From whence they all do come with a ho.  
They do all the Pope's work  
And like Ravens cry YORK, YORK.  

With a high trony nonny nonny no.