I had thought to have given them once They are confecrate to the church: Says old Simon, &c. Here's a couple of ftools for fale, Of the RUMP fell unto the ground. To uphold the Independent plot. Says old Simon, &c. Here's the beefom of Reformation, Which fhould have made clean the floor, But it fwept the wealth out of the nation, `And left us dirt good store. Will you buy the states spinning-wheel, But better it had stood still, For now it has fpun a fair thread. Here's a very good clyfter-pipe, Which was made of a butcher's stump, And often-times it hath been whip'd, After curing the colds of the RUMP. T4 20 30 35 心優 40 5 A Here's 45 CA Here's a lump of Pilgrims - Salve, Which once was a juftice of peace, Who Noll and the Devil did serve; Says old Simon, &c. Here's a roll of the states tobacco, 50 55 No Virginia had ee'r fuch a smack-o, And I'll tell you how they did make it: 'Tis th' Engagement, and Covenant cookt 60 Up with the Abjuration oath; And many of them, that have taok't, And here's the trunk-hofe of the RUMP, 75 And their fair diffembling cloak, And a Prefbyterian jump, With an independent smock. 2 Says old Simon, &c. Will Will you buy a confcience oft turn'd, 85 90 When the old wives upon their good troth, Cramm'd with the tumultuous Petitions. And here are old Noll's brewing veffels, Ver. 86. This was a cant name given to Cromwell's wife by the Royalists, tho' her true name was Elizabeth: to the latter part of the verse hangs fome tale that is now forgotten. Ver. 94. See Grey's Hudibras Pt. 1. Cant 2. ver. 570. &c. Ver. 100. 102. Cromwell had in his younger years follo wed the brewing trade at Huntingdon. Col. Hewson is faid to have been originally a cobler. And what is the price doth belong To all these matters before ye? I'll fell them all for an old fong, Says old Simon, &c. 105 XIX. OLD TOM OF BEDLAM. MAD SONG THE FIRST. It is worth attention, that the English have more Songs and ballads on the Subject of madneß, than any of their neighbours. Whether it is that we are more liable to this calamity than other nations, or whether our native gloo mineß bath peculiarly recommended Subjects of this caft to our writers, the fact is inconteftible, as any one may be Satisfied, who will compare the printed collections of French Italian Songs, &'c. with thofe in Our language. The three the merit of They were Out of a much larger quantity, we have selected half a dozen MAD SONGS for these volumes. first are originals in their respective kinds : the three last is chiefly that of imitation. written at confiderable intervals of time, but we have here grouped them together that the reader may the better examine their comparative merits. He may confider them as fo many trials of Skill in a very peculiar fubject, as the contest of So many rivals to Shoot in the bow of UlyfSes. Jes. The two first were probably written about the beginning of the last century; the third about the middle of it; the fourth towards the end; and the two laft within this prefent century. This is given from the editor's folio MS. compared with two or three old printed copies. 'ORTH from my sad and darksome cell, FORT Or from the deepe abyffe of hell, Mad Tom is come into the world againe Feares and cares oppreffe my foule: Through the world I wander night and day When me he spyed, Away he hyed, 10 |