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Thread #72550   Message #2312604
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Apr-08 - 10:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Summons to New England
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Summons to New England
From Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, 1860:

1634? 16. "A proper Ballad, called the Summons to New England, to
the tune of the Townsman's Cap," eleven stanzas of eight lines,
commencing thus:—

"Let all the Purisidian sect,
I mean the counterfeit Elect."

The last stanza but one is as follows—

"The Native people, though yet wyld,
Are all by nature kinde and mylde,
And apt allready, (by reporte,)
To live in this religious sorte,
Soone to conversion they'l be brought
When Warham's miracles are wrought,
Who being sanctified and pure
May by the Spiritt them allure."