Partie f. 26r - Untitled verses (author unknown)

First line: ‘I am a Saucy Scribler lately Come from france’.

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Transcript

I am a Sauc’y Scribler lately Come from france
for Laurall or for Pilory Ile write and Take my Chance
And a Scribleing I will go &c’

In hopes of Some Preferment a way to Court I flew
And Laughed to hear the Q— Taulk of things She Never Knew
And a Taulkeing &c’

The Next Unto the Q— Stood grave Sr {1} P K—g
More Sable than the Black jock the Maids of Honour Sing
when a jocking they do go &c’

Then Stood the P—ce and P—ces and D–ke that Merry Blade
who wishes all his Sisters wedd, and all their fortunes payed
for he cares Not were they go &c’

I should have Named the K— first but why the Reason’s plaine
The women ware the Breeches In England, france, and Spaine,
And to Cou–cel they do go &c’

Sr Ro—ts gone to Norfolk with Many Nobles More
The Nation’s Left in Mourning whilst he Keeps Open Door
And a Begging whe do go &c’

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{1} Reading uncertain.

Printed from MS (BL, Egerton MS 2560, f. 94) in Milton Percival’s Political Ballads illustrating the Administration of Sir Robert Walpole (1916), pp. 86–7. According to Percival the poem was also printed as a broadside, a specimen of which is in Sir Frederick Madden’s collection in Cambridge University Library, but this is not in Foxon.