for the purpose which they were intended to serve, if their writers had been more fanciful and imaginative, or less intent upon what they had to say than upon the manner of saying it. But if not extremely poetical, they are extremely national, and racy of the soil; and some of them are certain to live as long as the language which produced them. For the convenience of reference and consultation they have been arranged chronologically; beginning with the discontents that inaugurated the reign of Charles I., and following regularly to the final, though short-lived, triumph of the Cavalier cause, in the accession of James II. After his ill-omened advent to the throne, the Cavalier became the Jacobite. In this collection no Jacobite songs, properly so called, are included, it being the intention of the publishers to issue a companion volume, of the Jacobite Ballads of England, from the accession of James II. to the battle of Culloden, should the public receive the present volume with sufficient favour to justify the venture. The Editor cannot, in justice to previous fellow-labourers, omit to record his obligation to the interesting volume, with its learned annotations, contributed by Mr Thomas Wright to the Percy Society; or to another and equally valuable collection, edited by Mr J. O. Halliwell. _December_, 1862. CONTENTS. PAGE When the King enjoys his own again 1 ,, comes home in Peace again 4 I love my King and Country well 6 The Commoners 8 The Royalist 10 The New Courtier 11 Upon the Cavaliers departing out of London 13 A Mad World, my Masters 14 The Man O’ The Moon 16 The Tub-Preacher 18 The New Litany 20 The Old Protestant’s Litany 23 Vive Le Roy 27 The Cavalier 28 A Caveat to the Roundheads 31 Hey, then, up go we 32 The Clean Contrary Way, or, Colonel Venne’s Encouragement 35 to his Soldiers The Cameronian Cat 37 The Royal Feast 39 Upon His Majesty’s coming to Holmby 50 I thank you twice 51