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Mongt the everal means that have been of late years to reduce the deluded Multitude to their jut Allegiance, this of BALLADS and LOYAL SONGS has not been of the leat influence. While the Ferguons, and Heads of the Factions were blowing up Sedition in every corner of the Countrey, thee flying Choriters were aerting the Rights of Monarchy, and proclaiming Loyalty in every treet. The mi-inform’d Rabble began to liten; they began to bear to Truth in a SONG, in time found their Errours, and were charm’d into Obedience. Thoe that depie the Reverend Prelate in the Pulpit, and the Grave Judge on the Bench; that will neither ubmit to the Laws of God or Man, will yet lend an itching Ear to a Loyal Song, nay, and often become a Convert by It, when all other means prove