Another ballad: called The libertines lampoone: or, The curvets of conscience. To the tune of, Thomas Venner, or 60. / Written by the authour of the Geneva Ballad. Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. 1674 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B01384 11403485 Wing A3249 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[115] ESTC R30700 99889678 ocm99889678 182784 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B01384) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182784) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:2[116]) Another ballad: called The libertines lampoone: or, The curvets of conscience. To the tune of, Thomas Venner, or 60. / Written by the authour of the Geneva Ballad. Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for F.K. and Edward Thomas, and are to be sold at his shop at the Adam [and Eve in Little-Brittain], London : 1674. Geneva ballad attributed to Samuel Butler by Wing. Verse: "AS I examin'd my Conscience ..." Imperfect: cropped at foot with partial loss of imprint. Reproduction of original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. 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Ballads, English -- 17th century. 2008-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-11 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion ANOTHER BALLAD : Called the Libertines Lampoone : OR , The Curvets of Conscience . To the Tune of , Thomas Venner , Or 60. Written by the Authour of the Geneva Ballad AS I examin'd my Conscience , All by my self ; My head was full of Nonsence : After seven times turning , Worse then a burning , I found she was a Way ward Elf. Ceremonious Oaths , and humane Laws offend her , She 's constant as a Weather-cock , and as a Milstone tender ; E'ne such another Protestant , as the old Witch of Ender . Halloo my Conscience whither wilt thou go . Treason she says is Religion , Sacriledge Zeal ; A Crow she calls a Pidgeon : She tells you further , Plundering and Murther , Do Service to the Common-weal . Justice she esteemeth to be a very slow thing , Power Ecclesiastick , she reckons as a low thing , And for an Act of Parliament she counts it next to nothing ; Halloo my Conscience , &c. A Nonconformist to please her , Lately declar'd : She 's more a Prince then Caesar ; Say what she will say , These fellows still say , She must and ought to be heard . Though Mallice can corrupt her , and Avaric● can taint her , Pride can blow her up , and Hypocrisi can paint her , And when Truth cryes her down Sedition can Saint her . Halloo my Conscience , &c. Changes she can Ring a hundred More then are good , Else it might be wondred , In the mutations , Of these three Nations How upon her Legs she hath stood . For under the old Rumpers she was enfore'd to truckle , Cromwel and his Janisaries made her glad to buckle , And when the King came in , she got the trick to smuckle , Halloo my Conscience , &c. When Smec and the Independant Began to Clash : She could foresee the end on 't ; And as soon as the day First brake at Breda , She kept her self out of the lash . Although of the Surplice she never had a Rag on , Of all her nimble tricks , this she hath cause to brag on , She pitcht upon her Feet when Bell fought with the Dragon Halloo my , &c. Quite from bending and bowing , She is declin'd : To Theeing , and to Thouing , Sects and perswasions All Modes and Fashions , Of every sort and kind . She was a Brownist lately , an Anabaptist newly , And then she fell to plainly , Verily and Truly : But errors have no end , and factions want a Thule . Halloo my , &c. Such is her intricate winding No Man can trace , She loaths to hear of binding : She 's free and willing , Although it be by killing To run the Fanatick Race . He that can restrain her , may fix the stars that wander , Cure the sits of Jealousie , or gag the Mouth of Slander : Sail without a Rudder , and rectifie Meander . Halloo my , &c. Drunk with the Doctrine of Tub●men See how she reels , From Men of Law to Club-men , This way and that way , No man knows what way , Unsteadfast as Phaetons Wheels : In Faith none more fervent , in Charity none colder , As fiery as Bucephalus , and then blind Byard bolder : She 's too untame for Earth , and none but Hell can hold her . I , I , 't is thither , thither , she may go . LONDON , Printed for E. K. and Edward Thomas , and are to be sold at his Shop at the Adam