s: With mead they came, with chants of shame.


s: From Istar's shrine, from Istar's stair.


s: Than my slave's bread, than my heart's blood.


s: Once, by a stream, we clasped tired hands--


s: Your place, you said, was with the slaves


s: Who sewed the thick cloth, night and day.


s: Toil-bound with us.  One night you said:--


s: And do your flower-mouth too much wrong.


s: Ah, in the night, all music haunts me here....


s: Is it for naught high Heaven cracks and yawns


s: Sweet with the glory of ten thousand dawns?


s: Does it not mean my God would have me say:--


s: Heaven will bloom like one great flower for you,


s: Flash and loom greatly all your marts among?"


s: Friends, I will not cease hoping though you weep.


s: Such things I see, and some of them shall come


s: Though now our streets are harsh and ashen-gray,


s: Friends, that sweet town, that wonder-town, shall rise.


s: Naught can delay it.  Though it may not be


s: Just as I dream, it comes at last I know


s: With streets like channels of an incense-sea.


s: My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep


s: Like a white statue dropped into the deep,


s: Covered with sand, covered with chests of gold,


s: And slave-bones, tossed from many a pirate hold.


s: But for this prayer thou wilt not bind in Hell


s: My soul, that shook with love for Fame and Truth--


s: In such unquenched desires consumed his youth--


s: Let me turn dust, like dead leaves in the Fall,


s: Or wood that lights an hour your knightly hall--


s: Though I have watched so many mourners weep


s: O'er the real dead, in dull earth laid asleep--


s: Those dead seemed but the shadows of my days


s: That passed and left me in the sun's bright rays.


s: Our love is slain, and love and you were one.


s: You are the first, you I have known so long,


s: Whose death was deadly, a tremendous wrong.


s: Therefore I seek the faith that sets it right


s: I think on Heaven, for in that air so clear


s: We two may meet, confused and parted here.


s: Ah, when man's dearest dies, 'tis then he goes


s: To that old balm that heals the centuries' woes.


s: Then Christ's wild cry in all the streets is rife:--


s: We meet at the Judgment and I fear it Not


s: Though better men may fear that trumpet's warning,


s: I meet you, lady, on the Judgment morning,


s: With golden hope my spirit still adorning.


s: Our God who made you all so fair and sweet


s: Is three times gentle, and before his feet


s: Rejoicing I shall say:--"The girl you gave


s: Was my first Heaven, an angel bent to save.


s: Oh, God, her maker, if my ingrate breath


s: Is worth this rescue from the Second Death,


s: Perhaps her dear proud eyes grow gentler too


s: That scorned my graceless years and trophies few.


s: Gone are those years, and gone ill-deeds that turned


s: Her sacred beauty from my songs that burned.


s: We now as comrades through the stars may take


s: The rich and arduous quests I did forsake.


s: Grant me a seraph-guide to thread the throng


s: And quickly find that woman-soul so strong.


s: Hurt love lived on, though we were far apart,


s: That blooms to-day to vindicate your throne.


s: I would be one with the dark, dark earth:--


s: Walking the rows with the plumes o'erhead.


s: I would be one with the dark-bright night


s: When sparkling skies and the lightning wed--


s: By roads whence even the dogs have fled.


s: On to the end, till I sleep with the dead.


s: I shall be one with all pit-black things


s: Stars for my pillow there in the gloom,--


s: Stars, like daisies, shall rise through the earth,


s: Children shall weave there a flowery chain,


s: Sweet with the life of my sunburned days


s: When the sheaves were ripe, and the apples red.


s: The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son


s: Of those whose course no chance can change.


s: "That young, stiff-necked, reviling town


s: Yet shall remain some watch-tower strong


s: Flame high in storms, flame white and clear;


s: Third Section ~~ A Miscellany called "the Christmas Tree"


s: "The sun says his prayers," said the fairy,


s: "For strength to climb up through the sky.


s: Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries (As it were)


s: Would rather fight than eat their meals.


s: He gnawed and gnawed through sun and rain


s: The mouse that gnawed the oak-tree down,


s: Nor buttered bread, nor cheese, nor meat--


s: "This light is worth the work," said he.


s: "I'll make this ancient swamp more light,"


s: From her milk-white throne in a lily-bell,


s: To play for her when the dew-drops fell.


s: But the cold dew spoiled their instruments


s: And they play for the foolish queen no more.


s: Play sharps and flats in my kitchen floor.


s: (Being a reminiscence of certain private theatricals.)


s: Whose eyes have not looked on the feasts that are vain.


s: Whose soul has no bond with the beasts of the plain:


s: With foot like the snow, and with step like the rain.


s: Oh, thrice-painted dancer, vaudeville dancer,


s: Sad in your spangles, with soul all astrain,


s: Whose laughter and weeping are spiritual gain,


s: A pure-hearted, high-hearted maiden evangel,


s: With strength the dark cynical earth to disdain.


s: Flowers of bright Broadway, you of the chorus,


s: Who sing in the hope of forgetting your pain:


s: A white bird escaping the earth's tangled skein:--


s: The music of God is her innermost brooding,


s: The whispering angels her footsteps sustain.


s: Oh, proud Russian dancer:  praise for your dancing.


s: No clean human passion my rhyme would arraign.


s: You dance for Apollo with noble devotion,


s: A high cleansing revel to make the heart sane.


s: More white than Apollo and all of his train.


s: I know a dancer who finds the true Godhead,


s: Who bends o'er a brazier in Heaven's clear plain.


s: Who lifts us toward peace, from this earth that is vain:


s: With foot like the snow, and with step like the rain.


s: Dying in sand while the tide flows back,


s: Something is rotten--I think, in Denmark.


s: (On hearing she was leaving the moving-pictures for the stage.)


s: (After seeing the reel called "Oil and Water".)


s: Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire,


s: The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire.


s: It's Etna, or Vesuvius, if those big things were small,


s: And then 'tis but itself again, and does not smoke at all.


s: And so my blood grows cold.  I say, "The bottle held but ink,


s: And, if you thought it otherwise, the worser for your think."


s: And then, just as I throw my scribbled paper on the floor,


s: All demons of a bottle size have pranced from you to-day,


s: And seized my pen for hobby-horse as witches ride a broom,


s: And left a trail of brimstone words and blots and gobs of gloom.


s: And yet when I am extra good and say my prayers at night,


s: And mind my ma, and do the chores, and speak to folks polite,


s: My bottle spreads a rainbow-mist, and from the vapor fine


s: Ten thousand troops from fairyland come riding in a line.


s: I've seen them on their chargers race around my study chair,


s: They opened wide the window and rode forth upon the air.


s: The army widened as it went, and into myriads grew,


s: O how the lances shimmered, how the silvery trumpets blew!


s: They wore girls' pink straw hats to church


s: And clucked like hens.  They surely did.


s: Oh, saucy gold circle of fairyland silk--


s: A noose for my heart and a ring for my finger:--


s: Whimsy and song in my little gray study!


s: Words out of wonderland, praising her fineness,


s: Touched with her pulsating, delicate laughter,


s: Saying, "The girl is all daring and kindness!"


s: Saying, "Her soul is all feminine gameness,


s: Trusting her insights, ardent for living;


s: She would be weeping with me and be laughing,


s: A thoroughbred, joyous receiving and giving!"


s: 'Mid burnished harps and burnished crowns


s: And diamond stars, and mists that float.


s: This king-snail said:  "I feel a thought


s: Oh, yes... (High thoughts with effort come


s: And bakes a crisp new moon _that... greedy


s: Drying their wings from storms and things


s: Hungry for music with a desperate hunger


s: I prowled abroad, I threaded through the town;


s: The evening crowd was clamoring and drinking,


s: Vulgar and pitiful--my heart bowed down--


s: Till I remembered duller hours made noble


s: By strangers clad in some surprising grace.


s: Wait, wait, my soul, your music comes ere midnight


s: With quivering lips, and gleaming, moonlit face.


s: The moon is a bird's nest in its branches,


s: And there, to-night, two doves play house


s: With threads of scarlet and threads of gray


s: To their Eden, the moon, fly home our doves,


s: Up through the boughs of the great spice-tree;--


s: Each night, and dream, and watch the stars


s: And those that scorned their brothers here


s: That will comfort the stale and the sad,


s: Serve them in vessels of jade and of shell,


s: That will make me both handsome and wise,


s: "That is drawn like the dawn of the MOON,


s: When the sphere seems to rest on the mountains,


s: "That shall cause all young lovers to sigh,


s: His strength is that of heaven-vowed men


s: That here at midnight, in our little town


s: A mourning figure walks, and will not rest,


s: Near the old court-house pacing up and down,


s: Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yards


s: He lingers where his children used to play,


s: Or through the market, on the well-worn stones


s: He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away.


s: A bronzed, lank man!  His suit of ancient black,


s: A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl


s: Make him the quaint great figure that men love,


s: Breathe deep, and start, to see him pass the door.


s: His head is bowed.  He thinks on men and kings.


s: Yea, when the sick world cries, how can he sleep?


s: Too many peasants fight, they know not why,


s: Too many homesteads in black terror weep.


s: The sins of all the war-lords burn his heart.


s: He sees the dreadnaughts scouring every main.


s: He carries on his shawl-wrapped shoulders now


s: Shall come;--the shining hope of Europe free:


s: The league of sober folk, the Workers' Earth,


s: Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp and Sea.


s: It breaks his heart that kings must murder still,


s: That all his hours of travail here for men


s: Seem yet in vain.  And who will bring white peace


s: A curse upon each king who leads his state,


s: No matter what his plea, to this foul game,


s: And may he die in exile and black shame.


s: If there is vengeance in the Heaven of Heavens,


s: What punishment could Heaven devise for these


s: Who fill the rivers of the world with dead,


s: And turn their murderers loose on all the seas!


s: Put back the clock of time a thousand years,


s: And make our Europe, once the world's proud Queen,


s: A shrieking strumpet, furious fratricide,


s: In pits where millions foam and rave and bark,


s: While Science towers above;--a witch, red-winged:


s: Science we looked to for the light of life.


s: Curse me the men who make and sell iron ships,


s: Who walk the floor in thought, that they may find


s: Each powder prompt, each steel with fearful edge,


s: Curse me the sleek lords with their plumes and spurs,


s: Give them the brand of Cain, for their pride's sake,


s: And felon's stripes for medals and for braids.


s: Curse me the fiddling, twiddling diplomats,


s: Haggling here, plotting and hatching there,


s: Who make the kind world but their game of cards,


s: What punishment will Heaven devise for these


s: Who make men into stinking vultures' meat,


s: Ah, he who starts a million souls toward death


s: Should burn in utmost hell a million years!


s: --Mothers of men go on the destined wrack


s: To give them life, with anguish and with tears:--


s: Are all those childbed sorrows sneered away?


s: Yea, fools laugh at the humble christenings,


s: And cradle-joys are mocked of the fat lords:


s: These mothers' sons made dead men for the Kings!


s: All in the name of this or that grim flag,


s: Banners the demons love, and all Hell sings


s: And plays wild harps.  Those flags march forth to-day!


s: They say one king is mad.  Perhaps.  Who knows?


s: They say one king is doddering and grey.


s: They say one king is slack and sick of mind,


s: A puppet for hid strings that twitch and play.


s: Is Europe then to be their sprawling-place?


s: Their mad-house, till it turns the wide world's bane?


s: Their place of maudlin, slavering conference


s: Awake and preach, for her far swordsmen rise.


s: And would they sheathe the sword before you, friend,


s: Or scorn your way, while looking in your eyes?


s: Good comrade and philosopher and prince,


s: Thoughtful and thoroughbred and strong and kind,


s: Dare they to move against your pride benign,


s: Lord of the Law, high chieftain of the mind?


s: But what can Europe say, when in your name


s: The throats are cut, the lotus-ponds turn red?


s: And what can Europe say, when with a laugh


s: This is the sin against the Holy Ghost:--


s: To speak of bloody power as right divine,


s: And call on God to guard each vile chief's house,


s: And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine:--


s: To go forth killing in White Mercy's name,


s: Making the trenches stink with spattered brains,


s: Sowing with flesh the unreaped golden plains.


s: In any Church's name, to sack fair towns,


s: And turn each home into a screaming sty,


s: And have their mothers for a quick death cry,--


s: To send forth rapine in the name of Christ:--


s: To set the face, and make the heart a stone.


s: Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand,


s: Returned, the hate of earth once more to dare,


s: If you, with words celestial, stopped these kings


s: For sober conclave, ere their battle great,


s: Would they for one deep instant then discern


s: Their crime, their heart-rot, and their fiend's estate?


s: If you should float above the battle's front,


s: Pillars of cloud, of fire that does not slay,


s: Bearing a fifth within your regal train,


s: If, in his majesty, he towered toward Heaven,


s: Would they have hearts to see or understand?


s: ... Nay, for he hovers there to-night we know,


s: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land.


s: Though I have found you like a snow-drop pale,


s: On sunny days have found you weak and still,


s: Though I have often held your girlish head


s: Drooped on my shoulder, faint from little ill:--


s: I hide to-night like one small broken bird,


s: So soothed I half-forget the world gone mad:--


s: And all the winds of war are now unheard.


s: My heaven-doubting pennons feel your hands


s: With touch most delicate so circling round,


s: That for an hour I dream that God is good.


s: And in your shadow, Mercy's ways abound.


s: I thought myself the guard of your frail state,


s: And yet I come to-night a helpless guest,


s: Against the pallor of your wondrous breast.


s: The Clean Contrary Way, Or, Colonel Venne's Encouragement To His


s: The Sale Of Rebellion's House-Hold Stuff


s: The Parliament Routed, Or Here's A House To Be Let


s: The Devil's Progress On Earth, Or Huggle Duggle


s: Phanatick Zeal, Or A Looking-glass For The Whigs


s: King Charles The Second's Restoration, 29th May.


s: The Courtier's Health; Or, The Merry Boys Of The Times


s: On The Times, Or The Good Subject's Wish


s: The Cavalier Ballads of England, like the Jacobite Ballads of


s: luxury of the poor, a necessity of the rich, nor an appreciable


s: frequent music saloons at midnight, but which are offensive to


s: never-to-be-superseded topics of love, war, and wine.  The people


s: ballad that rises to the dignity of poetry.  They appreciate the


s: writers as Thomas Moore, and the force of such vigorous thinkers


s: the printed book, the pamphlet, or the newspaper, nor mount the


s: available among a musical and song-loving people such as the


s: English then were, and trusted to these to keep up the spirit of


s: loyalty in the evil days of the royal cause, to teach courage in


s: adversity, and cheerfulness in all circumstances, and to ridicule


s: preserved in the King's Pamphlets in the British Museum, and in


s: other collections which have been freely ransacked for the


s: materials of the following pages, as many thousands more have


s: undoubtedly perished.  Originally printed as broadsides, and sold


s: these waifs and strays, which he found pasted in an old trunk of


s: wrong, the first of the civic virtues.  In the superabundance of


s: this collection, the difficulty was to keep within bounds, and to


s: necessarily limited, by their celebrity, their wit, their beauty,


s: scenes which they describe.  It would be too much to claim for


s: these ballads the exalted title of poetry.  They are not poetical


s: racy of the soil; and some of them are certain to live as long as


s: the Cavalier cause, in the accession of James II.  After his ill-


s: included, it being the intention of the publishers to issue a


s: companion volume, of the Jacobite Ballads of England, from the


s: This is perhaps the most popular of all the Cavalier songs - a


s: favour which it partly owes to the excellent melody with which it


s: but this song was printed without his name or initials, at a time


s: Charles I., it served afterwards with more success to keep up the


s: predictions.  Hammond's Almanac is called "bloody" because the


s: compiler always took care to note the anniversary of the death,


s: My skill goes beyond the depth of a POND,


s: Thereby I can tell all things will be well


s: There's neither SWALLOW, DOVE, nor DADE,


s: The Man in the Moon may wear out his shoon


s: But all's to no end, for the times will not mend


s: Which again you shall see, when the time it shall be,


s: Then let's hope for a peace, for the wars will not cease


s: But why should not he the pillory foresee,


s: And also foreknow to the gallows he must go


s: When the King enjoys his own again?] (1)


s: Else never rejoice till I hear the voice


s: From a broadside in the Roxburghe Collection of Ballads.  It


s: another hand.  It bears neither date nor printer's name; and has


s: "God save the King, Amen," in large letters at the end.


s: That hath so long disturb'd their brain;


s: For I can surely tell that all things will go well


s: When the King comes home in peace again.


s: Without their help, whose high-brain'd zeal


s: Greed out of date, and cobblers that do prate


s: The which you will see, when the time it shall be


s: That the King comes home in peace again.


s: Men shops shall take to hold their ware;


s: And then all our trade shall flourishing be made,


s: For still I can tell all things will be well


s: When the wars have an end, then I and my friend


s: By which I can tell all things will be well


s: The Frenchies shall flee with their treacherie,


s: And the foes of the King ashamed remain:


s: The which you shall see when the time it shall be


s: For they will gladly spend their lives to defend


s: So then I can tell all things will be well


s: When all these things to pass shall come


s: For then I can tell all things will be well


s: When the King comes home in peace again.


s: Which I'm mad at the heart that e'er we did sell


s: But I'll not be seduced by phanatical charms


s: And when they by division asunder are rent,


s: 'Tis they must advise, and 'tis he must command,


s: If the King han't his right, which way shall we?


s: And I cannot endure that each ignorant knave


s: We have pray'd and pray'd that the wars might cease,


s: I would fight, if my fighting would bring any peace,


s: Written in 1645 to the Club-men, by Alex. Brome.


s: And the realm doth groan with disasters;


s: To bedeck those proud upstarts that swagger?


s: Pox on this grief, hang wealth, let's sing;


s: Shall's kill ourselves for fear of death?


s: We'll live by th' air which songs do bring,


s: In vain they'll think their plagues are spent


s: 'Tis sin t' have wealth when he has none,


s: Since we have no king let the goblet be crown'd,


s: And we'll drink till our eyes do run over;


s: A mournival of healths to our new-crown'd King.


s: Instead of the conduits, let the pottles run wine,


s: Pure claret, looks like the blood-royal,


s: And he that tipples ten is of the nobility.


s: And should make their turbill'd militia to swell,


s: And against the King's party raise arms;


s: While we make 'em both cuckolds and freemen;


s: To be loyal and drink in defence of our King.


s: And thou feel'st what before thou didst fear.


s: From the King's pamphlets, British Museum.


s: Against those trait'rous men that strive


s: Nought but their lives can end our woes,


s: as it would appear that the "Man in the Moon," was the title


s: We have grieved the land should shun thee,


s: By Samuel Butler (Author of Hudibras).  To the tune of "The Old


s: With hums and haws when stuff's to seek;


s: And far-stretched sighs for mere illusion;


s: Whilst Tom writes notes, as bar-boys score,


s: That looks like a black pot tipp'd with tin;


s: While with antic gestures he doth gape and grin;


s: The sisters admire, and he wheedles them in,


s: Who to cheat their husbands think no sin;


s: With broaching rebellion and raising commotions,


s: And poisoning the people with Geneva potions;


s: From an extempore prayer and a godly ditty,


s: From the Turk, the Pope, and the Scottish nation,


s: And from an old Protestant, quite out of fashion,


s: From meddling with those that are out of our reaches,


s: From a fighting priest, and a soldier that preaches,


s: From an ignoramus that writes, and a woman that teaches,


s: From the doctrine of deposing of a king,


s: From the DIRECTORY, (2) or any such thing,


s: From a fine new marriage without a ring,


s: From a city that yields at the first summons,


s: From plundering goods, either man or woman's,


s: Or having to do with the House of Commons,


s: From a stumbling horse that tumbles o'er and o'er,


s: From ushering a lady, or walking before,


s: From an English-Irish rebel, newly come o'er, (3)


s: From compounding, or hanging in a silken altar,


s: From oaths and covenants, and being pounded in a mortar,


s: From a holiday's fast, and a Friday's cheer,


s: From a brother-hood, and a she-cavalier,


s: From Thomas Turn-coat, that will never prove true,


s: From a country justice that still looks big,


s: From one that speaks no sense, yet talks all that he can,


s: From sheriffs' bailiffs, and their club-men,


s: From a private preacher and a public faith,


s: From a vapouring horse and a Roundhead in buff,


s: From roaring Jack Cavee, with money little enough,


s: From May-poles and fiddlers, and all that's jolly


s: From Latin or learning, since that is folly,


s: Or else were hanged in Goldsmith's Hall.


s: That thou wilt be pleased to grant our requests,


s: And quite destroy all the vipers' nests,


s: That England and her true religion molests,


s: That thou wilt be pleased to censure with pity


s: The present estate of our once famous city;


s: Let her still be govern'd by men just and witty,


s: That thou wilt be pleased to consider the Tower,


s: And all other prisons in the Parliament's power,


s: Where King Charles his friends find their welcome but sour,


s: That thou wilt be pleased to look on the grief


s: Of the King's old servants, and send them relief,


s: Restore to the yeomen o' th' Guard chines of beef,


s: That thou wilt be pleased very quickly to bring


s: Unto his just rights our so much-wrong'd King,


s: That Whitehall may shine in its pristine lustre,


s: That the Parliament may make a general muster,


s: That knaves may be punish'd by men who are juster,


s: That now the dog-days are fully expired,


s: That those cursed curs, which our patience have tired,


s: May suffer what is by true justice required,


s: That thou wilt be pleased to incline conquering Thomas


s: (Who now hath both city and Tower gotten from us),


s: That he may be just in performing his promise,


s: That our hopeful Prince and our gracious Queen


s: (Whom we here in England long time have not seen)


s: May soon be restored to what they have been,


s: From their Parliamentary guardians set free,


s: And be kept according to their high degree,


s: That our ancient Liturgy may be restored,


s: That the organs (by sectaries so much abhorr'd)


s: May sound divine praises, according to the word,


s: That the ring in marriage, the cross at the font,


s: Which the devil and the Roundheads so much affront,


s: May be used again, as before they were wont,


s: That Episcopacy, used in its right kind,


s: In England once more entertainment may find,


s: That Scots and lewd factions may go down the wind,


s: That thou wilt be pleased again to restore


s: All things in due order, as they were before,


s: That the Church and the State may be vex'd no more,


s: That all the King's friends may enjoy their estates,


s: And not be kept, as they have been, at low rates,


s: That the poor may find comfort again at their gates,


s: That thou wilt all our oppressions remove,


s: And grant us firm faith and hope, join'd with true love,


s: Convert or confound all which virtue reprove,


s: That all peevish sects that would live uncontroll'd,


s: And will not be govern'd, as all subjects should,


s: To New England may pack, or live quiet i' th' Old,


s: That gracious King Charles, with his children and wife,


s: Who long time have suffer'd through this civil strife,


s: May end with high honour their natural life,


s: That they who have seized on honest men's treasure,


s: Only for their loyalty to God and to Caesar,


s: May in time convenient find measure for measure,


s: That thou all these blessings upon us wilt send,


s: We are no INDEPENDENTS, on Thee we depend,


s: And as we believe, from all harm us defend;


s: From a collection of songs, 1640 to 1660.  It is also to be found


s: What though the zealots pull down the prelates,


s: Push at the pulpit, and kick at the crown,


s: Shall not the Roundhead first be confounded?


s: Sa, sa, sa, say, boys, ha, ha, ha, ha, boys,


s: Then we'll be merry, drink white wine and sherry,


s: Then we will sing, boys, God bless the King, boys,


s: What though the wise make Alderman Isaac


s: And walk on foot as it pleaseth the fates;


s: In the King's army no man shall harm ye.


s: Then come along, boys, valiant and strong, boys,


s: Fight for your goods, which the Roundheads enjoy;


s: And when you come, boys, with fife and drum, boys,


s: If you will choose them, do not refuse them,


s: Since honest Parliament never made thieves,


s: Charles will not further have rogues dipt in murder,


s: Neither by leases, long lives, nor reprieves.


s: Will not be granted, then be not daunted,


s: Thanks to the heavens, and (cry), VIVE LE ROY.


s: There's none but knaves and fools regard her,


s: With bulleys of every sect in town, boys;


s: And pull the mitre from the prelate's head,


s: In all those factious humours you have bred;


s: But take them all and hang them one by one.


s: Are all but aims to rob the King of his due;


s: That you'll be ruled, if he'll be ruled by you.


s: Then leave these factions, zealous brother,


s: This song, says Mr Chappell, in his Popular Music of the Olden


s: Time, which describes with some humour the taste of the Puritans,


s: Know this, my brethren, heaven is clear,


s: Rome's trash and trumpery shall go down,


s: We'll break their pipes and burn their copes,


s: We'll down with deans and prebends, too,


s: To the air of "Hey, then, up go we."  From a Collection of Loyal


s: Songs written against the Rump Parliament.


s: Fight on, brave soldiers, for the cause,


s: And ships shall save our lives, that stay


s: A well-known song from Hogg's Jacobite Relics; and popular among


s: the Cavaliers both of England and Scotland in the days of the


s: Commonwealth.  It was usually sung to a psalm tune; the singers


s: imitating the style and manner of a precentor at a Presbyterian


s: A Loyall Song of the Royall Feast kept by the Prisoners in the


s: Political Ballads of the Commonwealth, published for the Percy


s: Society, "the case of the royalist prisoners in the Tower was


s: frequently brought into question.  The latter seized the occasion


s: On the 19th of August (according to the MODERATE INTELLIGENCER of


s: fat bucks for a feast.  This circumstance was the origin of the


s: God save the best of kings, King Charles!


s: Search both the Houses through and through


s: The first and chiefe a marquesse (6) is,


s: The cryes were loud, God knowes the cause,


s: Sir Edward Hayles (11) was wond'rous rich,


s: Old Sir George Strangways (12) he came in,


s: And those that call themselves God's saints


s: Jack Hewet (15) will have wholesome meat,


s: When Harlow's wife brings her long bills,


s: When shee speaks loud, as loud he swears


s: Giles Strangwayes (18) has a gallant soul,


s: Had General King (21) done what he should,


s: Will Morton's (22) of that Cardinal's race,


s: He's firme both to the church and crowne,


s: Their martial court was then cry'd down,


s: Since Charles, the wise, the valiant King,


s: Ballad:  Upon His Majesty's Coming To Holmby


s: Hold out, brave Charles, and thou shaft win the field;


s: Thou canst not lose thyself, unless thou yield


s: On such conditions as will force thy hand


s: To give away thy sceptre, crown, and land.


s: And what is worse, to hazard by thy fall,


s: To lose a greater crown, more worth than all.


s: Than yet they are, so it reflects from thee.


s: Thou art our sovereign still, in spite of hate;


s: Our zeal is to thy PERSON, not thy STATE.


s: Our drooping fortunes to be mounted higher,


s: And thou so great a monarch, to our grief,


s: And when they sit and long debate about it,


s: Must either stay their time, or go without it.


s: No, sacred prince, thy friends esteem thee more


s: In thy distresses than ere they did before;


s: And though their wings be clipt, their wishes fly


s: To heaven by millions, for a fresh supply.


s: That as thy cause was so betray'd by MEN,


s: Thank the Parliament twice for their treble undoing.


s: A street ballad.  From a broadside, 1647.


s: And yet, methinks, they are never the near:


s: For there they meet with the devil and all;


s: They care not a pin what his Majesty saith;


s: And they pay all their debts with the public faith.


s: Though all we have here is brought to nought,


s: In Ireland we have whole lordships bought,


s: There we shall one day be rich, 'tis thought:


s: Now the King is caught and the devil is dead;


s: They have made King Charles a glorious king,


s: Now he and his subjects have reason to sing,


s: the lord mayor and a large part of the aldermen were committed to


s: rest of the year was appointed by the Parliament.


s: To the tune of "London is a fine town and a gallant city."


s: Why kept your train-bands such a stirre?


s: And when they came to the bottom of the Strand


s: For fear it should fall, and so kill 'em all


s: Some letters about this CROSS were found,


s: its ornamental situation, the beauty of its structure, nor the


s: was demolished by order of the House of Commons, as Popish and


s: superstitious.  This occasioned the following not unhumorous


s: The plot referred to in ver. 3 was that entered into by Mr Waller


s: At the end of the Strand they make a stand,


s: For fear it should fall, and kill them all


s: Men talk of plots, this might have been worse,


s: To think you'll leave them ne'er a cross


s: Whitlocke says, "May 3rd, 1643, Cheapside Cross and other crosses


s: We had a very curious account of the pulling down of Cheapside


s: Cross lately published in one of the Numbers of the GENTLEMEN'S


s: Cambridge and Oxford made poor preachers,


s: To believe th' House in the first place,


s: By John Cleveland.  To the tune of "An old Courtier of the


s: With little ruff starch'd, you know how,


s: To find out words, when stuff's to seek:


s: With grounds strong laid of mere illusion:


s: With speech unthought, quick revelation,


s: With noting tools, and sighs great store,


s: Cheap doctrines forced, wild uses taken,


s: With new-wrought caps, against the canon,


s: For taking cold, tho' sure he have none;


s: A new hour long, when's glass had run one,


s: New use, new points, new notes to stand on:


s: What creature's that, with his short hairs,


s: From the King's Pamphlets, British Museum.


s: There is an old proverb which all the world knows,


s: Anything may be spoke, if 't be under the rose:


s: Then now let us speak, whilst we are in the hint,


s: Of the state of the land, and th' enormities in't.


s: Under the rose be it spoke, there is a number of knaves,


s: More than ever were known in a State before;


s: But I hope that their mischiefs have digg'd their own graves,


s: And we'll never trust knaves for their sakes any more.


s: Under the rose be it spoken, the city's an ass


s: So long to the public to let their gold run,


s: To keep the King out; but 'tis now come to pass,


s: I am sure they will lose, whosoever has won.


s: Under the rose be it spoken, there's a company of men,


s: Trainbands they are called - a plague confound 'em:-


s: And when they are waiting at Westminster Hall,


s: May their wives be beguiled and begat with child all!


s: Under the rose be it spoken, there's a damn'd committee


s: Sits in hell (Goldsmiths' Hall), in the midst of the city,


s: The devil take their souls, and the hangman their ears.


s: Under the rose be it spoken, if you do not repent


s: Of that horrible sin, your pure Parliament,


s: Pray stay till Sir Thomas doth bring in the King,


s: Then Derrick (32) may chance have 'em all in a string.


s: Under the rose be it spoken, let the synod now leave


s: To wrest the whole Scripture, how souls to deceive;


s: For all they have spoken or taught will ne'er save 'em,


s: Unless they will leave that fault, hell's sure to have 'em!


s: From the Loyal Garland, 1686.  To the tune of "Love lies a


s: The coinage issued during the Protectorate of Cromwell, consisted


s: cross, encircled by a laurel and palm branch, and the words, "The


s: Saw you the State's money new come from the Mint?


s: Some people do say it is wonderous fine;


s: And that you may read a great mystery in't,


s: Of mighty King Nol, the lord of the coin.


s: They have quite omitted his politic head,


s: His worshipful face, and his excellent nose;


s: But the better to show the life he had led,


s: They have fix'd upon it the print of his hose.


s: For, if they had set up his picture there,


s: They needs must ha' crown'd him in Charles's stead;


s: But 'twas cunningly done, that they did forbear,


s: And rather would set up aught else than his head.


s: 'Tis monstrous strange, and yet it is true,


s: In this reformation we should have such luck;


s: That crosses were always disdain'd by you,


s: Who before pull'd them down, should now set them up.


s: On this side they have circumscribed "God with us,"


s: And in this stamp and coin they confide;


s: COMMON-WEALTH on the other, by which we may guess


s: That God and the States were not both of a side.


s: And only a cross on the other set forth;


s: By which we may learn, it falls to our part


s: Two crosses to have for one fit of mirth!


s: Being a new song, wherein the people expresse their thankes and


s: To be said or sung of all the well-affected of the kingdome of


s: England, and dominion of Wales, before the breaking up of this


s: The mitre is downe, and so is the crowne,


s: Come clownes, and come boyes, come hober-de-hoyes,


s: Stretch your throats, bring in your votes,


s: "Nay, thus it shall goe," sayes Taffie, "I trow;"


s: For it wou'd undoe both Church and State too,


s: But thou must bring out, thou deified rout,


s: Speak Abraham, speak Kester, speak Judith, speak Hester,


s: "Nay, I ha' the truth," sayes Reverend Ruth;


s: Take Pryn and his clubs; or Say and his tubs, (33)


s: The devil's i' th' pack, if choyce you can lack,


s: "Nay, wee'le be of all," sayes pitifull Paul;


s: Neighbours and friends, pray one word more,


s: And wise though you be, you doe not well see


s: The matter's all one to have any or none,


s: But herein doth lurke the key of the worke,


s: "Then let's ha' King Charles," sayes George;


s: "Nay, let's have none," sayes Jabbering Jone;


s: But few folke and poore to domineere ore,


s: The country's growne sad, the city horne-mad,


s: The synod hath writ, the generall hath spit,


s: "Come, come, shal's ha' peace?" sayes Nell;


s: "But I say we will," sayes firy-faced Phill;


s: These popular pates reap nought but debates,


s: Come, Royalists, then, doe you play the men,


s: "God blesse him," sayes Doll; "and raise him," sayes Moll;


s: And their committees, that townes and cities


s: Our new British states, Col. Burges and his mates,


s: For all these wee'le pray, and in such a way,


s: It is desired that the knights and burgesses would take especial


s: Ballad is dated the 23rd of April in the same year.


s: Think'st thou, base slave, though in my grave


s: Ye sick-brain'd fools! whose wit does lie


s: Our wrongs have arm'd us with such strength,


s: Your power - thus speak the powerful fates,


s: Yea, powerful fates, haste, haste the time,


s: Meanwhile, so pare their sharpen'd claws,


s: From all the mischiefs that I mention here,


s: Preserve us, Heaven, in this approaching year:


s: From civil wars and those uncivil things


s: That hate the race of all our queens and kings;


s: From those who for self-ends would all betray,


s: From saints that curse and flatter when they pray;


s: In treason, murthers, and in theft excel;


s: From those new teachers have destroy'd the old,


s: And those that turn the gospel into gold;


s: From a High-Court, and that rebellious crew


s: That did their hands in royal blood imbrue, -


s: Defend us, Heaven, and to the throne restore


s: The rightful heir, and we will ask no more.


s: Ballad:  The Sale Of Rebellion's House-Hold Stuff


s: To the tune of "Old Sir Simon the King."


s: With his ale-dropt hose, and his Malmsey nose,


s: And for a small matter I'll sell ye 'um,


s: But it swept the wealth out of the nation,


s: Will you buy the state's spinning-wheel,


s: Here's Joan Cromwell's kitchen-stuff tub,


s: With which old Noll's horns she did rub,


s: When he was got drunk with false bumbers.


s: When the old wives upon their good troth


s: And here are old Noll's brewing vessels,


s: Here are Hewson's (36) awl and his bristles,


s: Ballad:  The Cavalier's Farewell To His Mistress, Being Called To


s: The following song was extracted from the MS. Diary of the Rev.


s: John Adamson (afterwards Rector of Burton Coggles, Lincolnshire),


s: The last news from France, being a true relation of the escape of


s: France, - who was conveyed away by a young gentleman in woman's


s: apparel; the King of Scots attending on this supposed gentlewoman


s: Tune, "When the King enjoys his own again."


s: From vol. ii. of the Roxburgh Ballads, in the British Museum.


s: To t' happie return of the figure of TWO.


s: The figure of TWO is a palpable allusion to Charles II.  Tune,


s: When the figure of TWO shall be crown'd.


s: And I thought all the folke had bin mad.


s: But when they are foul I might scorn them;


s: The State would so much stand our friend,


s: Written in the year 1652, by Samuel Butler.  From his Posthumous


s: Crimes are not punish'd 'cause they're crimes,


s: By the judge's will, or lawyer's slight,


s: Thence with short meal and tedious grace,


s: Sings wisdom's hymns, that trot and pace


s: Falls to his sports, drink, drabs, and dice,


s: By all those broils in which th' engaged us:


s: From a broadside in the King's Pamphlets, British Museum.  After


s: What was long look'd for, comes at last.


s: 'Tis said the mountains once brought forth, -


s: And what brought they? a mouse, in troth;


s: We'll look it o'er, then, if you please,


s: Shall not be pardon'd till they're poor.


s: We drank some healths to the higher powers,


s: But now we've seen't they'd need drink ours.


s: That nothing's here and nothing's there:


s: But since they'll not forget our crimes,


s: Written in the year 1654, by Samuel Butler.


s: Ballad:  The Parliament Routed, Or Here's A House To Be Let


s: Shall be at peace, and give no way to warres:


s: To the tune of "Lucina, or, Merrily and Cherrily."


s: Cheare up, kind countrymen, be not dismay'd,


s: True news I can tell ye concerning the nation;


s: Hot spirits are quench'd, the tempest is layd,


s: (And now we may hope for a good reformation).


s: The Parliament bold and the counsell of state


s: Doe wish them beyond sea, or else at Virginie;


s: For now all their orders are quite out of date,


s: Twelve Parliament men shall be sold for peny.


s: Full twelve years and more these rooks they have sat,


s: To gull and to cozen all true-hearted people;


s: Our gold and our silver has made them so fat,


s: That they lookt more big and mighty than Paul's steeple.


s: The freedome of subject they much did pretend,


s: But since they bore sway we never had any;


s: Twelve Parliament men are now sold for one peny.


s: Their acts and their orders which they have contrived,


s: Was still in conclusion to multiply riches:


s: The Common-wealth sweetly by these men have thrived,


s: As Lancashire did with the juncto of witches. (38)


s: As it hath been felt and endured by many,


s: Still making religion their author and cloak,


s: Twelve Parliament men shall be sold for a peny.


s: Both citie and countrey are almost undone


s: By these caterpillars, which swarm'd in the nation;


s: Their imps and their goblins did up and downe run,


s: Excise-men, I meane, all knaves of a fashion:


s: For all the great treasure that dayly came in,


s: The souldier wants pay, 'tis well knowne by a many;


s: To cheat and to cozen they held it no sinne,


s: The land and the livings which these men have had,


s: 'Twould make one admire what use they've made of it,


s: The souldier fared hard whilst they got the profit.


s: Our gold and our silver to Holland they sent,


s: But being found out, this is knowne by a many,


s: That no one would owne it for feare of a shent,


s: Twelve Parliament men are sold for a peny.


s: 'Tis judged by most people that they were the cause


s: Of England and Holland, their warring together, (39)


s: Both friends and dear lovers to break civill lawes,


s: And in cruell manner to kill one another.


s: What cared they how many did lose their dear lives,


s: So they by the bargain did get people's money,


s: Sitting secure like bees in their hives?


s: But twelve Parliament men are now sold for a peny.


s: They voted, unvoted, as fancy did guide,


s: To passe away time, but increasing their treasure


s: (When Jack is on cock-horse hee'l galloping ride,


s: But falling at last, hee'l repent it at leisure).


s: The widow, the fatherlesse, gentry and poore,


s: The tradesman and citizen, with a great many,


s: Have suffer'd full dearly to heap up their store;


s: But twelve Parliament men shall be sold for a peny.


s: These burdens and grievances England hath felt,


s: So long and so heavy, our hearts are e'en broken,


s: Our plate, gold and silver, to themselves they've dealt


s: (All this is too true, in good time be it spoken).


s: For a man to rise high and at last to fall low,


s: It is a discredit:  this lot fals to many,


s: But 'tis no great matter these men to serve so,


s: Twelve Parliament men now are sold for a peny.


s: The generall (40) perceiving their lustfull desire


s: To covet more treasure, being puft with ambition,


s: By their acts and their orders to set all on fire,


s: Pretending religion to rout superstition:


s: He bravely commanded the souldiers to goe


s: In the Parliament-house, in defiance of any;


s: To which they consented, and now you doe know


s: That twelve Parliament men may be sold for a peny.


s: The souldiers undaunted laid hold on the mace,


s: And out of the chaire they removed the speaker:


s: The great ones was then in a pittifull case,


s: And Tavee cryd out, All her cold must forsake her. (41)


s: Thus they were routed, pluckt out by the eares,


s: The House was soone empty and rid of a many


s: Usurpers, that sate there this thirteen long yeares;


s: Twelve Parliament men may be sold for a peny.


s: To the Tower of London away they were sent,


s: As they have sent others by them captivated;


s: Oh what will become of this old Parliament


s: And all their compeers, that were royally stated.


s: What they have deserved I wish they may have,


s: For us to have freedome, oh that will be brave!


s: But twelve Parliament men may be sold for a peny.


s: Let's pray for the generall and all his brave traine,


s: He may be an instrument for England's blessing,


s: Appointed in heaven to free us againe, -


s: For this is the way of our burdens redressing:


s: Twelve Parliament men now are sold for a peny.


s: Christmas, and forbidden the eating of puddings and pies, as


s: Which subjects should not dare to touch,


s: Of house and home, both branch and root,


s: And made God's house (to all our griefs),


s: Lenthal (42) I mean, whose fame hath rung


s: This Speaker's words must needs be wind,


s: Nor could the sense o' the House be sweet


s: More ballads! - here's a spick and span new supplication,


s: By order of a Committee for the Reformation,


s: To be read in all churches and chapels of this nation,


s: From fools and knaves in our Parliament free,


s: From those that ha' more religion and less conscience than their


s: From a representative that's fearful and zealous;


s: From a starting jadish people that is troubled with the yellows,


s: And a priest that blows the coal (a crack in his bellows);


s: From shepherds that lead their flocks into the briars,


s: And then fleece 'em; from vow-breakers and king-tryers;


s: Of Church and Crown lands, from both sellers and buyers;


s: From the children of him that is the father of liars;


s: From the doctrine and discipline of NOW AND ANON,


s: Preserve us and our wives from John T. and Saint John,


s: Like master like man, every way but one, -


s: The master has a large conscience, and the man has none;


s: From major-generals, army officers, and that phanatique crew;


s: From old Mildmay, that in Cheapside mistook his queu,


s: And from him that won't pledge - Give the devil his due;


s: From long-winded speeches, and not a wise word;


s: From a gospel ministry settled by the sword;


s: From the act of a Rump, that stinks when 'tis stirr'd;


s: From a knight of the post, and a cobbling lord;


s: From all the rich people that ha' made us poor;


s: From a Speaker that creeps to the House by a back-door;


s: From that badger, Robinson (that limps and bites sore);


s: And that dog in a doublet, Arthur - that will do so no more;


s: From a certain sly knave with a beastly name;


s: From a Parliament that's wild, and a people that's tame;


s: From Skippon, Titchbourne, Ireton, - and another of the same;


s: From a dung-hill cock, and a hen of the game;


s: From all those that sat in the High Court of Justice;


s: From usurpers that style themselves the people's trustees;


s: From an old Rump, in which neither profit nor gust is,


s: And from the recovery of that which now in the dust is;


s: From a backsliding saint that pretend t' acquiesce;


s: From crossing of proverbs (let 'um hang that confess);


s: From a sniveling cause, in a pontificall dress,


s: And two lawyers, with the devil and his dam in a mess;


s: From those that trouble the waters to mend the fishing,


s: And fight the Lord's battles under the devil's commission,


s: Such as eat up the nation, whilst the government's a-dishing;


s: And from a people when it should be doing, stands wishing;


s: From an everlasting mock-parliament - and from NONE;


s: From Strafford's old friends - Harry, Jack, and John;


s: From our solicitor's wolf-law deliver our King's son;


s: And from the resurrection of the Rump that is dead and gone;


s: From foreign invasion and commotions at home;


s: From our present distraction, and from work to come;


s: From the same hand again Smectymnus, or the bum,


s: And from taking Geneva in our way to Rome;


s: From a hundred thousand pound tax to keep knaves by the score


s: (But it is well given to these that turn'd those out of door);


s: From undoing ourselves in plaistering old sores;


s: He that set them a-work, let him pay their scores;


s: From saints and tender consciences in buff;


s: From Mounson in a foam, and Haslerig in a huff;


s: From both men and women that think they never have enough;


s: And from a fool's head that looks through a chain and a duff;


s: From those that would divide the gen'ral and the city;


s: From Harry Martin's girl, that was neither sweet nor pretty;


s: From a faction that has neither brain nor pity:


s: From the mercy of a phanatique committee;


s: Preserve us, good Heaven, from entrusting those


s: That ha' much to get and little to lose;


s: That murther'd the father, and the son would depose


s: (Sure they can't be our friends that are their country's foes);


s: From Bradshaw's presumption, and from Hoyle's despairs;


s: From rotten members, blind guides, preaching aldermen, and false


s: From long knives, long ears, long parliaments, and long pray'rs;


s: In mercy to this nation - Deliver us and our heirs;


s: If you can what you've lost by your drinking:


s: While the King and his progeny's sinking.


s: The studs in your cheeks have obscured his star, boys,


s: Your drinking miscarriages in the late war, boys,


s: Have brought his prerogative now to the war, boys.


s: That extracts all his worth from Canary;


s: 'Twas the cup made the camp to miscarry.


s: You thought in the world there's no power could tame ye,


s: God's nigs and Ne'er stir, sirs, has vanquish'd God damn me.


s: And the water will run where the drink went;


s: 'Tis the course of the royal delinquent;


s: You love to see beer-bowls turn'd over the thumb well,


s: You like three fair gamesters, four dice, and a drum well,


s: But you'd as lief see the devil as Fairfax or Cromwell.


s: In the source of your sack and your sonnets;


s: You see how they're charm'd by the King's enchanters,


s: And therefore pack hence to Virginia for planters,


s: For an act and two red-coats will rout all the ranters.


s: Lest thy brain, like thy purse, run the score,


s: Those kingdoms and crowns which your poetry pities,


s: Are fall'n by the pride and hypocrisy of cities,


s: And not by those brains that love sack and good ditties;


s: The K. and his progeny had kept them from sinking,


s: Had they had no worse foes than the lads that love drinking,


s: We that tipple ha' no leisure for plotting or thinking.


s: That doth throw down himself with a glass


s: 'Cause the cups made the camp to miscarry.


s: Your sports did determine in the month of July;


s: There's less fraud in plain damme than your sly by my truly;


s: 'Tis sack makes our bloods both purer and warmer,


s: We need not your priest or the feminine charmer,


s: For a bowl of Canary's a whole suit of armour.


s: Where there is neither swimming nor rowing.


s: We were gamesters alike, and our stakes were both down, boys,


s: But Fortune did favour you, being her own, boys;


s: And who would not venture a cast for a crown, boys?


s: Since we wear the right colours, he the worst of our foes is


s: That goes to traduce, and fondly supposes


s: That Cromwell's an enemy to sack and red noses.


s: Wanting other discourse worth the hearing.


s: This strumpet your muse is, to ballad or flatter,


s: Or rail, and your betters with froth to bespatter,


s: And your talk's all dismals and gunpowder matter;


s: But we, while old sack does divinely inspire us,


s: Are active to do what our rulers require us,


s: And attempt such exploits as the world shall admire us.


s: And her grace, Maid Marion Claypole. (45)


s: Written when O. C. attempted to be King.  By Alex. Brome.


s: Come, a brimmer (my bullies), drink whole ones or nothing,


s: 'Tis sack that can heat us, we care not for clothing,


s: So that now we must venture to drink 'em by stealth.


s: But we've found out a way that's beyond all their thinking;


s: We'll drink their destruction that would destroy drinking, -


s: Let 'um vote THAT a health if they will.


s: But now we all clearly see what was the end on't.


s: Now their idols thrown down with their sooter-kin also,


s: About which they did make such a pother;


s: And tho' their contrivance did make one thing to fall so,


s: Which shall be the standard in every town.


s: Their politick would-be's do but show themselves asses


s: We only converse with pots and with glasses,


s: Where our bodies and brains we do season,


s: And that is ne'er taken for murder or treason.


s: Where our ditties still be, Give's more drink, give's more drink,


s: 'Till we've merrily spent all our store;


s: And swear ourselves out on the very same score.


s: And said With the brewer no quarrel we'll make,


s: We'll let him alone; as he brews let him bake;


s: And thought to be made an Emperor for't,


s: And carry the matter so fine and so brave,


s: That he may rise (strange things to tell),


s: And raise his powers, both great and small,


s: How this brewer about his liquor did bring


s: John Bradshaw, who had presided over the court of justice which


s: condemned Charles I. to the scaffold, and who by his extreme


s: republican principles had rendered himself obnoxious to Cromwell,


s: Protector's death, and was elected President of the Council of


s: State.  He did not live long to enjoy this honour, but died,


s: To the tune of "Well-a-day, well-a-day."


s: January 17th, 1659. - From the King's Ballads, British Museum.


s: Without THAT there's no faith nor quarter.


s: 'Tis the mark of our coin "GOD WITH US,"


s: And the grace of the Lord goes along with't.


s: For the PENCE he's your dog in a halter,


s: That their lands are wondrous toothsome.


s: And the Shrieves cry, God save your honours;


s: For the soldier's still in the right on't.


s: eleventh he joined the city and the Presbyterian party, and


s: itself, and a new one was called. - (February 28th, 1659.)" - All


s: To the tune of "The Old Courtier of the Queen's," etc.


s: News! news! here's the occurrences and a new Mercurius,


s: A dialogue betwixt Haselrigg the baffled and Arthur the furious;


s: With Ireton's (50) readings upon legitimate and spurious,


s: Here's the true reason of the citie's infatuation,


s: Ireton has made it drunk with the cup of abomination;


s: Which with the juyce of Titchburn's grapes (51) must needs cause


s: That whipp'd the nation as long as it could stand over it - after


s: It was itself re-jerk'd by the sage author of this speech:


s: "Methinks a Rump should go as well with a Scotch spur as with a


s: This Rump hath many a rotten and unruly member;


s: "I'll abjure you with a pestilence!" quoth George, "and make you


s: With that, Monk leaves (in Rump assembled) the three estates,


s: (When they saw that he brought them plasters for their broken


s: In truth this ruffle put the town in great disorder,


s: Some knaves (in office) smiled, expecting 'twould go furder;


s: But at the last, "My life on't!  George is no Rumper," said the


s: "For there never was either honest man or monk of that order."


s: And so it proved; for, "Gentlemen," says the general, "I'll make


s: Our greeting was a little untoward, but we'll part friends;


s: A little time shall show you which way my design tends,


s: And that, besides the good of Church and State, I have no other


s: His Excellence had no sooner pass'd this declaration and promise,


s: And now comes the supplication of the members under the rod:


s: "Nay, my Lord!" cryes the brewer's clerk; "good, my Lord, for the


s: Consider yourself, us, and this poor nation, and that tyrant


s: This mortal silence was followed with a most hideous noyse,


s: Of free Parliament bells and Rump-confounding boyes,


s: Crying, "Cut the rogues! singe their tayles!" when, with a low


s: "Fire and sword! by this light," cryes Tom, "Lets look to our


s: Never were wretched members in so sad a plight;


s: Some were broyl'd, some toasted, others burnt outright; (56)


s: Nay against Rumps so pittylesse was their rage and spite,


s: That not a citizen would kisse his wife that night.


s: By this time death and hell appear'd in the ghastly looks


s: Of Scot and Robinson (those legislative rooks);


s: And it must needs put the Rump most damnably off the hooks


s: To see that when God has sent meat the Devil should send cooks.


s: Although (God wet) with many struglings and much hast, -


s: For, members, or no members, was but a measuring cast.


s: Being come to Whitehall, there's the dismal mone,


s: "Let Monk be damn'd!" cries Arthur in a terrible tone (57) -


s: "That traytor, and those cuckoldy rogues that set him on!"


s: (But tho' the knight spits blood, 'tis observed that he draws


s: You must be canting and be plagued, with your Barebones petition,


s: And take in that bull-headed, splay-footed member of the


s: Then in steps driv'ling Mounson to take up the squabble,


s: That lord which first taught the use of the woodden dagger and


s: And were the best foole in Europe but that he wants a bauble.


s: And a free Parliament under oath and qualification,


s: Where none shall be elect but members of reprobation.


s: Here's the tail firk'd, a piece acted lately with great applause,


s: Proving that Rumps and members are antienter than laws,


s: And that a bumme divided is never the worse for the flawes.


s: But all things have their period and fate,


s: An Act of Parliament dissolves a Rump of state,


s: Members grow weak, and tayles themselves run out of date,


s: Here lies a pack of saints that did their souls and country sell


s: For dirt, the Devil was their good lord, him they served well;


s: To the tune of "To drive the cold winter away."  (March 7, 1659.)


s: Who hath been such a bane to our nation;


s: But's no matter, we'll trust him no more.


s: Whilst the House was prest by the rabble;


s: Which were wrong'd both behind and before;


s: And there they will be, till a Parliament come


s: And to send it from whence it first came;


s: (January 1659-60.) - From a broadside, vol. xv. in the King's


s: "The condition of the State was thus:  viz. the Rump, after being


s: Lambert is not yet come in to the Parliament, nor is it expected


s: bearer to acquaint him with their desires for a free and full


s: will be satisfied till the House be filled."  Pepys' Diary,


s: You may have heard of the politique snout,


s: But scarce of a Parliament in a dirty clout,


s: Sir Vane bless'd the creature, Noll snuffled and bluster'd,


s: The right was as then in old Oliver's nose;


s: It descended from thence to the Rump in the close,


s: The juggle is stale, and money there's none,


s: To enter, but them the Rump did defy all


s: That a blood-sucking red-coat's as good as a leech


s: To relieve the head, if applied to the breech,


s: When the State scour'd last, it voided him then,


s: Ludlow's f- was a prophetique trump (69)


s: 'Twas the very type of a vote of this Rump,


s: They say 'tis good luck when a body rises


s: With the rump upward, but he that advises


s: To live in that posture is none of the wisest,


s: The reason is worse, though the rime be untoward,


s: When things proceed with the wrong end forward;


s: But they say there's sad news to the Rump from the Nor'ward; (70)


s: 'Tis a wonderfull thing, the strength of that part;


s: At a blast it will take you a team from a cart,


s: When our brains are sunck below the middle,


s: And our consciences steer'd by the hey-down-diddle,


s: Then things will go round without a fiddle,


s: You may order the city with hand-granado,


s: To make us as famous in council as wars,


s: 'Tis pitty that Nedham's (71) fall'n into disgrace,


s: For he orders a bum with a marvellous grace,


s: And ought to attend the Rump by his place,


s: Although he hath broken the heads of his masters,


s: 'Tis still his profession to give 'em all plasters,


s: The Rump's an old story, if well understood;


s: 'Tis a thing dress'd up in a Parliament's hood,


s: And like 't, but the tayl stands where the head should,


s: 'Twould make a man scratch where it does not itch,


s: To see forty fools' heads in one politique breech,


s: And that, hugging the nation, as the devil did the witch;


s: From the mercy of a Rump, our estates and our lives!


s: For they must needs go whom the Devil drives,


s: "Hei ho, my honey, my heart shall never rue,


s: (Dec. 11th, 1659.) - From the King's Pamphlets, British Museum.


s: "The events which gave occasion to the following ballad," says Mr


s: Society, "may be summed up in a few words.  After the death of


s: Cromwell, his son Richard was without opposition raised to the


s: Protectorate; but his weak and easy character gave an opening to


s: the intrigues of the Royalists, and the factious movement of the


s: Wallingford House; and on the 20th April, 1659, having gained the


s: aside the Protector, who soon afterwards resigned.  On the 21st


s: opened their session.  The Parliament thus formed, as being the


s: against Sir George Booth in the August following, and jealousies


s: soon arose between his party in the army and the Rump.  The


s: hands of a council of officers, whom they called the Committee of


s: Parliament.  This ballad was written at the period when Lambert's


s: Good-morrow, my neighbours all, what news is this I heard tell


s: As I past through Westminster-hall by the House that's neck to


s: (As Cromwell had done before) those vermin should sit there no


s: Sing hi ho, Wil. Lenthall, (73) who shall our general be?


s: Sing hi ho, my honey, my heart shall never rue,


s: But now is come about, that once again they must turn out,


s: And not without justice and reason, that every one home to his


s: Sing hi ho, Harry Martin, (74) a burgess of the bench,


s: There's nothing here is certain, you must back and leave your


s: Because he ran at sheep, she and her maid gave him the whip,


s: And beat his head so addle, you'd think he had a knock in the


s: Sing hi ho, Lord Munson, (75) you ha' got a park of the King's;


s: One day you'l hang like a hounson, for this and other things,


s: It was by their master's orders at first together they met,


s: Nor can they their gens-d'armes blame for serving them the same.


s: Old Noll once gave them a purge (forgetting OCCIDISTI),


s: (The furies be his scourge!) so of the cure must he;


s: And yet the drug he well knew it, for he gave it to Dr Huit; (78)


s: Who did against lovalty kick is now for a new-year's gift gone.


s: For had Old Noll been alive, he had pull'd them out by the ears,


s: Or else had fired their hive, and kickt them down the staires;


s: Because they were so bold to vex his righteous soul,


s: Though lapt in spices and lead that cost us many a pound.


s: Indeed, brother burgess, your ling did never stink half so bad,


s: Nor did your habberdin when it no pease-straw had;


s: Ye both were chose together, 'cause ye wore stuff cloaks in hard


s: And Cambridge needs would have a burgess fool and knave.


s: Sing hi ho, John Lowry, (79) concerning habberdin,


s: No member spake before ye, yet you ne're spoke againe.


s: Ned Prideaux (80) he went post to tell the Protector the news,


s: And that he did believe, Lambert would him deceive


s: As he his brother had gull'd, and Cromwell Fair fax bull'd.


s: Sing hi ho, the attorney was still at your command;


s: In flames together burn ye, still dancing hand in hand!


s: Who is it? with a vengeance! it is the good Lord St Johns, (81)


s: Who made God's house to fall, to build his own withall.


s: Sing hi ho, who comes there? who 'tis I must not say;


s: But by his dark lanthorn, I sweare he's as good in the night as


s: Edge, brethren, room for one that looks as big as the best;


s: 'Tis pity to leave him alone, for he is as good as the rest;


s: No picklock of the laws, he builds among the daws,


s: If you ha' any more kings to murder, for a President look no


s: Sing hi ho, John Bradshaw, in blood none further engages;


s: The Devil from whom he had's law, will shortly pay him his wages.


s: Next, Peagoose Wild, (82) come in to show your weesle face,


s: And tell us Burley's sin, whose blood bought you your place;


s: When loyalty was a crime, he lived in a dangerous time,


s: Was forced to pay his neck to make you baron of the cheque.


s: Sing hi ho, Jack Straw, we'll put it in the margent,


s: 'Twas not for justice or law that you were made a sergeant.


s: Noll served not Satan faster, nor with him did better accord;


s: For he was my good master, and the Devil was his good lord.


s: Both Slingsby, Gerard, and Hewet, (83) were sure enough to go to


s: According to his intent, that chose me President.


s: Sing hi ho, Lord Lisle, (84) sure law had got a wrench,


s: And where was justice the while, when you sate on the bench.


s: Next comes the good Lord Keble, of the Triumvirate,


s: Of the seal in the law but feeble, though on the bench he sate;


s: For when one puts him a case, I wish him out of the place,


s: And, if it were not a sin, an able lawyer in.


s: Sing, give the seal about, I'de have it so the rather,


s: Because we might get out the knave, my lord, my father.


s: Pull out the other three, it is Nathaniel Fines (85)


s: (Who Bristol lost for fear), we'll not leave him behind's;


s: 'Tis a chip of that good old block, who to loyalty gave the first


s: Then stole away to Lundey, whence the foul fiend fetches him one


s: Sing hi ho, canting Fines, you and the rest to mend 'um,


s: Would ye were served in your kinds with an ENSE RESCIDENDUM.


s: He that comes down-stairs, is Lord Chief Justice Glin; (86)


s: If no man for him cares, he cares as little again:


s: The reason too I know't, he helpt cut Strafford's throat,


s: And take away his life, though with a cleaner knife.


s: Sing hi ho, Britain bold, straight to the bar you get,


s: Where it is not so cold as where your justice set.


s: He that will next come in, was long of the Council of State,


s: Then came back to's own nation, to help up reformation.


s: Sing hi ho, Harry Nevil, (87) I prythee be not too rash


s: He there with ingratitude blackt is one Cornelius Holland, (88)


s: Who, but for the King's house, lackt wherewith to appease his


s: The case is well amended since that time, as I think,


s: The reason pray now tell ye us why thus you play'd the Judas.


s: At first he was a grocer who now we Major call,


s: Although you would think no, Sir, if you saw him in Whitehall,


s: Where he has great command, and looks for cap in hand,


s: And if our eggs be not addle, shall be of the next new moddel.


s: Sing hi ho, Mr Salloway, (89) the Lord in heaven doth know


s: When that from hence you shall away, where to the Devil you'l go.


s: Little Hill, (90) since set in the House, is to a mountain grown;


s: The purchase that I mean, where else but at Taunton Dean;


s: Five thousand pounds per annum, a sum not known to his grannam.


s: Sing hi, the Good old Cause, (91) 'tis old enough not true


s: You got more by that then the laws, so a good old cause to you.


s: Master Cecil, (92) pray come behind, because on your own accord


s: The other House you declined, you shall be no longer a lord;


s: The reason, as I guess, you silently did confess,


s: Such lords deserved ill the other House to fill.


s: Sing hi ho, Mr Cecil, your honour now is gone;


s: Such lords are not worth a whistle, we have made better lords of


s: He cannot honour inherit, and he knows he can never merit,


s: And therefore he cannot bear it that any one else should wear it.


s: Who always bark'd at the moon, because in the dark it shined.


s: Long time you kept a great noise, of God and the Good old Cause;


s: But if God to you be so kind, then I'me of the Indian's mind.


s: Sing hi ho, Sir Harry, (94) we see, by your demeanour,


s: If longer here you tarry, you'll be Sir Harry Vane, Senior.


s: Now if your zeal do warme ye, pray loud for fairer weather;


s: Swear to live and die with the army, for these birds are flown


s: The House is turn'd out a doe, (and I think it was no sin, too);


s: If we take them there any more, we'll throw the House out of the


s: Sing hi ho, Tom Scot, (95) you lent the Devil your hand;


s: I wonder he helpt you not, but suffred you t' be trapand.


s: They're once again conduced, and we freed from the evil


s: To which we long were used; God blesse us next from the Devil!


s: If they had not been outed the array had been routed,


s: And then this rotten Rump had sat until the last trump.


s: But, hi ho, Lambert's here, the Protector's instrument bore,


s: And many there be who swear that he will do it no more.


s: Come here, then, honest Peters, (96) say grace for the second


s: So long as these your betters must patience have upon force,


s: Long time he kept a great noise with God and the Good old Cause,


s: But if God own such as these, then where's the Devil's fees?


s: Sing hi ho, Hugo, I hear thou art not dead;


s: Where now to the Devil will you go, your patrons being fled?


s: Sing hi ho, my honey, my heart shall never rue,


s: Four-and-twenty now for a penny, and into the bargain Hugh.


s: The "Sir Samuel" of this Ballad is the same person - Sir Samuel


s: inimitable Hudibras.  Ralph is also the well-known Squire in the


s: same poem.  The Ballad, though published in Butler's "Posthumous


s: date long anterior to the popular song, "The Vicar of Bray."


s: Some bring their boots, and some their shoes,


s: Dost thou not know, vile slave! quoth he,


s: A world of healths and jests went round,


s: My conscience, thanks to Heaven, is come


s: Go, seize them, Ralph, and bring them in,


s: Ralph, who was both his squire and clerk,


s: What, will you squeeze his gullet through,


s: At this the knight gave's breast a thump,


s: The proverb says, HARM WATCH HARM CATCH,


s: Come here, Sir Samuel, where's his health


s: Now, quoth the cobbler, with your leave,


s: Quoth he, The priests have preach'd and pray'd,


s: Ralph, quoth the knight, that's well advised,


s: Moved by French springs or Flemish wheels,


s: Whose conscience might be scann'd perhaps


s: With pleasing twangs he tones his prose;


s: When Thames was balderdash'd with Tweed,


s: With dog-star zeal, and lungs like Boreas,


s: He fought, and taught, and, what's notorious,


s: Destroy'd his Lord to make him glorious.


s: The old wives wind their dead in woollen:


s: But worse when children play with knives.


s: That have dove's plumes, but vulture's claws.


s: Yet when all's said, one thing I'll swear,


s: Ballad:  The Devil's Progress On Earth, Or Huggle Duggle


s: From Durfey's "Pills to Purge Melancholy."


s: Their scales were false, their weights were light,


s: That's ready primed, and charged to break,


s: When owles are strip'd of their disguise,


s: Those birds and beasts that please our eyes


s: And bubbl'd fools more wit should learn,


s: And when they change their wav'ring minds,


s: Let's preach and pray, but spit our gall


s: For if the HIGH CHURCH once should rise,


s: Ballad:  Phanatick Zeal, Or A Looking-glass For The Whigs


s: From a Collection of 180 Loyal Songs.  Tune, "A Swearing we will


s: A popular ballad, written immediately after the restoration of


s: Tune, "Ye gallants that delight to play."


s: When three crowns at the stakes were laid;


s: And clubs were better cards than hearts.


s: But the just Fates threw these four out,


s: And with these cards have whipt his dock.


s: With one-eyed Hewson, took their places,


s: They kept the cards still in their hands,


s: That they, which Christians did forswear,


s: Nay more, which was the strangest thing,


s: Because they were the gamesters' minions,


s: To save the stakes, or lose their lives;


s: And screw'd up poor Jack Lambert's body.


s: That show'd their cards before they play'd.


s: At length, quoth he, some cards we lack,


s: We wish'd the cards had all been burn'd.


s: (March 25th, 1660.) - From the King's Pamphlets, British Museum.


s: Who (though their hopes are in the ditch)


s: As late (when for their King they pin'd),


s: And make proud Flemings bend their knee,


s: Sprung up at length and choak't the weed,


s: This and the following ballad, from the King's Pamphlets, British


s: Ballad:  An Echo To The Cavalier's Complaint


s: Things when they are at worst will mend;


s: Of Ten grand infamous Traytors, who, for their horrid murder and


s: detestable villany against our late soveraigne Lord King Charles


s: the First, that ever blessed martyr, were arraigned, tryed, and


s: executed in the moneth of October, 1660, which in perpetuity will


s: manner in which it was conducted tended more than any other


s: circumstance to open the eyes of the people to the real character


s: The tune is "Come let us drinke, the time invites."


s: That brought our soveraigne to the blocke,


s: For which were hang'd and cut in quarters;


s: 'Twas Cooke which wrought the bloody thing


s: For in this moneth they lost their quarters;


s: London, printed for Fr. Coles, T. Vere, M. Wright, and W.


s: Or, King and peoples happinesse.  Being a brief relation of King


s: Charles's royall progresse from Dover to London, how the Lord


s: Generall and the Lord Mayor, with all the nobility and gentry of


s: the land, brought him thorow the famous city of London to his


s: pallace at Westminster, the 29th of May last, being his Majesties


s: One of the six curious broadsides found by Sir W. C. Trevelyan in


s: The new Parliament met on the twenty-fifth of April, and on the


s: first of May the King's letter from Breda was read, and the


s: Restoration determined by a vote of the House.  The King


s: immediately repaired to the coast, and, after meeting with some


s: obstruction from the roughness of the weather, went on board the


s: NAZEBY on the 23rd of May.  On the 25th he landed at Dover.  He


s: To the tune of "When the King enjoys his own again."


s: And said King Charles no more should reign?


s: They with sweet flowers his way to strew.


s: First marched Major Generall Brown, (106)


s: Then Norwich Earle of great renown, (107)


s: Then with drawn swords all men did side,


s: London, printed for Charles Tyns, on London Bridge.


s: Or, A True Relation Of The Lord General Monk's Political


s: Members, their transcendant vote for his sacred Majesty, with his


s: British Museum, found in the lining of an old trunk by Sir W. C.


s: Tune - "When first the Scottish wars began."


s: His secret mind there's none could know,


s: They div'd into him as much as they could, -


s: George would not be won with their silver nor gold:


s: The sectarian saints at this lookt blew,


s: They vapour'd awhile, and were in good hope,


s: But now they have nothing left but the rope.


s: Which long they wrought for to be brought


s: Quoth Vane and Scot, I'le tell you what,


s: Let's vote him a thousand pound a yeare,


s: Indeed, quoth George, ye're Free Parliament men


s: To cut a thong out of another man's skin.


s: To break our posts and raise our ghosts,


s: But in the task he was hard put untoo't,


s: 'Twas enough to infect both his horse and his foot,


s: What was their spight, he brought to light


s: Which long did wait, came to him straight,


s: That George would give them their fatall due;


s: For he pul'd the Monster out of his den.


s: Yet some in the House had their hands much in blood,


s: And in great opposition like traytors they stood;


s: That those that were for him were twenty to one.


s: They voted King Charles the first of May;


s: And our streets did echo with God bless ye King.


s: Good Lord, what a sumptuous sight 'twas to see


s: His chain so long, went through the town


s: I thought they would have rent the skyes.


s: There were all the peeres and barrons bold,


s: Throughout the throng, still he did come


s: But still in vain; - the swordmen did intend


s: With loyal and with joyful hearts we'll sing:


s: Have brought forth what's gay and green;


s: Old England is now a brave Barbary made,


s: And every one has an ambition to ride her;


s: King Charles was a horseman that long used the trade,


s: But he rode in a snaffle, and that could not guide her.


s: Then the hungry Scot comes with spur and with switch,


s: And would teach her to run a Geneva career;


s: His grooms were all Puritan, Traytor, and Witch,


s: But she soon threw them down with their pedlary geer.


s: The Long Parliament next came all to the block,


s: And they this untameable palfrey would ride;


s: But she would not bear all that numerous flock,


s: At which they were fain themselves to divide.


s: Jack Presbyter first gets the steed by the head,


s: While the reverend Bishops had hold of the bridle;


s: Jack said through the nose they their flockes did not feed,


s: But sat still on the beast and grew aged and idle.


s: And then comes the Rout, with broom-sticks inspired,


s: And pull'd down their graces, their sleeves, and their train;


s: And sets up Sir Jack, who the beast quickly tyr'd


s: With a journey to Scotland and thence back again.


s: Jack rode in a doublet, with a yoke of prick-ears,


s: A cursed splay-mouth and a Covenant spur,


s: Rides switching and spurring with jealousies and fears,


s: Till the poor famish'd beast was not able to stir.


s: Next came th' Independent - a dev'lish designer,


s: And got himself call'd by a holier name -


s: Makes Jack to unhorse, for he was diviner,


s: And would make her travel as far's Amsterdam.


s: But Nol, a rank-rider, gets first in the saddle,


s: And made her show tricks, and curvate, and rebound;


s: She quickly perceived that he rode widdle waddle,


s: And like his coach-horses threw his Highness to ground.


s: Not having the wit to get hold of the rein;


s: But the jade did so snort at the sight of a Cromwell,


s: Next Fleetwood and Vane with their rascally pack,


s: Would every one put their feet in the stirrup;


s: But they pull'd the saddle quite off of her back,


s: And were all got under her before they were up.


s: At last the King mounts her, and then she stood still;


s: She cheerfully yields to his power and skill


s: Who is careful to feed her, and skilful to guide her.


s: Let's leave off our labour, and now let's go play,


s: Our plagues and our plaguers are both fled away,


s: And so he that does not look twenty years younger;


s: That is the restorer and will be the prolonger


s: The joy of our hearts, and increase of our wealth.


s: 'Tis he brings our trading, our trading brings riches,


s: Our riches brings honour, at which every mind itches,


s: And our riches bring sack, and our sack brings us joy,


s: Several lines in this song were incorporated in the better-known


s: dragoons, in the reign of George I.  Butler's ballad, though


s: unpublished, must therefore have been known at the time.


s: Or The Good Fellow's Design.  Being a pleasant song of the times,


s: Wine the most powerfull'st of all things on earth,


s: Which stifles cares and sorrows in their birth;


s: Creep in when it bears away, to hurt the State.


s: Though storms grow high, so wine is to be got,


s: The Muses cherish'd up such nectar, sing


s: A pox of the fooling and plotting of late,


s: What a pudder and stir has it kept in the State!


s: Let the rabble run mad with suspicions and fears,


s: Let 'em scuffle and rail till they go by the ears, -


s: Their grievances never shall trouble my pate,


s: What coxcombs were those that would ruin their case


s: And their necks for a toy, a thin wafer, and mass!


s: For at Tyburn they never had needed to swing


s: Had they been but true subjects to drink and their King:


s: A friend and a bottle is all my design, -


s: He's no room for treason that's top-full of wine.


s: I mind not the members and makers of laws,


s: Let them sit or prorogue as his Majesty please;


s: Let 'em damn us to Woolen, I'le never repine


s: At my usage when dead, so alive I have wine;


s: Yet oft in my drink I can hardly forbear


s: To blame them for making my claret so dear.


s: About rights and successions, the trifles of State;


s: We've a good King already, and he deserves laughter


s: That will trouble his head with who shall come after:


s: Come, here's to his health! and I wish he may be


s: As free from all cares and all troubles as we.


s: What care I how leagues with Hollanders go,


s: Or intrigues 'twist Mounsieurs or Dons for to?


s: What concerns it my drinking if cities be sold,


s: If the conqueror takes them by storming or gold?


s: From whence claret comes is the place that I mind,


s: And when the fleet's coming I pray for a wind.


s: The bully of France that aspires to renown


s: By dull cutting of throats, and by venturing his own;


s: Let him fight till he's ruined, make matches, and treat,


s: To afford us still news, the dull coffee-house cheat:


s: He's but a brave wretch, whilst that I am more free,


s: More safe, and a thousand times happier than he.


s: In spite of him, or the Pope, or the Devil,


s: I still will drink healths to the lovers of wine,


s: Those jovial, brisk blades that do never repine;


s: I'll drink in defiance of napkin or halter,


s: Tho' religion turn round still, yet mine shall ne'er alter.


s: But a health to good fellows shall still be my care,


s: And whilst wine it holds out, no bumpers we'll spare.


s: I'll subscribe to petitions for nothing but claret,


s: That that may be cheap, here's both my hands for it;


s: 'Tis my province, and with it I only am pleased,


s: With the rest, scolding wives let poor cuckolds appease.


s: No doubt 'tis the best of all drinks, or so soon


s: It ne'er had been chose by the Man in the Moon, (110)


s: Who drinks nothing else, both by night and by day


s: But claret, brisk claret, and most people say,


s: Whilst glasses brimful to the stars they go round,


s: Which makes them shine brighter with red juice still crown'd.


s: For all things in Nature doe live by good drinking,


s: And he's a dull fool, and not worthy my thinking,


s: That does not prefer it before all the treasure


s: The Indies contain, or the sea without measure;


s: 'Tis the life of good fellows, for without it they pine,


s: When nought can revive them but brimmers of wine.


s: I know the refreshments that still it does bring,


s: Which have oftentimes made us as great as a king


s: In the midst of his armies where'er he is found,


s: Whilst the bottles and glasses I've muster'd round;


s: Who are Bacchus' warriors a conquest will gain


s: Without the least bloodshed, or wounded, or slain.


s: Then here's a good health to all those that love peace,


s: Let plotters be damn'd and all quarrels now cease


s: Let me but have wine and I care for no more,


s: 'Tis a treasure sufficient; there's none can be poor


s: That has Bacchus to's friend, for he laughs at all harm,


s: Whilst with high-proofed claret he does himself arm.


s: From Sir W. C. Trevelyan's Broadsides in the British Museum.


s: Likewise himself he served at Worcester fight,


s: I'd venture all for Charles the Second's sake,


s: London, printed for John Andrews, at the White Lion, near Pye-


s: Ballad:  King Charles The Second's Restoration, 29th May.


s: Tune, "Where have you been, my lovely sailor bold?"


s: copy of the book, which is now in the possession of Mr Payne


s: Collier, is probably unique, they are here subjoined."


s: Shall live in freedom, peace, and mirth;


s: And his health goes briskly all day round.


s: To the soldier, cap in hand, the sneaking rascals stand,


s: But the King he well knows his friends from his foes,


s: 'Twas plain to them all, the great and the small,


s: Since they've seen their brother at the stake:


s: And more must mounted be (which God grant we may see),


s: And the King lets them swing with a hey ding a ding,


s: And the treason that such dogs design'd;


s: 'Tis they will you maul, though it cost them a fall,


s: For now they are alarm'd, and all Loyalists well arm'd,


s: Let's drink, my boys, while life doth last:


s: We'll fear no disgrace, but look traitors in the face,


s: Which makes their crew mad, but us loyal hearts full glad,


s: (May, 1661.) - From the twentieth volume of the folio broadsides,


s: For the King bears not the sword in vain.


s: Ballad:  Here's A Health Unto His Majesty


s: There is only one verse to this Song.  The music is arranged for


s: three voices in "Playford's Musical Companion, 1667."


s: Tune, "Hark, the thundering canons roar."


s: Wealth breeds care, love, hope, and fear;


s: Fall in your place by the right-hand man,


s: Beat drum! march on! dub a dub, ran dan!


s: May stay our stomachs, though not still,


s: (July 17th, 1660.) - From the King's Pamphlets, British Museum.


s: This ballad relates to the disbanding of the Parliamentary army.


s: My buffe doth make me boots, my velvet coat and scarlet,


s: Which used to do me credit with many a wicked harlot,


s: Have bid me all adieu, most despicable varlet!


s: Alas, poor souldier, whither wilt thou march?


s: Britain these eighteen years has known my desperate slaughter,


s: I've killed ten at one blow, even in a fit of laughter,


s: Gone home again and smiled, and kiss'd my landlor's daughter;


s: This fauchion by my side has kind more men, I'll swear it,


s: Than Ajax ever did, alas! he ne'er came near it,


s: Yea, more than Priam's boy, or all that ere did hear it.


s: Smectymnuus won me first, then holy Nye prevail, (111)


s: Then Captain Kiffin (112) slops me with John of Leyden's tail,


s: Then Fox and Naylor bangs me with Jacob Beamond's flail. (113)


s: Time was when all trades failed, men counterfeitly zealous


s: Turn'd whining, snievling praters, or kept a country ale-house,


s: Got handsome wives, turn'd cuckolds, howe'er were very jealous.


s: When we had murdered King, confounded Church and State,


s: Divided parks and forests, houses, money, plate,


s: We then did peace desire, to keep what he had gat.


s: Bishops, and bishops' lands, were superstitious words,


s: Until in souldiers' hands, and so were kings and lords,


s: But in fashion now again in spight of all our swords.


s: My masters most are guilty of such crimes.


s: Like an old Almanack, I now but represent


s: How long since Edge-Hill fight, or the rising was in Kent,


s: Or since the dissolution of the first Long Parliament.


s: Let me inform their nodle with my heroick spirit,


s: My language and worth besides transcend unto merit;


s: They'l not believe one word, what mortal flesh can bear it?


s: Souldiers ye see will be of each religion,


s: They're but like stars, which when the true sun rise they're gon.


s: Aye, aye, 'tis thither, and thither will I goe.


s: London, printed for Charles Gustavus, 1660.


s: Ballad:  The Courtier's Health; Or, The Merry Boys Of The Times


s: To the tune of "Great York has been debar'd of late, etc."


s: Defend us from the SHAM BLACK BOX, (114)


s: Whilst plots and plotters all shall cease,


s: Could they but push great York once down


s: They'd next attempt to snatch the crown,


s: Though CLOAKMEN, that seem much precise,


s: 'Gainst wine exclaim with turn'd-up eyes;


s: Both Church and State, which is their prayer;


s: Whilst Tyburn for such slaves does groan,


s: Miss Strickland quotes this ballad in her Lives of the Queens of


s: Let Titus (115) and Patience (116) stir up a commotion,


s: Their plotting and swearing shall prosper no more;


s: Now gallant old Jamie commands on the ocean,


s: And mighty Charles keeps them in awe on the shore.


s: His own and the monarchy's rival withstood;


s: The bane and the terror of those the disloyal,


s: Who slew his loved father and thirst for his blood.


s: York, the great admiral, - Ocean's defender,


s: The joy of our navy, the dread of its foes,


s: The lawful successor, - what upstart pretender


s: Shall dare, in our isle, the true heir to oppose?


s: Jamie quelled the proud foe on the ocean,


s: And rode the sole conqueror over the main;


s: To this gallant hero let all pay devotion,


s: To the tune of "The King enjoys his own," &c.


s: The Whigs are but small, and of no good race,


s: Old TONY broach'd his tap in every place,


s: And all with a true blue was their stain;


s: They all owne duty to their lawful prince,


s: And they swear they'll support our laws;


s: And COMMON-PRAYER i'th' church of ev'ry town,


s: If that the Whigs could but bear the sway:


s: How all their shamming plots they would hide,


s: And assist him against his Whiggish foes.


s: That the crown may remain on Charles's head;


s: Printed for S. Maurel, in the year 1682.


s: From a "Collection of 180 Loyal Songs," written since 1678.  This


s: Jemmy is the Duke of York, afterwards James II.


s: With high respects they treat his Grace,


s: From "Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; being a


s: Collection of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and new."


s: But 'twill not I fear please every pallate;


s: 'Tis newly printed and newly come forth;


s: 'Twas made of a cloak that fell out with a gown,


s: That cramp'd all the kingdom and crippled the crown.


s: Which happen'd when Cloak was Commander-in-chief;


s: In one day it voted down prelates and prayers;


s: It made people perjured in point of obedience,


s: And the Covenant did cut off the oath of allegiance.


s: Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down


s: That kill'd many thousands but never struck stroke;


s: Did join with the Devil to pull down the Pope;


s: It set all the sects in the city to work,


s: And rather than fail 'twould have brought in the Turk.


s: It brought in the bag-pipes, and brought in the organs;


s: And all our religion was turn'd to a cloak.


s: It brought in lay-elders could not write nor read,


s: It set public faith up and pull'd down the creed.


s: It left us no penny nor no PATER-NOSTER;


s: And set up twice twenty times ten of its own;


s: It routed the King and villains elected,


s: To plunder all those whom they thought disaffected.


s: It took off ship-money, but set up excise;


s: And gave it to Tom Trumpeter and his mate.


s: In pamphlets it writ many specious epistles,


s: To cozen poor wenches of bodkins and whistles.


s: It trod on the mitre to reach at the crown;


s: And into the field it an army did bring,


s: To aim at the council but shoot at the King.


s: Do now keep their quarters on the city gates.


s: It gave a commission to kill one another.


s: It took up men's horses at very low rates,


s: And plunder'd our goods to secure our estates.


s: It made the best mirror of majesty bleed;


s: By rallying and calling his journeymen to't.


s: For never had come such a bloody disaster,


s: If Cloak had not first drawn a sword at his master.


s: This lofty long Cloak is not moved to repentance;


s: Are plotting to do their tricks over again.


s: But let this proud Cloak to authority stoop,


s: Or DUN will provide him a button and loop.


s: Then let us endeavour to pull the Cloak down


s: That basely did sever the head from the crown.


s: In sacred and secular things may consent;


s: That Papists and Atheists suppressed may be.


s: And as there's one Deity does over-reign us,


s: One faith and one form and one Church may contain us.


s: Then peace, truth, and plenty our kingdom will crown,


s: And all Popish plots and their plotters shall down.


s: Room for a gamester that plays at all he sees,


s: Whose fickle fancy suits such times as these,


s: One that says Amen to every factious prayer,


s: From Hugh Peters' pulpit to St Peter's chair;


s: One that doth defy the Crozier and the Crown,


s: But yet can house with blades that carouse,


s: Whilst pottle pots tumble down, derry down,


s: One that can comply with surplice and with cloak,


s: Whilst Presbyterian broke Brittain's yoke.


s: This is the way to trample without trembling,


s: Covenants and oaths are badges of dissembling,


s: To profess and betray, to plunder and pray,


s: Ne'er go, ne'er stir, sir - will venture further


s: I'm in a temperate humour now to think well,


s: Now I'm in another humour for to drink well,


s: Then fill us up a beer-bowl, boys, that we


s: But since 'tis no such matter, change your hue,


s: Religion is a widgeon, and reason is treason,


s: And he that hath a loyal heart may bid the world adieu.


s: For the Church of Scotland doth command;


s: Although thine eyes a kingdom may surprise;


s: Cavaliers, be bold, ne'er let go your hold,


s: PHYDELIA. - One kiss more, and so farewell.


s: SOLDIER. - Fie, no more!  I prithee fool give o'er;


s: Rally up your men, one shall vanquish ten,


s: Victory, we come to try our valour once again.


s: Whilst such as do now strong castles keep


s: Upon an act of Treason made by the Rebels, etc.


s: But since it was lately enacted high treason


s: For a man to speak truth 'gainst the head of a state,


s: Let every wise man make a use of his reason


s: To think what he will, but take heed what he prate;


s: He that stays from the battel sleeps in a whole skin,


s: And our words are our own if we keep them within,


s: What fools are we then that to prattle do begin


s: 'Tis no matter to me whoe'er gets the battle,


s: The rubs or the crosses, 'tis all one to me;


s: It neither increaseth my goods nor my cattle;


s: Let misers take courses to hoard up their treasure,


s: Whose bounds have no limits, whose minds have no measure,


s: Let me be but quiet and take a little pleasure,


s: But what if the kingdom returns to the prime ones?


s: My mind is a kingdom, and so it shall be;


s: I'll make it appear, if I had but the time once,


s: He's as happy in one as they are in three,


s: He that's mounted aloft is a mark for the fate,


s: Whilst he that is low is safe in his estate,


s: And the great ones do scorn to annoy him.


s: I count him no wit that is gifted in rayling


s: And flurting at those that above him do sit;


s: Whilst they do outwit him with whipping and jailing,


s: His purse and his person must pay for his wit.


s: If sack were reform'd to twelve-pence a quart


s: I'd study for money to merchandise for't,


s: With a friend that is willing in mirth we would sport;


s: Not a word, but we'd pay it with thinking.


s: My petition shall be that Canary be cheaper,


s: That the wits may have freedom to drink deeper and deeper,


s: And not be undone whilst our noses we baptize;


s: If this were but granted, who would not desire


s: To dub himself one of Apollo's own quire?


s: And then we will drink whilst our noses are on fire,


s: And the quart pots shall be buckets to quench them.


s: The stars which you see in the hemisphere be


s: Are but studs in your cheeks by good drinking;


s: The sun's gone to tipple all night in the sea, boys,


s: To-morrow he'll blush that he's paler than we, boys;


s: Let's set foot to foot and but give our minds to't,


s: Then hang up good faces, let's drink till our noses


s: Give's freedom to speak what our fancy disposes,


s: Beneath whose protection now under the rose is.


s: 'Twill enrich both your head and your soul with Canary;


s: For a carbuncled face saves a tedious race,


s: No Helicon like to the juice of good wine is,


s: For Phoebus had never had wit that divine is,


s: Had his face not been bow-dy'd as thine is and mine is.


s: Whilst the constables tremble to shivers.


s: In state march our faces like some of that quorum,


s: While the. . . . do fall down and the vulgar adore 'um,


s: And our noses like link-boys run shining before 'um.


s: A third, that we ne'er mean to keep 'um.


s: To the King; may he thirst that repines:


s: Are hang'd, and ram'd down to the center.


s: Both with Heaven and the country's anger;


s: Till the gallows-tree frees them from danger.


s: From the Loyal Garland.  To the tune of "Now, now the fight's


s: You Royalists all, now rejoice and be glad,


s: The day is our own, there's no cause to be sad,


s: The tumult of faction is crush'd in its pride,


s: And the grand promoters their noddles all hide,


s: For fear of a swing, which does make it appear


s: Though treason they loved yet for hemp they don't care.


s: Then let us be bold still, and baffle their plots,


s: That they in the end may prove impotent sots;


s: And find both their wit and their malice defeated,


s: Nay, find how themselves and their pupils they cheated,


s: By heaping and thrusting to unhinge a State,


s: Of which Heaven's guardian fixt is by fate.


s: Though once they the rabble bewitch'd with their cant,


s: Whilst cobler and weaver set up for a saint;


s: Yet now the stale cheat they can fasten no more,


s: The juggle's discover'd and they must give o'er;


s: Yet give them their due that such mischief did work,


s: Who revile Christian princes and pray for the Turk.


s: Oh! give them their due, and let none of 'em want


s: That, clad in their colours, they may not deceive


s: The vulgar, too prone and too apt to believe


s: The fears they suggest on a groundless pretence,


s: On purpose to make 'em repine or their prince.


s: From the Loyal Garland.  A pleasant song revived.


s: Ballad:  On The Times, Or The Good Subject's Wish


s: From the Loyal Garland.  To the tune of "Young Phaon."


s: Since it must be so, why then so let it go,


s: Now we have our King, let the goblets be crowned,


s: And our sorrows in wine shall lie steeping.


s: And we'll drink till our eyes do run over,


s: A mournifal of healths to our new-crowned King.


s: Let us all stand bare in the presence we are,


s: Instead of the conduits, let pottles run wine,


s: And we that are loyal, in drink shall be peers;


s: And would with his twyvels maliciously swell,


s: And against the King's party raise arms:


s: Then the drawers, like yeomen o' the guard,


s: Till they make 'um both cuckolds and freemen,


s: To drink and be loyal in defence of our King.


s: How happy's that pris'ner that conquers his fate


s: With silence, and ne'er on bad fortune complains,


s: But carelessly plays with keys on his grate,