The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England, by Various

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The
CAVALIER SONGS AND BALLADS
OF ENGLAND

FROM 1642 TO 1684

EDITEDBY
CHARLES MACKAY
LL.D.

LONDON
GRIFFIN BOHN AND CO
STATIONERS’ HALL COURT
1863.

p. iiJOHN CHILDSAND SON, PRINTERS.

p.iiiINTRODUCTION.

The Cavalier Ballads of England,like the Jacobite Ballads of England and Scotland at a laterperiod, are mines of wealth for the student of the history andsocial manners of our ancestors.  The rude but oftenbeautiful political lyrics of the early days of the Stuarts werefar more interesting and important to the people who heard orrepeated them, than any similar compositions can be in ourtime.  When the printing press was the mere vehicle ofpolemics for the educated minority, and when the daily journalwas neither a luxury of the poor, a necessity of the rich, nor anappreciable power in the formation and guidance of publicopinion, the song and the ballad appealed to the passion, if notto the intellect of the masses, and instructed them in all theleading events of the time.  In our day the people need noinformation p.ivof the kind, for they procure it from the more readilyavailable and more copious if not more reliable, source of thedaily and weekly press.  The song and ballad have ceased todeal with public affairs.  No new ones of the kind are madeexcept as miserable parodies and burlesques that may amuse sobercostermongers and half-drunken men about town, who frequent musicsaloons at midnight, but which are offensive to every oneelse.  Such genuine old ballads as remain in the popularmemory are either fast dying out, or relate exclusively to thenever-to-be-superseded topics of love, war, and wine.  Thepeople of our day have little heart or appreciation for song,except in Scotland and Ireland.  England and America are tooprosaic and too busy, and the masses, notwithstanding all theirsupposed advantages in education, are much too vulgar to delightin either song or ballad that rises to the dignity ofpoetry.  They appreciate the buffooneries of the“Negro Minstrelsy,” and the inanities and thevapidities of sentimental love songs, but the elegance of suchwriters as Thomas Moore, and the force of such vigorous thinkersand tender lyrists as Robert Burns, are above their sphere, andare left to scholars in their closets and ladies in theirdrawing-rooms.  The case was different among our ancestorsp. vin thememorable period of the struggle for liberty that commenced inthe reign of Charles I.  The Puritans had the pulpit ontheir side, and found it a powerful instrument.  TheCavaliers had the song writers on theirs, and found them equallyeffective.  And the song and ballad writers of that day werenot always illiterate versifiers.  Some of them were thechoicest wits and most accomplished gentlemen of thenation.  As they could not reach the ears of theircountrymen by the printed book, the pamphlet, or the newspaper,nor mount the pulpit and dispute with Puritanism on its ownground and in its own precincts, they found the song, the ballad,and the epigram more available among a musical and song-lovingpeople such as the English then were, and trusted to these tokeep up the spirit of loyalty in the evil days of the royalcause, to teach courage in adversity, and cheerfulness in allcircumstances, and to ridicule the hypocrites whom they could notshame, and the tyrants whom they could not overthrow. Though many thousands of these have been preserved in theKing’s Pamphlets in the British Museum, and in othercollections which have been freely ransacked for the materials ofthe following pages, as many thousands more have undoubtedlyperished.  p.viOriginally printed as broadsides, and sold for ahalfpenny at country fairs, it used to be the fashion of thepeasantry to paste them up in cupboards, or on the backs ofdoors, and farmers’ wives, as well as servant girls andfarm labourers, who were able to read, would often paste them onthe lids of their trunks, as the best means of preservingthem.  This is one reason why so many of them have been lostwithout recovery.  To Sir W. C. Trevelyan literature isindebted for the restoration of a few of these waifs and strays,which he found pasted in an old trunk of the days of Cromwell,and which he carefully detached and presented to the BritishMuseum.  But a sufficient number of these flying leaves ofsatire, sentiment, and loyalty have reached our time, to throw acurious and instructive light upon the feelings of the men whoresisted the progress of the English Revolution; and who madeloyalty to the person of the monarch, even when the monarch waswrong, the first of the civic virtues.  In thesuperabundance of the materials at command, as will be seen fromthe appended list of books and MSS. which have been consulted anddrawn upon to form this collection, the difficulty was to keepwithin bounds, and to select only such specimens as merited aplace in a volume necessarily limited, by p. viitheircelebrity, their wit, their beauty, their historical interest, orthe light they might happen to throw on the obscure biography ofthe most remarkable actors in the scenes which theydescribe.  It would be too much to claim for these balladsthe exalted title of poetry.  They are not poetical in thehighest sense of the word, and possibly would not have been soeffective for the purpose which they were intended to serve, iftheir writers had been more fanciful and imaginative, or lessintent upon what they had to say than upon the manner of sayingit.  But if not extremely poetical, they are extremelynational, and racy of the soil; and some of them are certain tolive as long as the language which produced them.  For theconvenience of reference and consultation they have been arrangedchronologically; beginning with the discontents that inauguratedthe reign of Charles I., and following regularly to the final,though short-lived, triumph of the Cavalier cause, in theaccession of James II.  After his ill-omened advent to thethrone, the Cavalier became the Jacobite.  In thiscollection no Jacobite songs, properly so called, are included,it being the intention of the publishers to issue a companionvolume, of the Jacobite Ballads of England, from the accession ofJames II. to the battle of p. viiiCulloden, should the public receivethe present volume with sufficient favour to justify theventure.

The Editor cannot, in justice to previous fellow-labourers,omit to record his obligation to the interesting volume, with itslearned annotations, contributed by Mr Thomas Wright to the PercySociety; or to another and equally valuable collection, edited byMr J. O. Halliwell.

December, 1862.

p.xiCONTENTS.

p. xvLIST OF
BALLAD AND SONG BOOKS
AND
MSS. QUOTED IN THIS COLLECTION.

Ashmolean Collection.

Antidote to Melancholy, 1682.

Apollo’s Banquet, 1690.

Additional MSS.

Aviary, 1740–1745.

Broadsides, in the reign of Charles II.

„ „ „ Roxburghe ballads.

Butler’s, Samuel, Posthumous Works, 1732.

Burney’s, Dr, Collection of Songs.

Ballads, six, of the time of Charles II., in the BritishMuseum.

Bagford’s Collection [qu. date].

Brome’s, Alex., Songs [qu. date].

Banquet of Music, 1689.

Bull’s, Dr, Collection of Songs [qu. date].

* Collection of State Songs that have been published since theRebellion, and sung at the several Mug-houses in the Cities ofLondon and Westminster, 1716.

* Collection of Loyal Songs, 1750 [Jacobites].

Complete Collection of Old and New English and Scotch Songs,1735.

Craig’s Collection, 1730.

Convivial Songster, 1782.

Crown Garlands of Golden Roses.

Carey’s, Henry, Musical Centus, 1740.

p. xvi*D’Urfey’s Songs (4 volumes,) or Pills to PurgeMelancholy.

Douce’s Collection, Oxford.

Delightful Companion for the Recorder, 1686.

Dixon’s Ballads of the Peasants of England.

English Political Songs and Ballads of the 17th and 18thCenturies, by Walker Wilkins.

Evans’ Old Ballads, 1810.

England under the House of Hanover, by Thos. Wright.

Folly in Print, or a Book of Rhymes, 1667.

Golden Garlands of Princely delights, 1620.

Harleian MSS.

Halifax’s Songs, 1694.

Halliwell’s Collection of Ballads, “CheethamLibrary.”

Hogg’s Jacobite Relics of Scotland.

Jordan’s, Thomas, London Triumphant, 1672.

King’s Library.

„ Pamphlets—Collection of Political Songs, from1640 to the Restoration of Charles II.

Kitchener, Dr, Loyal and National Songs.

Loyal Songs, 120, 1684, by N. Thompson.

,, 180, 1685 to 1694.

Loyal Songs, 1731.

* Loyal Songs written against the Rump Parliament, between1639 and 1661.

Loyal Garland, containing choice Songs, &c., of our lateRevolution, 1761, and 5th Edition, 1686, Percy Society.

Merry Drollery, complete, 1670.

Muses’ Merriment, 1656.  See“SportiveWit.”

Musical MSS., British Museum.

Musical Miscellany, Watts.

Muse’s Delight, 1757, or “Apollo’sCabinet.”

Old Ballads, 1723, British Museum.

Playford’s Music and Mirth—“Douce’sCollection.”

„ Choice Songs, &c.

p.xviiPlayford’s Theatre of Music, 1685.

,, Pleasant Music Companion.

,, Catch that Catch can.

„ Antidote against Melancholy, 1669.

Political Merriment.

* Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1661.

Parker’s, Martin, Ballads, Roxburghe Collection.

Political Ballads, Percy Society, Wright’sCollection.

Pepys’ Collection, British Museum.

Rats rhymed to Death, 1660; King’s Pamphlets, BritishMuseum.

* Roxburghe Ballads, 3 vols.

Rump Collection of Songs, 1639 to 1661.  SeeLoyalSongs.

Ritson’s Ancient Songs, 1790.

,, English ,,

Ramsay, Allan, Tea-table Miscellany, 1724.

Rome rhymed to Death [qu. date].

Sportive Wit; the Muse’s Merriment [qu. date].

Skene MSS.

Suckling’s, Sir John, Works [qu. date].

Second Tale of a Tub, 1715.

Satirical Songs on Costume.

True Loyalist, or Chevalier’s Favourite, 1779.

Triumph of Wit, or Ingenuity Displayed.

Taubman’s, Mat., Heroic and Choice Songs on the Times,1682.

Westminster Drollery, 1671.

* Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy.

Wit restored, 1658.

Wit’s Recreation, 1654

Williams’, Sir Charles Hanbury, Political Songs.

Wood’s, Anthony, Collection at Oxford [Ashmolean].

Withers, George, Songs.

Wade’s, John, Ballads [qu. date].

p. 1CAVALIERSONGS AND BALLADS.

WHEN THE KING ENJOYS HIS OWN AGAIN.

This is perhaps the most popular of all the Cavaliersongs—a favour which it partly owes to the excellent melodywith which it is associated.  The song, says Mr Chappell, isascertained to be by Martin Parker, by the following extract fromthe Gossips’ Feast, or Moral Tales, 1647. “By my faith, Martin Parker never got a fairer treat: no,not when he indited that sweet ballad, When the King enjoys hisown again.”  In the poet’s Blind Man’sBough (or Buff), 1641, Martin Parker says,

“Whatever yet was published by me
Was known as Martin Parker, or M. P.;”

but this song was printed without his name or initials, at atime when it would have been dangerous to give either his ownname or that of his publisher.  Ritson calls it the mostfamous song of any time or country.  Invented to support thedeclining interest of Charles I., it served afterwards with moresuccess to keep up the spirits of the Cavaliers, and promote therestoration of his son; an event which it was employed tocelebrate all over the kingdom.  At the Revolution of 1688,it of course became an adherent of the exiled King, whose causeit never deserted.  It did equal service in 1715 and1745.  The tune appears to have been originally known asMarry me, p.2marry me, quoth he, bonnielass.  Booker, Pond, Hammond, Rivers, Swallow, Dade, and“The Man in the Moon,” were all astrologers andAlmanac makers in the early days of the civil war. “The Man in the Moon” appears to have been a loyalistin his predictions.  Hammond’s Almanac is called“bloody” because the compiler always took care tonote the anniversary of the death, execution, or downfall of aRoyalist.

   What Bookerdoth prognosticate
   Concerning kings’ or kingdoms’ fate?
   I think myself to be as wise
   As he that gazeth on the skies;
My skill goes beyond the depth of a Pond,
   Or Riversin the greatest rain,
Thereby I can tell all things will be well
   When the King enjoys his own again.

   There’s neitherSwallow, Dove, nor Dade,
   Can soar more high, or deeper wade,
   Nor show a reason from the stars
   What causeth peace or civil wars;
The Man in the Moon may wear out his shoon
   By running after Charles his wain:
But all’s to no end, for the times will not mend
   Till the King enjoys his own again.

   Though for a time we seeWhitehall
   With cobwebs hanging on the wall
   Instead of silk and silver brave,
   Which formerly it used to have,
With rich perfume in every room,—
   Delightful to that princely train,
Which again you shall see, when the time it shall be,
   That the King enjoys his own again.

   p. 3Full forty years the royal crown
   Hath been his father’s and his own;
   And is there any one but he
   That in the same should sharer be?
For who better may the sceptre sway
   Than he that hath such right to reign?
Then let’s hope for a peace, for the wars will not cease
   Till the King enjoys his own again.

   [Did Walkernopredictions lack
   In Hammond’s bloody almanack?
   Foretelling things that would ensue,
   That all proves right, if lies be true;
But why should not he the pillory foresee,
   Wherein poor Toby once was ta’en?
And also foreknow to the gallows he must go
   When the King enjoys his own again?] [1]

   Till then upon Ararat’shill
   My hope shall cast her anchor still,
   Until I see some peaceful dove
   Bring home the branch I dearly love;
Then will I wait till the waters abate
   Which now disturb my troubled brain,
Else never rejoice till I hear the voice
   That the King enjoys his own again.

p. 4WHEN THEKING COMES HOME IN PEACE AGAIN.

From a broadside in the Roxburghe Collection of Ballads. It appears to have been written shortly after MartinParker’s original ballad obtained popularity among theRoyalists, and to be by another hand.  It bears neither datenor printer’s name; and has “God save the King,Amen,” in large letters at the end.

   Oxford and Cambridge shall agree,
   With honour crown’d, and dignity;
   For learned men shall then take place,
   And bad be silenced with disgrace:
They’ll know it to be but a casualty
   That hath so long disturb’d their brain;
For I can surely tell that all things will go well
   When the King comes home in peace again.

   Church government shallsettled be,
   And then I hope we shall agree
   Without their help, whose high-brain’d zeal
   Hath long disturb’d the common weal;
Greed out of date, and cobblers that do prate
   Of wars that still disturb their brain;
The which you will see, when the time it shall be
   That the King comes home in peace again.

   Though many now are much indebt,
   And many shops are to be let,
   A golden time is drawing near,
   Men shops shall take to hold their ware;
And then all our trade shall flourishing be made,
   To which ere long we shall attain;
For still I can tell all things will be well
   When the King comes home in peace again.

   p. 5Maidens shall enjoy their mates,
   And honest men their lost estates;
   Women shall have what they do lack,
   Their husbands, who are coming back.
When the wars have an end, then I and my friend
   All subjects’ freedom shall obtain;
By which I can tell all things will be well
   When we enjoy sweet peace again.

   Though people now walk ingreat fear
   Along the country everywhere,
   Thieves shall then tremble at the law,
   And justice shall keep them in awe:
The Frenchies shall flee with their treacherie,
   And the foes of the King ashamed remain:
The which you shall see when the time it shall be
   That the King comes home in peace again.

   The Parliament must willingbe
   That all the world may plainly see
   How they do labour still for peace,
   That now these bloody wars may cease;
For they will gladly spend their lives to defend
   The King in all his right to reign:
So then I can tell all things will be well
   When we enjoy sweet peace again.

   When all these things to passshall come
   Then farewell Musket, Pick, and Drum,
   The Lamb shall with the Lion feed,
   Which were a happy time indeed.
p. 6O let uspray we may all see the day
   That peace may govern in his name,
For then I can tell all things will be well
   When the King comes home in peace again.

I LOVE MY KING AND COUNTRY WELL.

From Songs and other Poems by Alex. Brome, Gent. Published London 1664; written 1645.

I love my King andcountry well,
      Religion and the laws;
Which I’m mad at the heart that e’er we did sell
      To buy the good old cause.
         These unnaturalwars
         And brotherlyjars
      Are no delight or joy to me;
         But it is mydesire
         That the warsshould expire,
      And the King and his realmsagree.

I never yet did take up arms,
      And yet I dare to dye;
But I’ll not be seduced by phanatical charms
      Till I know a reason why.
         Why the King andthe state
         Should fall todebate
      I ne’er could yet a reasonsee,
         But I find manyone
         Why the warsshould be done,
      And the King and his realmsagree.

p.7I love the King and the Parliament,
      But I love them both together:
And when they by division asunder are rent,
      I know ’tis good forneither.
        Whichsoe’er of those
         Bevictorious,
      I’m sure for us no good’twill be,
         For our plagueswill increase
         Unless we havepeace,
      And the King and his realmsagree.

The King without them can’t longstand,
      Nor they without the King;
’Tis they must advise, and ’tis he must command,
      For their power from his mustspring.
         ’Tis acomfortless sway
         When none willobey;
      If the King han’t his right,which way shall we?
         They may voteand make laws,
         But no good theywill cause
      Till the King and his realmagree.

A pure religion I would have,
      Not mixt with human wit;
And I cannot endure that each ignorant knave
      Should dare to meddle with it.
         The tricks ofthe law
         I would fainwithdraw,
      That it may be alike to eachdegree:
         And I fain wouldhave such
         As do meddle somuch,
      With the King and the churchagree.

p.8We have pray’d and pray’d that the wars mightcease,
      And we be free men made;
I would fight, if my fighting would bring any peace,
      But war is become a trade.
         Our servants didride
         With swords bytheir side,
      And made their masters footmenbe;
         But we’llbe no more slaves
         To the beggarsand knaves
      Now the King and the realms doagree.

THE COMMONERS.

Written in 1645 to the Club-men, byAlex. Brome.

         Come your ways,
         Bonny boys
           Of the town,
      For now is your time or never:
         Shall yourfears
         Or your cares
           Cast you down?
         Hang yourwealth
         And yourhealth,
           Get renown.
      We are all undone for ever,
      Now the King and the crown
      Are tumbling down,
p. 9And therealm doth groan with disasters;
      And the scum of the land
      Are the men that command,
And our slaves are become our masters.

         Nowour lives,
         Children,wives,
           And estate,
      Are a prey to the lust andplunder,
         To the rage
         Of our age;
           And the fate
         Of our land
         Is at hand;
           ’Tis too late
      To tread these usurpers under.
      First down goes the crown,
      Then follows the gown,
Thus levell’d are we by the Roundhead;
      While Church and State must
      Feed their pride and theirlust,
And the kingdom and king be confounded.

         Shallwe still
         Suffer ill
           And be dumb,
      And let every varlet undo us?
         Shall wedoubt
         Of each lout
           That doth come,
         With a voice
         Like thenoise
           Of a drum,
      And a sword or a buff-coat, tous?
      p. 10Shall we lose our estates
      By plunder and rates,
To bedeck those proud upstarts that swagger?
      Rather fight for your meat
      Which those locusts do eat,
Now every man’s a beggar.

THE ROYALIST.

By Alex. Brome.  Written1646.

Come pass about thebowl to me,
   A health to our distressed King;
Though we’re in hold let cups go free,
   Birds in a cage may freely sing.
The ground does tipple healths afar
   When storms do fall, and shall not we?
A sorrow dares not show its face
   When we are ships, and sack’s the sea.

Pox on this grief, hang wealth, let’ssing;
   Shall’s kill ourselves for fear of death?
We’ll live by th’ air which songs do bring,
   Our sighing does but waste our breath.
Then let us not be discontent,
   Nor drink a glass the less of wine;
In vain they’ll think their plagues are spent
   When once they see we don’t repine.

We do not suffer here alone,
   Though we are beggar’d, so’s theKing;
’Tis sin t’ have wealth when he has none,
   Tush! poverty’s a royal thing!
p. 11When weare larded well with drink,
   Our head shall turn as round as theirs,
Our feet shall rise, our bodies sink
   Clean down the wind like Cavaliers.

Fill this unnatural quart with sack,
   Nature all vacuums doth decline;
Ourselves will be a zodiac,
   And every mouth shall be a sign.
Methinks the travels of the glass
   Are circular, like Plato’s year;
Where everything is as it was
   Let’s tipple round: and so ’tishere.

THE NEW COURTIER.

By Alex. Brome. 1648.

               Since it must be so
              Then so let it go,
Let the giddy-brain’d times turn round;
Since we have no king let the goblet be crown’d,
   Our monarchy thus will recover:
      While the pottles are weeping
              We’ll drench our sad souls
              In big-bellied bowls;
      Our sorrows in sack shall liesteeping,
   And we’ll drink till our eyes do run over;
              And prove it by reason
              That it can be no treason
To drink and to sing
A mournival of healths to our new-crown’d King.

               p. 12Let us allstand bare;—
              In the presence we are,
Let our noses like bonfires shine;
Instead of the conduits, let the pottles run wine,
   To perfect this new coronation;
      And we that are loyal
              In drink shall be peers,
              While that face that wears
      Pure claret, looks like theblood-royal,
   And outstares the bones of the nation:
              In sign of obedience,
              Our oath of allegiance
Beer-glasses shall be,
And he that tipples ten is of the nobility.

               Butif in this reign
              The halberted train
Or the constable should rebel,
And should make their turbill’d militia to swell,
   And against the King’s party raise arms;
      Then the drawers, like yeomen
              Of the guards, with quart pots
              Shall fuddle the sots,
      While we make ’em bothcuckolds and freemen;
   And on their wives beat up alarums.
              Thus as each health passes
              We’ll triple the glasses,
And hold it no sin
To be loyal and drink in defence of our King.

p. 13UPONTHE CAVALIERS DEPARTING OUT OF LONDON.

By Alex. Brome.

Now fare thee well,London,
Thou next must be undone,
   ’Cause thou hast undone us before;
This cause and this tyrant
Had never play’d this high rant
   Were’t not for thy argentd’or.

Now we must desert thee,
With the lines that begirt thee,
   And the red-coated saints domineer;
Who with liberty fool thee,
While a monster doth rule thee,
   And thou feel’st what before thou didstfear.

Now justice and freedom,
With the laws that did breed ’em,
   Are sent to Jamaica for gold,
And those that upheld ’em
Have power but seldom,
   For justice is barter’d and sold.

Now the Christian religion
Must seek a new region,
   And the old saints give way to the new;
And we that are loyal
Vail to those that destroy all,
   When the Christian gives place to the Jew.

p.14But this is our glory,
In this wretched story
   Calamities fall on the best;
And those that destroy us
Do better employ us,
   To sing till they are supprest.

A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS.

From the King’s pamphlets,British Museum.

We have a King, andyet no King,
   For he hath lost his power;
For ’gainst his will his subjects are
   Imprison’d in the Tower.

We had some laws (but now no laws)
   By which he held his crown;
And we had estates and liberties,
   But now they’re voted down.

We had religion, but of late
   That’s beaten down with clubs;
Whilst that profaneness authorized
   Is belched forth in tubs.

We were free subjects born, but now
   We are by force made slaves,
By some whom we did count our friends,
   But in the end proved knaves.

p.15And now to such a grievous height
   Are our misfortunes grown,
That our estates are took away
   By tricks before ne’er known.

For there are agents sent abroad
   Most humbly for to crave
Our alms; but if they are denied,
   And of us nothing have,

Then by a vote ex tempore
   We are to prison sent,
Mark’d with the name of enemy,
   To King and Parliament:

And during our imprisonment,
   Their lawless bulls do plunder
A license to their soldiers,
   Our houses for to plunder.

And if their hounds do chance to smell
   A man whose fortunes are
Of some account, whose purse is full,
   Which now is somewhat rare;

A monsternow, delinquentterm’d,
   He is declared to be,
And that his lands, as well as goods,
   Sequester’d ought to be.

As if our prisons were too good,
   He is to Yarmouth sent,
By virtue of a warrant from
   The King and Parliament.

p.16Thus in our royal sovereign’s name,
   And eke his power infused,
And by the virtue of the same,
   He and all his abused.

For by this means his castles now
   Are in the power of those
Who treach’rously, with might and main,
   Do strive him to depose.

Arise, therefore, brave British men,
   Fight for your King and State,
Against those trait’rous men that strive
   This realm to ruinate.

’Tis Pym, ’tis Pym and hiscolleagues,
   That did our woe engender;
Nought but their lives can end our woes,
   And us in safety render.

THE MAN O’ THE MOON.

Hogg, in his second series of Jacobite Relics, states that he“got this song among some old papers belonging to Mr Orr ofAlloa,” and that he never met with it elsewhere.  Inhis first series he printed a Scottish song beginning,—

“Then was a man came fron the moon
   And landed in our town, sir,
And he has sworn a solemn oath
   That all but knaves must down, sir.”

In Martin Parker’s foregoing ballad, “When theKing enjoys his own again,” there is also an allusion tothe man in the moon:—

   p. 17“The Man in the Moon
   May wear out his shoon
By running after Charles his wain;”

as it would appear that the “Man in the Moon,” wasthe title assumed by an almanack-maker of the time of theCommonwealth, who, like other astronomers and astrologers,predicted the King’s restoration.  In this song the“Man o’ the Moon” clearly signifies KingCharles.

The man o’ the moon for ever!
The man o’ the moon for ever!
   We’ll drink to him still
   In a merry cup of ale,—
Here’s the man o’ the moon for ever!

The man o’ the moon, here’s tohim!
How few there be that know him!
   But we’ll drink to him still
   In a merry cup of ale,—
The man o’ the moon, here’s to him!

Brave man o’ the moon, we hail thee,
The true heart ne’er shall fail thee;
   For the day that’s gone
   And the day that’s our own—
Brave man o’ the moon, we hail thee.

We have seen the bear bestride thee,
And the clouds of winter hide thee,
   But the moon is changed
   And here we are ranged,—
Brave man o’ the moon, we bide thee.

The man o’ the moon for ever!
The man o’ the moon for ever!
   p.18We’ll drink to him still
   In a merry cup of ale,—
Here’s the man o’ the moon for ever!

We have grieved the land should shun thee,
And have never ceased to mourn thee,
   But for all our grief
   There was no relief,—
Now, man o’ the moon, return thee.

There’s Orion with his golden belt,
And Mars, that burning mover,
   But of all the lights
   That rule the nights,
The man o’ the moon for ever!

THE TUB-PREACHER.

By Samuel Butler (Author ofHudibras).
To the tune of “The Old Courtier of theQueen’s.”

With face andfashion to be known,
With eyes all white, and many a groan,
With neck awry and snivelling tone,
And handkerchief from nose new-blown,
And loving cant to sister Joan;
   ’Tis a new teacher about the town,
   Oh! the town’s new teacher!

With cozening laugh, and hollow cheek,
To get new gatherings every week,
With paltry sense as man can speak,
p. 19With somesmall Hebrew, and no Greek,
With hums and haws when stuff’s to seek;
   ’Tis a new teacher, etc.

With hair cut shorter than the brow,
With little band, as you know how,
With cloak like Paul, no coat I trow,
With surplice none, nor girdle now,
With hands to thump, nor knees to bow;
   ’Tis a new teacher, etc.

With shop-board breeding and intrusion,
By some outlandish institution,
With Calvin’s method and conclusion,
To bring all things into confusion,
And far-stretched sighs for mere illusion;
   ’Tis a new teacher, etc.

With threats of absolute damnation,
But certainty of some salvation
To his new sect, not every nation,
With election and reprobation,
And with some use of consolation;
   ’Tis a new teacher, etc.

With troops expecting him at door
To hear a sermon and no more,
And women follow him good store,
And with great Bibles to turn o’er,
Whilst Tom writes notes, as bar-boys score,
   ’Tis a new teacher, etc.

p.20With double cap to put his head in,
That looks like a black pot tipp’d with tin;
While with antic gestures he doth gape and grin;
The sisters admire, and he wheedles them in,
Who to cheat their husbands think no sin;
   ’Tis a new teacher, etc.

With great pretended spiritual motions,
And many fine whimsical notions,
With blind zeal and large devotions,
With broaching rebellion and raising commotions,
And poisoning the people with Geneva potions;
   ’Tis a new teacher, etc.

THE NEW LITANY.

From the King’s pamphlets, British Museum.  Satiresin the form of a litany were common from 1646 to 1746, and evenlater.

From an extemporeprayer and a godly ditty,
From the churlish government of a city,
From the power of a country committee,
              Libera nos, Domine.

From the Turk, the Pope, and the Scottishnation,
From being govern’d by proclamation,
And from an old Protestant, quite out of fashion,
              Libera, etc.

p.21From meddling with those that are out of our reaches,
From a fighting priest, and a soldier that preaches,
From an ignoramus that writes, and a woman that teaches,
              Libera, etc.

From the doctrine of deposing of a king,
From the Directory, [2] or any such thing,
From a fine new marriage without a ring,
              Libera, etc.

From a city that yields at the firstsummons,
From plundering goods, either man or woman’s,
Or having to do with the House of Commons,
              Libera, etc.

From a stumbling horse that tumbles o’erand o’er,
From ushering a lady, or walking before,
From an English-Irish rebel, newly come o’er, [3]
              Libera, etc.

From compounding, or hanging in a silkenaltar,
From oaths and covenants, and being pounded in a mortar,
From contributions, or free-quarter,
              Libera, etc.

p.22From mouldy bread, and musty beer,
From a holiday’s fast, and a Friday’s cheer,
From a brother-hood, and a she-cavalier,
              Libera, etc.

From Nick Neuter, for you, and for you,
From Thomas Turn-coat, that will never prove true,
From a reverend Rabbi that’s worse than a Jew,
              Libera, etc.

From a country justice that still looks big,
From swallowing up the Italian fig,
Or learning of the Scottish jig,
              Libera, etc.

From being taken in a disguise,
From believing of the printed lies,
From the Devil and from the Excise, [4]
              Libera, etc.

From a broken pate with a pint pot,
For fighting for I know not what,
And from a friend as false as a Scot,
              Libera, etc.

From one that speaks no sense, yet talks allthat he can,
From an old woman and a Parliament man,
From an Anabaptist and a Presbyter man,
              Libera, etc.

p.23From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men,
From Independents and their tub-men,
From sheriffs’ bailiffs, and their club-men,
              Libera, etc.

From one that cares not what he saith,
From trusting one that never payeth,
From a private preacher and a public faith,
              Libera, etc.

From a vapouring horse and a Roundhead inbuff,
From roaring Jack Cavee, with money little enough,
From beads and such idolatrous stuff,
              Libera, etc.

From holydays, and all that’s holy,
From May-poles and fiddlers, and all that’s jolly
From Latin or learning, since that is folly,
              Libera, etc.

And now to make an end of all,
I wish the Roundheads had a fall,
Or else were hanged in Goldsmith’s Hall.
              Amen.

Benedicat Dominus.

THE OLD PROTESTANT’S LITANY.

Against all sectaries
   And their defendants,
Both Presbyterians
   And Independents.

Mr Walter Wilkins, in his Political Ballads of the Seventeenthand Eighteenth Centuries, says, the imprint of this broadside p. 24intimatesthat it was published in “the year of Hope, 1647,”and Thomson, the collector, added the precise date, the 7th ofSeptember.

That thou wilt bepleased to grant our requests,
And quite destroy all the vipers’ nests,
That England and her true religion molests,
              Te rogamus audi nos.

That thou wilt be pleased to censure withpity
The present estate of our once famous city;
Let her still be govern’d by men just and witty,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased to consider theTower,
And all other prisons in the Parliament’s power,
Where King Charles his friends find their welcome but sour,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased to look on thegrief
Of the King’s old servants, and send them relief,
Restore to the yeomen o’ th’ Guard chines of beef,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased very quickly tobring
Unto his just rights our so much-wrong’d King,
That he may be happy in everything,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That Whitehall may shine in its pristinelustre,
That the Parliament may make a general muster,
That knaves may be punish’d by men who are juster,
              Te rogamus, etc.

p.25That now the dog-days are fully expired,
That those cursed curs, which our patience have tired,
May suffer what is by true justice required,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased to incline conqueringThomas
(Who now hath both city and Tower gotten from us),
That he may be just in performing his promise,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That our hopeful Prince and our graciousQueen
(Whom we here in England long time have not seen)
May soon be restored to what they have been,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That the rest of the royal issue may be
From their Parliamentary guardians set free,
And be kept according to their high degree,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That our ancient Liturgy may be restored,
That the organs (by sectaries so much abhorr’d)
May sound divine praises, according to the word,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That the ring in marriage, the cross at thefont,
Which the devil and the Roundheads so much affront,
May be used again, as before they were wont,
              Te rogamus, etc.

p.26That Episcopacy, used in its right kind,
In England once more entertainment may find,
That Scots and lewd factions may go down the wind,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt be pleased again to restore
All things in due order, as they were before,
That the Church and the State may be vex’d no more,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That all the King’s friends may enjoytheir estates,
And not be kept, as they have been, at low rates,
That the poor may find comfort again at their gates,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That thou wilt all our oppressions remove,
And grant us firm faith and hope, join’d with true love,
Convert or confound all which virtue reprove,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That all peevish sects that would liveuncontroll’d,
And will not be govern’d, as all subjects should,
To New England may pack, or live quiet i’ th’ Old,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That gracious King Charles, with his childrenand wife,
Who long time have suffer’d through this civil strife,
May end with high honour their natural life,
              Te rogamus, etc.

p.27That they who have seized on honest men’streasure,
Only for their loyalty to God and to Cæsar,
May in time convenient find measure for measure,
              Te rogamus, etc.

That thou all these blessings upon us wiltsend,
We are no Independents, on Thee we depend,
And as we believe, from all harm us defend;
              Te rogamus, etc.

VIVE LE ROY.

From a collection of songs, 1640 to 1660.  It is also tobe found in the additional MSS., No. 11, 608, p. 54, in thecollection in the British Museum.  It was sung to the air ofLove lies bleeding,—and was, says Mr Chappell, “theGod save the King” of Charles I., Charles II., and JamesII.

What though thezealots pull down the prelates,
Push at the pulpit, and kick at the crown,
Shall we not never once more endeavour,
Strive to purchase our royall renown?
Shall not the Roundhead first be confounded?
Sa, sa, sa, say, boys, ha, ha, ha, ha, boys,
Then we’ll return with triumph and joy.
Then we’ll be merry, drink white wine and sherry,
Then we will sing, boys, God bless the King, boys,
Cast up our caps, and cry, Vive le Roy.

What though the wise make Alderman Isaac
Put us in prison and steal our estates,
Though we be forced to be unhorsed,
And walk on foot as it pleaseth the fates;
p. 28In theKing’s army no man shall harm ye.
Then come along, boys, valiant and strong, boys,
Fight for your goods, which the Roundheads enjoy;
And when you venture London to enter,
And when you come, boys, with fife and drum, boys,
Isaac himself shall cry, Vive le Roy.

If you will choose them, do not refuse them,
Since honest Parliament never made thieves,
Charles will not further have rogues dipt in murder,
Neither by leases, long lives, nor reprieves.
’Tis the conditions and propositions
Will not be granted, then be not daunted,
We will our honest old customs enjoy;
Paul’s not rejected, will be respected,
And in the quier voices rise higher,
Thanks to the heavens, and (cry), Vive le Roy.

THE CAVALIER.

By Samuel Butler.  From his Posthumous Works.  Asomewhat different version appears in Chappell’s PopularMusic of the Olden Time.

He that is aclear
           Cavalier
Will not repine,
           Although
His pocket grow
           So very low
He cannot get wine.

p.29Fortune is a lass
           Will embrace,
But soon destroy;
           Born free,
In liberty
           We’ll always be,
Singing Vive le Roy.

Virtue is its own reward,
   And Fortune is a whore;
There’s none but knaves and fools regard her,
   Or her power implore.
But he that is a trusty Roger,
   And will serve the King;
Altho’ he be a tatter’d soldier,
   Yet may skip and sing:
Whilst we that fight for love,
May in the way of honour prove
That they who make sport of us
May come short of us;
Fate will flatter them,
And will scatter them;
Whilst our loyalty
Looks upon royalty,
We that live peacefully,
May be successfully
Crown’d with a crown at last.

Tho’ a real honest man
May be quite undone,
He’ll show his allegiance,
Love, and obedience;
Those will raise him up,
Honour stays him up,
p. 30Virtuekeeps him up,
And we praise him up.
Whilst the vain courtiers dine,
With their bottles full of wine,
Honour will make him fast.
Freely then
Let’s be honest men
   And kick at fate,
For we may live to see
Our loyalty
   Valued at a higher rate.
He that bears a sword
   Or a word against the throne,
And does profanely prate
To abuse the state,
   Hath no kindness for his own.

What tho’ painted plumes and prayers
   Are the prosp’rous men,
Yet we’ll attend our own affairs
   ’Till they come to ’t agen;
Treachery may be faced with light,
   And letchery lined with furr;
A cuckold may be made a knight,
   Sing Fortune de la Guerre.
But what’s that to us, brave boys,
That are right honest men?
We’ll conquer and come again,
Beat up the drum again;
      Hey for Cavaliers,
      Hoe for Cavaliers,
      Drink for Cavaliers,
      Fight for Cavaliers,
      p. 31Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub,
      Have at Old Beelzebub,
      Oliverstinks for fear.

Fifth Monarchy-menmust down, boys,
With bulleys of every sect in town, boys;
We’ll rally and to ’t again,
Give ’em the rout again;
Fly like light about,
Face to the right-about,
Charge them home again
When they come on again;
Sing Tantara rara, boys,
Tantara rara, boys,
This is the life of an Old Cavalier.

A CAVEAT TO THE ROUNDHEADS.

From the Posthumous Works of SamuelButler.

      I come to charge ye
      That fight the clergy,
And pull the mitre from the prelate’s head,
      That you will be wary
      Lest you miscarry
In all those factious humours you have bred;
But as for Brownistswe’ll have none,
But take them all and hang them one by one.

      Your wickedactions
      Join’d in factions
Are all but aims to rob the King of his due;
      p. 32Then give this reason
      For your treason,
That you’ll be ruled, if he’ll be ruled by you.
Then leave these factions, zealous brother,
Lest you be hanged one against another.

HEY, THEN, UP GO WE.

This song, says Mr Chappell, in his Popular Music of the OldenTime, which describes with some humour the taste of the Puritans,might pass for a Puritan song, if it were not contained in the“Shepherds’ Oracles,” by Francis Quarles,1646.  He was cup-bearer to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia,daughter of James I., and afterwards chronologer to the city ofLondon.  He died in 1644, and his Shepherds’ Oracleswere a posthumous publication.  It was often reprintedduring the Restoration, and reproduced and slightly altered byThomas Durfey, in his “Pills to Purge Melancholy,”where the burthen is, “Hey, boys, up go we.”

Know this, mybrethren, heaven is clear,
   And all the clouds are gone;
The righteous man shall flourish now,
   Good days are coming on.
Then come, my brethren, and be glad,
   And eke rejoyce with me;
Lawn sleeves and rochets shall go down,
   And hey, then, up go we.

We’ll break the windows which thewhore
   Of Babylon hath painted,
And when the popish saints are down
   Then Barrow shall be sainted;
p.33There’s neither cross nor crucifix
   Shall stand for men to see,
Rome’s trash and trumpery shall go down,
   And hey, then, up go we.

Whate’er the Popish hands have built
   Our hammers shall undo;
We’ll break their pipes and burn their copes,
   And pull down churches too;
We’ll exercise within the groves,
   And teach beneath a tree;
We’ll make a pulpit of a cask,
   And hey, then, up go we.

We’ll put down Universities,
   Where learning is profest,
Because they practise and maintain
   The language of the Beast;
We’ll drive the doctors out of doors,
   And all that learned be;
We’ll cry all arts and learning down,
   And hey, then, up go we.

We’ll down with deans and prebends,too,
   And I rejoyce to tell ye
We then shall get our fill of pig,
   And capons for the belly.
We’ll burn the Fathers’ weighty tomes,
   And make the School-men flee;
We’ll down with all that smells of wit,
   And hey, then, up go we.

If once the Antichristian crew
   Be crush’d and overthrown,
p.34We’ll teach the nobles how to stoop,
   And keep the gentry down:
Good manners have an ill report,
   And turn to pride, we see,
We’ll therefore put good manners down,
   And hey, then, up go we.

The name of lords shall be abhorr’d,
   For every man’s a brother;
No reason why in Church and State
   One man should rule another;
But when the change of government
   Shall set our fingers free,
We’ll make these wanton sisters stoop,
   And hey, then, up go we.

What though the King and Parliament
   Do not accord together,
We have more cause to be content,
   This is our sunshine weather:
For if that reason should take place,
   And they should once agree,
Who would be in a Roundhead’s case,
   For hey, then, up go we.

What should we do, then, in this case?
   Let’s put it to a venture;
If that we hold out seven years’ space
   We’ll sue out our indenture.
A time may come to make us rue,
   And time may set us free,
Except the gallows claim his due,
   And hey, then, up go we.

p. 35THECLEAN CONTRARY WAY,
OR,
COLONEL VENNE’S ENCOURAGEMENT TO HIS SOLDIERS.

To the air of “Hey, then, upgo we.”
From a Collection of Loyal Songs written against the RumpParliament.

Fight on, bravesoldiers, for the cause,
   Fear not the Cavaliers;
Their threat’nings are as senseless as
   Our jealousies and fears.
Tis you must perfect this great work,
   And all malignants slay;
You must bring back the King again
   The clean contrary way.

’Tis for religion that you fight,
   And for the kingdom’s good;
By robbing churches, plundering them,
   And shedding guiltless blood.
Down with the orthodoxal train,
   All loyal subjects slay;
When these are gone, we shall be blest
   The clean contrary way.

When Charleswe have made bankrupt,
   Of power and crown bereft him,
And all his loyal subjects slain,
   And none but rebels left him;
When we have beggar’d all the land,
   And sent our trunks away,
We’ll make him then a glorious prince
   The clean contrary way.

p.36’Tis to preserve his Majesty
   That we against him fight,
Nor ever are we beaten back,
   Because our cause is right:
If any make a scruple at
   Our Declarations, say,—
Who fight for us, fight for the King
   The clean contrary way.

At Keinton, Brainsford,Plymouth, York,
   And divers places more,
What victories we saints obtain,
   The like ne’er seen before:
How often we Prince Rupertkill’d,
   And bravely won the day,
The wicked Cavaliers did run
   The clean contrary way.

The true religion we maintain,
   The kingdom’s peace and plenty;
The privilege of Parliament
   Not known to one and twenty;
The ancient fundamental laws,
   And teach men to obey
Their lawful sovereign, and all these
   The clean contrary way.

We subjects’ liberties preserve
   By imprisonment and plunder,
And do enrich ourselves and state
   By keeping th’ wicked under.
We must preserve mechanicks now
   To lectorize and pray;
By them the gospel is advanced
   The clean contrary way.

p.37And though the King be much misled
   By that malignant crew,
He’ll find us honest at the last,
   Give all of us our due.
For we do wisely plot, and plot
   Rebellion to alloy,
He sees we stand for peace and truth
   The clean contrary way.

The publick faith shall save our souls
   And our good works together;
And ships shall save our lives, that stay
   Only for wind and weather:
But when our faith and works fall down
   And all our hopes decay,
Our acts will bear us up to heaven
   The clean contrary way.

THE CAMERONIAN CAT.

A well-known song from Hogg’s Jacobite Relics; andpopular among the Cavaliers both of England and Scotland in thedays of the Commonwealth.  It was usually sung to a psalmtune; the singers imitating the style and manner of a precentorat a Presbyterian church.

There was aCameronian cat
   Was hunting for a prey,
And in the house she catch’d a mouse
   Upon the Sabbath-day.

p.38The Whig, being offended
   At such an act profane,
Laid by his book, the cat he took,
   And bound her in a chain.

Thou damn’d, thou cursed creature,
   This deed so dark with thee,
Think’st thou to bring to hell below
   My holy wife and me?

Assure thyself that for the deed
   Thou blood for blood shalt pay,
For killing of the Lord’s own mouse
   Upon the Sabbath-day.

The presbyter laid by the book,
   And earnestly he pray’d
That the great sin the cat had done
   Might not on him be laid.

And straight to execution
   Poor pussy she was drawn,
And high hang’d up upon a tree—
   The preacher sung a psalm.

And when the work was ended,
   They thought the cat near dead,
She gave a paw, and then a mew,
   And stretched out her head.

Thy name, said he, shall certainly
   A beacon still remain,
A terror unto evil ones
   For evermore, Amen.

p. 39THEROYAL FEAST.

A Loyall Song of the Royall Feast kept by the Prisoners in theTowre, August last, with the Names, Titles, and Characters ofevery Prisoner.  By Sir F. W., Knight and Baronet,Prisoner.  (Sept. 16th, 1647.)

“In the negotiations between the King and the Parliamentduring the summer and autumn of this year,” says Mr ThomasWright in his Political Ballads of the Commonwealth, publishedfor the Percy Society, “the case of the royalist prisonersin the Tower was frequently brought into question.  Thelatter seized the occasion of complaining against the rigours(complaints apparently exaggerated) which were exerted againstthem, and on the 16th June, 1647, was published ‘A TrueRelation of the cruell and unparallel’d Oppression whichhath been illegally imposed upon the Gentlemen Prisoners in theTower of London.’  The several petitions contained inthis tract have the signatures of Francis Howard, HenryBedingfield, Walter Blount, Giles Strangwaies, Francis Butler,Henry Vaughan, Thomas Lunsford, Richard Gibson, Tho. Violet, JohnMorley, Francis Wortley, Edw. Bishop, John Hewet, WingfieldBodenham, Henry Warren, W. Morton, John Slaughter, GilbertSwinhow.”

On the 19th of August (according to the Moderate Intelligencer of that date) theKing sent to the royal prisoners in the Tower two fat bucks for afeast.  This circumstance was the origin of the presentballad.  It was written by Sir Francis Wortley, one of theprisoners.  This ballad, as we learn by the concludinglines, was to be sung to the popular tune of “ChevyChace.”

God save the best ofkings, King Charles!
   The best of queens, Queen Mary!
The ladies all, Gloster and Yorke,
   Prince Charles, so like old harry! [5]

p.40God send the King his own again,
   His towre and all his coyners!
And blesse all kings who are to reigne,
   From traytors and purloyners!
   The King sent us poor traytors here
      (But you may guesse the reason)
   Two brace of bucks to mend the cheere,
      Is’t not to eat themtreason?

Let Selden search Cotton’s records,
   And Rowley in the Towre,
They cannot match the president,
   It is not in their power.
Old Collet would have joy’d to ’ve seen
   This president recorded;
For all the papers he ere saw
   Scarce such an one afforded.
         The King sentus, etc.

But that you may these traytors know,
   I’ll be so bold to name them;
That if they ever traytors prove
   Then this record may shame them:
But these are well-try’d loyal blades
   (If England ere had any),
Search both the Houses through and through
   You’ld scarcely finde so many.
         The King sentus, etc.

The first and chiefe a marquesse [6] is,
   Long with the State did wrestle;
p. 41Had Ogle[7] done as much as he,
   Th’ad spoyl’d Will Waller’scastle.
Ogle had wealth and title got,
   So layd down his commissions;
The noble marquesse would not yield,
   But scorn’d all base conditions.
         The King sentus, etc.

The next a worthy bishop [8] is,
   Of schismaticks was hated;
But I the cause could never know,
   Nor see the reason stated.
The cryes were loud, God knowes the cause,
   They had a strange committee,
Which was a-foot well neere a yeare,
   Who would have had small pitty.
         The King sentus, etc.

The next to him is a Welsh Judge, [9]
   Durst tell them what was treason;
p. 42Old honestDavid durst be good
   When it was out of season;
He durst discover all the tricks
   The lawyers use, and knavery,
And show the subtile plots they use
   To enthrall us into slavery.
         The King sentus, etc.

Frank Wortley [10] hath a jovialsoule,
   Yet never was good club-man;
He’s for the bishops and the church,
   But can endure no tub-man.
He told Sir Thomas in the Towre,
   Though he by him was undone,
It pleased him that he lost more men
   In taking him then London.
         The King sentus, etc.

Sir Edward Hayles [11] was wond’rousrich,
   No flower in Kent yields honey
In more abundance to the bee
   Then they from him suck money;
Yet hee’s as chearfull as the best—
   Judge Jenkins sees no reason
That honest men for wealth should be
   Accused of high treason.
         The King sentus, etc.

p.43Old Sir George Strangways [12] he came in,
   Though he himself submitted,
Yet as a traytor he must be
   Excepted and committed:
Yet they th’ exception now take off,
   But not the sequestrations,
Hee must forsooth to Goldsmith’s-hall,
   The place of desolation.
         The King sentus, etc.

Honest Sir Berr’s a reall man,
   As ere was lapt in leather;
But he (God blesse us) loves the King,
   And therefore was sent hither.
He durst be sheriff, and durst make
   The Parliament acquainted
What he intended for to doe,
   And for this was attainted.
         The King sentus, etc.

Sir Benefield, [13] Sir Walter Blunt,
   Are Romishly affected,
So’s honest Frank of Howard’s race,
   And slaughter is suspected. [14]
p. 44But howthe devill comes this about,
   That Papists are so loyall,
And those that call themselves God’s saints
   Like devils do destroy all?
         The King sentus, etc.

Jack Hewet [15] will have wholesomemeat,
   And drink good wine, if any;
His entertainment’s free and neat,
   His choyce of friends not many;
Jack is a loyall-hearted man,
   Well parted and a scholar;
He’ll grumble if things please him not,
   But never grows to choller.
         The King sentus, etc.

Gallant Sir Thomas, [16] bold and stout
   (Brave Lunsford), children eateth;
But he takes care, where he eats one,
   There he a hundred getteth;
When Harlow’s wife brings her long bills,
   He wishes she were blinded;
When shee speaks loud, as loud he swears
   The woman’s earthly-minded.
         The King sentus, etc.

p.45Sir Lewis [17] hath an able pen,
   Can cudgell a committee;
He makes them doe him reason, though
   They others do not pitty.
Brave Cleaveland had a willing minde,
   Frank Wortley was not able,
But Lewis got foure pound per weeke
   For’s children and his table.
         The King sentus, etc.

Giles Strangwayes [18] has a gallantsoul,
   A brain infatigable;
What study he ere undertakes
   To master it hee’s able:
He studies on his theoremes,
   And logarithmes for number;
He loves to speake of Lewis Dives, [19]
   And they are ne’er asunder.
         The King sentus, etc.

Sir John Marlow’s [20] a loyall man
   (If England ere bred any),
p. 46Hebang’d the pedlar back and side,
   Of Scots he killed many.
Had General King [21] done what he should,
   And given the blew-caps battail,
Wee’d make them all run into Tweed
   By droves, like sommer cattell.
         The King sentus, etc.

Will Morton’s [22] of thatCardinal’s race,
   Who made that blessed maryage;
He is most loyall to his King,
   In action, word, and carryage;
His sword and pen defends the cause,
   If King Charles thinke not on him,
Will is amongst the rest undone,—
   The Lord have mercy on him!
         The King sentus, etc.

Tom Conisby [23] is stout andstern,
   Yet of a sweet condition;
To them he loves his crime was great,
   He read the King’s commission,
And required Cranborn to assist;
   He charged, but should have pray’d him;
p. 47Tom was sobold he did require
   All for the King should aid him.
         The King sentus, etc.

But I Win. Bodnam [24] had forgot,
   Had suffer’d so much hardship;
There’s no man in the Towre had left
   The King so young a wardship;
He’s firme both to the church and crowne,
   The crown law and the canon;
The Houses put him to his shifts,
   And his wife’s father Mammon.
         The King sentus, etc.

Sir Henry Vaughan [25] looks as grave
   As any beard can make him;
Those come poore prisoners for to see
   Doe for our patriarke take him.
Old Harry is a right true-blue,
   As valiant as Pendraggon;
And would be loyall to his King,
   Had King Charles ne’er a rag on.
         The King sentus, etc.

John Lilburne [26] is a stirringblade,
   And understands the matter;
p. 48He neitherwill king, bishops, lords,
   Nor th’ House of Commons flatter:
John loves no power prerogative,
   But that derived from Sion;
As for the mitre and the crown,
   Those two he looks awry on.
         The King sentus, etc.

Tom Violet [27] swears hisinjuries
   Are scarcely to be numbred;
He was close prisoner to the State
   These score dayes and nine hundred;
For Tom does set down all the dayes,
   And hopes he has good debters;
’Twould be no treason (Jenkin sayes)
   To bring them peaceful letters.
         The King sentus, etc.

Poore Hudson [28] of all was thelast,
   For it was his disaster,
He met a turncoat swore that he
   Was once King Charles his master;
p. 49So he toLondon soon was brought,
   But came in such a season,
Their martial court was then cry’d down,
   They could not try his treason.
         The king sentus, etc.

Else Hudson had gone to the pot,
   Who is he can abide him?
For he was master to the King,
   And (which is more) did guide him.
Had Hudson done (as Judas did),
   Most loyally betray’d him,
The Houses are so noble, they
   As bravely would have paid him.
      The King sent us, etc.

We’ll then conclude with heartyhealths
   To King Charles and Queen Mary;
To the black lad in buff (the Prince),
   So like his grandsire Harry;
To York, to Glo’ster; may we not
   Send Turk and Pope defiance,
Since we such gallant seconds have
   To strengthen our alliance?
Wee’l drink them o’re and o’re again,
   Else we’re unthankfull creatures;
Since Charles, the wise, the valiant King,
   Takes us for loyall traytors.

This if you will rhyme dogrell call,
   (That you please you may name it,)
One of the loyal traytors here
   Did for a ballad frame it:
p. 50Old ChevyChace was in his minde;
   If any suit it better,
All those concerned in the song
   Will kindly thank the setter.

UPON HIS MAJESTY’S COMING TO HOLMBY.

Charles I., after his surrender to the English Commissionersby the Scotch, was conveyed to Holmby House, Northamptonshire,16th February, 1647.

Hold out, braveCharles, and thou shaft win the field;
Thou canst not lose thyself, unless thou yield
On such conditions as will force thy hand
To give away thy sceptre, crown, and land.
And what is worse, to hazard by thy fall,
   To lose a greater crown, more worth than all.

Thy poor distressed Cavaliers rejoyced
To hear thy royal resolution voiced,
And are content far more poor to be
Than yet they are, so it reflects from thee.
Thou art our sovereign still, in spite of hate;
   Our zeal is to thy person, not thystate.

We are not so ambitious to desire
Our drooping fortunes to be mounted higher,
And thou so great a monarch, to our grief,
Must sue unto thy subjects for relief:
And when they sit and long debate about it,
   Must either stay their time, or go without it.

p.51No, sacred prince, thy friends esteem thee more
In thy distresses than ere they did before;
And though their wings be clipt, their wishes fly
To heaven by millions, for a fresh supply.
That as thy cause was so betray’d by men,
   It may by angelsbe restored agen.

I THANK YOU TWICE;

OR

The city courting their own ruin,
Thank the Parliament twice for their treble undoing.

A street ballad.  From abroadside, 1647.

The hierarchy is outof date,
Our monarchy was sick of late,
But now ’tis grown an excellent state:
         Oh, God a-mercy,Parliament!

The teachers knew not what to say,
The ’prentices have leave to play,
The people have all forgotten to pray;
         Still, Goda-mercy, Parliament!

The Roundhead and the Cavalier
Have fought it out almost seven year,
And yet, methinks, they are never the near:
         Oh, God,etc.

The gentry are sequester’d all;
Our wives you find at Goldsmith Hall,
For there they meet with the devil and all;
         Still, God,etc.

p.52The Parliament are grown to that height
They care not a pin what his Majesty saith;
And they pay all their debts with the public faith.
         Oh, God,etc.

Though all we have here is brought tonought,
In Ireland we have whole lordships bought,
There we shall one day be rich, ’tis thought:
         Still, God,etc.

We must forsake our father and mother,
And for the State undo our own brother
And never leave murthering one another:
         Oh, God,etc.

Now the King is caught and the devil isdead;
Fairfax must be disbanded,
Or else he may chance be Hotham-ed.
         Still, God,etc.

They have made King Charles a glorious king,
He was told, long ago, of such a thing;
Now he and his subjects have reason to sing,
         Oh, God,etc.

THE CITIES LOYALTIE TO THE KING.

(Aug. 13th, 1647.)

The city of London made several demonstrations this year tosupport the Presbyterian party in the Parliament against theIndependents and the army.  In the latter end of September,after the army had marched to London, and the Parliament p. 53acted underits influence, the lord mayor and a large part of the aldermenwere committed to the Tower on the charge of high treason; and anew mayor for the rest of the year was appointed by theParliament.

To the tune of “London is afine town and a gallant city.”

Why kept yourtrain-bands such a stirre?
   Why sent you them by clusters?
Then went into Saint James’s Parke?
   Why took you then their musters?
Why rode my Lord up Fleet-street
   With coaches at least twenty,
And fill’d they say with aldermen,
   As good they had been empty?
London is a brave towne,
   Yet I their cases pitty;
Their mayor and some few aldermen
   Have cleane undone the city.

The ’prentices are gallant blades,
   And to the king are clifty;
But the lord mayor and aldermen
   Are scarce so wise as thrifty.
I’le pay for the apprentices,
   They to the King were hearty;
For they have done all that they can
   To advance their soveraignes party.
         London, etc.

What’s now become of your bravePoyntz?
   And of your Generall Massey? [29]
p. 54If youpetition for a peace,
   These gallants they will slash yee.
Where now are your reformadoes?
   To Scotland gone together:
’Twere better they were fairly trusst
   Then they should bring them thither.
         London, etc.

But if your aldermen were false,
   Or Glyn, that’s your recorder! [30]
Let them never betray you more,
   But hang them up in order.
All these men may be coach’t as well
   As any other sinner
Up Holborne, and ride forwarde still,
   To Tyburne to their dinner.
         London,&c.

God send the valiant General may
   Restore the King to glory! [31]
Then that name I have honour’d so
   Will famous be in story;
While if he doe not, I much feare
   The ruine of the nation,
And (that I should be loth to see)
   His house’s desolation.
         London, etc.

p. 55THELAWYERS’ LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF CHARING-CROSS.

From a Collection of Loyal Songs,1610 to 1660.

Undone! undone! thelawyers cry,
   They ramble up and down;
We know not the way to Westminster
   Now Charing-Crossis down.
Now fare thee well, old Charing-Cross,
   Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
   And so pull’d down by the Rump.

And when they came to the bottom of theStrand
   They were all at a loss:
This is not the way to Westminster,
   We must go by Charing-Cross.
      Then fare thee well, etc.

The Parliament did vote it down
   As a thing they thought most fitting,
For fear it should fall, and so kill ’em all
   In the House as they were sitting.
      Then fare thee well, etc.

Some letters about this Crosswerefound,
   Or else it might been freed;
But I dare say, and safely swear,
   It could neither write nor read.
      Then fare thee well, etc.

The Whigsthey do affirm and say
   To Poperyit was bent;
p. 56For what Iknow it might be so,
   For to church it never went,
      Then fare thee well, etc.

This cursed Rump-Rebellious Crew,
   They were so damn’d hard-hearted;
They pass’d a vote that Charing-Cross
   Should be taken down and carted:
      Then fare thee well, etc.

Now, Whigs, I would advise you all,
   ’Tis what I’d have you do;
For fear the King should come again,
   Pray pull down Tyburntoo.
      Then fare thee well, etc.

THE DOWNFAL OF CHARING-CROSS.

Charing-Cross, as it stood before the civil wars, was one ofthose beautiful Gothic obelisks, erected to conjugal affection byEdward I., who built such a one wherever the hearse of hisbeloved Eleanor rested in its way from Lincolnshire toWestminster.  But neither its ornamental situation, thebeauty of its structure, nor the noble design of its erection(which did honour to humanity), could preserve it from themerciless zeal of the times; for in 1647 it was demolished byorder of the House of Commons, as Popish and superstitious. This occasioned the following not unhumorous sarcasm, which hasbeen often printed among the popular sonnets of those times.

The plot referred to in ver. 3 was that entered into by MrWaller the poet, and others, with a view to reduce the city andTower to the service of the King; for which two of them, Nath.Tomkins and Richard Chaloner, suffered death, July 5, 1643. Vid. Ath. Ox. 11. 24.—Percy’s Reliques of AncientEnglish Poetry.

p.57Undone! undone! the lawyersare,
   They wander about the towne,
Nor can find the way to Westminster
   Now Charing-Cross is downe:
At the end of the Strand they make a stand,
   Swearing they are at a loss,
And chaffing say, that’s not the way,
   They must go by Charing-Cross.

The Parliament to vote it down
   Conceived it very fitting,
For fear it should fall, and kill them all
   In the House as they were sitting.
They were told god-wot, it had a plot,
   Which made them so hard-hearted,
To give command it should not stand,
   But be taken down and carted.

Men talk of plots, this might have beenworse,
   For anything I know,
Than that Tomkinsand Chaloner
   Were hang’d for long agoe.
Our Parliament did that prevent,
   And wisely them defended,
For plots they will discover still
   Before they were intended.

But neither man, woman, nor child
   Will say, I’m confident,
They ever heard it speak one word
   Against the Parliament.
An informer swore it letters bore,
   Or else it had been freed;
In troth I’ll take my Bible oath
   It could neither write nor read.

p.58The Committee said that verify
   To Popery it was bent:
For ought I know, it might be so,
   For to church it never went.
What with excise, and such device,
   The kingdom doth begin
To think you’ll leave them ne’er a cross
   Without doors nor within.

Methinks the Common-council should
   Of it have taken pity,
’Cause, good old cross, it always stood
   So firmly to the city.
Since crosses you so much disdain,
   Faith, if I were as you,
For fear the King should rule again
   I’d pull down Tiburn too.

Whitlocke says, “May 3rd, 1643, Cheapside Cross andother crosses were voted down,” &c.  When thisvote was put in execution does not appear; probably not till manymouths after Tomkins and Chaloner had suffered.

We had a very curious account of the pulling down of CheapsideCross lately published in one of the Numbers of theGentlemen’s Magazine, 1766.—Percy’sReliques.

THE LONG PARLIAMENT.

By John Cleveland.

Most gracious andomnipotent,
And everlasting Parliament,
   Whose power and majesty
p. 59Aregreater than all kings by odds;
And to account you less than gods
   Must needs be blasphemy.

Mosses and Aaron ne’er did do
More wonder than is wrought by you
   For England’s Israel;
But though the Red Sea we have past,
If you to Canaan bring’s at last,
   Is’t not a miracle—?

In six years’ space you have done more
Than all the parliaments before;
   You have quite done the work.
The King, the Cavalier, and Pope,
You have o’erthrown, and next we hope
   You will confound the Turk.

By you we have deliverance
From the design of Spain and France,
   Ormond, Montrose, the Danes;
You, aided by our brethren Scots,
Defeated have malignant plots,
   And brought your sword to Cain’s.

What wholesome laws you have ordain’d,
Whereby our property’s maintain’d,
   ’Gainst those would us undo;
So that our fortunes and our lives,
Nay, what is dearer, our own wives,
   Are wholly kept by you.

Oh! what a flourishing Church and State
Have we enjoy’d e’er since you sate,
   With a glorious King (God save him!):
p. 60Have younot made his Majesty,
Had he the grace but to comply,
   And do as you would have him!

Your Directoryhow to pray
By the spirit shows the perfect way;
   In real you have abolisht
The Dagon of the Common Prayer,
And next we see you will take care
   That churches be demolisht.

A multitude in every trade
Of painful preachers you have made,
   Learned by revelation;
Cambridge and Oxford made poor preachers,
Each shop affordeth better teachers,—
   O blessed reformation!

Your godly wisdom hath found out
The true religion, without doubt;
   For sure among so many
We have five hundred at the least;
Is not the gospel much increast?
   All must be pure, if any.

Could you have done more piously
Than sell church lands the King to buy,
   And stop the city’s plaints?
Paying the Scots church-militant,
That the new gospel helpt to plant;
   God knows they are poor saints!

Because th’ Apostles’ Creed islame,
Th’ Assembly doth a better frame,
   Which saves us all with ease;
p. 61Providedstill we have the grace
To believe th’ House in the first place,
   Our works be what they please.

’Tis strange your power and holiness
Can’t the Irish devils dispossess,
   His end is very stout:
But tho’ you do so often pray,
And ev’ry month keep fasting-day,
   You cannot cast them out.

THE PURITAN.

By John Cleveland.
To the tune of “An old Courtier of theQueen’s.”

With face andfashion to be known,
For one of sure election;
With eyes all white, and many a groan,
With neck aside to draw in tone,
With harp in’s nose, or he is none:
   See a new teacher of the town,
   Oh the town, oh the town’s new teacher!

With pate cut shorter than the brow,
With little ruff starch’d, you know how,
With cloak like Paul, no cape I trow,
With surplice none; but lately now
With hands to thump, no knees to bow:
      See a new teacher, etc.

p.62With coz’ning cough, and hollow cheek,
To get new gatherings every week,
With paltry change of andto eke,
With some small Hebrew, and no Greek,
To find out words, when stuff’s to seek:
      See a new teacher, etc.

With shop-board breeding and intrusion,
With some outlandish institution,
With Ursine’s catechism to muse on,
With system’s method for confusion,
With grounds strong laid of mere illusion:
      See a new teacher, etc.

With rites indifferent all damned,
And made unlawful, if commanded;
Good works of Popery down banded,
And moral laws from him estranged,
Except the sabbath still unchanged:
      See a new teacher, etc.

With speech unthought, quick revelation,
With boldness in predestination,
With threats of absolute damnation
Yet yeaand nayhath some salvation
For his own tribe, not every nation:
      See a new teacher, etc.

With after license cast a crown,
When Bishop new had put him down;
With tricks call’d repetition,
And doctrine newly brought to town
Of teaching men to hang and drown:
      See a new teacher, etc.

p.63With flesh-provision to keep Lent,
With shelves of sweetmeats often spent,
Which new maid bought, old lady sent,
Though, to be saved, a poor present,
Yet legacies assure to event:
      See a new teacher, etc.

With troops expecting him at th’ door,
That would hear sermons, and no more;
With noting tools, and sighs great store,
With Bibles great to turn them o’er,
While he wrests places by the score:
      See a new teacher, etc.

With running text, the named forsaken,
With forand but, both by sense shaken,
Cheap doctrines forced, wild uses taken,
Both sometimes one by mark mistaken;
With anything to any shapen:
      See a new teacher, etc.

With new-wrought caps, against the canon,
For taking cold, tho’ sure he have none;
A sermon’s end, where he began one,
A new hour long, when’s glass had run one,
New use, new points, new notes to stand on:
      See a new teacher, etc.

p. 64THEROUNDHEAD.

From Samuel Butler’sPosthumous Works.

Whatcreature’s that, with his short hairs,
His little band, and huge long ears,
   That this new faith hath founded?
The saints themselves were never such,
The prelates ne’er ruled half so much;
   Oh! such a rogue’s a Roundhead.

What’s he that doth the bishops hate,
And counts their calling reprobate,
   ’Cause by the Pope propounded;
And thinks a zealous cobbler better
Than learned Usher in ev’ry letter?
   Oh! such a rogue’s a Roundhead.

What’s he that doth high treasonsay,
As often as his yeaand nay,
   And wish the King confounded;
And dares maintain that Mr Pim
Is fitter for a crown than him?
   Oh! such a rogue’s a Roundhead.

What’s he that if he chance to hear
A little piece of Common Prayer,
   Doth think his conscience wounded;
Will go five miles to preach and pray,
And meet a sister by the way?
   Oh! such a rogue’s a Roundhead.

What’s he that met a holy sister
And in a haycock gently kiss’d her?
   Oh! then his zeal abounded:
p.65’Twas underneath a shady willow,
Her Bible served her for a pillow,
   And there he got a Roundhead.

PRATTLE YOUR PLEASURE UNDER THE ROSE.

From the King’s Pamphlets,British Museum.

There is an oldproverb which all the world knows,
Anything may be spoke, if ’t be under the rose:
Then now let us speak, whilst we are in the hint,
Of the state of the land, and th’ enormitiesin’t.

Under the rose be it spoke, there is a numberof knaves,
More than ever were known in a State before;
But I hope that their mischiefs have digg’d their owngraves,
And we’ll never trust knaves for their sakes any more.

Under the rose be it spoken, the city’san ass
So long to the public to let their gold run,
To keep the King out; but ’tis now come to pass,
I am sure they will lose, whosoever has won.

Under the rose be it spoken, there’s acompany of men,
Trainbands they are called—a plague confound’em:—
p. 66And whenthey are waiting at Westminster Hall,
May their wives be beguiled and begat with child all!

Under the rose be it spoken, there’s adamn’d committee
Sits in hell (Goldsmiths’ Hall), in the midst of thecity,
Only to sequester the poor Cavaliers—
The devil take their souls, and the hangman their ears.

Under the rose be it spoken, if you do notrepent
Of that horrible sin, your pure Parliament,
Pray stay till Sir Thomas doth bring in the King,
Then Derrick [32] may chance have ’em all in astring.

Under the rose be it spoken, let the synod nowleave
To wrest the whole Scripture, how souls to deceive;
For all they have spoken or taught will ne’er save’em,
Unless they will leave that fault, hell’s sure to have’em!

p. 67THEDOMINION OF THE SWORD.

A song made in the Rebellion.

From the Loyal Garland, 1686.
To the tune of “Love lies a bleeding.”

   Lay by your pleading,
   Law lies a bleeding;
Burn all your studies down, and
   Throw away your reading.

   Small pow’r the wordhas,
   And can afford us
Not half so much privilege as
   The sword does.

   It fosters your masters,
   It plaisters disasters,
It makes the servants quickly greater
   Than their masters.

   It venters, it enters,
   It seeks and it centers,
It makes a’prentice free in spite
   Of his indentures.

   It talks of small things,
   But it sets up all things;
This masters money, though money
   Masters all things.

   It is not season
   To talk of reason,
Nor call it loyalty, when the sword
   Will have it treason.

   p. 68It conquers the crown, too,
   The grave and the gown, too,
First it sets up a presbyter, and
   Then it pulls him down too.

   This subtle disaster
   Turns bonnet to beaver;
Down goes a bishop, sirs, and up
   Starts a weaver.

   This makes a layman
   To preach and to pray, man;
And makes a lord of him that
   Was but a drayman.

   Far from the gulpit
   Of Saxby’s pulpit,
This brought an Hebrew ironmonger
   To the pulpit.

   Such pitiful things be
   More happy than kings be;
They get the upper hand of Thimblebee
   And Slingsbee.

   No gospel can guide it,
   No law can decide it,
In Church or State, till the sword
   Has sanctified it.

   Down goes your law-tricks,
   Far from the matricks,
Sprung up holy Hewson’s power,
   And pull’d down St Patrick’s.

   p. 69This sword it prevails, too,
   So highly in Wales, too,
Shenkin ap Powel swears
   “Cots-splutterer nails, too.”

   In Scotland this faster
   Did make such disaster,
That they sent their money back
   For which they sold their master.

   It batter’d theirGunkirk,
   And so it did their Spainkirk,
That he is fled, and swears the devil
   Is in Dunkirk.

   He that can tower,
   Or he that is lower,
Would be judged a fool to put
   Away his power.

   Take books and rent’em,
   Who can invent ’em,
When that the sword replies,
   Negatur argumentum.

   Your brave college-butlers
   Must stoop to the sutlers;
There’s ne’er a library
   Like to the cutlers’.

   The blood that was spilt,sir,
   Hath gain’d all the gilt, sir;
Thus have you seen me run my
   Sword up to the hilt, sir.

p. 70THESTATE’S NEW COIN.

The coinage issued during the Protectorate of Cromwell,consisted of pieces having on the obverse side a shield with StGeorge’s cross, encircled by a laurel and palm branch, andthe words, “The Commonwealth of England.”  Onthe reverse side was the legend, “God with us,” andtwo shields, bearing the arms of England and Ireland.

Saw you theState’s money new come from the Mint?
   Some people do say it is wonderous fine;
And that you may read a great mystery in’t,
   Of mighty King Nol, the lord of the coin.

They have quite omitted his politic head,
   His worshipful face, and his excellent nose;
But the better to show the life he had led,
   They have fix’d upon it the print of hishose.

For, if they had set up his picture there,
   They needs must ha’ crown’d him inCharles’s stead;
But ’twas cunningly done, that they did forbear,
   And rather would set up aught else than hishead.

’Tis monstrous strange, and yet it istrue,
   In this reformation we should have such luck;
That crosses were always disdain’d by you,
   Who before pull’d them down, should now setthem up.

On this side they have circumscribed “Godwith us,”
   And in this stamp and coin they confide;
p.71Common-Wealthon the other, by which we mayguess
   That God and the States were not both of a side.

On this side they have cross and harp,
   And only a cross on the other set forth;
By which we may learn, it falls to our part
   Two crosses to have for one fit of mirth!

THE ANARCHIE, OR THE BLEST REFORMATION SINCE 1640.

Being a new song, wherein the people expresse their thankesand pray for the reformers.

To be said or sung of all the well-affected of the kingdome ofEngland, and dominion of Wales, before the breaking up of thisunhappy Parliament.

[From the King’s Pamphlets, British Museum.  It isprinted but incorrectly in the “Rump Songs,” ed.1665, under the title of “The Rebellion.”]

To a rare new Tune.
(Oct. 24, 1648.)

Now that, thankes tothe powers below!
   We have e’ne done out our doe,
The mitre is downe, and so is the crowne,
   And with them the coronet too;
Come clownes, and come boyes, come hober-de-hoyes,
   Come females of each degree;
p. 72Stretchyour throats, bring in your votes,
   And make good the anarchy.
And “thus it shall goe,” sayes Alice;
   “Nay, thus it shall goe,” sayes Amy;
“Nay, thus it shall goe,” sayes Taffie, “Itrow;”
   “Nay, thus it shall goe,” sayesJamy.

Ah! but the truth, good people all,
   The truth is such a thing;
For it wou’d undoe both Church and State too,
   And cut the throat of our King.
Yet not the spirit, nor the new light,
   Can make this point so cleare,
But thou must bring out, thou deified rout,
   What thing this truth is, and where.
Speak Abraham, speak Kester, speak Judith, speak Hester,
   Speak tag and rag, short coat and long;
Truth’s the spell made us rebell,
   And murther and plunder, ding-dong.
“Sure I have the truth,” sayes Numph;
   “Nay, I ha’ the truth,” sayesClemme;
“Nay, I ha’ the truth,” sayes Reverend Ruth;
   “Nay, I ha’ the truth,” sayesNem.

Well, let the truth be where it will,
   We’re sure all else is ours;
Yet these divisions in our religions
   May chance abate our powers.
Then let’s agree on some one way,
   It skills not much how true;
Take Pryn and his clubs; or Say and his tubs, [33]
   Or any sect old or new;
p. 73Thedevil’s i’ th’ pack, if choyce you can lack,
   We’re fourscore religions strong;
Take your choyce, the major voyce
   Shall carry it, right or wrong.
“Then wee’le be of this,” sayes Megg;
   “Nay, wee’le be of that,” sayesTibb;
“Nay, wee’le be of all,” sayes pitifullPaul;
   “Nay, wee’le be of none,” sayesGibb.

Neighbours and friends, pray one word more,
   There’s something yet behinde;
And wise though you be, you doe not well see
   In which doore sits the winde.
As for religion to speake right,
   And in the Houses sence,
The matter’s all one to have any or none,
   If ’twere not for the pretence.
But herein doth lurke the key of the worke,
   Even to dispose of the crowne,
Dexteriously, and as may be,
   For your behoofe and your owne.
“Then let’s ha’ King Charles,” sayesGeorge;
   “Nay, let’s have his son,” sayesHugh;
“Nay, let’s have none,” sayes JabberingJone;
   “Nay, let’s be all kings,” sayesPrue.

Oh we shall have (if we go on
   In plunder, excise, and blood)
But few folke and poore to domineere ore,
   And that will not be so good;
Then let’s resolve on some new way,
   Some new and happy course,
p. 74Thecountry’s growne sad, the city horne-mad,
   And both the Houses are worse.
The synod hath writ, the generall hath spit,
   And both to like purposes too;
Religion, lawes, the truth, the cause,
   Are talk’t of, but nothing we doe.
“Come, come, shal’s ha’ peace?” sayesNell;
   “No, no, but we won’t,” sayesMadge;
“But I say we will,” sayes firy-faced Phill;
   “We will and we won’t,” sayesHodge.

Thus from the rout who can expect
   Ought but division?
Since unity doth with monarchy
   Begin and end in one.
If then when all is thought their owne,
   And lyes at their behest,
These popular pates reap nought but debates,
   From that many round-headed beast;
Come, Royalists, then, doe you play the men,
   And Cavaliers give the word;
Now let us see at what you would be,
   And whether you can accord.
“A health to King Charles!” sayes Tom;
   “Up with it,” sayes Ralph, like aman;
“God blesse him,” sayes Doll; “and raisehim,” sayes Moll;
   “And send him his owne!” sayes Nan.

Now for these prudent things that sit
   Without end and to none,
And their committees, that townes and cities
   Fill with confusion;
p. 75For thebold troopes of sectaries,
   The Scots and their partakers,
Our new British states, Col. Burges and his mates,
   The covenant and its makers;
For all these wee’le pray, and in such a way,
   As if it might granted be,
Jack and Gill, Mat and Will,
   And all the world would agree.
“A plague take them all!” sayes Besse;
   “And a pestilence too!” sayesMargery,
“The devill!” sayes Dick; “And his dam, [34] too!” sayes Nick;
   “Amen! and Amen!” say I.

It is desired that the knights and burgesses would takeespecial care to send down full numbers hereof to theirrespective counties and burroughs, for which they have servedapprenticeship, that all the people may rejoyce as one man fortheir freedom.

p. 76ACOFFIN FOR KING CHARLES,
A CROWN FOR CROMWELL,
AND A PIT FOR THE PEOPLE.

From a broadside in the King’s Pamphlets, vol. viii. inthe British Museum, with the direction, “You may sing thisto the tune of ‘Faine I would.’”  The tunesometimes called “Parthenia,” and “TheKing’s Complaint,” is to be found in MrChappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time.  The Kingwas beheaded in January, 1649.  This Ballad is dated the23rd of April in the same year.

CROMWELL ONTHE THRONE.

So, so, the deed isdone,
   The royal head is sever’d,
As I meant when I first begun,
   And strongly have endeavour’d.
Now Charles the First is tumbled down,
   The Second I do not fear;
I grasp the sceptre, wear the crown,
   Nor for Jehovah care.

KING CHARLESIN HIS COFFIN.

Think’st thou, base slave, though in mygrave
   Like other men I lie,
My sparkling fame and royal name
   Can (as thou wishest) die?
Know, caitif, in my son I live
   (The Black Prince call’d by some),
And he shall ample vengeance give
   To those that did my doom.

p. 77THE PEOPLE INTHE PIT.

Supprest, deprest, involved in woes,
   Great Charles, thy people be
Basely deceived with specious shows
   By those that murther’d thee.
We are enslaved to tyrants’ hests,
   Who have our freedom won:
Our fainting hope now only rests
   On thy succeeding son.

CROMWELL ONTHE THRONE.

Base vulgar! know, the more you stir,
   The more your woes increase,
Your rashness will your hopes deter,
   ’Tis we must give you peace.
Black Charles a traitor is proclaim’d
   Unto our dignity;
He dies (if e’er by us he’s gain’d)
   Without all remedy.

KING CHARLESIN HIS COFFIN.

Thrice perjured villain! didst not thou
   And thy degenerate train,
By mankind’s Saviour’s body vow
   To me thy sovereign,
To make me the most glorious king
   That e’er o’er England reign’d;
That me and mine in everything
   By you should be maintain’d?

p. 78THE PEOPLE INTHE PIT.

Sweet prince!  O let us pardon crave
   Of thy beloved shade;
’Tis we that brought thee to the grave,
   Thou wert by us betray’d.
We did believe ’twas reformation
   These monsters did desire;
Not knowing that thy degradation
   And death should be our hire.

CROMWELL ONTHE THRONE.

Ye sick-brain’d fools! whose wit doeslie
   In your small guts; could you
Imagine our conspiracy
   Did claim no other due,
But for to spend our dearest bloods
   To make rascallions flee?
No, we sought for your lives and goods,
   And for a monarchy.

KING CHARLESIN HIS COFFIN.

But there’s a Thunderer above,
   Who, though he winks awhile,
Is not with your black deeds in love,
   He hates your damned guile.
And though a time you perch upon
   The top of Fortune’s wheel,
You shortly unto Acharon
   (Drunk with your crimes) shall reel.

p. 79THE PEOPLE INTHE PIT.

Meanwhile (thou glory of the earth)
   We languishing do die:
Excisedoth give free-quarters birth,
   While soldiers multiply.
Our lives we forfeit every day,
   Our money cuts our throats;
The laws are taken clean away,
   Or shrunk to traitor’s votes.

CROMWELL ONTHE THRONE.

Like patient mules resolve to bear
   Whate’er we shall impose;
Your lives and goods you need not fear,
   We’ll prove your friends, not foes.
We (the electedones) must guide
   A thousand years this land;
You must be props unto our pride,
   And slaves to our command.

KING CHARLESIN HIS COFFIN.

But you may fail of your fair hopes,
   If fates propitious be;
And yield your loathed lives in ropes
   To vengeance and to me.
When as the Swedes and Irish join,
   The Cumbrian and the Scot
Do with the Danes and French combine,
   Then look unto your lot.

p. 80THE PEOPLE INTHE PIT.

Our wrongs have arm’d us with suchstrength,
   So sad is our condition,
That could we hope that now at length
   We might find intermission,
And had but half we had before,
   Ere these mechanics sway’d;
To our revenge, knee-deep in gore,
   We would not fear to wade.

CROMWELL ONTHE THRONE.

In vain (fond people) do you grutch
   And tacitly repine.
For why? my skill and strength are such
   Both poles of heaven are mine.
Your hands and purses both cohered
   To raise us to this height:
You must protect those you have rear’d,
   Or sink beneath their weight.

KING CHARLESIN HIS COFFIN.

Singing with angels near the throne
   Of the Almighty Three
I sit, and know perdition
   (Base Cromwell) waits on thee,
And on thy vile associates:
   Twelve months [35] shall fullconclude
Your power—thus speak the powerful fates,
   Then vadesyour interlude.

p. 81THE PEOPLE INTHE PIT.

Yea, powerful fates, haste, haste the time,
   The most auspicious day,
On which these monsters of our time
   To hell must post away.
Meanwhile, so pare their sharpen’d claws,
   And so impair their stings,
We may no more fight for the Cause
   Or other novelthings!

A SHORT LITANY FOR THE YEAR 1649.

By Samuel Butler.  (From hisPosthumous Works.)

From all themischiefs that I mention here,
Preserve us, Heaven, in this approaching year:
From civil wars and those uncivil things
That hate the race of all our queens and kings;
From those who for self-ends would all betray,
From saints that curse and flatter when they pray;
From those that hold it merit to rebel,
In treason, murthers, and in theft excel;
From those new teachers have destroy’d the old,
And those that turn the gospel into gold;
From a High-Court, and that rebellious crew
That did their hands in royal blood imbrue,—
Defend us, Heaven, and to the throne restore
The rightful heir, and we will ask no more.

p. 82THESALE OF REBELLION’S HOUSE-HOLD STUFF.

Printed in “Percy’s Reliques,” from an oldblack-letter copy in Mr Pepys’ collection, corrected by twoothers, one of which is preserved in a Choice Collection of 120Loyal Songs—1684

To the tune of “Old Sir Simonthe King.”

Rebellion hathbroken up house,
   And hath left me old lumber to sell;
Come hither and take your choice,
   I’ll promise to use you well.
Will you buy the old Speaker’s chair?
   Which was warm and easy to sit in,
And oft has been clean’d, I declare,
   Whereas it was fouler than fitting.
      Says old Simon the King,
      Says old Simon the King,
With his ale-dropt hose, and his Malmsey nose,
      Sing, hey ding, ding-a-ding,ding.

Will you buy any bacon flitches,
   The fattest that ever were spent?
They’re the sides of the old committees
   Fed up in the Long Parliament.
Here’s a pair of bellows and tongs,
   And for a small matter I’ll sell ye’um,
They are made of the presbyter’s lungs,
   To blow up the coals of rebellion.
      Says old Simon, etc.

p.83I had thought to have given them once
   To some blacksmith for his forge;
But now I have consider’d on’t,
   They are consecrate to the Church:
So I’ll give them unto some quire,
   They will make the big organs roar,
And the little pipes to squeak higher
   Than ever they could before.
      Says old Simon, etc.

Here’s a couple of stools for sale,
   One’s square, and t’other is round;
Betwixt them both, the tail
   Of the Rump fell down to the ground.
Will you buy the State’s council-table,
   Which was made of the good wain-Scot?
The frame was a tottering Babel,
   To uphold th’ Independent plot.
      Says old Simon, etc.

Here’s the besom of Reformation,
   Which should have made clean the floor;
But it swept the wealth out of the nation,
   And left us dirt good store.
Will you buy the state’s spinning-wheel,
   Which spun for the roper’s trade?
But better it had stood still,
   For now it has spun a fair thread.
      Says old Simon, etc.

Here’s a glyster-pipe well tried,
   Which was made of a butcher’s stump,
And has been safely applied
   To cure the colds of the Rump.
p.84Here’s a lump of pilgrim’s-salve,
   Which once was a justice of peace,
Who Noll and the devil did serve,
   But now it is come to this,
      Says old Simon, etc.

Here’s a roll of the State’stobacco,
   If any good fellow will take it;
No Virginia had e’er such a Smack-o,
   And I’ll tell you how they did make it:
’Tis th’ Engagement and Covenant cook’t
   Up with the abjuration oath,
And many of them that have took’t
   Complain it was foul in the mouth.
      Says old Simon, etc.

Yet the ashes may happily serve
   To cure the scab of the nation,
Whene’er’t has an itch to swerve
   To rebellion by innovation.
A lanthorn here is to be bought,
   The like was scarce ever gotten,
For many plots it has found out
   Before they ever were thought on.
      Says old Simon, etc.

Will you buy the Rump’s great saddle,
   With which it jockey’d the nation?
And here is the bit and the bridle,
   And curb of dissimulation;
And here’s the trunk-hose of the Rump,
   And their fair dissembling cloak;
p. 85And aPresbyterian jump,
   With an Independent smock.
      Says old Simon, etc.

Will you buy a conscience oft turn’d,
   Which served the High-Court of justice,
And stretch’d until England it mourn’d,
   But hell will buy that if the worst is.
Here’s Joan Cromwell’s kitchen-stuff tub,
   Wherein is the fat of the Rumpers,
With which old Noll’s horns she did rub,
   When he was got drunk with false bumbers.
      Says old Simon, etc.

Here’s the purse of the public faith;
   Here’s the model of the Sequestration,
When the old wives upon their good troth
   Lent thimbles to ruin the nation.
Here’s Dick Cromwell’s Protectorship,
   And here are Lambert’s commissions,
And here is Hugh Peters his scrip,
   Cramm’d with tumultuous petitions.
      Says old Simon, etc.

And here are old Noll’s brewingvessels,
   And here are his dray and his flings;
Here are Hewson’s [36] awl and hisbristles,
   With diverse other odd things:
And what is the price doth belong
   To all these matters before ye?
I’ll sell them all for an old song,
   And so I do end my story.
      Says old Simon, etc.

p. 86THECAVALIER’S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS, BEING CALLED TO THEWARRS.

The following song was extracted from the MS. Diary of theRev. John Adamson (afterwards Rector of Burton Coggles,Lincolnshire), commencing in 1658; by a correspondent of Notesand Queries, First Series, Jan. 18, 1851.

Fair Fidelia, temptno more,
I may no more thy deity adore
Nor offer to thy shrine,
I serve one more divine
And farr more great than you:
      I must goe,
      Lest the foe
Gaine the cause and win the day.
Let’s march bravely on,
Charge ym in the van,
Our cause God’s is,
Though their odds is
      Ten to one.

Tempt no more, I may not yeeld
      Altho’ thine eyes
      A kingdome may surprize:
      Leave off thy wanton toiles,
      The high-borne Prince of Wales
Is mounted in the field,
      Where the royall gentry flocke.
         Though alone
         Nobly borne
      Of a ne’re decayingstocke.
   p.87Cavaliers, be bold,
   Bravely keep your hold,
   He that loyters
   Is by traytors
           Bought and sold.

One kisse more, and then farewell;
         Oh no, nomore,
         I prithee giveme o’er,—
   Why cloudest thou thy beames?
   I see by these extreames
A woman’s heaven or hell.
   Pray the King may have his owne,
         And the Queen
         May be seen
   With her babes on England’s throne.
   Rally up your men,
   One shall vanquish ten,
   Victory, we
   Come to try thee
           Once agen.

THE LAST NEWS FROM FRANCE.

[From vol. iii. of the RoxburghBallads, in the British Museum.]

The last news from France, being a true relation of the escapeof the King of Scots from Worcester to London and from London toFrance,—who was conveyed away by a young gentleman inwoman’s apparel; the King of Scots attending on thissupposed gentlewoman in manner of a serving-man.

p. 88Tune, “When the King enjoys hisown again.”

All you that dodesire to know
   What is become of the King o’ Scots,
I unto you will truly show
   After the fight of Northern Rats.
         ’Twas Idid convey
         His Highnessaway,
And from all dangers set him free;—
         In womanattire,
         As reason didrequire,
And the King himself did wait on me.

He of me a service did crave,
   And oftentimes to me stood bare;
In woman’s apparel he was most brave,
   And on his chin he had no hare;
         Wherever Icame
         My speeches didframe
So well my waiting-man to free,
         The like wasnever known
         I think by any Ione,
For the King himself did wait on me.

My waiting-man a jewel had,
   Which I for want of money sold;
Because my fortune was so bad
   We turn’d our jewel into gold.
         A good shiftindeed,
         In time of ourneed,
Then glad was I and glad was he;
         Our cause it didadvance
         Until we came toFrance,
And the King himself did wait on me.

p.89We walked through Westminster Hall,
   Where law and justice doth take place
Our grief was great, our comfort small,
   We lookt grim death all in the face.
         I lookt roundabout,
         And made noother doubt
But I and my man should taken be;
         The peoplelittle knew,
         As I may tell toyou,
The King himself did wait on me.

From thence we went to the fatal place
   Where his father lost his life;
And then my man did weep apace,
   And sorrow with him then was rife.
         I bid himpeace,
         Let sorrowcease,
For fear that we should taken be.
         The gallants inWhitehall
         Did little knowat all
That the King himself did wait on me.

The King he was my serving-man,
   And thus the plot we did contrive:
I went by the name of Mistress Anne
   When we took water at Queenhythe.
         A boat there wetook,
         And Londonforsook,
And now in France arrived are we.
         We got away bystealth,
         And the King isin good health,
And he shall no longer wait on me.

The King of Denmark’s dead, they say,
   Then Charles is like to rule the land;
p. 90In Francehe will no longer stay,
   As I do rightly understand.
         That land is hisdue,
         If they be buttrue,
And he with them do well agree:
         I heard a birdsing
         If he once betheir king,
My man will then my master be.

Now Heaven grant them better success
   With their young king than England had;
Free from war and from distress,
   Their fortune may not be so bad;
         Since the casethus stands,
         Let neighbouringlands
Lay down their arms and at quiet be;
         But as for mypart,
         I am glad withall my heart
That my King must now my master be.

And thus I have declared to you
   By what means we escaped away;
Now we bid our cares adieu,
   Though the King did lose the day.
         To him I wastrue,
         And that he wellknew;
’Tis God that must his comfort be,
         Else all ourpolicy
         Had been butfoolery,
For the King no longer waits on me.

p. 91SONGTO THE FIGURE TWO.

From vol. ii. of the RoxburghBallads, in the British Museum.

A merry new song wherein you may view
The drinking healths of a joviall crew,
To t’ happie return of the figure of TWO.

The figure of Two is a palpable allusion to CharlesII.  Tune, “Ragged, and torn, and true.”

I have been atraveller long,
   And seen the conditions of all;
I see how each other they wrong,
   And the weakest still goes to the wall.
And here I’ll begin to relate
   The crosse condition of those
That hinder our happy fate,
   And now are turned our foes.
Here’s a health to the figure of Two,
   To the rest of the issue renown’d;
We’ll bid all our sorrows adieu,
   When the figure of Twoshall be crown’d.

I crossed the ocean of late,
   And there I did meet with a crosse,
But having a pretty estate,
   I never lamented my losse:
I never lamented my harmes,
   And yet I was wondrous sad;
I found all the land up in arms,
   And I thought all the folke had bin mad.
      Here’s a health, etc.

Kind countrymen, how fell ye out?
   I left you all quiet and still;
But things are now brought so about,
   You nothing but plunder and kill;
p. 92Some doeseem seemingly holy,
   And would be reformers of men,
But wisdom doth laugh at their folly,
   And sayes they’ll be children agen,
      Here’s a health, etc.

But woe to the figure of One!
   King Solomon telleth us so;
But he shall be wronged by none
   That hath two strings to his bow.
How I love this figure of Two
   Among all the figures that be,
I’ll make it appear unto you
   If that you will listen to me.
      Here’s a health, etc.

Observe when the weather is cold
   I wear a cap on my head,
But wish, if I may be so bold,
   The figure of Two in mybed.
Two in my bed I do crave,
   And that is myself and my mate;
But pray do not think I would have
   Two large great hornes onmy pate.
      Here’s a health, etc.

Since Nature hath given two hands,
   But when they are foul I might scorn them;
Yet people thus much understands,
   Two fine white gloveswill adorn them.
Two feet for to bear up my body,
   No more had the knight of the sun;
But people would think me a noddy
   If two shoes I would not put on.
      Here’s a health, etc.

p.93The figure of Two is athing
   That we cannot well live without,
No more than without a good king,
   Though we be never so stout;
And thus we may well understand,
   If ever our troubles should cease,
Two needful things in a land
   Is a king and a justice of peace.
      Here’s a health, etc.

And now for to draw to an end,
   I wish a good happy conclusion,
The State would so much stand our friend,
   To end this unhappy confusion;
The which might be done in a trice,
   In giving of Cæsar his due;
If we were so honest and wise
   As to think of the figure of Two.
      Here’s a health, etc.

If any desire to know,
   This riddle I now will unfold,
It is a man wrapped in woe,
   Whose father is wrapped in mould:
So now to conclude my song,
   I mention him so much the rather
Because he hath suffer’d some wrong,
   And bears up the name of his father.
      Here’s a health, etc.

p. 94THEREFORMATION.

Written in the year 1652, by SamuelButler.  From his Posthumous Works.

Tell me not of Lordsand laws,
   Rules or reformation;
All that’s done not worth two straws
   To the welfare of the nation;
If men in power do rant it still,
And give no reason but their will
   For all their domination;
Or if they do an act that’s just,
’Tis not because they would, but must,
To gratify some party’s lust.

All our expense of blood and purse
   Has yet produced no profit;
Men are still as bad or worse,
   And will whate’er comes of it.
We’ve shuffled out and shuffled in
The person, but retain the sin,
   To make our game the surer;
Yet spight of all our pains and skill,
The knaves all in the pack are still,
And ever were, and ever will,
   Though something now demurer.

And it can never be so,
   Since knaves are still in fashion;
Men of souls so base and low,
   Meer bigots of the nation;
p. 95Whosedesigns are power and wealth,
At which by rapine, power, and stealth,
   Audaciously they vent’re ye;
They lay their consciences aside,
And turn with every wind and tide,
Puff’d on by ignorance and pride,
   And all to look like gentry.

Crimes are not punish’d ’causethey’re crimes,
   But cause they’re low and little:
Mean men for mean faults in these times
   Make satisfaction to tittle;
While those in office and in power
Boldly the underlings devour,
   Our cobweb laws can’t hold ’em;
They sell for many a thousand crown
Things which were never yet their own,
And this is law and custom grown,
   ’Cause those do judge who sold ’em.

Brothers still with brothers brawl,
   And for trifles sue ’em;
For two pronouns that spoil all
   Contentious meumand tuum.
The wary lawyer buys and builds
While the client sells his fields
   To sacrifice his fury;
And when he thinks t’ obtain his right,
He’s baffled off or beaten quite
By the judge’s will, or lawyer’s slight,
   Or ignorance of the jury.

See the tradesman how he thrives
   With perpetual trouble:
How he cheats and how he strives,
   His estate t’ enlarge and double;
p. 96Extort,oppress, grind and encroach,
To be a squire and keep a coach,
   And to be one o’ th’ quorum;
Who may with’s brother-worships sit,
And judge without law, fear, or wit,
Poor petty thieves, that nothing get,
   And yet are brought before ’em.

And his way to get all this
   Is mere dissimulation;
No factious lecture does he miss,
   And ’scape no schism that’s infashion:
But with short hair and shining shoes,
He with two pens and note-book goes,
   And winks and writes at random;
Thence with short meal and tedious grace,
In a loud tone and public place,
Sings wisdom’s hymns, that trot and pace
   As if Goliah scann’d ’em.

But when Death begins his threats,
   And his conscience struggles
To call to mind his former cheats,
   Then at Heaven he turns and juggles:
And out of all’s ill-gotten store
He gives a dribbling to the poor;
   An hospital or school-house;
And the suborn’d priest for his hire
Quite frees him from th’ infernal fire,
And places him in th’ angel’s quire:
   Thus these Jack-puddings fool us!

All he gets by’s pains i’ th’close,
   Is, that he dy’d worth so much;
Which he on’s doubtful seed bestows,
   That neither care nor know much:
p. 97Thenfortune’s favourite, his heir,
Bred base and ignorant and bare,
   Is blown up like a bubble:
Who wondering at’s own sudden rise,
By pride, simplicity, and vice,
Falls to his sports, drink, drabs, and dice,
   And make all fly like stubble.

And the Church, the other twin,
   Whose mad zeal enraged us,
Is not purified a pin
   By all those broils in which th’ engagedus:
We our wives turn’d out of doors,
And took in concubines and whores,
   To make an alteration;
Our pulpitors are proud and bold,
They their own wills and factions hold,
And sell salvation still for gold,
   And here’s our reformation!

’Tis a madness then to make
   Thriving our employment,
And lucre love for lucre’s sake,
   Since we’ve possession, not enjoyment:
Let the times run on their course,
For oppression makes them worse,
   We ne’er shall better find ’em;
Let grandees wealth and power engross,
And honour, too, while we sit close,
And laugh and take our plenteous dose
   Of sack, and never mind ’em.

p. 98UPONTHE GENERAL PARDON PASSED BY THE RUMP.

From a broadside in the King’s Pamphlets, BritishMuseum.  After Cromwell’s victory at Worcester, heprevailed on the Parliament to pass a general, or quasi-general,amnesty for all political offences committed prior to thattime.

Rejoice, rejoice, yeCavaliers,
For here comes that dispels your fears;
A general pardon is now past,
What was long look’d for, comes at last.

It pardons all that are undone;
The Pope ne’er granted such a one:
So long, so large, so full, so free,
Oh what a glorious State have we!

Yet do not joy too much, my friends,
First see how well this pardon ends;
For though it hath a glorious face,
I fear there’s in’t but little grace.

’Tis said the mountains once broughtforth,—
And what brought they? a mouse, in troth;
Our States have done the like, I doubt,
In this their pardon now set out.

We’ll look it o’er, then, if youplease,
And see wherein it brings us ease:
And first, it pardons words, I find,
Against our State—words are but wind.

Hath any pray’d for th’ King oflate,
And wish’d confusion to our State?
And call’d them rebels?  He may come in
And plead this pardon for that sin.

p.99Has any call’d King Charles that’s dead
A martyr—he that lost his head?
And villains those that did the fact?
That man is pardon’d by this Act.

Hath any said our Parliament
I such a one as God ne’er sent?
Or hath he writ, and put in print,
That he believes the devil’s in’t?

Or hath he said there never were
Such tyrants anywhere as here?
Though this offence of his be high,
He’s pardon’d for his blasphemy.

You see how large this pardon is,
It pardons all our Mercuries, [37]
And poets too, for you know they
Are poor, and have not aught to pay.

For where there’s money to be got,
I find this pardon pardons not;
Malignants that were rich before,
Shall not be pardon’d till they’re poor.

Hath any one been true to th’ Crown,
And for that paid his money down,
By this new Act he shall be free,
And pardon’d for his loyalty.

Who have their lands confiscate quite,
For not compounding when they might;
If that they know not how to dig,
This pardon gives them leave to beg.

p.100Before this Act came out in print,
We thought there had been comfort in’t;
We drank some healths to the higher powers,
But now we’ve seen’t they’d need drinkours.

For by this Act it is thought fit
That no man shall have benefit,
Unless he first engage to be
A rebel to eternity.

Thus, in this pardon it is clear
That nothing’s here and nothing’s there:
I think our States do mean to choke us
With this new Act of hocus pocus.

Well, since this Act’s not worth apin,
We’ll pray our States to call it in,
For most men think it ought to be
Burnt by the hand of Gregory.

Then, to conclude, here’s little joy
For those that pray Vive le Roy!
But since they’ll not forget our crimes,
We’ll keep our mirth till better times.

AN OLD SONG ON OLIVER’S COURT.

Written in the year 1654, by SamuelButler.

He that would a newcourtier be
And of the late coyn’d gentry;
A brother of the prick-eared crew,
Half a presbyter, half a Jew,
p. 101When heis dipp’d in Jordan’s flood,
And wash’d his hands in royal blood,
   Let him to our court repair,
   Where all trades and religions are.

If he can devoutly pray,
Feast upon a fasting day,
Be longer blessing a warm bit
Than the cook was dressing it;
With covenants and oaths dispense,
Betray his lord for forty pence,
   Let him, etc.

If he be one of the eating tribe,
Both a Pharisee and a Scribe,
And hath learn’d the snivelling tone
Of a flux’d devotion;
Cursing from his sweating tub
The Cavaliers to Beelzebub,
   Let him, etc.

Who sickler than the city ruff,
Can change his brewer’s coat to buff,
His dray-cart to a coach, the beast
Into Flanders mares at least;
Nay, hath the art to murder kings,
Like David, only with his slings,
   Let him, etc.

If he can invert the word,
Turning his ploughshare to a sword,
His cassock to a coat of mail;
’Gainst bishops and the clergy rail;
p. 102ConvertPaul’s church into the mews;
Make a new colonel of old shoes,
   Let him, etc.

Who hath commission to convey
Both sexes to Jamaica,
There to beget new babes of grace
On wenches hotter than the place,
Who carry in their tails a fire
Will rather scorch than quench desire,
   Let him, etc.

THE PARLIAMENT ROUTED,
OR
HERE’S A HOUSE TO BE LET.

I hope that England, after many jarres,
Shall be at peace, and give no way to warres:
O Lord, protect the generall, that he
May be the agent of our unitie.

Written upon the dissolution of the Long Parliament byCromwell, on the 20th April, 1653, and extracted from theKing’s Pamphlets, British Museum.  June 3rd, 1653.

To the tune of “Lucina, or,Merrily and Cherrily.”

Cheare up, kindcountrymen, be not dismay’d,
   True news I can tell ye concerning the nation;
Hot spirits are quench’d, the tempest is layd,
   (And now we may hope for a good reformation).
p. 103TheParliament bold and the counsell of state
   Doe wish them beyond sea, or else at Virginie;
For now all their orders are quite out of date,
   Twelve Parliament men shall be sold for peny.

Full twelve years and more these rooks theyhave sat,
   To gull and to cozen all true-hearted people;
Our gold and our silver has made them so fat,
   That they lookt more big and mighty thanPaul’s steeple.
The freedome of subject they much did pretend,
   But since they bore sway we never had any;
For every member promoted self-end,
   Twelve Parliament men are now sold for one peny.

Their acts and their orders which they havecontrived,
   Was still in conclusion to multiply riches:
The Common-wealth sweetly by these men have thrived,
   As Lancashire did with the juncto of witches. [38]
p. 104Oh! ourfreedome was chain’d to the Egyptian yoak,
   As it hath been felt and endured by many,
Still making religion their author and cloak,
   Twelve Parliament men shall be sold for a peny.

Both citie and countrey are almost undone
   By these caterpillars, which swarm’d in thenation;
Their imps and their goblins did up and downe run,
   Excise-men, I meane, all knaves of a fashion:
For all the great treasure that dayly came in,
   The souldier wants pay, ’tis well knowne by amany;
To cheat and to cozen they held it no sinne,
   Twelve Parliament men shall be sold for a peny.

The land and the livings which these men havehad,
   ’Twould make one admire what use they’vemade of it,
With plate and with jewels they have bin well clad,
   The souldier fared hard whilst they got theprofit.
p. 105Our goldand our silver to Holland they sent,
   But being found out, this is knowne by a many,
That no one would owne it for feare of a shent,
   Twelve Parliament men are sold for a peny.

’Tis judged by most people that they werethe cause
   Of England and Holland, their warring together, [39]
Both friends and dear lovers to break civill lawes,
   And in cruell manner to kill one another.
What cared they how many did lose their dear lives,
   So they by the bargain did get people’smoney,
Sitting secure like bees in their hives?
   But twelve Parliament men are now sold for apeny.

THE SECOND PART

To the same tune.

They voted, unvoted,as fancy did guide,
   To passe away time, but increasing their treasure
(When Jack is on cock-horse hee’l galloping ride,
   But falling at last, hee’l repent it atleisure).
The widow, the fatherlesse, gentry and poore,
   The tradesman and citizen, with a great many,
Have suffer’d full dearly to heap up their store;
   But twelve Parliament men shall be sold for apeny.

p.106These burdens and grievances England hath felt,
   So long and so heavy, our hearts are e’enbroken,
Our plate, gold and silver, to themselves they’ve dealt
   (All this is too true, in good time be itspoken).
For a man to rise high and at last to fall low,
   It is a discredit: this lot fals to many,
But ’tis no great matter these men to serve so,
   Twelve Parliament men now are sold for a peny.

The generall [40] perceiving theirlustfull desire
   To covet more treasure, being puft with ambition,
By their acts and their orders to set all on fire,
   Pretending religion to rout superstition:
He bravely commanded the souldiers to goe
   In the Parliament-house, in defiance of any;
To which they consented, and now you doe know
   That twelve Parliament men may be sold for apeny.

The souldiers undaunted laid hold on themace,
   And out of the chaire they removed the speaker:
The great ones was then in a pittifull case,
   And Tavee cryd out, All her cold must forsake her.[41]
Thus they were routed, pluckt out by the eares,
   The House was soone empty and rid of a many
Usurpers, that sate there this thirteen long yeares;
   Twelve Parliament men may be sold for a peny.

p.107To the Tower of London away they were sent,
   As they have sent others by them captivated;
Oh what will become of this old Parliament
   And all their compeers, that were royally stated.
What they have deserved I wish they may have,
   And ’tis the desire I know of a many;
For us to have freedome, oh that will be brave!
   But twelve Parliament men may be sold for apeny.

Let’s pray for the generall and all hisbrave traine,
   He may be an instrument for England’sblessing,
Appointed in heaven to free us againe,—
   For this is the way of our burdens redressing:
For England to be in glory once more,
   It would satisfy, I know, a great many;
But ending I say, as I said before,
   Twelve Parliament men now are sold for a peny.

A CHRISTMAS SONG WHEN THE RUMP WAS FIRST DISSOLVED.

From the King’s Pamphlets, British Museum.  TheRump Parliament, in an excess of Puritanic acerbity, hadabolished the observance of Christmas, and forbidden the eatingof puddings and pies, as savouring of Popery.

Tune—“I tell thee,Dick.”

This Christmas time’tis fit that we
Should feast, and sing, and merry be.
      It is a time of mirth;
p. 108Fornever since the world began
More joyful news was brought to man
      Than at our Saviour’sbirth.

But such have been these times of late,
That holidays are out of date,
      And holiness to boot;
For they that do despise and scorn
To keep the day that Christ was born,
      Want holiness no doubt.

That Parliament that took away
The observation of that day,
      We know it was not free;
For if it had, such acts as those
Had ne’er been seen in verse or prose,
      You may conclude with me.

’Twas that Assembly did maintain
’Twas law to kill their sovereign,
      Who by that law must die;
Though God’s anointed ones are such,
Which subjects should not dare to touch,
      Much less to crucify.

’Twas that which turn’d our bishopsout
Of house and home, both branch and root,
      And gave no reason why;
And all our clergy did expel,
That would not do like that rebel—
      This no man can deny.

It was that Parliament that took
Out of our churches our Service book,
      A book without compare;
p. 109And madeGod’s house (to all our griefs),
That house of prayer, a den of thiefs’
      Both here and everywhere.

They had no head for many years,
Nor heart (I mean the House of Peers),
      And yet it did not die;
Of these long since it was bereft,
And nothing but the tail was left,
      You know as well as I.

And in this tail was a tongue,
Lenthal [42] I mean, whose fame hath rung
      In country and in city;
Not for his worth or eloquence,
But for a rebel to his prince,
      And neither wise nor witty.

This Speaker’s words must needs bewind,
Since they proceeded from behind;
      Besides, you way remember,
From thence no act could be discreet,
Nor could the sense o’ the House be sweet
      Where Atkins was a member.

This tale’s now done, the Speaker’sdumb,
Thanks to the trumpet and the drum;
      And now I hope to see
A Parliament that will restore
All things that were undone before,
      That we may Christians be.

p. 110AFREE PARLIAMENT LITANY.

From the King’s Pamphlets,British Museum.—(A. D. 1655.)
To the tune of “An Old Courtier of theQueen’s.”

Moreballads!—here’s a spick and span new supplication,
By order of a Committee for the Reformation,
To be read in all churches and chapels of this nation,
Upon pain of slavery and sequestration.
   From fools and knaves in our Parliament free,
                 Libera nos, Domine.

From those that ha’ more religion andless conscience than their fellows;
From a representative that’s fearful and zealous;
From a starting jadish people that is troubled with theyellows,
And a priest that blows the coal (a crack in his bellows);
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From shepherds that lead their flocks into thebriars,
And then fleece ’em; from vow-breakers and king-tryers;
Of Church and Crown lands, from both sellers and buyers;
From the children of him that is the father of liars;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From the doctrine and discipline of now andanon,
Preserve us and our wives from John T. and Saint John,
p. 111Likemaster like man, every way but one,—
The master has a large conscience, and the man has none;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From major-generals, army officers, and thatphanatique crew;
From the parboil’d pimp Scot, and from Good-face theJew;
From old Mildmay, that in Cheapside mistook his queu,
And from him that won’t pledge—Give the devil hisdue;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From long-winded speeches, and not a wiseword;
From a gospel ministry settled by the sword;
From the act of a Rump, that stinks when ’tisstirr’d;
From a knight of the post, and a cobbling lord;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From all the rich people that ha’ made uspoor;
From a Speaker that creeps to the House by a back-door;
From that badger, Robinson (that limps and bites sore);
And that dog in a doublet, Arthur—that will do so nomore;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From a certain sly knave with a beastlyname;
From a Parliament that’s wild, and a people that’stame;
p. 112FromSkippon, Titchbourne, Ireton,—and another of the same;
From a dung-hill cock, and a hen of the game;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From all those that sat in the High Court ofJustice;
From usurpers that style themselves the people’strustees;
From an old Rump, in which neither profit nor gust is,
And from the recovery of that which now in the dust is;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From a backsliding saint that pretend t’acquiesce;
From crossing of proverbs (let ’um hang that confess);
From a sniveling cause, in a pontificall dress,
And two lawyers, with the devil and his dam in a mess;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From those that trouble the waters to mend thefishing,
And fight the Lord’s battles under the devil’scommission,
Such as eat up the nation, whilst the government’sa-dishing;
And from a people when it should be doing, stands wishing;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

p.113From an everlasting mock-parliament—and fromnone;
From Strafford’s old friends—Harry, Jack, andJohn;
From our solicitor’s wolf-law deliver our King’sson;
And from the resurrection of the Rump that is dead and gone;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From foreign invasion and commotions athome;
From our present distraction, and from work to come;
From the same hand again Smectymnus, or the bum,
And from taking Geneva in our way to Rome;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From a hundred thousand pound tax to keepknaves by the score
(But it is well given to these that turn’d those out ofdoor);
From undoing ourselves in plaistering old sores;
He that set them a-work, let him pay their scores;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From saints and tender consciences in buff;
From Mounson in a foam, and Haslerig in a huff;
From both men and women that think they never have enough;
And from a fool’s head that looks through a chain and aduff;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

p.114From those that would divide the gen’ral and thecity;
From Harry Martin’s girl, that was neither sweet norpretty;
From a faction that has neither brain nor pity:
From the mercy of a phanatique committee;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

Preserve us, good Heaven, from entrustingthose
That ha’ much to get and little to lose;
That murther’d the father, and the son would depose
(Sure they can’t be our friends that are theircountry’s foes);
           From fools and knaves, etc.

From Bradshaw’s presumption, and fromHoyle’s despairs;
From rotten members, blind guides, preaching aldermen, and falsemay’rs;
From long knives, long ears, long parliaments, and longpray’rs;
In mercy to this nation—Deliver us and our heirs;
           From fools and knaves, etc.

THE MOCK SONG.

By T. J.  With a reply byAlex. Brome.—(A.D. 1657.)

Hold, hold, quaff nomore,
   But restore
If you can what you’ve lost by your drinking:
      p. 115Three kingdoms and crowns,
      With their cities and towns,
   While the King and his progeny’s sinking.
The studs in your cheeks have obscured his star, boys,
Your drinking miscarriages in the late war, boys,
Have brought his prerogative now to the war, boys.

   Throw, throw down theglass!
      He’s an ass
   That extracts all his worth from Canary;
      That valour will shrink
      That’s only good indrink;
   ’Twas the cup made the camp to miscarry.
You thought in the world there’s no power could tame ye,
You tippled and whored till the foe overcame ye;
God’s nigs and Ne’er stir, sirs, has vanquish’dGod damn me.

   Fly, fly from the coast,
      Or you’re lost,
   And the water will run where the drink went;
      From hence you must slink,
      If you have no chink,
   ’Tis the course of the royal delinquent;
You love to see beer-bowls turn’d over the thumb well,
You like three fair gamesters, four dice, and a drum well,
But you’d as lief see the devil as Fairfax or Cromwell.

   Drink, drink not theround,
      You’ll be drown’d
   In the source of your sack and your sonnets;
      p. 116Try once more your fate
      For the King against the State,
   And go barter your beavers for bonnets.
You see how they’re charm’d by the King’senchanters,
And therefore pack hence to Virginia for planters,
For an act and two red-coats will rout all the ranters.

THE ANSWER.

By Alex. Brome.

   Stay, stay, prate no more,
   Lest thy brain, like thy purse, run the score,
         Though thoustrain’st it;
   Those are traitors in grain
   That of sack do complain,
         And rail by itsown power against it.
Those kingdoms and crowns which your poetry pities,
Are fall’n by the pride and hypocrisy of cities,
And not by those brains that love sack and good ditties;
The K. and his progeny had kept them from sinking,
Had they had no worse foes than the lads that love drinking,
We that tipple ha’ no leisure for plotting or thinking.

   He is an ass
   That doth throw down himself with a glass
         p. 117OfCanary;
   He that’s quiet will think
   Much the better of drink,
         ’Cause thecups made the camp to miscarry.
You whore while we tipple, and there, my friend, you lie,
Your sports did determine in the month of July;
There’s less fraud in plain damme than your sly by mytruly;
’Tis sack makes our bloods both purer and warmer,
We need not your priest or the feminine charmer,
For a bowl of Canary’s a whole suit of armour.

   Hold, hold, not so fast,
   Tipple on, for there is no such haste
         To be going;
   We drowning may fear,
   But your end will be there
         Where there isneither swimming nor rowing.
We were gamesters alike, and our stakes were both down, boys,
But Fortune did favour you, being her own, boys;
And who would not venture a cast for a crown, boys?
Since we wear the right colours, he the worst of our foes is
That goes to traduce, and fondly supposes
That Cromwell’s an enemy to sack and red noses.

   Then, then, quaff itround,
   No deceit in a brimmer is found;
         Here’s noswearing:
   Beer and ale makes you prate
   Of the Church and the State,
         Wanting otherdiscourse worth the hearing.
p. 118Thisstrumpet your muse is, to ballad or flatter,
Or rail, and your betters with froth to bespatter,
And your talk’s all dismals and gunpowder matter;
But we, while old sack does divinely inspire us,
Are active to do what our rulers require us,
And attempt such exploits as the world shall admire us.

AS CLOSE AS A GOOSE.

By Samuel Butler.—(A.D. 1657.)  This balladridicules the tender of the Crown of England to Oliver Cromwellby Alderman Pack, M.P. for London.

As close as agoose
Sat the Parliament-house,
   To hatch the royal gull;
After much fiddle-faddle
The egg proved addle,
   And Oliver came forth Noll.

Yet old Queen Madge, [43]
Though things do not fadge,
   Will serve to be queen of a May-pole;
Two Princes of Wales, [44]
For Whitsun-ales,
   And her grace, Maid Marion Claypole. [45]

p.119In a robe of cow hide
Sat yeasty Pride, [46]
   With his dagger and his sling;
He was the pertinenst peer
Of all that were there,
   T’ advise with such a king.

A great philosopher
Had a goose for his lover
   That follow’d him day and night:
If it be a true story,
Or but an allegory,
   It may be both ways right.

Strickland [47] and his son,
Both cast into one,
   Were meant for a single baron;
But when they came to sit,
There was not wit
   Enough in them both to serve for one.

Wherefore ’twas thought good
To add Honeywood,
   But when they came to trial
Each one proved a fool,
Yet three knaves in the whole,
   And that made up a pair-royal.

p. 120THEPRISONERS.

Written when O. C. attempted to beKing.  By Alex. Brome.

Come, a brimmer (mybullies), drink whole ones or nothing,
   Now healths have been voted down;
’Tis sack that can heat us, we care not for clothing,
   A gallon’s as warm as a gown;
         ’Cause theParliament sees
         Nor the formernor these
Could engage us to drink their health,
         They may votethat we shall
         Drink no healthsat all,
Not to King nor to Commonwealth,
So that now we must venture to drink ’em by stealth.

But we’ve found out a way that’sbeyond all their thinking;
   To keep up good fellowship still,
We’ll drink their destruction that would destroydrinking,—
   Let ’um vote thata health if theywill.
         Those men thatdid fight,
         And did pray dayand night
For the Parliament and its attendant,
         Did make allthat bustle
         The King out tojustle,
And bring in the Independent,
But now we all clearly see what was the end on’t.

p.121Now their idols thrown down with their sooter-kinalso,
   About which they did make such a pother;
And tho’ their contrivance did make one thing to fallso,
   We have drank ourselves into another;
         And now (mylads) we
         May stillCavaliers be,
In spite of the Committee’s frown;
         We will drinkand we’ll sing,
         And each healthto our King
Shall be loyally drunk in the ‘Crown,’
Which shall be the standard in every town.

Their politick would-be’s do but showthemselves asses
   That other men’s calling invade;
We only converse with pots and with glasses,
   Let the rulers alone with their trade;
         The Lyon of theTower
         There estatesdoes devour,
Without showing law for’t or reason;
         Into prison weget
         For the crimecalled debt,
Where our bodies and brains we do season,
And that is ne’er taken for murder or treason.

Where our ditties still be, Give’s moredrink, give’s more drink, boys.
   Let those that are frugal take care;
Our gaolers and we will live by our chink, boys,
   While our creditors live by the air;
         Here we live atour ease,
         And get craftand grease,
p.122’Till we’ve merrily spent all our store;
         Then, as drinkbrought us in,
         ’Twillredeem us agen;
We got in because we were poor,
And swear ourselves out on the very same score.

THE PROTECTING BREWER.

This was apparently written as a parody on the Brewer, inPills to purge Melancholy, 1682.  The original was toocomplimentary to Oliver Cromwell, asserted by the Royalists tohave been a brewer in early life, to suit the taste of theCavaliers, and hence the alteration made in it.  Suchcompliments as the following must have proceeded from a writer ofthe opposite party.

Some Christian kings began to quake,
And said With the brewer no quarrel we’ll make,
We’ll let him alone; as he brews let him bake;
           Which nobody can deny.

He had a strong and a very stout heart,
And thought to be made an Emperor for’t,
           * * * * *
           Which nobody can deny.

A Brewer may be aburgess grave,
And carry the matter so fine and so brave,
That he the better may play the knave,
           Which nobody can deny.

A brewer may put on a Nabal face,
And march to the wars with such a grace
That he may get a captain’s place;
           Which nobody, etc.

A brewer may speak so wondrous well
That he may rise (strange things to tell),
And so be made a colonel;
           Which nobody, etc.

p.123A brewer may make his foes to flee,
And rise his fortunes, so that he
Lieutenant-general may be;
           Which nobody, etc.

A brewer may be all in all,
And raise his powers, both great and small,
That he may be a lord general;
           Which nobody, etc.

A brewer may be like a fox in a cub,
And teach a lecture out of a tub,
And give the wicked world a rub;
           Which nobody, etc.

A brewer, by’s excise and rate,
Will promise his army he knows what,
And set upon the college-gate;
           Which nobody, etc.

Methinks I hear one say to me,
Pray why may not a brewer be
Lord Chancellor o’ the University?
           Which nobody, etc.

A brewer may be as bold as Hector,
When as he had drank his cup o’ Nectar,
And a brewer may be a Lord Protector;
           Which nobody, etc.

Now here remains the strangest thing,
How this brewer about his liquor did bring
To be an emperor or a king;
           Which nobody, etc.

p.124A brewer may do what he will,
And rob the Church and State, to sell
His soul unto the devil in hell;
           Which nobody, etc.

THE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE DEVIL FOR STEALING AWAY PRESIDENTBRADSHAW.

John Bradshaw, who had presided over the court of justicewhich condemned Charles I. to the scaffold, and who by hisextreme republican principles had rendered himself obnoxious toCromwell, began again to be distinguished in public affairs afterthe Protector’s death, and was elected President of theCouncil of State.  He did not live long to enjoy thishonour, but died, according to some authorities, on the 31stOctober, 1659.  Chalmers places his death on the 22nd ofNovember in that year.

To the tune of “Well-a-day,well-a-day.”

If you’ll hearnews that’s ill,
   Gentlemen, gentlemen,
Against the devil, I will
   Be the relator;
Arraigned he must be,
For that feloniously,
’Thout due solemnity,
   He took a traitor.

John Bradshaw was his name,
   How it stinks! how it stinks!
Who’ll make with blacker fame
   Pilate unknown.
p. 125Thisworse than worse of things
Condemn’d the best of kings,
And, what more guilt yet brings,
   Knew ’twas his own.

Virtue in Charles did seem
   Eagerly, eagerly,
And villainy in him
   To vye for glory.
Majesty so compleat
And impudence so great
Till that time never met:—
   But to my story.

Accusers there will be,
   Bitter ones, bitter ones,
More than one, two, or three,
   All full of spight;
Hangman and tree so tall,
Bridge, tower, and city-wall,
Kite and crow, which were all
   Robb’d of their right.

But judges none are fit,
   Shame it is, shame it is,
That twice seven years did sit
   To give hemp-string dome;
The friend they would befriend,
That he might in the end
To them like favour lend,
   In his own kingdome.

Sword-men, it must be you,
   Boldly to’t, boldly to’t,
p. 126Mustgive the diver his due;
   Do it not faintly,
But as you raised by spell
Last Parliament from hell,
And it again did quell
   Omnipotently.

The charge they wisely frame
   (On with it, on with it)
In that yet unknown name
   Of supream power;
While six weeks hence by vote
Shall be or it shall not,
When Monk’s to London got [48]
   In a good hour.

But twelve good men and true,
   Caveliers, Caveliers,
He excepts against you;
   Justice he fears.
From bar and pulpit hee
Craves such as do for fee
Serve all turns, for he’l be
   Try’d by his peers.

Satan, y’ are guilty found
   By your peers, by your peers,
And must die above ground!
   Look for no pity;
Some of our ministry,
Whose spir’ts with yours comply,
p. 127As Owen,Caryl, Nye, [49]
   For death shall fit ’ee.

Dread judges, mine own limb
   I but took, I but took,
I was forced without him
   To use a crutch;
Some of the robe can tell
How to supply full well
His place here, but in hell
   I had none such.

Divel, you are an asse,
   Plain it is, plain it is,
And weakly plead the case;
   Your wits are lost.
Some lawyers will outdo’t,
When shortly they come to’t;
Your craft, our gold to boot,
   They have ingross’d.

Should all men take their right,
   Well-a-day, well-a-day,
We were in a sad plight,
   O’ th’ holy party!
p. 128Suchpractise hath a scent
Of kingly government,
Against it we are bent,
   Out of home char’ty.

But if I die, who am
   King of hell, King of hell,
You will not quench its flame,
   But find it worse:
Confused anarchy
Will a new torment be;
Ne’r did these kingdoms three
   Feel such a curse.

To our promotion, sir,
   There as here, there as here,
Through some confused stir
   Doth the high-road lie;
In hell we need not fear
Nor King nor Cavalier,
Who then shall dominere
   But we the godly?

Truth, then, sirs, which of old
   Was my shame, was my shame,
Shall now to yours be told:
   You caused his death;
The house being broken by
Yourselves (there’s burglary),
Wrath enter’d forcibly,
   And stopt his breath.

Sir, as our president,
   Taught by you, taught by you,
’Gainst the King away went
   Most strange and new;
p. 129Charginghim with the guilt
Of all the blond we spilt,
With swords up to the hilt,
   So we’le serve you.

For mercy then I call,
   Good my lords, good my lords,
And traytors I’le leave all
   Duly to end it;
Sir, sir, ’tis frivolous,
As well for you as us,
To beg for mercy thus,—
   Our crimes transcend it.

You must die out of hand,
   Satanas, Satanas:
This our decree shall stand
   Without controll;
And we for you will pray,
Because the Scriptures say,
When some men curse you, they
   Curse their own soul.

The fiend to Tiburn’s gone,
   There to die, there to die;
Black is the north, anon
   Great storms will be;
Therefore together now
I leave him and th’ gallow,—
So, newes-man, take ’em now,
   Soon they’l take thee.

Finis, Fustis, Funis.

p. 130ANEW BALLAD TO AN OLD TUNE,—TOM OF BEDLAM.

January 17th, 1659.—From theKing’s Ballads, British Museum.

Make room for anhonest red-coat
   (And that you’ll say’s a wonder),
      The gun and the blade
      Are the tools, and his trade
   Is, for pay, to killandplunder.
      Then away with the laws,
      And the “Good oldCause;”
   Ne’er talk of the Rump or the Charter;
      ’Tis the cash does thefeat,
      All the rest’s but acheat,
Without thatthere’s no faith nor quarter.

’Tis the mark of our coin “Godwith us,”
   And the grace of the Lord goes alongwith’t.
      When the Georgesareflown
      Then the Cause goes down,
   For the Lord has departed from it.
              Then away, etc.

For Rome, or for Geneva,
   For the table or the altar,
      This spawn of a vote,
      He cares not a groat—
   For the pencehe’s your dog in ahalter,
              Then away, etc.

p.131Tho’ the name of King or Bishop
   To nostrils pure may be loathsome,
      Yet many there are
      That agree with theMay’r,
   That their lands are wondrous toothsome.
              Then away, etc.

When our masters are poor we leave’em,
   ’Tis the Golden Calf we bow to;
      We kill and we slay
      Not for conscience, but pay;
   Give us that, we’ll fight for youtoo.
              Then away, etc.

’Twas thatfirst turn’d theKing out;
   The Lords next; then the Commons:
      ’Twas that kept up Noll,
      Till the Devil fetch’d hissoul,
   And then it set the Rumpon’s.
              Then away, etc.

Drunken Dick was a lame Protector,
   And Fleetwood a back-slider;
      These we served as the rest,
      But the City’s the beast
   That will never cast her rider.
              Then away, etc.

When the Mayor holds the stirrup
   And the Shrieves cry, God save your honours;
      Then ’tis but a jump
      And up goes the Rump,
   That will spur to the Devil upon us.
              Then away, etc.

p.132And now for fling at your thimbles,
   Your bodkins, rings, and whistles;
      In truck for your toys
      We’ll fit you with boys
   (’Tis the doctrine of Hugh’sEpistles).
              Then away, etc.

When your plate is gone, and your jewels,
   You must be next entreated
      To part with your bags,
      And to strip you to rags,
   And yet not think you’re cheated.
              Then away, etc.

The truth is, the town deserves it,
   ’Tis a brainless, heartless monster:
      At a club they may bawl,
      Or declare at their hall,
   And yet at a push not one stir.
              Then away, etc.

Sir Arthur vow’d he’ll treat’em
   Far worse than the men of Chester;
      He’s bold now they’recow’d,
      But he was nothing so loud
   When he lay in the ditch at Lester.
              Then away, etc.

The Lord has left John Lambert,
   And the spirit, Feak’s anointed;
      But why, O Lord,
      Hast thou sheath’d thysword?
   Lo! thy saints are disappointed.
              Then away, etc.

p.133Though Sir Henry be departed,
   Sir John makes good the place now;
      And to help out the work
      Of the glorious Kirk,
   Our brethren march apace too.
              Then away, etc.

Whilst divines and statesmen wrangle,
   Let the Rump-ridden nation bite on’t;
      There are none but we
      That are sure to go free,
   For the soldier’s still in the righton’t.
              Then away, etc.

If our masters won’t supply us
   With money, food, and clothing,
      Let the State look to’t,
      We’ll find one that willdo’t,
   Let him live—we will not damn.
              Then away, etc.

SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON,
ANGLICE MERCURIUS POETICUS.

“The following ballad,” says Mr Wright in thePolitical Ballads of the Commonwealth, published for the PercySociety, “was written on the occasion of the overthrow ofthe Rump by Monck.  He arrived in London on the third ofFebruary, and professed himself a determined supporter of theparty then uppermost.  On the ninth and tenth he executedtheir orders against the city; but suddenly on the eleventh hejoined the city and the Presbyterian party, and demanded thereadmission p.134of the members who were secluded formerly from the LongParliament.  This measure put an end to the reign of theRump, and immediately afterwards the Parliament dissolved itself,and a new one was called.—(February 28th,1659.)”—All the notes to this Ballad are from the penof Mr Wright.

To the tune of “The OldCourtier of the Queen’s,” etc.

News! news!here’s the occurrences and a new Mercurius,
A dialogue betwixt Haselrigg the baffled and Arthur thefurious;
With Ireton’s [50] readings uponlegitimate and spurious,
Proving that a saint may be the son of a whore, for thesatisfaction of the curious.
         From a Rumpinsatiate as the sea,
         Libera nos,Domine.

Here’s the true reason of thecitie’s infatuation,
Ireton has made it drunk with the cup of abomination;
That is, the cup of the whore, after the GenevaInterpretation,
Which with the juyce of Titchburn’s grapes [51] must needs cause intoxication.
         From a Rump,etc.

p.135Here’s the Whipper whipt by a friend to George,that whipp’d Jack, [52] that whipp’dthe breech,
That whipp’d the nation as long as it could stand overit—after which
It was itself re-jerk’d by the sage author of thisspeech:
“Methinks a Rump should go as well with a Scotch spur aswith a switch.”
         From a Rump,etc.

This Rump hath many a rotten and unrulymember;
“Give the generall the oath!” cries one (but hisconscience being a little tender);
p.136“I’ll abjure you with a pestilence!”quoth George, “and make you remember
The ’leaventh of February [53] longer than thefifth of November!”
         From a Rump,etc.

With that, Monk leaves (in Rump assembled) thethree estates,
But oh! how the citizens hugg’d him for breaking down theirgates,
For tearing up their posts and chaynes, and for clapping up theirmates [54]
(When they saw that he brought them plasters for their brokenpates).
         From a Rump,etc.

In truth this ruffle put the town in greatdisorder,
Some knaves (in office) smiled, expecting ’twould gofurder;
But at the last, “My life on’t!  George is noRumper,” said the Recorder,
“For there never was either honest man or monk of thatorder.”
         From a Rump,etc.

p.137And so it proved; for, “Gentlemen,” saysthe general, “I’ll make you amends;
Our greeting was a little untoward, but we’ll partfriends;
A little time shall show you which way my design tends,
And that, besides the good of Church and State, I have no otherends.”
         From a Rump,etc.

His Excellence had no sooner pass’d thisdeclaration and promise,
But in steps Secretary Scot, the Rump’s man Thomas,
With Luke, their lame evangelist (the Devil keep ’um fromus!) [55]
To shew Monk what precious members of Church and State the Bummhas.
         From a Rump,etc.

And now comes the supplication of the membersunder the rod:
“Nay, my Lord!” cryes the brewer’s clerk;“good, my Lord, for the love of God!
Consider yourself, us, and this poor nation, and that tyrantabroad;
Don’t leave us:”—but George gave him a shrugginstead of a nodd.
         From a Rump,etc.

p.138This mortal silence was followed with a most hideousnoyse,
Of free Parliament bells and Rump-confounding boyes,
Crying, “Cut the rogues! singe their tayles!” when,with a low voyce,
“Fire and sword! by this light,” cryes Tom,“Lets look to our toyes!”
         From a Rump,etc.

Never were wretched members in so sad aplight;
Some were broyl’d, some toasted, others burnt outright; [56]
Nay against Rumps so pittylesse was their rage and spite,
That not a citizen would kisse his wife that night.
         From a Rump,etc.

p.139By this time death and hell appear’d in theghastly looks
Of Scot and Robinson (those legislative rooks);
And it must needs put the Rump most damnably off the hooks
To see that when God has sent meat the Devil should sendcooks.
         From a Rump,etc.

But Providence, their old friend, brought thesesaints off at last,
And through the pikes and the flames undismember’d theypast,
Although (God wet) with many struglings and much hast,—
For, members, or no members, was but a measuring cast.
         From a Rump,etc.

Being come to Whitehall, there’s thedismal mone,
“Let Monk be damn’d!” cries Arthur in aterrible tone [57]—
“That traytor, and those cuckoldy rogues that set himon!”
(But tho’ the knight spits blood, ’tis observed thathe draws none.)
         From a Rump,etc.

p.140“The plague bawle you!” cries Harry Martin,“you have brought us to this condition, [58]
You must be canting and be plagued, with your Barebones petition,[59]
And take in that bull-headed, splay-footed member of thecircumcision,
That bacon-faced Jew, Corbet, [60] that son ofperdition!”
         From a Rump,etc.

p.141Then in steps driv’ling Mounson to take up thesquabble,
That lord which first taught the use of the woodden dagger andladle: [61]
He that out-does Jack Pudding [62] at a custard or acaudle,
And were the best foole in Europe but that he wants a bauble.
         From a Rump,etc.

p.142More was said to little purpose,—the next newsis, a declaration
From the Rump, for a free state according to the covenant of thenation,
And a free Parliament under oath and qualification,
Where none shall be elect but members of reprobation.
         From a Rump,&c.

Here’s the tail firk’d, a pieceacted lately with great applause,
With a plea for the prerogative breech and the Good old Cause,
Proving that Rumps and members are antienter than laws,
And that a bumme divided is never the worse for the flawes.
         From a Rump,etc.

But all things have their period and fate,
An Act of Parliament dissolves a Rump of state,
Members grow weak, and tayles themselves run out of date,
And yet thou shalt not dye (dear breech), thy fame I’llcelebrate.
         From a Rump,etc.

p.143Here lies a pack of saints that did their souls andcountry sell
For dirt, the Devil was their good lord, him they served well;
By his advice they stood and acted, and by his president theyfell
(Like Lucifer), making but one step betwixt heaven and hell.
         From a Rumpinsatiate as the sea
         Liberasti nos,Domine.

THE SECOND PART OF ST GEORGE FOR ENGLAND.

To the tune of “To drive thecold winter away.”
(March 7, 1659.)

   Now the Rump is confounded
   There’s an end of the Roundhead,
Who hath been such a bane to our nation;
   He hath now play’d his part,
   And’s gone out like a f—,
Together with his reformation;
   For by his good favour
   He hath left a bad savour;
But’s no matter, we’ll trust him no more.
   Kings and queens may appear
   Once again in our sphere,
Now the knaves are turn’d out of door,
   And drive the cold winter away.

   p. 144Scot, Nevil, and Vane,
   With the rest of that train,
Are into Oceana [63] fled;
   Sir Arthur the brave,
   That’s as arrant a knave,
Has Harrington’s Rota in’s head; [64]
   But hee’s now full of cares
   For his foals and his mares,
As when he was routed before;
   But I think he despairs,
   By his arms or his prayers,
To set up the Rump any more,
   And drive the cold winter away.

   I should never havethought
   That a monk could have wrought
Such a reformation so soon;
   That House which of late
   Was the jakes of our state
Will ere long be a house of renown.
   How good wits did jump
   In abusing the Rump,
Whilst the House was prest by the rabble;
   p.145But our Hercules, Monk,
   Though it grievously stunk,
Now hath cleansed that Augean stable,
   And drive the cold winter away.

   And now Mr Prynne [65]
   With the rest may come in,
And take their places again;
   For the House is made sweet
   For those members to meet,
Though part of the Rump yet remain;
   Nor need they to fear,
   Though his breeches be there,
Which were wrong’d both behind and before;
   For he saith ’twas a chance,
   And forgive him this once,
And he swears he will do so no more,
   And drive the cold winter away.

   ’Tis true there aresome
   Who are still for the Bum;
Such tares will grow up with the wheat;
   And there they will be, till a Parliament come
   That can give them a total defeat.
But yet I am told
   That the Rumpers do hold
   That the saints may swim with the tyde;
   p.146Nor can it be treason,
   But Scripture and reason,
Still to close with the stronger side,
   And drive the cold winter away.

   Those lawyers o’th’ House—
   As Baron Wild-goose, [66]
With Treason Hill, Whitlock, and Say—
   Were the bane of our laws
   And our Good old Cause,
And ’twere well if such were away.
   Some more there are to blame,
   Whom I care not to name,
That are men of the very same ranks;
   ’Mongst whom there is one,
   That to Devil Barebone
For his ugly petition gave thanks,
      And drive the cold winteraway.

   But I hope by this time
   He’ll confess ’twas a crime
To abet such a damnable crew;
   p.147Whose petition was drawn
   By Alcoran Vane,
Or else by Corbet the Jew. [67]
   By it you may know
   What the Rump meant to do,
And what a religion to frame;
   So ’twas time for St George
   That Rump to disgorge,
And to send it from whence it first came;
      Then drive the cold winteraway.

A NEW-YEAR’S GIFT FOR THE RUMP.

(January 1659–60.)—Froma broadside, vol. xv. in the King’s Pamphlets.

“The condition of the State was thus: viz.the Rump, after being disturbed by my Lord Lambert, was latelyreturned to sit again.  The officers of the army all forcedto yield.  Lawson lies still in the river, and Monk is withhis army in Scotland.  Only my Lord Lambert is not yet comein to the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will withoutbeing forced to it.  The new Common Council of the city dospeak very high; and had sent to Monk their sword-bearer toacquaint him with their desires for a free and full Parliament,which is at present the desires, and the hopes, and theexpectations of all.  Twenty-two of the old secluded membershaving been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance,but it was denied them; and it is believed that neither they northe people will be satisfied till the House befilled.”  Pepys’ Diary, January, 1660.

p.148You may have heard of thepolitique snout,
Or a tale of a tub with the bottom out,
But scarce of a Parliament in a dirty clout,
      Which no body can deny.

’Twas Atkins [68] first served thisRump in with mustard—
The sauce was a compound of courage and custard;
Sir Vane bless’d the creature, Noll snuffled andbluster’d,
      Which no body can deny.

The right was as then in old Oliver’snose;
But when the Devil of that did dispose,
It descended from thence to the Rump in the close,
      Which no body can deny.

Nor is it likely there to stay long,
The retentive faculties being gone,
The juggle is stale, and money there’s none,
      Which no body can deny.

The secluded members made a trial
To enter, but them the Rump did defy all
By the ordinance of self-denial,
      Which no body can deny.

Our politique doctors do us teach
That a blood-sucking red-coat’s as good as a leech
To relieve the head, if applied to the breech,
      Which no body can deny.

But never was such a worm as Vane;
When the State scour’d last, it voided him then,
Yet now he’s crept into the Rump again,
      Which no body can deny.

p.149Ludlow’s f— was a prophetique trump [69]
(There never was anything so jump),
’Twas the very type of a vote of this Rump,
      Which no body can deny.

They say ’tis good luck when a bodyrises
With the rump upward, but he that advises
To live in that posture is none of the wisest,
      Which no body can deny.

The reason is worse, though the rime beuntoward,
When things proceed with the wrong end forward;
But they say there’s sad news to the Rump from theNor’ward; [70]
      Which no body can deny.

’Tis a wonderfull thing, the strength ofthat part;
At a blast it will take you a team from a cart,
And blow a man’s head away with a f—,
      Which no body can deny.

When our brains are sunck below the middle,
And our consciences steer’d by the hey-down-diddle,
Then things will go round without a fiddle,
      Which no body can deny.

p.150You may order the city with hand-granado,
Or the generall with a bastonado,—
But no way for a Rump like a carbonado,
      Which no body can deny.

To make us as famous in council as wars,
Here’s Lenthal a speaker for mine—
And Fleetwood is a man of Mars,
      Which no body can deny.

’Tis pitty that Nedham’s [71] fall’n into disgrace,
For he orders a bum with a marvellous grace,
And ought to attend the Rump by his place,
      Which no body can deny.

Yet this in spight of all disasters,
Although he hath broken the heads of his masters,
’Tis still his profession to give ’em allplasters,
      Which no body can deny.

The Rump’s an old story, if wellunderstood;
’Tis a thing dress’d up in a Parliament’shood,
And like ’t, but the tayl stands where the head should,
      Which no body can deny.

’Twould make a man scratch where it doesnot itch,
To see forty fools’ heads in one politique breech,
And that, hugging the nation, as the devil did the witch;
      Which no body can deny.

p.151From rotten members preserve our wives!
From the mercy of a Rump, our estates and our lives!
For they must needs go whom the Devil drives,
      Which no body can deny.

A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE OLD PARLIAMENT;
OR,
THE SECOND PART OF KNAVE OUT OF DOORS.

To the tune of

“Hei ho, my honey, my heart shall neverrue,
Four-and-twenty now for your mony, and yet a hard penny-worthtoo.”

(Dec. 11th, 1659.)—From theKing’s Pamphlets, British Museum.

“The events which gave occasion to thefollowing ballad,” says Mr T. Wright in his PoliticalBallads, published for the Percy Society, “may be summed upin a few words.  After the death of Cromwell, his sonRichard was without opposition raised to the Protectorate; buthis weak and easy character gave an opening to the intrigues ofthe Royalists, and the factious movement of the Republicanparty.  Fleetwood, who had been named commander-in-chief ofthe army under the Protector, plotted to gain the chief power inthe State, and was joined by Lambert, Desborough, andothers.  The Republicans were strengthened by the return ofVane, Ludlow, and Bradshaw, to the Parliament called by the newProtector.  Lambert, the Protector’s brother-in-law,was the ostensible head of a party, and seems to have aimed atobtaining the power which had been held by Oliver.  Theyformed a council of officers, who met at Wallingford House; andon the 20th April, 1659, having p. 152gained the upper hand, and havingobtained the dissolution of the Parliament, they determined torestore the old Long Parliament, which they said had only beeninterrupted, and not legally dissolved, and to set aside theProtector, who soon afterwards resigned.  On the 21st April,Lenthall, the old Speaker, with as many members of the LongParliament as could be brought together, met in the House, andopened their session.  The Parliament thus formed, as beingthe fag-end of the old Long Parliament, obtained the name of theRump Parliament.  Lambert’s hopes and aims were raisedby his success against Sir George Booth in the August following,and jealousies soon arose between his party in the army and theRump.  The Parliament would have dismissed him, and thechief officers in the cabal with him, but Lambert with the armyin October hindered their free meeting, and took the managementof the government into the hands of a council of officers, whomthey called the Committee of Safety.  Towards the latter endof the year, the tide began to be changed in favour of theParliament, by the declaration of Monk in Scotland, HenryCromwell with the army in Ireland, and Hazelrigge and theofficers at Portsmouth, in favour of the freedom of theParliament.  This ballad was written at the period whenLambert’s party was uppermost.”

The tune of “Hei ho, my honey,” may be found inPlayford’s edition of “The English DancingMaster,” printed in 1686, but in no earlier edition of thesame work.

Good-morrow, myneighbours all, what news is this I heard tell
As I past through Westminster-hall by the House that’s neckto hell?
They told John Lambert [72] was there with hisbears, and deeply he swore
(As Cromwell had done before) those vermin should sit there nomore.
   p.153Sing hi ho, Wil. Lenthall, [73] who shall ourgeneral be?
   For the House to the Devil is sent all, and follow,good faith, mun ye!
   Sing hi ho, my honey, my heart shall never rue,
   Here’s all pickt ware for the money, and yet ahard pennyworth too.

Then, Muse, strike up a sonnet, come, piper,and play us a spring,
For now I think upon it, these R’s turn’d out theirKing;
But now is come about, that once again they must turn out,
And not without justice and reason, that every one home to hisprison.
   Sing hi ho, Harry Martin, [74] a burgess of the bench,
   There’s nothing here is certain, you must backand leave your wench.
         Sing, hi ho,etc.

He there with the buffle head is called lordand of the same House,
Who (as I have heard it said) was chastised by his ladyespouse;
p. 154Becausehe ran at sheep, she and her maid gave him the whip,
And beat his head so addle, you’d think he had a knock inthe cradle.
   Sing hi ho, Lord Munson, [75] you ha’ got apark of the King’s;
   One day you’l hang like a hounson, for thisand other things,
         Sing hi, ho,etc.

It was by their master’s orders at firsttogether they met,
Whom piously they did murder, and since by their own they didset.
The cause of this disaster is ’cause they were false totheir master;
Nor can they their gens-d’armes blame for serving them thesame.
   Sing hi ho, Sir Arthur, [76] no more in the Houseyou shall prate;
   For all you kept such a quarter, [77] you are out of the councell ofstate.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Old Noll once gave them a purge (forgettingOCCIDISTI),
(The furies be his scourge!) so of the cure must he;
p. 155And yetthe drug he well knew it, for he gave it to Dr Huit; [78]
Had he given it them, he had done it, and they had notturn’d out his son yet;
   Sing hi ho, brave Dick, Lenthall, and Lady Joane,
   Who did against lovalty kick is now for anew-year’s gift gone.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

For had Old Noll been alive, he hadpull’d them out by the ears,
Or else had fired their hive, and kickt them down the staires;
Because they were so bold to vex his righteous soul,
When he so deeply had swore that there they should never sitmore.
   But hi ho, Noll’s dead, and stunk long sinceabove ground,
   Though lapt in spices and lead that cost us many apound.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Indeed, brother burgess, your ling did neverstink half so bad,
Nor did your habberdin when it no pease-straw had;
Ye both were chose together, ’cause ye wore stuff cloaks inhard weather,
And Cambridge needs would have a burgess fool and knave.
   p.156Sing hi ho, John Lowry, [79] concerninghabberdin,
   No member spake before ye, yet you ne’re spokeagaine.
         Sing hi, ho,etc.

Ned Prideaux [80] he went post to tellthe Protector the news,
That Fleetwood ruld the rost, having tane off Dicke’sshoes.
And that he did believe, Lambert would him deceive
As he his brother had gull’d, and Cromwell Fairfaxbull’d.
   Sing hi ho, the attorney was still at yourcommand;
   In flames together burn ye, still dancing hand inhand!
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Who’s that would hide his face, and hisneck from the collar pull?
He must appear in this place, if his cap be made of wool.
Who is it? with a vengeance! it is the good Lord St Johns, [81]
Who made God’s house to fall, to build his own withall.
   p.157Sing hi ho, who comes there? who ’tis I must notsay;
   But by his dark lanthorn, I sweare he’s asgood in the night as day.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Edge, brethren, room for one that looks as bigas the best;
’Tis pity to leave him alone, for he is as good as therest;
No picklock of the laws, he builds among the daws,
If you ha’ any more kings to murder, for a President lookno further.
   Sing hi ho, John Bradshaw, in blood none furtherengages;
   The Devil from whom he had’s law, will shortlypay him his wages.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Next, Peagoose Wild, [82] come in to show your weesle face,
And tell us Burley’s sin, whose blood bought you yourplace;
When loyalty was a crime, he lived in a dangerous time,
Was forced to pay his neck to make you baron of the cheque.
   p.158Sing hi ho, Jack Straw, we’ll put it in themargent,
   ’Twas not for justice or law that you weremade a sergeant.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Noll served not Satan faster, nor with him didbetter accord;
For he was my good master, and the Devil was his good lord.
Both Slingsby, Gerard, and Hewet, [83] were sure enough togo to it,
According to his intent, that chose me President.
   Sing hi ho, Lord Lisle, [84] sure law had got awrench,
   And where was justice the while, when you sate onthe bench.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Next comes the good Lord Keble, of theTriumvirate,
Of the seal in the law but feeble, though on the bench hesate;
p. 159For whenone puts him a case, I wish him out of the place,
And, if it were not a sin, an able lawyer in.
   Sing, give the seal about, I’de have it so therather,
   Because we might get out the knave, my lord, myfather.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Pull out the other three, it is Nathaniel Fines[85]
(Who Bristol lost for fear), we’ll not leave himbehind’s;
’Tis a chip of that good old block, who to loyalty gave thefirst knock,
Then stole away to Lundey, whence the foul fiend fetches him oneday.
   Sing hi ho, canting Fines, you and the rest to mend’um,
   Would ye were served in your kinds with an enserescidendum.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

He that comes down-stairs, is Lord ChiefJustice Glin; [86]
If no man for him cares, he cares as little again:
p. 160Thereason too I know’t, he helpt cut Strafford’sthroat,
And take away his life, though with a cleaner knife.
   Sing hi ho, Britain bold, straight to the bar youget,
   Where it is not so cold as where your justiceset.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

He that will next come in, was long of theCouncil of State,
Though hardly a hair on his chin when first in the council hesate;
He was sometime in Italy, and learned their fashions prettily,
Then came back to’s own nation, to help up reformation.
   Sing hi ho, Harry Nevil, [87] I prythee be not toorash
   With atheism to court the Divel, you’re toobold to be his bardash.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

p.161He there with ingratitude blackt is one CorneliusHolland, [88]
Who, but for the King’s house, lackt wherewith to appeasehis colon;
The case is well amended since that time, as I think,
When at court gate he tended with a little stick and a shortlink.
   Sing hi ho, Cornelius, your zeal cannot deludeus;
   The reason pray now tell ye us why thus youplay’d the Judas.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

At first he was a grocer who now we Majorcall,
Although you would think no, Sir, if you saw him in Whitehall,
Where he has great command, and looks for cap in hand,
And if our eggs be not addle, shall be of the next new moddel.
   Sing hi ho, Mr Salloway, [89] the Lord in heavendoth know
   When that from hence you shall away, where to theDevil you’l go.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

p.162Little Hill, [90] since set in theHouse, is to a mountain grown;
Not that which brought forth the mouse, but thousands the year ofhis own.
The purchase that I mean, where else but at Taunton Dean;
Five thousand pounds per annum, a sum not known to hisgrannam.
   Sing hi, the Good old Cause, [91] ’tis old enough not true
   You got more by that then the laws, so a good oldcause to you.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

p.163Master Cecil, [92] pray come behind,because on your own accord
The other House you declined, you shall be no longer a lord;
The reason, as I guess, you silently did confess,
Such lords deserved ill the other House to fill.
   Sing hi ho, Mr Cecil, your honour now is gone;
   Such lords are not worth a whistle, we have madebetter lords of our own.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Luke Robinson [93] shall go before ye,that snarling northern tyke;
Be sure he’ll not adore ye, for honour he doth not like;
He cannot honour inherit, and he knows he can never merit,
And therefore he cannot bear it that any one else should wearit.
   p.164Sing hi ho, envious lown, you’re of thebeagle’s kind,
   Who always bark’d at the moon, because in thedark it shined.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

’Tis this that vengeance rouses, that,while you make long prayers,
You eat up widows’ houses, and drink the orphan’stears;
Long time you kept a great noise, of God and the Good oldCause;
But if God to you be so kind, then I’me of theIndian’s mind.
   Sing hi ho, Sir Harry, [94] we see, by yourdemeanour,
   If longer here you tarry, you’ll be Sir HarryVane, Senior.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Now if your zeal do warme ye, pray loud forfairer weather;
Swear to live and die with the army, for these birds are flowntogether;
The House is turn’d out a doe, (and I think it was no sin,too);
If we take them there any more, we’ll throw the House outof the window.
   Sing hi ho, Tom Scot, [95] you lent the Devilyour hand;
   p.165I wonder he helpt you not, but suffred you t’ betrapand.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

They’re once again conduced, and we freedfrom the evil
To which we long were used; God blesse us next from the Devil!
If they had not been outed the array had been routed,
And then this rotten Rump had sat until the last trump.
   But, hi ho, Lambert’s here, theProtector’s instrument bore,
   And many there be who swear that he will do it nomore.
         Sing hi ho,etc.

Come here, then, honest Peters, [96] say grace for the second course,
So long as these your betters must patience have upon force,
Long time he kept a great noise with God and the Good oldCause,
But if God own such as these, then where’s theDevil’s fees?
   Sing hi ho, Hugo, I hear thou art not dead;
   Where now to the Devil will you go, your patronsbeing fled?
   Sing hi ho, my honey, my heart shall never rue,
   Four-and-twenty now for a penny, and into thebargain Hugh.

p. 166THETALE OF THE COBBLER AND THE VICAR OF BRAY.

Rara est concordiafratrum.  Ovid.

By Samuel Butler.

The “Sir Samuel” of this Ballad is the sameperson—Sir Samuel Luke of Bedfordshire—who issupposed to have been the unconscious model of the portrait whichis drawn so much more fully in the inimitable Hudibras. Ralph is also the well-known Squire in the same poem.  TheBallad, though published in Butler’s “PosthumousWorks,” 1724, was rejected by Thyer in the edition of 1784,and is not included in the “Genuine Remains,”published from the original manuscripts, formerly in thepossession of William Longueville, Esq.  If not by Butler,it is a successful imitation of his style, and abounds in phrasesof sturdy colloquial English, and is of a date long anterior tothe popular song, “The Vicar of Bray.”

In Bedfordshirethere dwelt a knight,
   Sir Samuel by name,
Who by his feats in civil broils
   Obtain’d a mighty fame.

Nor was he much less wise and stout,
   But fit in both respects
To humble sturdy Cavaliers,
   And to support the sects.

This worthy knight was one that swore
   He would not cut his beard
Till this ungodly nation was
   From kings and bishops clear’d:

Which holy vow he firmly kept,
   And most devoutly wore
p. 167A grizlymeteor on his face
   Till they were both no more.

His worship was, in short, a man
   Of such exceeding worth,
No pen or pencil can describe,
   Or rhyming bard set forth.

Many and mighty things he did
   Both sober and in liquor,—
Witness the mortal fray between
   The Cobbler and the Vicar;

Which by his wisdom and his power
   He wisely did prevent,
And both the combatants at once
   In wooden durance pent.

The manner how these two fell out
   And quarrell’d in their ale,
I shall attempt at large to show
   In the succeeding tale.

A strolling cobbler, who was wont
   To trudge from town to town,
Happen’d upon his walk to meet
   A vicar in his gown.

And as they forward jogg’d along,
   The vicar, growing hot,
First asked the cobbler if he knew
   Where they might take a pot?

Yes, marry that I do, quoth he;
   Here is a house hard by,
That far exceeds all Bedfordshire
   For ale and landlady.

p.168Thither let’s go, the vicar said;
   And when they thither came,
He liked the liquor wondrous well,
   But better far the dame.

And she, who, like a cunning jilt,
   Knew how to please her guest,
Used all her little tricks and arts
   To entertain the priest.

The cobbler too, who quickly saw
   The landlady’s design,
Did all that in his power was
   To manage the divine.

With smutty jests and merry songs
   They charm’d the vicar so,
That he determined for that night
   No further he would go.

And being fixt, the cobbler thought
   ’Twas proper to go try
If he could get a job or two
   His charges to supply.

So going out into the street,
   He bawls with all his might,—
If any of you tread awry
   I’m here to set you right.

I can repair your leaky boots,
   And underlay your soles;
Backsliders, I can underprop
   And patch up all your holes.

The vicar, who unluckily
   The cobbler’s outcry heard,
p. 169From offthe bench on which he sat
   With mighty fury rear’d.

Quoth he, What priest, what holy priest
   Can hear this bawling slave,
But must, in justice to his coat,
   Chastise the saucy knave?

What has this wretch to do with souls,
   Or with backsliders either,
Whose business only is his awls,
   His lasts, his thread, and leather?

I lose my patience to be made
   This strolling varlet’s sport;
Nor could I think this saucy rogue
   Could serve me in such sort.

The cobbler, who had no design
   The vicar to displease,
Unluckily repeats again,—
   I’m come your soals to ease:

The inward and the outward too
   I can repair and mend;
And all that my assistance want,
   I’ll use them like a friend.

The country folk no sooner heard
   The honest cobbler’s tongue,
But from the village far and near
   They round about him throng.

Some bring their boots, and some theirshoes,
   And some their buskins bring:
The cobbler sits him down to work,
   And then begins to sing.

p.170Death often at the cobbler’s stall
   Was wont to make a stand,
But found the cobbler singing still,
   And on the mending hand;

Until at length he met old Time,
   And then they both together
Quite tear the cobbler’s aged sole
   From off the upper leather.

Even so a while I may old shoes
   By care and art maintain,
But when the leather’s rotten grown
   All art and care is vain.

And thus the cobbler stitched and sung,
   Not thinking any harm;
Till out the angry vicar came
   With ale and passion warm.

Dost thou not know, vile slave! quoth he,
   How impious ’tis to jest
With sacred things, and to profane
   The office of a priest?

How dar’st thou, most audaciouswretch!
   Those vile expressions use,
Which make the souls of men as cheap
   As soals of boots and shoes?

Such reprobates as you betray
   Our character and gown,
And would, if you had once the power,
   The Church itself pull down.

The cobbler, not aware that he
   Had done or said amiss,
p.171Reply’d, I do not understand
   What you can mean by this.

Tho’ I but a poor cobbler be,
   And stroll about for bread,
None better loves the Church than I
   That ever wore a head.

But since you are so good at names,
   And make so loud a pother,
I’ll tell you plainly I’m afraid
   You’re but some cobbling brother.

Come, vicar, tho’ you talk so big,
   Our trades are near akin;
I patch and cobble outward soals
   As you do those within.

And I’ll appeal to any man
   That understands the nation,
If I han’t done more good than you
   In my respective station.

Old leather, I must needs confess,
   I’ve sometimes used as new,
And often pared the soal so near
   That I have spoil’d the shoe.

You vicars, by a different way,
   Have done the very same;
For you have pared your doctrines so
   You made religion lame.

Your principles you’ve quitedisown’d,
   And old ones changed for new,
That no man can distinguish right
   Which are the false or true.

p.172I dare be bold, you’re one of those
   Have took the Covenant;
With Cavaliers are Cavalier,
   And with the saints a saint.

The vicar at this sharp rebuke
   Begins to storm and swear;
Quoth he, Thou vile apostate wretch!
   Dost thou with me compare?

I that have care of many souls,
   And power to damn or save,
Dar’st thou thyself compare with me,
   Thou vile, ungodly knave!

I wish I had thee somewhere else,
   I’d quickly make thee know
What ’tis to make comparisons,
   And to revile me so.

Thou art an enemy to the State,
   Some priest in masquerade,
That, to promote the Pope’s designs,
   Has learnt the cobbling trade:

Or else some spy to Cavaliers,
   And art by them sent out
To carry false intelligence,
   And scatter lies about.

But whilst the vicar full of ire
   Was railing at this rate,
His worship, good Sir Samuel,
   O’erlighted at the gate.

And asking of the landlady
   Th’ occasion of the stir;
p. 173Quothshe, If you will give me leave
   I will inform you, Sir.

This cobbler happening to o’ertake
   The vicar in his walk,
In friendly sort they forward march,
   And to each other talk.

Until the parson first proposed
   To stop and take a whet;
So cheek by jole they hither came
   Like travellers well met.

A world of healths and jests went round,
   Sometimes a merry tale;
Till they resolved to stay all night,
   So well they liked my ale.

Thus all things lovingly went on,
   And who so great as they;
Before an ugly accident
   Began this mortal fray.

The case I take it to be this,—
   The vicar being fixt,
The cobbler chanced to cry his trade,
   And in his cry he mixt

Some harmless words, which I suppose
   The vicar falsely thought
Might be design’d to banter him,
   And scandalize his coat.

If that be all, quoth he, go out
   And bid them both come in;
A dozen of your nappy ale
   Will set ’em right again.

p.174And if the ale should chance to fail,
   For so perhaps it may,
I have it in my powers to try
   A more effectual way.

These vicars are a wilful tribe,
   A restless, stubborn crew;
And if they are not humbled quite,
   The State they will undo.

The cobbler is a cunning knave,
   That goes about by stealth,
And would, instead of mending shoes,
   Repair the Commonwealth.

However, bid ’em both come in,
   This fray must have an end;
Such little feuds as these do oft
   To greater mischiefs tend.

Without more bidding out she goes
   And told them, by her troth,
There was a magistrate within
   That needs must see ’em both.

But, gentlemen, pray distance keep,
   And don’t too testy be;
Ill words good manners still corrupt
   And spoil good company.

To this the vicar first replies,
   I fear no magistrate;
For let ’em make what laws they will,
   I’ll still obey the State.

Whatever I can say or do,
   I’m sure not much avails;
p. 175I stallstill be Vicar of Bray
   Whichever side prevails.

My conscience, thanks to Heaven, is come
   To such a happy pass,
That I can take the Covenant
   And never hang an ass.

I’ve took so many oaths before,
   That now without remorse
I take all oaths the State can make,
   As meerly things of course.

Go therefore, dame, the justice tell
   His summons I’ll obey;
And further you may let him know
   I Vicar am of Bray.

I find indeed, the cobbler said,
   I am not much mistaken;
This vicar knows the ready way
   To save his reverend bacon. [97]

This is a hopeful priest indeed,
   And well deserves a rope;
Rather than lose his vicarage
   He’d swear to Turk or Pope.

For gain he would his God deny,
   His country and his King;
Swear and forswear, recant and lye,
   Do any wicked thing.

At this the vicar set his teeth,
   And to the cobbler flew;
p. 176And withhis sacerdotal fist
   Gave him a box or two.

The cobbler soon return’d the blows,
   And with both head and heel
So manfully behaved himself,
   He made the vicar reel.

Great was the outcry that was made,
   And in the woman ran
To tell his worship that the fight
   Betwixt them was began.

And is it so indeed? quoth he;
   I’ll make the slaves repent:
Then up he took his basket hilt,
   And out enraged he went.

The country folk no sooner saw
   The knight with naked blade,
But for his worship instantly
   An open lane was made;

Who with a stern and angry look
   Cry’d out, What knaves are these
That in the face of justice dare
   Disturb the public peace?

Vile rascals!  I will make you know
   I am a magistrate,
And that as such I bear about
   The vengeance of the State.

Go, seize them, Ralph, and bring them in,
   That I may know the cause,
That first induced them to this rage,
   And thus to break the laws.

p.177Ralph, who was both his squire and clerk,
   And constable withal,
I’ th’ name o’ th’ Commonwealth aloud
   Did for assistance bawl.

The words had hardly pass’d his mouth
   But they secure them both;
And Ralph, to show his furious zeal
   And hatred to the cloth,

Runs to the vicar through the crowd,
   And takes him by the throat:
How ill, says he, doth this become
   Your character and coat!

Was it for this not long ago
   You took the Covenant,
And in most solemn manner swore
   That you’d become a saint?

And here he gave him such a pinch
   That made the vicar shout,—
Good people, I shall murder’d be
   By this ungodly lout.

He gripes my throat to that degree
   I can’t his talons bear;
And if you do not hold his hands,
   He’ll throttle me, I fear.

At this a butcher of the town
   Steps up to Ralph in ire,—
What, will you squeeze his gullet through,
   You son of blood and fire?

You are the Devil’s instrument
   To execute the laws;
p. 178What,will you murther the poor man
   With your phanatick claws?

At which the squire quits his hold,
   And lugging out his blade,
Full at the sturdy butcher’s pate
   A furious stroke he made.

A dismal outcry then began
   Among the country folk;
Who all conclude the butcher slain
   By such a mortal stroke.

But here good fortune, that has still
   A friendship for the brave,
I’ th’ nick misguides the fatal blow,
   And does the butcher save.

The knight, who heard the noise within,
   Runs out with might and main,
And seeing Ralph amidst the crowd
   In danger to be slain,

Without regard to age or sex
   Old basket-hilt so ply’d,
That in an instant three or four
   Lay bleeding at his side.

And greater mischiefs in his rage
   This furious knight had done,
If he had not prevented been
   By Dick, the blacksmith’s son,

Who catch’d his worship on the hip,
   And gave him such a squelch,
That he some moments breathless lay
   Ere he was heard to belch.

p.179Nor was the squire in better case,
   By sturdy butcher ply’d,
Who from the shoulder to the flank
   Had soundly swinged his hide.

Whilst things in this confusion stood,
   And knight and squire disarm’d,
Up comes a neighbouring gentleman
   The outcry had alarm’d;

Who riding up among the crowd,
   The vicar first he spy’d,
With sleeveless gown and bloody band
   And hands behind him ty’d.

Bless me, says he, what means all this?
   Then turning round his eyes,
In the same plight, or in a worse,
   The cobbler bleeding spies.

And looking further round he saw,
   Like one in doleful dump,
The knight, amidst a gaping mob,
   Sit pensive on his rump.

And by his side lay Ralph his squire,
   Whom butcher fell had maul’d;
Who bitterly bemoan’d his fate,
   And for a surgeon call’d.

Surprised at first he paused awhile,
   And then accosts the knight,—
What makes you here, Sir Samuel,
   In this unhappy plight?

At this the knight gave’s breast athump,
   And stretching out his hand,—
p. 180If youwill pull me up, he cried,
   I’ll try if I can stand.

And then I’ll let you know the cause;
   But first take care of Ralph,
Who in my good or ill success
   Doth always stand my half.

In short, he got his worship up
   And led him in the door;
Where he at length relates the tale
   As I have told before.

When he had heard the story out,
   The gentleman replies,—
It is not in my province, sir,
   Your worship to advise.

But were I in your worship’s place,
   The only thing I’d do,
Was first to reprimand the fools,
   And then to let them go.

I think it first advisable
   To take them from the rabble,
And let them come and both set forth
   The occasion of the squabble.

This is the Vicar, Sir, of Bray,
   A man of no repute,
The scorn and scandal of his tribe,
   A loose, ill-manner’d brute.

The cobbler’s a poor strolling wretch
   That mends my servants’ shoes;
And often calls as he goes by
   To bring me country news.

p.181At this his worship grip’d his beard,
   And in an angry mood,
Swore by the laws of chivalry
   That blood required blood.

Besides, I’m by the Commonwealth
   Entrusted to chastise
All knaves that straggle up and down
   To raise such mutinies.

However, since ’tis your request,
   They shall be call’d and heard;
But neither Ralph nor I can grant
   Such rascals should be clear’d.

And so, to wind the tale up short,
   They were call’d in together;
And by the gentlemen were ask’d
   What wind ’twas blew them thither.

Good ale and handsome landladies
   You might have nearer home;
And therefore ’tis for something more
   That you so far are come.

To which the vicar answer’dfirst,—
   My living is so small,
That I am forced to stroll about
   To try and get a call.

And, quoth the cobbler, I am forced
   To leave my wife and dwelling,
T’ escape the danger of being press’d
   To go a colonelling.

There’s many an honest jovial lad
   Unwarily drawn in,
p. 182That Ihave reason to suspect
   Will scarce get out again.

The proverb says, Harm watch harmcatch,
   I’ll out of danger keep,
For he that sleeps in a whole skin
   Doth most securely sleep.

My business is to mend bad soals
   And stitch up broken quarters:
A cobbler’s name would look but odd
   Among a list of martyrs.

Faith, cobbler, quoth the gentleman,
   And that shall be my case;
I will neither party join,
   Let what will come to pass.

No importunities or threats
   My fixt resolves shall rest;
Come here, Sir Samuel, where’s his health
   That loves old England best.

I pity those unhappy fools
   Who, ere they were aware,
Designing and ambitious men
   Have drawn into a snare.

But, vicar, to come to the case,—
   Amidst a senseless crowd,
What urged you to such violence,
   And made you talk so loud?

Passion I’m sure does ill become
   Your character and cloath,
And, tho’ the cause be ne’er so just,
   Brings scandal upon both.

p.183Vicar, I speak it with regret,
   An inadvertent priest
Renders himself ridiculous,
   And every body’s jest.

The vicar to be thus rebuked
   A little time stood mute;
But having gulp’d his passion down,
   Replies,—That cobbling brute

Has treated me with such contempt,
   Such vile expressions used,
That I no longer could forbear
   To hear myself abused.

The rascal had the insolence
   To give himself the lie,
And to aver h’ had done more good
   And saved more soals than I.

Nay, further, Sir, this miscreant
   To tell me was so bold,
Our trades were very near of kin,
   But his was the more old.

Now, Sir, I will to you appeal
   On such a provocation,
If there was not sufficient cause
   To use a little passion?

Now, quoth the cobbler, with your leave,
   I’ll prove it to his face,
All this is mere suggestion,
   And foreign to the case.

And since he calls so many names
   And talks so very loud,
p. 184I willbe bound to make it plain
   ’Twas he that raised the crowd.

Nay, further, I will make ’t appear
   He and the priests have done
More mischief than the cobblers far
   All over Christendom.

All Europe groans beneath their yoke,
   And poor Great Britain owes
To them her present miseries,
   And dread of future woes.

The priests of all religions are
   And will be still the same,
And all, tho’ in a different way,
   Are playing the same game.

At this the gentleman stood up,—
   Cobbler, you run too fast;
By thus condemning all the tribe
   You go beyond your last.

Much mischief has by priests been done,
   And more is doing still;
But then to censure all alike
   Must be exceeding ill.

Too many, I must needs confess,
   Are mightily to blame,
Who by their wicked practices
   Disgrace the very name.

But, cobbler, still the major part
   The minor should conclude;
To argue at another rate’s
   Impertinent and rude.

p.185By this time all the neighbours round
   Were flock’d about the door,
And some were on the vicar’s side,
   But on the cobbler’s more.

Among the rest a grazier, who
   Had lately been at town
To sell his oxen and his sheep,
   Brim-full of news came down.

Quoth he, The priests have preach’d andpray’d,
   And made so damn’d a pother,
That all the people are run mad
   To murther one another.

By their contrivances and arts
   They’ve play’d their game so long,
That no man knows which side is right,
   Or which is in the wrong.

I’m sure I’ve Smithfield marketused
   For more than twenty year,
But never did such murmurings
   And dreadful outcries hear.

Some for a church, and some a tub,
   And some for both together;
And some, perhaps the greater part,
   Have no regard for either.

Some for a king, and some for none;
   And some have hankerings
To mend the Commonwealth, and make
   An empire of all kings.

What’s worse, old Noll is marchingoff,
   And Dick, his heir-apparent,
p. 186Succeedshim in the government,
   A very lame vicegerent.

He’ll reign but little time, poorfool,
   But sink beneath the State,
That will not fail to ride the fool
   ’Bove common horseman’s weight.

And rulers, when they lose the power,
   Like horses overweigh’d,
Must either fall and break their knees,
   Or else turn perfect jade.

The vicar to be twice rebuked
   No longer could contain;
But thus replies,—To knaves like you
   All arguments are vain.

The Church must use her arm of flesh,
   The other will not do;
The clergy waste their breath and time
   On miscreants like you.

You are so stubborn and so proud,
   So dull and prepossest,
That no instructions can prevail
   How well soe’er addrest.

Who would reform such reprobates,
   Must drub them soundly first;
I know no other way but that
   To make them wise or just.

Fie, vicar, fie, his patron said,
   Sure that is not the way;
You should instruct your auditors
   To suffer or obey.

p.187Those were the doctrines that of old
   The learned fathers taught;
And ’twas by them the Church at first
   Was to perfection brought.

Come, vicar, lay your feuds aside,
   And calmly take your cup;
And let us try in friendly wise
   To make the matter up.

That’s certainly the wiser course,
   And better too by far;
All men of prudence strive to quench
   The sparks of civil war.

By furious heats and ill advice
   Our neighbours are undone,
Then let us timely caution take
   From their destruction.

If we would turn our heads about,
   And look towards forty-one,
We soon should see what little jars
   Those cruel wars begun.

A one-eyed cobbler then was one
   Of that rebellious crew,
That did in Charles the martyr’s blood
   Their wicked hands imbrue.

I mention this not to deface
   This cobbler’s reputation,
Whom I have always honest found,
   And useful in his station.

But this I urge to let you see
   The danger of a fight
p. 188Betweena cobbler and a priest,
   Though he were ne’er so right.

The vicars are a numerous tribe,
   So are the cobblers too;
And if a general quarrel rise,
   What must the country do?

Our outward and our inward soals
   Must quickly want repair;
And all the neighbourhood around
   Would the misfortune share.

Sir, quoth the grazier, I believe
   Our outward soals indeed
May quickly want the cobbler’s help
   To be from leakings freed.

But for our inward souls, I think
   They’re of a worth too great
To be committed to the care
   Of any holy cheat,

Who only serves his God for gain,
   Religion is his trade;
And ’tis by such as these our Church
   So scandalous is made.

Why should I trust my soul with one
   That preaches, swears, and prays,
And the next moment contradicts
   Himself in all he says?

His solemn oaths he looks upon
   As only words of course!
Which like their wives our fathers took
   For better or for worse.

p.189But he takes oaths as some take w—s,
   Only to serve his ease;
And rogues and w—s, it is well known,
   May part whene’er they please.

At this the cobbler bolder grew,
   And stoutly thus reply’d,—
If you’re so good at drubbing, Sir,
   Your manhood shall be try’d.

What I have said I will maintain,
   And further prove withal—
I daily do more good than you
   In my respective call.

I know your character, quoth he,
   You proud insulting vicar,
Who only huff and domineer
   And quarrel in your liquor.

The honest gentleman, who saw
   ’Twould come again to blows,
Commands the cobbler to forbear,
   And to the vicar goes.

Vicar, says he, for shame give o’er
   And mitigate your rage;
You scandalize your cloth too much
   A cobbler to engage.

All people’s eyes are on your tribe,
   And every little ill
They multiply and aggravate
   And will because they will.

But now let’s call another cause,
   So let this health go round;
p. 190Be peaceand plenty, truth and right,
   In good old England found.

Quoth Ralph, All this is empty talk
   And only tends to laughter;
If these two varlets should be spared,
   Who’d pity us hereafter?

Your worship may do what you please,
   But I’ll have satisfaction
For drubbing and for damages
   In this ungodly action.

I think that you can do no less
   Than send them to the stocks;
And I’ll assist the constable
   In fixing in their hocks.

There let ’em sit and fight it out,
   Or scold till they are friends;
Or, what is better much than both,
   Till I am made amends.

Ralph, quoth the knight, that’s welladvised,
   Let them both hither go,
And you and the sub-magistrate
   Take care that it be so.

Let them be lock’d in face to face,
   Bare buttocks on the ground;
And let them in that posture sit
   Till they with us compound.

Thus fixt, well leave them for a time,
   Whilst we with grief relate,
How at a wake this knight and squire
   Got each a broken pate.

p. 191THEGENEVA BALLAD.

From Samuel Butler’sPosthumous Works.

Of all the factionsin the town
   Moved by French springs or Flemish wheels,
None turns religion upside down,
   Or tears pretences out at heels,
Like Splaymouthwith his brace of caps,
Whose conscience might be scann’d perhaps
By the dimensions of his chaps;

He whom the sisters do adore,
   Counting his actions all divine,
Who when the spirit hints can roar,
   And, if occasion serves, can whine;
Nay, he can bellow, bray, or bark;
Was ever sike a Beauk-learn’dclerk
That speaks all linguas of the ark?

To draw the hornets in like bees,
   With pleasing twangs he tones his prose;
He gives his handkerchief a squeeze,
   And draws John Calvin thro’ his nose;
Motive on motive he obtrudes,
With slip-stocking similitudes,
Eight uses more, and so concludes.

When monarchy began to bleed,
   And treason had a fine new name;
When Thames was balderdash’d with Tweed,
   And pulpits did like beacons flame;
p. 192WhenJeroboam’s calves were rear’d,
And Laud was neither loved nor fear’d,
This gospel-comet first appear’d.

Soon his unhallow’d fingers stript
   His sovereign-liege of power and land;
And, having smote his master, slipt
   His sword into his fellow’s hand;
But he that wears his eyes may note
Oft-times the butcher binds a goat,
And leaves his boy to cut her throat.

Poor England felt his fury then
   Outweigh’d Queen Mary’s many grains;
His very preaching slew more men
   Than Bonnar’s faggots, stakes, and chains:
With dog-star zeal, and lungs like Boreas,
He fought, and taught, and, what’s notorious,
Destroy’d his Lord to make him glorious.

Yet drew for King and Parliament,
   As if the wind could stand north-south;
Broke Moses’ law with blest intent,
   Murther’d, and then he wiped his mouth:
Oblivion alters not his case,
Nor clemency nor acts of grace
Can blanch an Ethiopian’s face.

Ripe for rebellion, he begins
   To rally up the saints in swarms;
He bawls aloud, Sir, leave your sins,
   But whispers, Boys, stand to your arms:
Thus he’s grown insolently rude,
Thinking his gods can’t be subdued—
Money, I mean, and multitude.

p.193Magistrates he regards no more
   Than St George or the King of Colon,
Vowing he’ll not conform before
   The old wives wind their dead in woollen:
He calls the bishop gray-hair’d coff,
And makes his power as mere a scoff
As Dagon when his hands were off.

Hark! how he opens with full cry,
   Halloo, my hearts, beware of Rome!
Cowards that are afraid to die
   Thus make domestic brawls at home.
How quietly great Charles might reign,
Would all these Hotspurs cross the main
And preach down Popery in Spain.

The starry rule of Heaven is fixt,
   There’s no dissension in the sky;
And can there be a mean betwixt,
   Confusion and conformity?
A place divided never thrives,
’Tis bad when hornets dwell in hives,
But worse when children play with knives.

I would as soon turn back to mass,
   Or change my praise to TheeandThou;
Let the Pope ride me like an ass,
   And his priests milk me like a cow!
As buckle to Smectymnian laws,
The bad effects o’ th’ Good old Cause,
That have dove’s plumes, but vulture’s claws.

For ’twas the holy Kirk that nursed,
   The Brownists and the ranters’ crew;
p. 194Foulerror’s motley vesture first
   Was oaded [98] in a northernblue;
And what’s th’ enthusiastick breed,
Or men of Knipperdolin’s creed,
But Cov’nanters run up to seed!

Yet they all cry they love the King,
   And make boast of their innocence:
There cannot be so vile a thing
   But may be cover’d with pretence;
Yet when all’s said, one thing I’ll swear,
No subject like th’ old Cavalier,
No traytor like Jack-Presbyter.

THE DEVIL’S PROGRESS ON EARTH,
OR
HUGGLE DUGGLE.

From Durfey’s “Pills toPurge Melancholy.”

Frier Baconwalks again,
   And Doctor Forster[99] too;
Prosperineand Pluto,
   And many a goblin crew:
With that a merry devil,
   To make the Airing, vow’d;
      Huggle Duggle, Ha! ha! ha!
   The Devil laugh’d aloud.

Why think you that he laugh’d?
   Forsooth he came from court;
p. 195Andthere amongst the gallants
   Had spy’d such pretty sport;
There was such cunning jugling,
   And ladys gon so proud;
      Huggle Duggle, etc.

With that into the city
   Away the Devil went;
To view the merchants’ dealings
   It was his full intent:
And there along the brave Exchange
   He crept into the croud.
      Huggle Duggle, etc.

He went into the city
   To see all there was well;
Their scales were false, their weights were light,
   Their conscience fit for hell;
And Panderschosen magistrates,
   And Puritansallow’d.
      Huggle Duggle, etc.

With that unto the country
   Away the Devil goeth;
For there is all plain dealing,
   For that the Devil knoweth:
But the rich man reaps the gains
   For which the poor man plough’d.
      Huggle Duggle, etc.

With that the Devil in haste
   Took post away to hell,
And call’d his fellow furies,
   And told them all on earth was well:
p. 196Thatfalsehood there did flourish,
   Plain dealing was in a cloud.
      Huggle Duggle, Ha! ha! ha!
   The devils laugh’d aloud.

A BOTTLE DEFINITION OF THAT FALLEN ANGEL, CALLED A WHIG.

From a collection of Historical and State Poems, Satyrs,Songs, and Epigrams, by Ned Ward, A.D. 1717.

What is aWhig?  A cunning rogue
That once was in, now out of vogue:
A rebel to the Church and throne,
Of Lucifer the very spawn.

A tyrant, who is ne’er at rest
In power, or when he’s dispossess’d;
A knave, who foolishly has lost
What so much blood and treasure cost.

A lying, bouncing desperado,
A bomb, a stink-pot, a granado;
That’s ready primed, and charged to break,
And mischief do for mischief’s sake:

A comet, whose portending phiz
Appears more dreadful than it is;
But now propitious stars repel
Those ills it lastly did fortel.

’Twill burst with unregarded spight,
And, since the Parliament proves right,
Will turn to smoke, which shone of late
So bright and flaming in the State.

p. 197THEDESPONDING WHIG.

From Ned Ward’s Works, vol.iv. 1709.

When owles arestrip’d of their disguise,
   And wolves of shepherd’s cloathing,
Those birds and beasts that please our eyes
   Will then beget our loathing;
When foxes tremble in their holes
   At dangers that they see,
And those we think so wise prove fools,
   Then low, boys, down go we.

If those designs abortive prove
   We’ve been so long in hatching,
And cunning knaves are forced to move
   From home for fear of catching;
The rabble soon will change their tone
   When our intrigues they see,
And cry God save the Church and Throne,
   Then low, boys, down go we.

The weaver then no more must leave
   His loom and turn a preacher,
Nor with his cant poor fools deceive
   To make himself the richer.
Our leaders soon would disappear
   If such a change should be,
Our scriblers too would stink for fear,
   Then low, boys, down go we.

No canvisars would dare to shew
   Their postures and grimaces,
Or proph’sy what they never knew,
   By dint of ugly faces.
p. 198Butshove the tumbler through the town,
   And quickly banish’d be,
For none must teach without a gown,
   Then low, boys, down go we.

If such unhappy days should come,
   Our virtue, moderation,
Would surely be repaid us home
   With double compensation;
For as we never could forgive,
   I fear we then should see
That what we lent we must receive,
   Then low, boys, down go we.

Should honest brethren once discern
   Our knaveries, they’d disown us,
And bubbl’d fools more wit should learn,
   The Lord have mercy on us;
Let’s guard against that evil day,
   Least such a time should be,
And tackers should come into play,
   Then low, boys, down go we.

Tho’ hitherto we’ve play’dour parts
   Like wary cunning foxes,
And gain’d the common people’s hearts
   By broaching het’rodoxes,—
But they’re as fickle as the winds,
   With nothing long agree,
And when they change their wav’ring minds,
   Then low, boys, down go we.

Let’s preach and pray, but spit ourgall
   On those that do oppose us,
And cant of grace, in spite of all
   The shame the Devil owes us:
p. 199Thejust, the loyal, and the wise
   With us shall Papists be,
For if the High Churchonce should rise,
   Then, Low Church, down go we.

PHANATICK ZEAL,
OR
A LOOKING-GLASS FOR THE WHIGS.

From a Collection of 180 LoyalSongs.
Tune, “A Swearing we will go.”

Who would not be aTory
   When the loyal are call’d so:
And a Whig now is known
   To be the nation’s foe?
      So a Tory I will be, will be,
      And a Tory I will be.

With little band precise,
   Hair Presbyterian cut,
Whig turns up hands and eyes
   Though smoking hot from slut.
      So a Tory I will be, etc.

Black cap turn’d up with white,
   With wolfish neck and face,
And mouth with nonsense stuft,
   Speaks Whig a man of grace,
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

p.200The sisters go to meetings
   To meet their gallants there;
And oft mistake for my Lord,
   And snivel out my dear.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

Example, we do own,
   Than precept better is;
For Creswell she was safe,
   When she lived a private Miss.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

The Whigs, though ne’er so proud,
   Sometimes have been as low,
For there are some of note
   Have long a raree-show.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

These mushrooms now have got
   Their champion turn-coat hick;
But if the naked truth were known
   They’re assisted by old Nick.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

To be and to be not
   At once is in their power;
For when they’re in, they’re guilty,
   But clear when out o’ the tower.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

To carry their designs,
   Though ’t contradicts their sense;
They’re clear a Whiggish traytor
   Against clear evidence.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

p.201The old proverb doth us tell,
   Each dog will have his day;
And Whig has had his too,
   For which he’ll soundly pay;
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

For bodkins and for thimbles
   Now let your tubsters cant;
Their confounded tired cause
   Had never yet more want.
      So a Tory I will be, etc.

For ignoramus Toney
   Has left you in the lurch;
And you have spent your money,
   So, faith, e’en come to Church;
      For a Tory I will be, etc.

They are of no religion,
   Be it spoken to their glories,
For St Peter and St Paul
   With them both are Tories;
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

They’re excellent contrivers,
   I wonder what they’re not,
For something they can make
   Of nothing and a plot.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

But now your holy cheat
   Is known throughout the nation;
And a Whig is known to be
   A thing quite out of fashion.
      And a Tory I will be, etc.

p. 202ANEW GAME AT CARDS:
OR,
WIN AT FIRST AND LOSE AT LAST.

A popular ballad, written immediately after the restoration ofCharles II.; and in which the victorious Cavaliers render honourto General Monk, Duke of Albemarle.

Tune, “Ye gallants thatdelight to play.”

Ye merry hearts thatlove to play
At cards, see who hath won the day;
You that once did sadly sing
The knave of clubs hath won the king;
Now more happy times we have,
The king hath overcome the knave.

Not long ago a game was play’d,
When three crowns at the stakes were laid;
England had no cause to boast,
Knaves won that which kings had lost:
Coaches gave the way to carts,
And clubs were better cards than hearts.

Old Noll was the knave o’ clubs,
And dad of such as preach in tubs;
Bradshaw, Ireton, and Pride
Were three other knaves beside;
And they play’d with half the pack,
Throwing out all cards but black.

But the just Fates threw these four out,
Which made the loyal party shout;
The Pope would fain have had the stock,
And with these cards have whipt his dock.
But soon the Devil these cards snatches
To dip in brimstone, and make matches.

p.203But still the sport for to maintain,
Bold Lambert, Haslerigg, and Vane,
With one-eyed Hewson, took their places,
Knaves were better cards than aces;
But Fleetwood he himself did save,
Because he was more fool than knave.

Cromwell, though he so much had won,
Yet he had an unlucky son;
He sits still, and not regards,
Whilst cunning gamesters set the cards;
And thus, alas! poor silly Dick,
He play’d awhile, and lost his trick.

The Rumpers that had won whole towns,
The spoils of martyrs and of crowns,
Were not contented, but grew rough,
As though they had not won enough;
They kept the cards still in their hands,
To play for tithes and college lands.

The Presbyters began to fret
That they were like to lose the sett;
Unto the Rump they did appeal,
And said it was their turn to deal;
Then dealt with Presbyterians, but
The army swore that they would cut.

The foreign lands began to wonder,
To see what gallants we lived under,
That they, which Christians did forswear,
Should follow gaming all the year,—
Nay more, which was the strangest thing,
To play so long without a king.

p.204The bold phanatics present were,
Like butlers with their boxes there,
Not doubting but that every game
Some profit would redound to them;
Because they were the gamesters’ minions,
And every day broach’d new opinions.

But Cheshire men (as stories say)
Began to show them gamester’s play;
Brave Booth and all his army strives
To save the stakes, or lose their lives;
But, oh sad fate! they were undone
By playing of their cards too soon.

Thus all the while a club was trump,
There’s none could ever beat the Rump,
Until a noble general came,
And gave the cheaters a clear slam;
His finger did outwit their noddy,
And screw’d up poor Jack Lambert’s body.

Then Haslerigg began to scowl,
And said the general play’d foul.
Look to him, partners, for I tell ye,
This Monk has got a king in’s belly.
Not so, quoth Monk, but I believe
Sir Arthur has a knave in’s sleeve.

When General Monk did understand
The Rump were peeping into’s hand,
He wisely kept his cards from sight,
Which put the Rump into a fright;
He saw how many were betray’d
That show’d their cards before they play’d.

p.205At length, quoth he, some cards we lack,
I will not play with half a pack;
What you cast out I will bring in,
And a new game we will begin:
With that the standers-by did say
They never yet saw fairer play.

But presently this game was past,
And for a second knaves were cast;
All new cards, not stain’d with spots,
As was the Rumpers and the Scots,—
Here good gamesters play’d their parts
And turn’d up the king of hearts.

After this game was done, I think
The standers-by had cause to drink,
And all loyal subjects sing,
Farewell knaves, and welcome King;
For, till we saw the King return’d,
We wish’d the cards had all been burn’d.

THE CAVALEERS LITANY.

(March 25th, 1660.)—From theKing’s Pamphlets, British Museum.

From pardons whichextend to woods,
Entitle thieves to keep our goods,
Forgive our rents as well as bloods,
              God bless, etc.

p.206From judges who award that none
Of our oppressours should attone
(The losses sure were not their own),
              God bless, etc.

From Christians which can soon forget
Our injuries, but not one bit
Of self-concernment would remit,
              God bless, etc.

From duresse, and their dolefull tale,
Who, famisht by a lawless sale,
Compounded it for cakes and ale,
              God bless, etc.

From persons still to tread the stage,
Who did the drudgeries of our age
(Such counsells are, I fear, too sage),
              God bless, etc.

From maximes which (to make all sure)
With great rewards the bad allure,
’Cause of the good they are secure,
              God bless, etc.

From cunning gamesters, who, they say,
Are sure to winne, what-e’re they play;
In April Lambert, Charles in May,
              God bless, etc.

From neuters and their leven’d lump,
Who name the King and mean the Rump,
Or care not much what card is trump,
              God bless, etc.

p.207From midnight-birds, who lye at catch
Some plume from monarchy to snatch,
And from fond youths that cannot watch,
              God bless, etc.

From brethren who must still dissent,
Whose froward gospell brooks no Lent,
And who recant, but ne’er repent,
              God bless, etc.

From Levites void of truth and shame,
Who to the time their pulpits frame,
And keep the style but change the name,
              God bless, etc.

From men by heynous crimes made rich,
Who (though their hopes are in the ditch)
Have still th’ old fornicatours itch,
              God bless, etc.

From such as freely paid th’ arrears
Of the State-troops for many years,
But grudge one tax for Cavaleers,
              God bless, etc.

THE SECOND PART.

A crown of goldwithout allay,
Not here provided for one day,
But framed above to last for aye!
              God send, etc.

p.208A Queen to fill the empty place,
And multiply his noble race,
Wee all beseech the throne of grace
              To send, etc.

A people still as true and kind
As late (when for their King they pin’d),
Not fickle as the tide or wild,
              God send, etc.

A fleet like that in fifty-three,
To re-assert our power at sea,
And make proud Flemings bend their knee,
              God send, etc.

Full magazines and cash in store,
That such as wrought his fate before
May hope to do the same no more,
              God send, etc.

A searching judgement to divine,
Of persons whether they do joyn
For love, for fear, or for design,
              God send, etc.

A well-complexion’d Parliament,
That shall (like Englishmen) resent
What loyall subjects underwent,
              God send, etc.

Review of statutes lately past,
Made in such heat, pen’d in such hast,
That all events were not forecast,
              God send, etc.

p.209Dispatch of businesse, lawes upright,
And favour where it stands with right,
(Be their purses ne’er so light),
              God send, etc.

A raven to supply their need,
Whose martyrdom (like noble seed)
Sprung up at length and choak’t the weed,
              God send, etc.

The King and kingdom’s debtsdefray’d,
And those of honest men well pay’d,
To which their vertue them betray’d,
              God send, etc.

Increase of customes to the King
May our increase of traffick bring,
’Tis that will make the people sing
              Long live, etc.

London, printed for Robert Crofts, at the Crown, in ChanceryLane, 1661.

THE CAVALIER’S COMPLAINT.

This and the following ballad, from the King’sPamphlets, British Museum, express the discontent of theCavaliers at the ingratitude of King Charles to the oldsupporters of the fortunes of his family.—(March 15th,1660.)

To the tune of “I tell thee,Dick.”

Come, Jack,let’s drink a pot of ale,
And I shall tell thee such a tale
   Will make thine ears to ring;
p. 210My coyneis spent, my time is lost,
And I this only fruit can boast,
   That once I saw my King.

But this doth most afflict my mind:
I went to Court in hope to find
   Some of my friends in place;
And walking there, I had a sight
Of all the crew, but, by this light!
   I hardly knew one face.

’S’life! of so many noblesparkes,
Who on their bodies bear the markes
   Of their integritie;
And suffer’d ruine of estate,
It was my damn’d unhappy fate
   That I not one could see.

Not one, upon my life, among
My old acquaintance all along
   At Truro and before;
And I suppose the place can show
As few of those whom thou didst know
   At Yorke or Marston-moore.

But truly there are swarmes of those
Who lately were our chiefest foes,
   Of pantaloons and muffes;
Whilst the old rusty Cavaleer
Retires, or dares not once appear,
   For want of coyne and cuffes.

When none of these I could descry,
Who better far deserv’d then I,
   Calmely I did reflect;
p.211“Old services (by rule of State)
Like almanacks grow out of date,—
   What then can I expect?”

Troth! in contempt of Fortune’s frown,
I’ll get me fairly out of town,
   And in a cloyster pray;
That since the starres are yet unkind
To Royalists, the King may find
   More faithfull friends than they.

AN ECHO TO THE CAVALIER’S COMPLAINT.

I marvel, Dick, thathaving been
So long abroad, and having seen
   The world as thou hast done,
Thou should’st acquaint mee with a tale
As old as Nestor, and as stale
   As that of Priest and Nunne. [100]

Are we to learn what is a Court?
A pageant made for fortune’s sport,
   Where merits scarce appear;
For bashfull merit only dwells
In camps, in villages, and cells;
   Alas! it dwells not there.

p.212Desert is nice in its addresse,
And merit ofttimes doth oppresse
   Beyond what guilt would do;
But they are sure of their demands
That come to Court with golden hands,
   And brazen faces, too.

The King, they say, doth still professe
To give his party some redresse,
   And cherish honestie;
But his good wishes prove in vain,
Whose service with his servants’ gain
   Not alwayes doth agree.

All princes (be they ne’er so wise)
Are fain to see with others’ eyes,
   But seldom hear at all;
And courtiers find their interest
In time to feather well their nest,
   Providing for their fall.

Our comfort doth on time depend,
Things when they are at worst will mend;
   And let us but reflect
On our condition th’ other day,
When none but tyrants bore the sway,
   What did we then expect?

Meanwhile a calm retreat is best,
But discontent (if not supprest)
   Will breed disloyaltie;
This is the constant note I sing,
I have been faithful to the King,
   And so shall ever be.

London, printed for Robert Crofts, at the Crown, in ChanceryLane, 1661.

p. 213ARELATION.

Of Ten grand infamous Traytors, who, for their horrid murderand detestable villany against our late soveraigne Lord KingCharles the First, that ever blessed martyr, were arraigned,tryed, and executed in the moneth of October, 1660, which inperpetuity will be had in remembrance unto the world’send.

This is one of the Six Ballads of the Restoration found in atrunk, and sent by Sir W. C. Trevelyan to the BritishMuseum.  “No measure threw more disgrace on theRestoration,” says Mr Wright, “than the prosecutionof the regicides; and the heartless and sanguinary manner inwhich it was conducted tended more than any other circumstance toopen the eyes of the people to the real character of thegovernment to which they had been betrayed.”  Pepysobserves on the 20th Oct., “A bloody week this and the lasthave been; there being ten hanged, drawn, andquartered.”

The tune is “Come let usdrinke, the time invites.”

Hee that can imposea thing,
   And shew forth a reason
For what was done against the King,
   From the palace to the prison;
Let him here with me recite,
For my pen is bent to write
   The horrid facts of treason.

Since there is no learned scribe
   Nor arithmaticion
Ever able to decide
   The usurp’d base ambition,
Which in truth I shall declare,
Traytors here which lately were,
   Who wanted a phisitian.

p.214For the grand disease that bred
   Nature could not weane it;
From the foot unto the head,
   Was putrefacted treason in it;
Doctors could no cure give,
Which made the squire then beleeve
   That he must first begin it.

And the phisick did compose,
   Within a pound of reason;
First to take away the cause,
   Then to purge away the treason,
With a dosse of hemp made up,
Wrought as thickly as a rope,
   And given them in due season.

The doctors did prescribe at last
   To give ’um this potation,
A vomit or a single cast,
   Well deserved, in purgation;
After that to lay them downe,
And bleed a veine in every one,
   As traytors of the nation.

So when first the physicke wrought,
   The thirteenth of October, [101]
The patient on a sledge was brought,
   Like a rebell and a rover,
p. 215To theexecution tree;
Where with much dexterity
   Was gently turned over.

THE SECOND PART.

To the same tune.

Monday was thefifteenth day,
   As Carew then did follow, [102]
Of whom all men I thinke might say
   In tyranny did deeply wallow;
Traytor proved unto the King,
Which made him on the gallowes swing,
   And all the people hallow.

Tuesday, after Peters, Cooke, [103]
   Two notorious traytors,
That brought our soveraigne to the blocke,
   For which were hang’d and cut in quarters;
’Twas Cooke which wrought the bloody thing
To draw the charge against our King,
   That ever blessed martyr.

p.216Next, on Wednesday, foure came,
   For murthur all imputed,
There to answer for the same,
   Which in judgement were confuted.
Gregorie Clement, Jones, and Scot,
And Scroop together, for a plot, [104]
   Likewise were executed.

Thursday past, and Friday then,
   To end the full conclusion,
And make the traytors just up ten,
   That day were brought to execution,
Hacker and proud Axtell he, [105]
At Tyburne for their treachery
   Received their absolution.

Being against the King and States,
   The Commons all condemn’d ’um,
And their quarters on the gates
   Hangeth for a memorandum
p.217’Twixt the heavens and the earth;
Traytors are so little worth,
   To dust and smoake wee’l send ’um.

Let now October warning make
   To bloody-minded traytors,
That never phisicke more they take,
   For in this moneth they lost their quarters;
Being so against the King,
Which to murther they did bring,
   The ever blessed martyr.

London, printed for Fr. Coles, T. Vere, M. Wright, and W.Gilbertson.

THE GLORY OF THESE NATIONS;

Or, King and peoples happinesse. Being a brief relation of King Charles’s royall progressefrom Dover to London, how the Lord Generall and the Lord Mayor,with all the nobility and gentry of the land, brought him thorowthe famous city of London to his pallace at Westminster, the 29thof May last, being his Majesties birth-day, to the great comfortof his loyall subjects.

One of the six curious broadsides found by Sir W. C. Trevelyanin the lining of a trunk, and now in the British Museum.

The new Parliament met on the twenty-fifth of April, and onthe first of May the King’s letter from Breda was read, andthe Restoration determined by a vote of the House.  The Kingimmediately repaired to the coast, and, after meeting with someobstruction from the roughness of the weather, went on p. 218board theNazebyon the 23rd of May.  On the 25th he landed atDover.  He made his entry into London on the 29th.

To the tune of “When the Kingenjoys his own again.”

Where’s thosethat did prognosticate,
And did envy fair England’s state,
And said King Charles no more should reign?
Their predictions were but in vain,
   For the King is now return’d,
   For whom fair England mourn’d;
His nobles royally him entertain.
   Now blessed be the day!
   Thus do his subjects say,
That God hath brought him home again.

The twenty-second of lovely May
At Dover arrived, fame doth say,
Where our most noble generall
Did on his knees before him fall,
   Craving to kiss his hand,
   So soon as he did land.
Royally they did him entertain,
   With all their pow’r and might,
   To bring him to his right,
And place him in his own again.

Then the King, I understand,
Did kindly take him by the hand
And lovingly did him embrace,
Rejoycing for to see his face.
   Hee lift him from the ground
   With joy that did abound,
And graciously did him entertain;
   Rejoycing that once more
   He was o’ th’ English shore,
To enjoy his own in peace again.

p.219From Dover to Canterbury they past,
And so to Cobham-hall at last;
From thence to London march amain,
With a triumphant and glorious train,
   Where he was received with joy,
   His sorrow to destroy,
In England once more for to raign;
   Now all men do sing,
   God save Charles our King,
That now enjoyes his own again.

At Deptford the maidens they
Stood all in white by the high-way
Their loyalty to Charles to show,
They with sweet flowers his way to strew.
   Each wore a ribbin blew,
   They were of comely hue,
With joy they did him entertain,
   With acclamations to the skye
   As the King passed by,
For joy that he receives his own again.

In Wallworth-fields a gallant band
Of London ’prentices did stand,
All in white dublets very gay,
To entertain King Charles that day,
   With muskets, swords, and pike;
   I never saw the like,
Nor a more youthfull gallant train;
   They up their hats did fling,
   And cry, “God save the King!
Now he enjoys his own again.”

p.220At Newington-Buts the Lord Mayor willed
A famous booth for to be builded,
Where King Charles did make a stand,
And received the sword into his hand;
   Which his Majesty did take,
   And then returned back
Unto the Mayor with love again.
   A banquet they him make,
   He doth thereof partake,
Then marcht his triumphant train.

The King with all his noblemen,
Through Southwark they marched then;
First marched Major Generall Brown, [106]
Then Norwich Earle of great renown, [107]
   With many a valiant knight
   And gallant men of might,
Richly attired, marching amain,
   There Lords Mordin, Gerard, and
   The good Earle of Cleavland, [108]
To bring the King to his own again.

p.221Near sixty flags and streamers then
Was born before a thousand men,
In plush coats and chaines of gold,
These were most rich for to behold;
   With every man his page,
   The glory of his age;
With courage bold they marcht amain,
   Then with gladnesse they
   Brought the King on his way
For to enjoy his own again.

Then Lichfields and Darbyes Earles, [109]
Two of fair England’s royall pearles;
Major Generall Massey then
Commanded the life guard of men,
   The King for to defend,
   If any should contend,
Or seem his comming to restrain;
   But also joyfull were
   That no such durst appear,
Now the King enjoyes his own again.

Four rich maces before them went,
And many heralds well content;
The Lord Mayor and the generall
Did march before the King withall.
   p.222His brothers on each side
   Along by him did ride;
The Southwark-waits did play amain,
   Which made them all to smile
   And to stand still awhile,
And then they marched on again.

Then with drawn swords all men did side,
And flourishing the same, then cryed,
“Charles the Second now God save,
That he his lawfull right may have!
   And we all on him attend,
   From dangers him to defend,
And all that with him doth remain.
   Blessed be God that we
   Did live these days to see,
That the King enjoyes his own again!”

The bells likewise did loudly ring,
Bonefires did burn and people sing;
London conduits did run with wine,
And all men do to Charles incline;
   Hoping now that all
   Unto their trades may fall,
Their famylies for to maintain,
   And from wrong be free,
   ’Cause we have liv’d to see
The King enjoy his own again.

London, printed for Charles Tyns,on London Bridge.

p. 223THENOBLE PROGRESS,
OR,
A TRUE RELATION OF THE LORD
GENERAL MONK’S POLITICAL
PROCEEDINGS.

The Noble Progresse, or a True Relation of the Lord GeneralMonk’s Political Proceedings with the Rump, the calling inthe secluded Members, their transcendant vote for his sacredMajesty, with his reception at Dover, and royal conduct throughthe City of London to his famous Palace at Whitehall.  Oneof the broadsides in the British Museum, found in the lining ofan old trunk by Sir W. C. Trevelyan.

Tune—“When first theScottish wars began.”

   Good people, hearken to my call,
   I’le tell you all what did befall
      And hapned of late;
   Our noble valiant General Monk
   Came to the Rump, who lately stunk
      With their council of state.
Admiring what this man would doe,
His secret mind there’s none could know,
They div’d into him as much as they could,—
George would not be won with their silver nor gold:
The sectarian saints at this lookt blew,
With all the rest of the factious crew,
They vapour’d awhile, and were in good hope,
But now they have nothing left but the rope.

   Another invention then theysought,
   Which long they wrought for to be brought
      To claspe him with they;
   Quoth Vane and Scot, I’le tell you what,
   Wee’l have a plot and he shall not,
      Wee’l carry the sway:
p.224Let’s vote him a thousand pound a yeare,
And Hampton Court for him and his Heire.
Indeed, quoth George, ye’re Free Parliament men
To cut a thong out of another man’s skin.
   The sectarian, etc.

   They sent him then with allhis hosts
   To break our posts and raise our ghosts,
      Which was their intent;
   To cut our gates and chain all downe
   Unto the ground—this trick they found
      To make him be shent:
This plot the Rump did so accord
To cast an odium on my lord,
But in the task he was hard put untoo’t,
’Twas enough to infect both his horse and his foot,
   The sectarian, etc.

   But when my lord perceivedthat night
   What was their spight, he brought to light
      Their knaveries all;
   This Parliament of forty-eight,
   Which long did wait, came to him straight,
      To give them a fall,
And some phanatical people knew
That George would give them their fatall due;
Indeed he did requite them agen,
For he pul’d the Monster out of his den.
   The sectarian, etc.

   To the House our worthyParliament
   With good intent they boldly went
      To vote home the King,
   p.225And many hundred people more
   Stood at the doore, and waited for
      Good tidings to bring;
Yet some in the House had their hands much in blood,
And in great opposition like traytors they stood;
But yet I believe it is very well known
That those that were for him were twenty to one.
   But the sectarian, etc.

   They call’d the Leagueand Covenant in
   To read again to every man;
      But what comes next?
   All sequestrations null be void,
   The people said none should be paid,
      For this was the text.
For, as I heard all the people say,
They voted King Charles the first of May;
Bonfires burning, bells did ring,
And our streets did echo with God bless ye King.
   At this the sectarian, etc.

   Our general then to Dovergoes,
   In spite of foes or deadly blowes,
      Saying Vive le Roy;
   And all the glories of the land,
   At his command they there did stand
      In triumph and joy.
Good Lord, what a sumptuous sight ’twas to see
Our good Lord General fall on his knee
To welcome home his Majestie,
And own his sacred sovereignty.
   But the sectarian, etc.

   p. 226When all the worthy noble train
   Came back again with Charlemain,
      Our sovereign great:
   The Lord Mayor in his scarlet gown,
   His chain so long, went through the town
      In pompe and state.
The livery-men each line the way
Upon this great triumphant day;
Five rich maces carried before,
And my Lord himselfe the sword he bore.
Then Vive le Roy the gentry did sing,
For General Monk rode next to the King;
With acclamations, shouts, and cryes,
I thought they would have rent the skyes.

   The conduits, ravished withjoy,
   As I may say, did run all day
      Great plenty of wine;
   And every gentleman of note
   In’s velvet coat that could be got
      In glory did shine.
There were all the peeres and barrons bold,
Richly clad in silver and gold,
Marched through the street so brave,
No greater pompe a king could have.
   At this, the sacristan, etc.

   And thus conducted allalong
   Throughout the throng, still he did come
      Unto White Hall;
   Attended by those noble-men,
   Bold heroes’ kin that brought him in
      With the geneall;
Who was the man that brought him home
And placed him on his royal throne;—
p.227’Twas General Monk did doe the thing,
So God preserve our gracious King,
   Now the sacristan, etc.

ON THE KING’S RETURN.

By Alex. Brome.

Long have we waitedfor a happy end
   Of all our miseries and strife;—
But still in vain;—the swordmen did intend
   To make them hold for term of life:
That our distempers might be made
Their everlasting livelihood and trade.

They entail their swords and guns,
   And pay, which wounded more,
Upon their daughters and their sons,
   Thereby to keep us ever poor.

But when the Civil Wars were past,
   They civil government invade,
To make our taxes and our slavery last,
   Both to their titles and their trade.

But now we are redeem’d from all
   By our indulgent King,
Whose coming does prevent our fall,
   With loyal and with joyful hearts we’llsing:

p. 228CHORUS,

Welcome, welcome, royal May,
   Welcome, long-desired Spring.
   Many Springs and Mays we’ve seen,
   Have brought forth what’s gay and green;
But none is like this glorious day,
   Which brings forth our gracious King.

THE BRAVE BARBARY.

A Ballad by Alex. Brome.

Old England is now abrave Barbary made,
   And every one has an ambition to ride her;
King Charles was a horseman that long used the trade,
   But he rode in a snaffle, and that could not guideher.

Then the hungry Scot comes with spur and withswitch,
   And would teach her to run a Geneva career;
His grooms were all Puritan, Traytor, and Witch,
   But she soon threw them down with their pedlarygeer.

The Long Parliament next came all to theblock,
   And they this untameable palfrey would ride;
p. 229But shewould not bear all that numerous flock,
   At which they were fain themselves to divide.

Jack Presbyter first gets the steed by thehead,
   While the reverend Bishops had hold of thebridle;
Jack said through the nose they their flockes did not feed,
   But sat still on the beast and grew aged andidle.

And then comes the Rout, with broom-sticksinspired,
   And pull’d down their graces, their sleeves,and their train;
And sets up Sir Jack, who the beast quickly tyr’d
   With a journey to Scotland and thence backagain.

Jack rode in a doublet, with a yoke ofprick-ears,
   A cursed splay-mouth and a Covenant spur,
Rides switching and spurring with jealousies and fears,
   Till the poor famish’d beast was not able tostir.

Next came th’ Independent—adev’lish designer,
   And got himself call’d by a holiername—
Makes Jack to unhorse, for he was diviner,
   And would make her travel as far’sAmsterdam.

But Nol, a rank-rider, gets first in thesaddle,
   And made her show tricks, and curvate, andrebound;
p. 230Shequickly perceived that he rode widdle waddle,
   And like his coach-horses threw his Highness toground.

Then Dick, being lame, rode holding by thepummel,
   Not having the wit to get hold of the rein;
But the jade did so snort at the sight of a Cromwell,
   That poor Dick and his kindred turn’d footmenagain.

Next Fleetwood and Vane with their rascallypack,
   Would every one put their feet in the stirrup;
But they pull’d the saddle quite off of her back,
   And were all got under her before they were up.

At last the King mounts her, and then she stoodstill;
   As his Bucephalus, proud of this rider,
She cheerfully yields to his power and skill
   Who is careful to feed her, and skilful to guideher.

A CATCH.

By Alex. Brome.  A.D.1660.

Let’s leaveoff our labour, and now let’s go play,
   For this is our time to be jolly;
Our plagues and our plaguers are both fled away,
   To nourish our griefs is but folly:
         He thatwon’t drink and sing
         Is a traytorto’s King,
And so he that does not look twenty years younger;
         We’ll lookblythe and trim
         With rejoicingat him
That is the restorer and will be the prolonger
Of all our felicity and health,
The joy of our hearts, and increase of our wealth.
’Tis he brings our trading, our trading brings riches,
p. 231Ourriches brings honour, at which every mind itches,
And our riches bring sack, and our sack brings us joy,
And our joy makes us leap and sing,
              Vive le Roy!

THE TURN-COAT.

By Samuel Butler.  1661.

Several lines in this song were incorporated in thebetter-known ballad of the Vicar of Bray, said by Nichols in hisSelect Poems to have been written by a soldier in ColonelFuller’s troop of dragoons, in the reign of George I. Butler’s ballad, though unpublished, must therefore havebeen known at the time.

To the tune of “London is afine town.”

I loved no Kingsince forty-one,
   When Prelacy went down;
A cloak and band I then put on
   And preach’d against the crown.
p. 232Aturn-coat is a cunning man
   That cants to admiration,
And prays for any king to gain
   The people’s approbation.

I show’d the paths to heaven untrod,
   From Popery to refine ’em,
And taught the people to serve God,
   As if the Devil were in ’em.
      A turn-coat, etc.

When Charles return’d into our land,
   The English Church supporter,
I shifted off my cloak and band,
   And so became a courtier.
      A turn-coat, etc.

The King’s religion I profest,
   And found there was no harm in ’t;
I cogg’d and flatter’d like the rest,
   Till I had got preferment.
      A turn-coat, etc.

I taught my conscience how to cope
   With honesty or evil;
And when I rail’d against the Pope
   I sided with the Devil.
      A turn-coat, etc.

p. 233THECLARET DRINKER’S SONG,
OR
THE GOOD FELLOW’S DESIGN.

Being a pleasant song of the times, written by a person ofquality.—From the Roxburgh Ballads, Vol. iii.

Wine the most powerfull’st of all thingson earth,
Which stifles cares and sorrows in their birth;
No treason in it harbours, nor can hate
Creep in when it bears away, to hurt the State.
Though storms grow high, so wine is to be got,
We are secure, their rage we value not;
The Muses cherish’d up such nectar, sing
Eternal joy to him that loves the King.

To the tune of “LetCæsar live long.”

A pox of the foolingand plotting of late,
What a pudder and stir has it kept in the State!
Let the rabble run mad with suspicions and fears,
Let ’em scuffle and rail till they go by theears,—
Their grievances never shall trouble my pate,
So I but enjoy my dear bottle at quiet.

What coxcombs were those that would ruin theircase
And their necks for a toy, a thin wafer, and mass!
For at Tyburn they never had needed to swing
Had they been but true subjects to drink and their King:
A friend and a bottle is all my design,—
He’s no room for treason that’s top-full of wine.

I mind not the members and makers of laws,
Let them sit or prorogue as his Majesty please;
Let ’em damn us to Woolen, I’le never repine
At my usage when dead, so alive I have wine;
p. 234Yet oftin my drink I can hardly forbear
To blame them for making my claret so dear.

I mind not grave allies who idly debate
About rights and successions, the trifles of State;
We’ve a good King already, and he deserves laughter
That will trouble his head with who shall come after:
Come, here’s to his health! and I wish he may be
As free from all cares and all troubles as we.

SECONDPART.

What care I howleagues with Hollanders go,
Or intrigues ’twist Mounsieurs or Dons for to?
What concerns it my drinking if cities be sold,
If the conqueror takes them by storming or gold?
From whence claret comes is the place that I mind,
And when the fleet’s coming I pray for a wind.

The bully of France that aspires to renown
By dull cutting of throats, and by venturing his own;
Let him fight till he’s ruined, make matches, and treat,
To afford us still news, the dull coffee-house cheat:
He’s but a brave wretch, whilst that I am more free,
More safe, and a thousand times happier than he.

In spite of him, or the Pope, or the Devil,
Or faggot, or fire, or the worst of hell’s evil,
p. 235I stillwill drink healths to the lovers of wine,
Those jovial, brisk blades that do never repine;
I’ll drink in defiance of napkin or halter,
Tho’ religion turn round still, yet mine shall ne’eralter.

But a health to good fellows shall still be mycare,
And whilst wine it holds out, no bumpers we’ll spare.
I’ll subscribe to petitions for nothing but claret,
That that may be cheap, here’s both my hands for it;
’Tis my province, and with it I only am pleased,
With the rest, scolding wives let poor cuckolds appease.

No doubt ’tis the best of all drinks, orso soon
It ne’er had been chose by the Man in the Moon, [110]
Who drinks nothing else, both by night and by day
But claret, brisk claret, and most people say,
Whilst glasses brimful to the stars they go round,
Which makes them shine brighter with red juice stillcrown’d.

For all things in Nature doe live by gooddrinking,
And he’s a dull fool, and not worthy my thinking,
That does not prefer it before all the treasure
The Indies contain, or the sea without measure;
’Tis the life of good fellows, for without it they pine,
When nought can revive them but brimmers of wine.

p.236I know the refreshments that still it does bring,
Which have oftentimes made us as great as a king
In the midst of his armies where’er he is found,
Whilst the bottles and glasses I’ve muster’dround;
Who are Bacchus’ warriors a conquest will gain
Without the least bloodshed, or wounded, or slain.

Then here’s a good health to all thosethat love peace,
Let plotters be damn’d and all quarrels now cease
Let me but have wine and I care for no more,
’Tis a treasure sufficient; there’s none can bepoor
That has Bacchus to’s friend, for he laughs at all harm,
Whilst with high-proofed claret he does himself arm.

Printed for J. Jordan, at theAngel, Giltspur Street.

THE LOYAL SUBJECTS’ HEARTY WISHES TO KING CHARLESII.

From Sir W. C. Trevelyan’sBroadsides in the British Museum.

He that write these verses certainly
Did serve his royal father faithfully,
Likewise himself he served at Worcester fight,
And for his loyalty was put to flight.

p.237But had he a haid of hair like Absolom,
And every hair as strong as was Samson,
I’d venture all for Charles the Second’s sake,
And for his Majesty my life forsake.

To the tune “When Cannons areroaring.”

FIRSTPART.

True subjects, allrejoice
   After long sadness,
And now with heart and voice
   Show forth your gladness.
That to King Charles were true
   And rebels hated,
This song only to you
   Is dedicated;
For Charles our sovereign dear
   Is safe returned
True subjects’ hearts to cheer,
   That long have mourned:
Then let us give God praise
   That doth defend him,
And pray with heart and voice,
   Angels, attend him.

The dangers he hath past
   From vile usurpers
Now bring him joy at last,
   Although some lurkers
Did seek his blood to spill
   By actions evil;
But God we see is still
   Above the Devil:
Though many serpents hiss
   Him to devour,
God his defender is
   By His strong power:
p. 238Then letus give him praise
   That doth defend him,
And sing with heart and voice,
   Angels, defend him.

The joy that he doth bring,
   If true confessed,
The tongues of mortal men
   Cannot confess it;
He cures our drooping fears,
   Being long tormented,
And his true Cavaliers
   Are well contented;
For now the Protestant
   Again shall flourish;
The King our nursing father
   He will us cherish:
Then let us give God praise
   That did defend him,
And sing with heart and voice,
   Angels, attend him.

Like Moses, he is meek
   And tender-hearted;
And by all means doth seek
   To have foes converted;
But, like the Israelites,
   There are a number
That for his love to them
   ’Gainst him doth murmur:
Read Exodus,—’tis true
   The Israelites rather
Yield to the Egyptian crew
   Than Moses their father:
p. 239So manyphanaticks,
   With hearts disloyal,
Their hearts and minds do fix
   ’Gainst our King royal.

SECONDPART.

Like holy David,he
   Past many troubles,
And by his constancy
   His joys redoubles;
For now he doth bear sway
   By God appointed,
For Holy Writ doth say,
   Touch not mine Anointed.
He is God’s anointed sure,
   Who still doth guide him
In all his wayes most pure,
   Though some divide him.
Then let us give God praise
   That doth defend him,
And sing with heart and voice,
   Angels, attend him.

Many there are, we know,
   Within this nation,
Lip-love to him do show
   In ’simulation;
Of such vile hereticks
   There are a number,
Whose hearts and tongues, we know,
   Are far asunder;
p. 240Some dopray for the King
   Being constrained;
Who lately against him
   Greatly complained;
They turn both seat and seam
   To cheat poor tailors,
But the fit place for them
   Is under strong jailors.

Let the King’s foes admire
   Who do reject him;
Seeing God doth him inspire,
   And still direct him,
To heal those evil sores,
   And them to cure
By his most gracious hand
   And prayers pure.
Though simple people say
   Doctors do as much,
None but our lawful King
   Can cure with a touch;
As plainly hath been seen
   Since he returned,—
Many have cured been
   Which long have mourned.

The poorest wretch that hath
   This evil, sure
May have ease from the King
   And perfect cure;
His Grace is meek and wise,
   Loving and civil,
And to his enemies
   Doth good for evil;
p. 241For somethat were his foes
   Were by him healed;
His liberal cause to bless
   Is not concealed;
He heals both poor and rich
   By God’s great power,
And his most gracious touch
   Doth them all cure.

Then blush, you infidels,
   That late did scorn him;
And you that did rebel,
   Crave pardon of him;
With speed turn a new leaf
   For your transgresses;
Hear what the preacher sayes
   In Ecclesiastes,—
The Scripture’s true, and shall
   Ever be taught;
Curse not the King at all,
   No, not in thy thought:
And holy Peter
   Two commandments doth bring,—
Is first for to fear God,
   And then honour the King.

When that we had no King
   To guide the nation,
Opinions up did spring
   By toleration;
And many heresies
   Were then advanced,
And cruel liberties
   By old Noll granted.
p. 242Evenable ministers
   Were not esteemed;
Many false prophets
   Good preachers were deemed.
The Church some hated;
   A barn, house, or stable
Would serve the Quakers,
   With their wicked rabble.

And now for to conclude:
   The God of power
Preserve and guide our King
   Both day and hour;
That he may rule and reign
   Our hearts to cherish;
And on his head, good Lord,
   Let his crown flourish.
Let his true subjects sing
   With hearts most loyal,
God bless and prosper still
   Charles our King royal.
So now let’s give God praise
   That doth defend him,
And sing with heart and voice,
   Angels defend him.

London, printed for John Andrews, at the White Lion, nearPye-Court.

p. 243KINGCHARLES THE SECOND’S RESTORATION, 29TH MAY.

Tune, “Where have you been,my lovely sailor bold?”

You brave loyalChurchmen,
   That ever stood by the crown,
Have you forgot that noble prince
   Great Charles of high renown,
That from his rights was banish’d
   By Presbyterians, who
Most cruelty his father kill’d?—
   O cursed, damned crew!
      So let the bells in steeplesring,
         And musicsweetly play,
      That loyal Tories mayn’tforget
         The twenty-ninthof May.

Twelve years was he banish’d
   From what was his just due,
And forced to hide in fields and woods
   From Presbyterian crew;
But God did preserve him,
   As plainly you do see,
The blood-hounds did surround the oak
   While he was in the tree.
      So let, etc.

As Providence would have it,
   The hounds did lose their scent;
p. 244To spillthe blood of this brave prince
   It was their whole intent.
While that he was in exile,
   The Church they pull’d down,
The Common-prayer they burnt, sir,
   And trampled on the crown.
      So let, etc.

They plunder’d at their pleasure,
   On lords’ estates they seiz’d,
The bishops they did send away,
   They did just as they pleas’d.
But General Monk at last rose up,
   With valiant heart so bold,
Saying, that he no longer
   By them would be controul’d.
      So let, etc.

So in great splendour
   At last he did bring in,
Unto every Torie’s joy,
   Great Charles our sovereign.
Then loyal hearts so merry
   The royal oak did wear,
While balconies with tapestry hung—
   Nothing but joy was there.
      So let, etc.

The conduits they with wine did run,
   The bonfires did blaze,
In every street likewise the skies
   Did ring with loud huzzas,—
Saying, God bless our sovereign,
   And send him long to reign,
p. 245Hopingthe P—n crew
   May never rule again.
      So let, etc.

Soon as great Charles
   Our royal King was crown’d,
He built the Church up again,
   The meetings were pull’d down.
No canting then was in the land,
   The subjects were at peace,
The Church again did flourish,
   And joy did then increase.
      So let, etc.

The cursed Presbyterian crew
   Was then put to the flight,
Some did fly by day,
   And others run by night.
In barns and stables they did cant,
   And every place they could;
He made them remember
   The spilling royal blood.
      So let, etc.

May God for ever
   Bless the Church and Crown,
And never let any subject strive
   The King for to dethrone.
May Churchmen ever flourish,
   And peace increase again;
God for ever bless the King,
   And send him long to reign.
      So let, etc.

p. 246THEJUBILEE,
OR
THE CORONATION DAY.

From Thomas Jordan’s “Royal Arbor of LoyalPoesie,” 12mo, 1664.  Mr Chappellstates—“As this consists of only two stanzas, and thecopy of the book, which is now in the possession of Mr PayneCollier, is probably unique, they are here subjoined.”

Let every man withtongue and pen
Rejoice that Charles is come agen,
To gain his sceptre and his throne,
And give to every man his own;
      Let all men that be
      Together agree,
And freely now express their joy;
      Let your sweetest voices bring
      Pleasant songs unto the King,
To crown his Coronation Day.

All that do thread on English earth
Shall live in freedom, peace, and mirth;
The golden times are come that we
Did one day think we ne’er should see;
      Protector and Rump
      Did put us in a dump,
When they their colours did display;
      But the time is come about,
      We are in, and they are out,
By King Charles his Coronation Day.

p. 247THEKING ENJOYS HIS OWN AGAIN.

(1661.)—From Hogg’sJacobite Relics.

Whigs are now suchprecious things,
   We see there’s not one to be found;
All roar “God bless and save the King!”
   And his health goes briskly all day round.
To the soldier, cap in hand, the sneaking rascals stand,
   And would put in for honest men;
But the King he well knows his friends from his foes,
   And now he enjoys his own again.

From this plot’s first taking air,
   Like lightning all the Whigs have run;
Nay, they’ve left their topping square,
   To march off with our eldest son:
They’ve left their ’states and wives to save theirprecious lives,
   Yet who can blame their flying, when
’Twas plain to them all, the great and the small,
   That the King would have his own again?

This may chance a warning be
   (If e’er the saints will warning take)
To leave off hatching villany,
   Since they’ve seen their brother at thestake:
And more must mounted be (which God grant we may see),
   Since juries now are honest men:
And the King lets them swing with a hey ding a ding,
   Great James enjoys his own again.

p.248Since they have voted that his Guards
   A nuisance were, which now they find,
Since they stand between the King
   And the treason that such dogs design’d;
’Tis they will you maul, though it cost them a fall,
   In spight of your most mighty men;
For now they are alarm’d, and all Loyalists wellarm’d,
   Since the King enjoys his own again.

To the King, come, bumpers round,
   Let’s drink, my boys, while life doth last:
He that at the core’s not sound
   Shall be kick’d out without a taste.
We’ll fear no disgrace, but look traitors in the face,
   Since we’re case-harden’d, honestmen;
Which makes their crew mad, but us loyal hearts full glad,
   That the King enjoys his own again.

A COUNTRY SONG, INTITULED THE RESTORATION.

(May, 1661.)—From thetwentieth volume of the folio broadsides, King’sPamphlets.

   Come, come away
   To the temple, and pray,
And sing with a pleasant strain;
   The schismatick’s dead,
   The liturgy’s read,
And the King enjoyes his own again.

   p. 249The vicar is glad,
   The clerk is not sad,
And the parish cannot refrain
   To leap and rejoyce
   And lift up their voyce,
That the King enjoyes his own again.

   The country doth bow
   To old justices now,
That long aside have been lain;
   The bishop’s restored,
   God is rightly adored,
And the King enjoyes his own again.

   Committee-men fall,
   And majors-generall,
No more doe those tyrants reign;
   There’s no sequestration,
   Nor new decimation,
For the King enjoyes the sword again.

   The scholar doth look
   With joy on his book,
Tom whistles and plows amain;
   Soldiers plunder no more
   As they did heretofore,
For the King enjoyes the sword again.

   The citizens trade,
   The merchants do lade,
And send their ships into Spain;
   No pirates at sea
   To make them a prey,
For the King enjoyes the sword again.

   p. 250The old man and boy,
   The clergy and lay,
Their joyes cannot contain;
   ’Tis better than of late
   With the Church and the State,
Now the King enjoyes the sword again.

   Let’s render ourpraise
   For these happy dayes
To God and our sovereign;
   Your drinking give ore,
   Swear not as before,
For the King bears not the sword in vain.

   Fanaticks, be quiet,
   And keep a good diet,
To cure your crazy brain;
   Throw off your disguise,
   Go to church and be wise,
For the King bears not the sword in vain.

   Let faction and pride
   Be now laid aside,
That truth and peace may reign;
   Let every one mend,
   And there is an end,
For the King bears not the sword in vain.

p.251HERE’S A HEALTH UNTO HIS MAJESTY.

There is only one verse to this Song.  The music isarranged for three voices in “Playford’s MusicalCompanion, 1667.”

Here’s ahealth unto his Majesty,
   With a fal la la la la la la,
Confusion to his enemies,
   With a fal lal la la la la la la.
And he that will not drink his health,
   I wish him neither wit nor wealth,
Nor but a rope to hang himself.
   With a fal lal la la la la la la la la,
   With a fal lal la la la la la.

THE WHIGS DROWNED IN AN HONEST TORY HEALTH.

From Col. 180 Loyal Songs.

Tune, “Hark, the thunderingcanons roar.”

Wealth breeds care,love, hope, and fear;
What does love or bus’ness here?
While Bacchus’ navy doth appear,
   Fight on and fear not sinking;
Fill it briskly to the brim,
Till the flying top-sails swim,
We owe the first discovery to him
   Of this great world of drinking.

p.252Brave Cabals, who states refine,
Mingle their debates with wine,
Ceres and the god o’ th’ vine
   Make every great commander;
Let sober Scots small beer subdue,
The wise and valiant wine do woo,
The Stagerite had the horrors too,
   To be drunk with Alexander.

Stand to your arms! and now advance,
A health to the English King of France;
And to the next of boon esperance,
   By Bacchus and Apollo;
Thus in state I lead the van,
Fall in your place by the right-hand man,
Beat drum! march on! dub a dub, ran dan!
   He’s a Whig that will not follow.

Face about to the right again,
Britain’s admiral of the main,
York and his illustrious train
   Crown the day’s conclusion;
Let a halter stop his throat
Who brought in the foremost vote,
And of all that did promote
   The mystery of exclusion.

Next to Denmark’s warlike prince
Let the following health commence,
To the nymph whose influence
   That brought the hero hither;—
p. 253Maytheir race the tribe annoy,
Who the Grandsire would destroy,
And get every year a boy
   Whilst they live together.

To the royal family
Let us close in bumpers three,
May the ax and halter be
   The pledge of every Roundhead;
To all loyal hearts pursue,
Who to the monarch dare prove true;
But for him they call True Blue,
   Let him be confounded.

THE CAVALIER.

By Alex.Brome.—(1661–2.)

We have ventured ourestates,
   And our liberties and lives,
For our master and his mates,
And been toss’d by cruel fates
   Where the rebellious Devil drives,
   So that not one of ten survives;
      We have laid all at stake
      For his Majesty’s sake;
      We have fought, we have paid,
      We’ve been sold andbetray’d,
And tumbled from nation to nation;
      But now those are thrown down
      That usurped the Crown,
      p. 254Our hopes were that we
      All rewarded should be,
But we’re paid with a Proclamation.

Now the times are turn’d about,
   And the rebels’ race is run;
That many-headed beast the Rout,
That did turn the Father out,
      When they saw they were undone,
      Were for bringing in the son.
         That phanaticalcrew,
         Which made usall rue,
         Have got so muchwealth
         By their plunderand stealth
That they creep into profit and power:
         And so come whatwill,
         They’ll beuppermost still;
         And we that arelow
         Shall still bekept so,
While those domineer and devour.

Yet we will be loyal still,
   And serve without reward or hire:
To be redeem’d from so much ill,
May stay our stomachs, though not still,
   And if our patience do not tire,
   We may in time have our desire.

p. 255THELAMENTATION OF A BAD MARKET,
OR
THE DISBANDED SOULDIER.

(July 17th, 1660.)—From theKing’s Pamphlets, British Museum.

This ballad relates to the disbanding of the Parliamentaryarmy.  Contrary, however, to what is pretended in it, saysMr. Wright, in his volume printed for the Percy Society, thewriters of the time mention with admiration the good conduct ofthe soldiers after they were disbanded, each betaking himself tosome honest trade or calling, with as much readiness as if he hadnever been employed in any other way.  Not many weeks beforethe date of the present ballad, a prose tract had been published,with the same title, “The Lamentation of a Bad Market, orKnaves and Fools foully foyled, and fallen into a Pit of theirown digging,” &c.  March 21st, 1659–60.

   Inred-coat raggs attired,
      I wander up and down,
   Since fate and foes conspired,
           Thus to array me,
         Or betray me
      To the harsh censure of thetown.
My buffe doth make me boots, my velvet coat and scarlet,
Which used to do me credit with many a wicked harlot,
Have bid me all adieu, most despicable varlet!
   Alas, poor souldier, whither wilt thou march?

   I’ve been in France andHolland,
      Guided by my starrs;
   I’ve been in Spain and Poland,
           p.256I’ve been in Hungarie,
         In Greece andItaly,
      And served them in all theirwars.
Britain these eighteen years has known my desperate slaughter,
I’ve killed ten at one blow, even in a fit of laughter,
Gone home again and smiled, and kiss’d my landlor’sdaughter;
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   My valour prevailed,
      Meeting with my foes,
   Which strongly we assailed;
           Oh! strange I wondred,
         They were ahundred;
      Yet I routed them with fewblowes.
This fauchion by my side has kind more men, I’ll swearit,
Than Ajax ever did, alas! he ne’er came near it,
Yea, more than Priam’s boy, or all that ere did hear it.
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   For King and Parliament
      I was Prester John.
   Devout was my intent;
           I haunted meetings,
         Used zealousgreetings,
      Crept full of devotion;
Smectymnuus won me first, then holy Nye prevail, [111]
p. 257ThenCaptain Kiffin [112] slops me with John of Leyden’stail,
Then Fox and Naylor bangs me with Jacob Beamond’s flail. [113]
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   I did about this nation
      Hold forth my gifts and teach,
   Maintained the tolleration
           The common story
         And Directory
      I damn’d with the word“preach.”
Time was when all trades failed, men counterfeitly zealous
p.258Turn’d whining, snievling praters, or kept acountry ale-house,
Got handsome wives, turn’d cuckolds, howe’er werevery jealous.
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   The world doth know mewell,
      I ne’re did peace desire,
   Because I could not tell
           Of what behaviour
         I shouldsavour
      In a field of thundring fire.
When we had murdered King, confounded Church and State,
Divided parks and forests, houses, money, plate,
We then did peace desire, to keep what he had gat.
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   Surplice was surplisage,
      We voted right or wrong,
   Within that furious age,
           Of the painted glass,
         Or picturedbrass,
      And liturgie we made a song.
Bishops, and bishops’ lands, were superstitious words,
Until in souldiers’ hands, and so were kings and lords,
But in fashion now again in spight of all our swords.
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   Some say I am forsaken
      By the great men of thesetimes,
   And they’re no whit mistaken;
           p. 259It is myfate
         To be out ofdate,
      My masters most are guilty of suchcrimes.
Like an old Almanack, I now but represent
How long since Edge-Hill fight, or the rising was in Kent,
Or since the dissolution of the first Long Parliament.
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   Good sirs, what shall Ifancie,
      Amidst these gloomy dayes?
   Shall I goe court brown Nancy?
           In a countrey town
         They’lcall me clown,
      If I sing them my outlandishplayes.
Let me inform their nodle with my heroick spirit,
My language and worth besides transcend unto merit;
They’l not believe one word, what mortal flesh can bearit?
   Alas! poor souldier, etc.

   Into the countrey places
      I resolve to goe,
   Amongst those sun-burnt faces
           I’le goe to plough
         Or keep acow,
      ’Tis that my masters nowagain must do.
Souldiers ye see will be of each religion,
They’re but like stars, which when the true sun risethey’re gon.
I’le to the countrey goe, and there I’le serve SirJohn;
   Aye, aye, ’tis thither, and thither will Igoe.

London, printed for CharlesGustavus, 1660.

p. 260THECOURTIER’S HEALTH;
OR,
THE MERRY BOYS OF THE TIMES.

(A.D. 1672.)—From theRoxburgh Ballads, Vol. ii.
To the tune of “Come, Boys, fill us a Bumper.”

Come, boys, fill usa bumper,
   Wee’l make the nation roar,
She’s grown sick of a Rumper,
   That sticks on the old score.
Pox on phanaticks, rout ’um,
   They thirst for our blood;
Wee’l taxes raise without ’um,
   And drink for the nation’s good.
Fill the pottles and the gallons,
   And bring the hogshead in,
Wee’l begin with a tallen,
   A brimmer to the King.

Round, around, fill a fresh one,
   Let no man bawk his wine,
Wee’l drink to the next in succession,
   And keep it in the right line.
Bring us ten thousand glasses,
   The more we drink we’re dry;
We mind not the beautiful lasses,
   Whose conquest lyes all in the eye.
      Fill the pottles, etc.

We boys are truly loyal,
   For Charles wee’l venture all,
We know his blood is royal,
   His name shall never fall.
p. 261Butthose that seek his ruine
   May chance to dye before him,
While we that sacks are woeing
   For ever will adore him.
      Fill the pottles, etc.

I hate those strange dissenters
   That strives to hawk a glass,
He that at all adventures
   Will see what comes to pass:
And let the Popish nation
   Disturb us if they can,
They ne’er shall breed distraction
   In a true-hearted man.
      Fill the pottles, etc.

Let the fanatics grumble
   To see things cross their grain,
Wee’l make them now more humble
   Or ease them of their pain:
They shall drink sack amain too,
   Or they shall be choak’t;
Wee’l tell ’um ’tis in vain too
   For us to be provok’t.
      Fill the pottles, etc.

He that denyes the brimmer
   Shall banish’d be in this isle,
And we will look more grimmer
   Till he begins to smile:
Wee’l drown him in Canary,
   And make him all our own,
And when his heart is merry
   Hee’l drink to Charles on’s throne.
      Fill the pottles, etc.

p.262Quakers and Anabaptists,
   Wee’l sink them in a glass;
He deals most plain and flattest
   That sayes he loves a lass:
Then tumble down Canary,
   And let our brains go round,
For he that won’t be merry
   He can’t at heart be sound.
      Fill the pottles, etc.

Printed for P. Brooksly, at theGolden Ball in West Smithfield, 1672.

THE LOYAL TORIES’ DELIGHT;
OR,
A PILL FOR FANATICKS.

Being a most pleasant and newsong.

1680.—From the RoxburghBallads, Vol. iii., fol. 911.

To the tune of “Great Yorkhas been debar’d of late, etc.”

Great York has beendebar’d of late
From Court by some accursed fate;
But ere long, we do not fear,
We shall have him, have him here,
         We shall havehim, have him here.

The makers of the plot we see,
By damn’d old Tony’streachery,
How they would have brought it about,
To have given great York the rout,
         To have given,etc.

p.263God preserve our gracious King,
And safe tydings to us bring,
Defend us from the sham black box, [114]
And all damn’d fanatick plots,
         And alldamn’d, etc.

Here Charles’s health I drink to thee,
And with him all prosperity;
God grant that he long time may reign,
To bring us home great York again,
         To bring ushome, etc.

That he, in spight of all his foes
Who loyalty and laws oppose,
May long remain in health and peace,
Whilst plots and plotters all shall cease,
         Whilst plots,etc.

Let Whigs go down to Erebus,
And not stay here to trouble us
With noisy cant and needless fear,
Of ills to come they know not where,
         Of ills to come,etc.

When our chief trouble they create,
For plain we see what they’d be at;
Could they but push great York once down
They’d next attempt to snatch the crown,
         They’dnext attempt, etc.

p.264But Heaven preserve our gracious King,
May all good subjects loudly sing;
And Royal James preserve likewise,
From such as do against him rise,
         From such as do,etc.

Then come, again fill round our glass,
And, loyal Tories, less it pass,
Fill up, fill up unto the brim,
And let each boule with necture swim,
         And let eachboule, etc.

Though cloakmen, that seem muchprecise,
’Gainst wine exclaim with turn’d-up eyes;
Yet in a corner they’l be drunk,
With drinking healths unto the Rump,
         With drinking,etc.

In hopes that once more they shall tear
Both Church and State, which is their prayer;
But Heaven does yet protect the throne,
Whilst Tyburn for such slaves does groan,
         Whilst Tyburn,etc.

For now ’tis plain, most men abhor,
What some so strongly voted for;
Great York in favour does remain,
In spight of all the Whiggish train,
         In spight ofall, etc.

And now the Old Causegoes to wrack,
Sedition mauger cloath in black
Do greatly dread the triple tree,
Whilst we rejoyce in loyalty,
         Whilst werejoyce, etc.

p.265Then come, let’s take another round,
And still in loyalty abound,
And wish our King he long may reign
To bring us home great York again,
         To bring us homegreat York again.

THE ROYAL ADMIRAL.

Miss Strickland quotes this ballad in her Lives of the Queensof England, and states that this was the first Jacobite song thatwas written and set to music.

Let Titus [115] and Patience [116] stir up a commotion,
   Their plotting and swearing shall prosper nomore;
Now gallant old Jamie commands on the ocean,
   And mighty Charles keeps them in awe on theshore.

Jamie the Valiant, the Champion Royal,
   His own and the monarchy’s rival withstood;
The bane and the terror of those the disloyal,
   Who slew his loved father and thirst for hisblood.

York, the great admiral,—Ocean’sdefender,
   The joy of our navy, the dread of its foes,
The lawful successor,—what upstart pretender
   Shall dare, in our isle, the true heir tooppose?

Jamie quelled the proud foe on the ocean,
   And rode the sole conqueror over the main;
To this gallant hero let all pay devotion,
   For England her admiral sees him again.

p. 266THEUNFORTUNATE WHIGS.

1682.—From the RoxburghBallads.

To the tune of “The Kingenjoys his own,” &c.

The Whigs are butsmall, and of no good race,
   And are beloved by very few;
Old Tonybroach’d his tap in every place,
   To encourage all his factious crew.
      At some great houses in thistown,
      The Whigs of high renown,
And all with a true blue was their stain;
      For since it is so,
      They have wrought theiroverthrow,
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own, again.

They all owne duty to their lawful prince,
   And loyal subjects should have been;
But their duty is worn out long since,
   By the Associationseen.
      But these are the Whigs,
      That have cut off some legs,
And fain would be at that sport amain;
      For since it is so,
      They have wrought theiroverthrow,
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own again.

And yet they are sham-pretenders,
   And they swear they’ll support our laws;
These be the great defenders of
   Ignoramusand the Old Cause:
      They’ll defend the King
      By swearing of the thing,
p. 267Theseare the cursed rogues in grain;
      For since it is so,
      They have wrought theiroverthrow,
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own again.

The true religion that shall down,
   Which so long has won the day,
And Common-prayeri’th’ church of ev’rytown,
   If that the Whigs could but bear the sway:
      For Oates he does begin
      Now for to bring them in,
As when he came mumping from Spain;
      For since it is so,
      They have wrought theiroverthrow,
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own again.

How all their shamming plots they wouldhide,
   Yet they are ignorant, they say,
When as Old Tonyhe was try’d
   And brought off with Ignoramussway:
      When Oates he was dumb
      And could not use his tongue,
This is the shamming rogues in grain;
      For since it is so,
      They have wrought theiroverthrow,
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own again.

Then let all true subjects sing,
   And damn the power of all those
That won’t show loyalty to their King,
   And assist him against his Whiggish foes.
      Then in this our happy state,
      In spight of traytors’hate,
p. 268We willall loyal still remain;
      For since it is so,
      They have wrought theiroverthrow,
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own again.

God preserve our gracious King,
   With the Royal Consort of his bed,
And let all loyal subjects sing
   That the crown may remain on Charles’shead;
      For we will drink his health
      In spight ofCommon-wealth,
And his lawful rights we will maintain;
      For since it is so,
      They have wrought theiroverthrow,
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own again.

Printed for S. Maurel, in the year1682.

THE DOWNFALL OF THE GOOD OLD CAUSE.

From a “Collection of One Hundred and Eighty LoyalSongs, all written since 1678,” and published London,1694.  [Fourth Edition.]

Tune,—“Hey, Boys, up gowe.”

Now the Bad OldCause is tapt,
   And the vessel standeth stoop’d;
The cooper may starve for want of work,
   For the cask shall never be hoop’d;—
p. 269We willburn the Association,
   The Covenant and vow,
The public cheat of the nation,
   Anthony, now, now, now

No fanatick shall bear the sway
   In court, city, or town,
These good kingdoms to betray,
   And cry the right line down;—
Let them cry they love the King,
   Yet if they hate his brother,
Remember Charles they murdered,
   And so they would the other.

Weavers and such like fellows
   In pulpit daily prate,
Like the Covenanters,
   Against the Church and State:
Yet they cry they love the King,
   But their baseness will discover;
Charles the First they murdered,
   And so they would the other.

When these fellows go to drink,
   In city or in town,
They vilify the bishops
   And they cry the Stuarts down:
Still they cry they love the King,
   But their baseness I’ll discover;
Charles the First they murdered,
   And so they would the other.

When the King wanted money,
   Poor Tangier to relieve,
p. 270Theycry’d down his revenue,
   Not a penny they would give:
Still they cry’d they loved the King,
   But their baseness I’ll discover;
Charles the First they murdered,
   And so they would the other.

The noble Marquis of Worcester,
   And many such brave lord,
By the King-killing crew
   They daily are abhor’d,
And called evil councellors,
   When the truth they did discover;
And Charles the First they murdered,
   And so they would the other.

The Papists they would kill the King,
   But the Phanaticks did;
Their perjuries and treacheries
   Aren’t to be parallel’d:
Let them cry they love the King,
   Their faults I will discover;
Charles the First they murdered,
   And so they would the other.

Charles the Second stands on’s guard,
   Like a good politick King;
The Phanaticks ought to be abhor’d
   For all their flattering:
Let them cry they love the King,
   Their faults I will discover;
Charles the First they murdered,
   And so they would the other.

p.271Now let us all good subjects be,
   That bear a loyal heart;
Stand fast for the King
   And each man act his part;
And to support his Sovereign,
   Religion, and the laws,
That formerly were established,
   And down with the cursed cause.

OLD JEMMY.

From a “Collection of 180 Loyal Songs,” writtensince 1678.  This is a parody on the Whig song, “YoungJemmy is a lad that’s royally descended,” written incelebration of the Duke of Monmouth.  Old Jemmy is the Dukeof York, afterwards James II.

To the tune of “YoungJemmy.”

Old Jemmy is alad
   Right lawfully descended;
No bastard born nor bred,
   Nor for a Whig suspended;
The true and lawful heir to th’ crown
   By right of birth and laws,
And bravely will maintain his own
   In spight of all his foes.

Old Jemmy is the top
   And chief among the princes;
No Mobilegay fop,
   With Birmingham pretences;
p. 272A heartand soul so wondrous great,
   And such a conquering eye,
That every loyal lad fears not
   In Jemmy’s cause to die.

Old Jemmy is a prince
   Of noble resolutions,
Whose powerful influence
   Can order our confusions;
But oh! he fights with such a grace
   No force can him withstand,
No god of war but must give place
   When Jemmy leads the van.

To Jemmy every swain
   Does pay due veneration,
And Scotland does maintain
   His title to the nation;
The pride of all the court he stands,
   The patron of his cause,
The joy and hope of all his friends,
   And terror of his foes.

Maliciously they vote
   To work Old Jemmy’s ruin,
And zealously promote
   A Bill for his undoing;
Both Lords and Commons most agree
   To pull his Highness down,
But (spight of all their policy)
   Old Jemmy’s heir to th’ crown.

The schismatick and saint,
   The Baptist and the Atheist,
p. 273Swear bythe Covenant,
   Old Jemmy is a Papist:
Whilst all the holy crew did plot
   To pull his Highness down,
Great Albany, a noble Scot
   Did raise unto a crown.

Great Albany, they swear,
   He before any other
Shall be immediate heir
   Unto his royal brother;
Who will, in spight of all his foes,
   His lawful rights maintain,
And all the fops that interpose
   Old Jemmy’s York again.

The Whigs and zealots plot
   To banish him the nation,
But the renowned Scot
   Hath wrought his restoration:
With high respects they treat his Grace,
   His royal cause maintain;
Brave Albany (to Scotland’s praise)
   Is mighty York again.

Against his envious fates
   The Kirk hath taught a lesson,
A blessing on the States,
   To settle the succession;
They real were, both knight and lord,
   And will his right maintain,
By royal Parliament restored,
   Old Jemmy’s come again.

p.274And now he’s come again,
   In spight of all Pretenders;
Great Albany shall reign,
   Amongst the Faith’s defenders.
Let Whig and Birmingham repine,
   They show their teeth in vain,
The glory of the British line,
   Old Jemmy’s come again.

THE CLOAK’S KNAVERY.

From “Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; beinga Collection of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old andnew.”  London, 1714.

      Come buy my new ballad,
      I have’t in my wallet,
   But ’twill not I fear please every pallate;
      Then mark what ensu’th,
      I swear by my youth
   That every line in my ballad is truth.
A ballad of wit, a ballad of worth,
’Tis newly printed and newly come forth;
’Twas made of a cloak that fell out with a gown,
That cramp’d all the kingdom and crippled the crown.

      I’lltell you in brief
      A story of grief,
   Which happen’d when Cloak wasCommander-in-chief;
      p. 275It tore common prayers,
      Imprison’d lord mayors,
   In one day it voted down prelates and prayers;
It made people perjured in point of obedience,
And the Covenant did cut off the oath of allegiance.
Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down
That cramp’d all the kingdom and crippled the crown.

      It was ablack Cloke,
      In good time be it spoke,
   That kill’d many thousands but never struckstroke;
      With hatchet and rope
      The forlorn hope
   Did join with the Devil to pull down the Pope;
It set all the sects in the city to work,
And rather than fail ’twould have brought in the Turk.
      Then let us endeavour, etc.

      It seizedon the tower-guns,
      Those fierce demi-gorgons,
   It brought in the bag-pipes, and brought in theorgans;
      The pulpits did smoke,
      The churches did choke,
   And all our religion was turn’d to a cloak.
It brought in lay-elders could not write nor read,
It set public faith up and pull’d down the creed.
      Then let us endeavour, etc.

      This piousimpostor
      Such fury did foster,
   It left us no penny nor no pater-noster;
      p. 276It threw to the ground
      The commandments down,
   And set up twice twenty times ten of its own;
It routed the King and villains elected,
To plunder all those whom they thought disaffected.
      Then let us endeavour, etc.

      To blindpeople’s eyes
      This Cloak was so wise,
   It took off ship-money, but set up excise;
      Men brought in their plate
      For reasons of state,
   And gave it to Tom Trumpeter and his mate.
In pamphlets it writ many specious epistles,
To cozen poor wenches of bodkins and whistles.
      Then let us endeavour, etc.

      In pulpitsit moved,
      And was much approved
   For crying out, Fight The Lord’sbattles, beloved;
      It bob-tayled the gown,
      Put Prelacy down,
   It trod on the mitre to reach at the crown;
And into the field it an army did bring,
To aim at the council but shoot at the King.
      Then let us endeavour, etc.

      It raisedup States
      Whose politic fates
   Do now keep their quarters on the city gates.
      To father and mother,
      To sister and brother,
   It gave a commission to kill one another.
p. 277It tookup men’s horses at very low rates,
And plunder’d our goods to secure our estates.
      Then let us endeavour, etc.

      This Cloakdid proceed
      To damnable deed,
   It made the best mirror of majesty bleed;
      Tho’ Cloak did notdo’t,
      He set it on foot,
   By rallying and calling his journeymento’t.
For never had come such a bloody disaster,
If Cloak had not first drawn a sword at his master.
      Then let us endeavour, etc.

      Tho’some of them went hence
      By sorrowful sentence,
   This lofty long Cloak is not moved to repentance;
      But he and his men,
      Twenty thousand times ten,
   Are plotting to do their tricks over again.
But let this proud Cloak to authority stoop,
Or Dun will provide him a button andloop.
Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down
That basely did sever the head from the crown.

      Let’spray that the King
      And his Parliament
   In sacred and secular things may consent;
      So righteously firm,
      And religiously free,
   That Papists and Atheists suppressed may be.
p. 278And asthere’s one Deity does over-reign us,
One faith and one form and one Church may contain us.
Then peace, truth, and plenty our kingdom will crown,
And all Popish plots and their plotters shall down.

THE TIME-SERVER,
OR
A MEDLEY.

From the Loyal Garland, 1686.  Reprinted for the PercySociety, and edited by J. O. Halliwell.

Room for a gamesterthat plays at all he sees,
Whose fickle fancy suits such times as these,
One that says Amen to every factious prayer,
From Hugh Peters’ pulpit to St Peter’s chair;
One that doth defy the Crozier and the Crown,
   But yet can house with blades that carouse,
Whilst pottle pots tumble down, derry down,
One that can comply with surplice and with cloak,
   Yet for his end can independ
Whilst Presbyterian broke Brittain’s yoke.

This is the way to trample withouttrembling,
   ’Tis the sycophant’s only secure.
p.279Covenants and oaths are badges of dissembling,
   ’Tis the politick pulls down the pure.
To profess and betray, to plunder and pray,
Is the only ready way to be great;
   Flattery doth the feat;
Ne’er go, ne’er stir, sir—will venturefurther
Than the greatest dons in the town,
   From a coffer to a crown.

I’m in a temperate humour now to thinkwell,
Now I’m in another humour for to drink well,
Then fill us up a beer-bowl, boys, that we
May drink it, drink it merrily;
No knavish spy shall understand,
   For, if it should be known,
’Tis ten to one we shall be trepanned.

I’ll drink to them a brace of quarts,
Whose anagram is call’d true hearts;
If all were well, as I would ha’t,
   And Britain cured of its tumour,
I should very well like my fate,
And drink my sack at a cheaper rate,
   Without any noise or rumour,
   Oh then I should fix my humour.

But since ’tis no such matter, changeyour hue,
I may cog and flatter, so may you;
   Religion is a widgeon, and reason is treason,
And he that hath a loyal heart may bid the world adieu.

We must be like the Scottish man,
   Who, with intent to beat down schism,
p. 280Broughtin the Presbyterian
   With canon and with catechism.
If beuk wont do’t, then Jockey shoot,
   For the Church of Scotland doth command;
And what hath been since they came in
   I think we have cause to understand.

THE SOLDIER’S DELIGHT.

(Made in the late times.)

From the Loyal Garland, 1686.  Reprinted for the PercySociety, and edited by J. O. Halliwell.

Fair Phydelia, temptno more,
I may not now thy beauty so adore,
Nor offer to thy shrine;
I serve one more divine
   And greater far than you:
Hark! the trumpet calls away,
   We must go, lest the foe
Get the field and win the day;
   Then march bravely on,
   Charge them in the van,
Our cause God’s is, though the odds is
   Ten times ten to one.

   Tempt no more, I may notyield,
Although thine eyes a kingdom may surprise;
Leave off thy wanton tales,
The high-born Prince of Wales
   Is mounted in the field,
p. 281Wherethe loyal gentry flock,
   Though forlorn, nobly born,
Of a ne’er-decaying stock;
   Cavaliers, be bold, ne’er let go your hold,
Those that loiters are by traitors
   Dearly bought and sold.

Phydelia.—One kiss more, and sofarewell.
Soldier.—Fie, no more!  I prithee fool giveo’er;
Why cloud’st thou thus thy beams?
I see by these extremes,
   A woman’s heaven or hell.
Pray the King may have his own,
   That the Queen may be seen
With her babes on England’s throne;
   Rally up your men, one shall vanquish ten,
Victory, we come to try our valour once again.

THE LOYAL SOLDIER.

From the Loyal Garland, 1686. Reprinted for the Percy Society, and edited by J. O.Halliwell.

When in the field ofMars we lie,
   Amongst those martial wights,
Who, never daunted, are to dye
   For King and countrie’s rights;
As on Belona’s god I wait,
   And her attendant be,
p. 282Yet,being absent from my mate,
   I live in misery.

When lofty winds aloud do blow,
   It snoweth, hail, or rain,
And Charon in his boat doth row,
   Yet stedfast I’ll remain;
And for my shelter in some barn creep,
   Or under some hedge lye;
Whilst such as do now strong castles keep
   Knows no such misery.

When down in straw we tumbling lye,
   With Morpheus’ charms asleep,
My heavy, sad, and mournful eye
   In security so deep;
Then do I dream within my arms
   With thee I sleeping lye,
Then do I dread or fear no harms,
   Nor feel no misery.

When all my joys are thus compleat,
   The canons loud do play,
The drums alarum straight do beat,
   Trumpet sounds, horse, away!
Awake I then, and nought can find
   But death attending me,
And all my joys are vanisht quite,—
   This is my misery.

When hunger oftentimes I feel,
   And water cold do drink,
Yet from my colours I’le not steal,
   Nor from my King will shrink;
p. 283Notraytor base shall make me yield,
   But for the cause I’le be:
This is my love, pray Heaven to shield,
   And farewell misery.

Then to our arms we straight do fly,
   And forthwith march away;
Few towns or cities we come nigh
   Good liquor us deny;
In Lethe deep our woes we steep—
   Our loves forgotten be,
Amongst the jovialst we sing,
   Hang up all misery.

Propitious fate, then be more kind,
   Grim death, lend me thy dart,
O sun and moon, and eke the wind,
   Great Jove, take thou our part;
That of these Roundheads and these wars
   An end that we may see,
And thy great name we’ll all applaud,
   And hang all misery.

THE POLITITIAN.

Upon an act of Treason made by theRebels, etc.

From the Loyal Garland, 1686. Reprinted for the Percy Society, and edited by J. O.Halliwell.

But since it waslately enacted high treason
   For a man to speak truth ’gainst the head of astate,
p. 284Letevery wise man make a use of his reason
   To think what he will, but take heed what heprate;
For the proverb doth learn us,
   He that stays from the battel sleeps in a wholeskin,
   And our words are our own if we keep them within,
   What fools are we then that to prattle do begin
Of things that do not concern us!

’Tis no matter to me whoe’er getsthe battle,
   The rubs or the crosses, ’tis all one tome;
It neither increaseth my goods nor my cattle;
   A beggar’s a beggar, and so he shall be
Unless he turn traitor.
   Let misers take courses to hoard up theirtreasure,
   Whose bounds have no limits, whose minds have nomeasure,
   Let me be but quiet and take a little pleasure,
A little contents my own nature.

But what if the kingdom returns to the primeones?
   My mind is a kingdom, and so it shall be;
I’ll make it appear, if I had but the time once,
   He’s as happy in one as they are in three,
If he might but enjoy it.
   He that’s mounted aloft is a mark for thefate,
   And an envy to every pragmatical pate,
   Whilst he that is low is safe in his estate,
And the great ones do scorn to annoy him.

p.285I count him no wit that is gifted in rayling
   And flurting at those that above him do sit;
Whilst they do outwit him with whipping and jailing,
   His purse and his person must pay for his wit.
But ’tis better to be drinking;
   If sack were reform’d to twelve-pence aquart
   I’d study for money to merchandisefor’t,
   With a friend that is willing in mirth we wouldsport;
Not a word, but we’d pay it with thinking.

My petition shall be that Canary be cheaper,
   Without either custom or cursed excise;
That the wits may have freedom to drink deeper and deeper,
   And not be undone whilst our noses we baptize;
But we’ll liquor them and drench them.
   If this were but granted, who would not desire
   To dub himself one of Apollo’s own quire?
   And then we will drink whilst our noses are onfire,
And the quart pots shall be buckets to quench them.

A NEW DROLL.

From the Loyal Garland, 1686. Edited by J. O. Halliwell.

Come let’sdrink, the time invites,
   Winter and cold weather;
p. 286For tospend away long nights,
   And to keep good wits together.
Better far than cards or dice,
Isaac’s balls are quaint device,
   Made up with fan and feather.

Of strange actions on the seas
   Why should we be jealous?
Bring us liquor that will please,
   And will make us braver fellows
Than the bold Venetian fleet,
When the Turks and they do meet
   Within their Dardanellos.

Valentian, that famous town,
   Stood the French man’s wonder;
Water they employ’d to drown,
   So to cut their troops assunder;
Turein gave a helpless look,
While the lofty Spaniard took
   La Ferta and his plunder.

As for water, we disclaim
   Mankind’s adversary;
Once it caused the world’s whole frame
   In the deluge to miscarry;
And that enemy of joy
Which sought our freedom to destroy
   And murder good Canary.

We that drink have no such thoughts,
   Black and void of reason:
We take care to fill our vaults
   With good wine of every season;
p. 287And withmany a chirping cup
We blow one another up,
   And that’s our only treason.

Hear the squibs and mind the bells,
   The fifth of November;
The parson a sad story tells,
   And with horror doth remember
How some hot-brain’d traitor wrought
Plots that would have ruin brought
   To King and every member.

THE ROYALIST.

A song made in the Rebellion.

From the Loyal Garland, 1686. Reprinted for the Percy Society, and edited by J. O.Halliwell.

Stay, shut thegate!
T’other quart, boys, ’tis not so late
   As you are thinking;
The stars which you see in the hemisphere be
   Are but studs in your cheeks by good drinking;
The sun’s gone to tipple all night in the sea, boys,
To-morrow he’ll blush that he’s paler than we,boys;
   Drink wine, give him water,
   ’Tis sack makes us the boys.

Fill up the glass,
To the next merry lad let it pass;
   Come, away wi’t;
Let’s set foot to foot and but give our mindsto’t,
   ’Tis heretical sir, that doth slay wit;
p. 288Thenhang up good faces, let’s drink till our noses
Give’s freedom to speak what our fancy disposes,
Beneath whose protection now under the rose is.

Drink off your bowl,
   ’Twill enrich both your head and your soulwith Canary;
For a carbuncled face saves a tedious race,
   And the Indies about us we carry;
No Helicon like to the juice of good wine is,
For Phoebus had never had wit that divine is,
Had his face not been bow-dy’d as thine is and mine is.

This must go round,
   Off with your hats till the pavement becrown’d with your beavers;
A red-coated face frights a sergeant and his mace,
   Whilst the constables tremble to shivers.
In state march our faces like some of that quorum,
While the . . . do fall down and the vulgar adore ’um,
And our noses like link-boys run shining before ’um.

THE ROYALIST’S RESOLVE.

From the Loyal Garland, 1686. Reprinted for the Percy Society.

Come, drawer, somewine,
Or we’ll pull down the sign,
   For we are all jovial compounders;
p.289We’ll make the house ring
With healths to our King,
   And confusion light on his confounders.

Since former committee
Afforded no pity,
   Our sorrows in wine we will steep ’um;
They force us to take
Two oaths, but we’ll make
   A third, that we ne’er mean to keep’um.