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 return, d 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 harmined▪  
I Coged and Fattered 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 Declaration,  
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 Popr'y 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 them 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.  

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

London, Printed for Rich. Kell, in West-Smiethfield. 1694.