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XIII. Verses by King Charles I. ................................................................................. "This prince, ...

Next at the clergy do their furies frown, Pious episcopacy must go down, They will destroy the crosier and the crown. Churchmen ...

For since they from their lord are so disjointed, As to contemn those edicts he appointed, How can they prize the power of his a ...

XIV. The Sale of Rebellious House-hold Stuff. ........................................................ This sarcastic exultation ...

Which spun for the roper's trade? But better it had stood still, For now it has spun a fair thread. Says old Simon, &c. Here ...

When he was got drunk with false bumpers. Says old Simon, &c. Here's the purse of the public faith; Here's the model of the ...

XV. The Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy. ............................................................... Given, with some corre ...

He from his scabbard drew his brand, And wip'd it upon his sleeve-a: "And curs'd," he said, "be every man, That will a maid beli ...

O'er head and ears he plunged in, The bottom faire he sounded; Then rising up he cried amain, "Help, helpe, or else I'm drownded ...

"Farewell, sir knight, the clock strikes ten, Yet do not move nor stir, sir: I'll send you my father's serving men, To pull off ...

"Over the moate I've laid a plank Full seventeen feet in measure: Then step a-cross to the other bank, And there we'll take our ...

XVI. Why so Pale? .................................................................................................... From Sir ...

XVII. Old Tom of Bedlam. MAD SONG THE FIRST............................................. It is worth attention, that the English ...

Chast Diana bends her bowe, The boare begins to bristle. Come, Vulcan, with tools and with tackles, To knocke off my troublesome ...

XVIII. The Distracted Puritan.MAD SONG THE SECOND. ................................. This piece was written about the beginning ...

My zeal deride, And all my deeds misconster. Boldly I preach, &c. I un-hors'd the Whore of Babel, With the lance of Inspirat ...

See Perkins's Works, fol. 1616, vol. i. p. ii; where is a large half sheet folded, containing "A Survey or Table, declaring the ...

XIX. The Lunatic Lover. MAD SONG THE THIRD. .............................................. This is given from an old printed cop ...

I lye on the barren soil, And bitterly do complain. Till slumber hath quieted me, In sorrow I sigh and weep; The clouds are my c ...

XX. The Lady Distracted with Love MAD SONG THE FOURTH.......................... This was originally sung in one of Tom D'Urfey's ...