Rump Collection of Songs, 1639 to 1661. _See_ Loyal Songs. Ritson’s Ancient Songs, 1790. ,, English ,, Ramsay, Allan, Tea-table Miscellany, 1724. Rome rhymed to Death [qu. date]. Sportive Wit; the Muse’s Merriment [qu. date]. Skene MSS. Suckling’s, Sir John, Works [qu. date]. Second Tale of a Tub, 1715. Satirical Songs on Costume. True Loyalist, or Chevalier’s Favourite, 1779. Triumph of Wit, or Ingenuity Displayed. Taubman’s, Mat., Heroic and Choice Songs on the Times, 1682. Westminster Drollery, 1671. * Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy. Wit restored, 1658. Wit’s Recreation, 1654 Williams’, Sir Charles Hanbury, Political Songs. Wood’s, Anthony, Collection at Oxford [Ashmolean]. Withers, George, Songs. Wade’s, John, Ballads [qu. date]. CAVALIER SONGS AND BALLADS. WHEN THE KING ENJOYS HIS OWN AGAIN. This is perhaps the most popular of all the Cavalier songs—a favour which it partly owes to the excellent melody with which it is associated. The song, says Mr Chappell, is ascertained to be by Martin Parker, by the following extract from the _Gossips’ Feast_, or Moral Tales, 1647. “By my faith, Martin Parker never got a fairer treat: no, not when he indited that sweet ballad, When the King enjoys his own again.” In the poet’s Blind Man’s Bough (or Buff), 1641, Martin Parker says, “Whatever yet was published by me Was known as Martin Parker, or M. P.;” but this song was printed without his name or initials, at a time when it would have been dangerous to give either his own name or that of his publisher. Ritson calls it the most famous song of any time or country. Invented to support the declining interest of Charles I., it served afterwards with more success to keep up the spirits of the Cavaliers, and promote the restoration of his son; an event which it was employed to celebrate all over the kingdom. At the Revolution of 1688, it of course became an adherent of the exiled King, whose cause it never deserted. It did equal service in 1715 and 1745. The tune appears to have been originally known as _Marry me_, _marry me_, _quoth he_, _bonnie lass_. Booker, Pond, Hammond, Rivers, Swallow, Dade, and “The Man in the Moon,” were all astrologers and Almanac makers in the early days of the civil war. “The Man in the Moon” appears to have been a loyalist in his predictions. Hammond’s Almanac is called “bloody” because the compiler always took care to note the anniversary of the death, execution, or downfall of a Royalist. WHAT _Booker_ doth prognosticate Concerning kings’ or kingdoms’ fate? I think myself to be as wise As he that gazeth on the skies; My skill goes beyond the depth of a _Pond_, Or _Rivers_ in the greatest rain, Thereby I can tell all things will be well When the King enjoys his own again.