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 and there shall be a king in it,

when this king shall be gone.

When this was done they did us turn

back into Edinburgh town,

our cursed council did command

to put the prisoners down.

Both heads and hands they did stick up

in every publick town.

the reason was we would not yeild

to every Bishop lown.

But evermore the martyrs blood,

the churches feed doth prove,

but and the church found on a rock

nothing shall her remove,

For in that time the seed was sown,

that ever since have grown,

that all the powers of prelacie

shall never get o’erthrown.

Our whorish council did devise,

another evil design:

an hellish-band they did contrive,

which was a devilish thing,

And for to bring this thing about,

some Lords out of the North,

come with adrift of Amorites

cut o’er the watter of forth.

And for this end they did draw up

their whole mischievous troops,

and brought them in by Lemerick town

to search the land throughout

And killed all that they did find

the Gospel that did preach

and made a final end of all

that would not serve the beast.

And then they came to such a hight

to prosecute the band,

and never to hear the Gospel preached

almost into this land,