[1] He Prote・ant Joyner is carried To Oxford to take his degree And there it is ヂid will be married All under the Willow-green Tree. For ナnce his Accompliャes faulter, Jack Ketch has provided a Halter For thoテ that did blame us; And went for to ャam us: Will find that the Bill was not Ignoramus.
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"A New Ballad of the Protestant Joyner"
is undated, but the narrative moment indicates it was
College himself was freed by the
London jury on an ignoramus verdict, but since he
The original is at the Harvard University
Library; a reproduction is available
"accomplishes faulter": presumably
"accomplices falter," a suggestion that
"Jack Ketch": the public hangman,
responsible for executing the
"Ignoramus": juries returned this
verdict to indicate insufficient evidence to convict.
"he [i.e., his] Good-man's in the
Tower": the Earl of Shaftesbury, political leader of
"Twelve men of the best of the County":
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