And now to such a grievous height Are our misfortunes grown, That our estates are took away By tricks before ne’er known. For there are agents sent abroad Most humbly for to crave Our alms; but if they are denied, And of us nothing have, Then by a vote _ex tempore_ We are to prison sent, Mark’d with the name of enemy, To King and Parliament: And during our imprisonment, Their lawless bulls do plunder A license to their soldiers, Our houses for to plunder. And if their hounds do chance to smell A man whose fortunes are Of some account, whose purse is full, Which now is somewhat rare; A _monster_ now, _delinquent_ term’d, He is declared to be, And that his lands, as well as goods, Sequester’d ought to be. As if our prisons were too good, He is to Yarmouth sent, By virtue of a warrant from The King and Parliament. Thus in our royal sovereign’s name, And eke his power infused, And by the virtue of the same, He and all his abused. For by this means his castles now Are in the power of those Who treach’rously, with might and main, Do strive him to depose. Arise, therefore, brave British men, Fight for your King and State, Against those trait’rous men that strive This realm to ruinate. ’Tis Pym, ’tis Pym and his colleagues, That did our woe engender; Nought but their lives can end our woes, And us in safety render. THE MAN O’ THE MOON. Hogg, in his second series of Jacobite Relics, states that he “got this song among some old papers belonging to Mr Orr of Alloa,” and that he never met with it elsewhere. In his first series he printed a Scottish song beginning,— “Then was a man came fron the moon And landed in our town, sir, And he has sworn a solemn oath That all but knaves must down, sir.” In Martin Parker’s foregoing ballad, “When the King enjoys his own again,” there is also an allusion to the man in the moon:— “The Man in the Moon May wear out his shoon By running after Charles his wain;” as it would appear that the “Man in the Moon,” was the title assumed by an almanack-maker of the time of the Commonwealth, who, like other astronomers and astrologers, predicted the King’s restoration. In this song the “Man o’ the Moon” clearly signifies King Charles. The man o’ the moon for ever! The man o’ the moon for ever! We’ll drink to him still In a merry cup of ale,— Here’s the man o’ the moon for ever! The man o’ the moon, here’s to him! How few there be that know him! But we’ll drink to him still In a merry cup of ale,— The man o’ the moon, here’s to him! Brave man o’ the moon, we hail thee, The true heart ne’er shall fail thee; For the day that’s gone And the day that’s our own— Brave man o’ the moon, we hail thee.