The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
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The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
Ballads, English; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Tuesday, after Peters, Cooke, {103}
Two notorious traytors,
That brought our soveraigne to the blocke,
For which were hang’d and cut in quarters;
’Twas Cooke which wrought the bloody thing
To draw the charge against our King,
That ever blessed martyr.
Next, on Wednesday, foure came,
For murthur all imputed,
There to answer for the same,
Which in judgement were confuted.
Gregorie Clement, Jones, and Scot,
And Scroop together, for a plot, {104}
Likewise were executed.
Thursday past, and Friday then,
To end the full conclusion,
And make the traytors just up ten,
That day were brought to execution,
Hacker and proud Axtell he, {105}
At Tyburne for their treachery
Received their absolution.
Being against the King and States,
The Commons all condemn’d ’um,
And their quarters on the gates
Hangeth for a memorandum
’Twixt the heavens and the earth;
Traytors are so little worth,
To dust and smoake wee’l send ’um.
Let now October warning make
To bloody-minded traytors,
That never phisicke more they take,
For in this moneth they lost their quarters;
Being so against the King,
Which to murther they did bring,
The ever blessed martyr.
London, printed for Fr. Coles, T. Vere, M. Wright, and W. Gilbertson.
THE GLORY OF THESE NATIONS;
OR, KING AND PEOPLES HAPPINESSE. BEING A BRIEF RELATION OF KING
CHARLES’S ROYALL PROGRESSE FROM DOVER TO LONDON, HOW THE LORD GENERALL
AND THE LORD MAYOR, WITH ALL THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF THE LAND, BROUGHT
HIM THOROW THE FAMOUS CITY OF LONDON TO HIS PALLACE AT WESTMINSTER, THE
29TH OF MAY LAST, BEING HIS MAJESTIES BIRTH-DAY, TO THE GREAT COMFORT OF
HIS LOYALL SUBJECTS.
One of the six curious broadsides found by Sir W. C. Trevelyan in the
lining of a trunk, and now in the British Museum.
The new Parliament met on the twenty-fifth of April, and on the first of
May the King’s letter from Breda was read, and the Restoration determined
by a vote of the House. The King immediately repaired to the coast, and,
after meeting with some obstruction from the roughness of the weather,
went on board the _Nazeby_ on the 23rd of May. On the 25th he landed at
Dover. He made his entry into London on the 29th.
To the tune of “When the King enjoys his own again.”
WHERE’S those that did prognosticate,
And did envy fair England’s state,
And said King Charles no more should reign?
Their predictions were but in vain,
For the King is now return’d,
For whom fair England mourn’d;
His nobles royally him entertain.
Now blessed be the day!
Thus do his subjects say,
That God hath brought him home again.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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