D'Urfey, Thomas.

the title inscribed on a panel below the text ("A Songe"), the ballad expressing anti-Establishment (specifically anti-Tory) sentiments, comprising six eight-line stanzas, written in black ink, attacking among others, "the King and Parliment", "Tantivy Boys" [High-Church Tories] and "haughty Monerchey", "the Ante cristian crew", the aristocracy, "both universitys", papists and idolatry, each of the six verses ending with the song-refrain "Then Hay Boy[e]s up goe we", with alterations and corrections, including to the lines "we have more [deleted: reason] cause to be content/ [deleted: That it's] It is our sunshiny weather", and elsewhere, concluding with a pen-flourish, 2 pages, folio (c.28.5 x 19cms), the manuscript annotated with monetary calculations etc. probably 1680s, splitting at folds affecting the text at the foot of the first page, staining

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D'Urfey's ballad was published by Nathaniel Thompson in 1682, with the title "The Whig's Exaltation; a pleasant new song of 82. To an old tune of 41" (Wing D 2791; ESTCR206506), with type-set music for the opening verse ("Now, now the Torys all shall stoop").  The ballad uses the well-known tune "Hey Boys up go we" (see W. Chappell, Old English Popular Music, I, 204), also the words of the refrain here.  The tune appears in Playford's English Dancing Master (1686) and D'Urfey's own Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719).  In some editions (also 1682) the tune is named in the title (cf Wing W 1649A; ESTC R262)

This manuscript contains six of the eight verses published by  Thompson, but there are many differences in words and especially the orthography throughout.  These and the deletions and alterations in the fourth verse, suggest that it is probably an early draft of the text printed in the 1682 editions.  

The name of Lords shall be Abhored
For every man's a Brother
What Reason then in church or state
One man should Rule another
Thus having peeled and plundered all
And levied each degree
Wel' make their plumpe young Dafters fall
Then hay, Boyes up goe we
What though the King and Parliment
Should not agree togather
we have more [deleted: reasons] cause to be content
[deleted: That it's] It is our sunshiny weather...

D'Urfey's text is apparently a version of Francis Quarles's "Know This My Brethren", revised and published in 1682 as "The Whig Rampant; or exaltation".  OED records "Tantivy" from 1680 as "a nickname given to the Post-Restoration High-Churchmen and Tories, esp. in the reigns of Charles II and James II".  Another longer version attributed to John Murcot appeared in 1683 (Wing M3085; ESTC R16149), in the wake of the Rye House Plot.