The Loyal address of the clergy of Virginia. Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI : 2007-01. N00877 N00877 Evans 1057 APX1542 1057 99018221

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 Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 ; no. 1057. (Evans-TCP ; no. N00877) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 1057) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1057) The Loyal address of the clergy of Virginia. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Fr. Maggot, at the Sign of the Hickery-Tree [sic] in Queen-Street., Williamsburgh [i.e., London?]: : 1702. In verse. First line: May it please you dread sir, we the clerks of Virginia. The imprint is false. Probably printed in London.

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 eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Poetry. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702 -- Anecdotes. Broadsides. Poems -- 1702. 2005-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-11 Keyed and coded from Readex/Newsbank page images 2006-04 Sampled and proofread 2006-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE LOYAL ADDRESS OF THE Clergy of Virginia. MAY it pleaſe you dread Sir, we the Clerks of Virginia, Who pray for Tobacco, and Preach for a Guinea, Patroon'd to Contempt, and by favour made Elves, For Troopers are Liſted and pay Tythes to our Selves. The meaneſt Brigade of Your Majeſties Grubſtreets, Tho' Late; not leaſt Loyal of Your Clerical Subjects, Among Crouds of True Hearts that of late do Addreſs You, In our humble Phraſe do Crave Leave to Carreſs You To ſhew for Your Safety how with Zeal we burn all, Under the Reverend James Blare our Collonel. And here we cann't chooſe but proclaim our Reſentment, That we mar'l what the Devil the Politick French meant: In Affront to Your Perſon, and the Throne that You ſit on, To Dub the Young Bricklair the King of Great Britain. Tho' we are not with ſome ſo high pufft with the Ptyſick, As to ſay 'tis a Breach of the Treaty of Reſwick; Yet we boldly averr, and by Words do aſſure it To be ſuch a Contempt, we can never indure it: Wherefore if Your Foes do perſiſt for to ſlight You, We will all of us Pray, nay and ſome of us Fight too: For like Hogans half drunk, Your Polemicks I fancy Can Club prety well when Inſpir'd with Nantſy, Among all the Black Guard You Cann't miſs of an Hector, Unleſs You chance light on the Williamburg Rector: Yet we'll favour the French if we find they'l be Civil, For be it known that we fear 'em no more than the Devil: However we chan huff it, if they never come near us, If they ſhould I am afraid they would damnably ſcare us▪ Then to ſave our own Skins, and to ſilence Gainſaiers, We'll leave of our bouncing and fall to our Prayers. May kind Heavens preſerve long Your Majeſties good Soul, And bring Lewis to beg a loath'd life at Your Footſtool: May Mantanoon Pox his Black Soul to the Devil, And Burgundy Rot with his putred Kings Evil: May young D' Anjoy be truſt at the arm of the Main-yard, And Auſtria poſſeſs the Command of the Spaniard: May all Factious Diſtinctions henceforth be forgotten, Nor Your Spiritual Pedlers be Contrould by a Scotch one: May your Health in your College go Loyally Round, And all your Leige People have Twelve-pence a Pound.

WILLIAMSBƲRGH: Printed for Fr. Maggot, at the Sign of the Hickery-Tree in Queen-Street. 1702