The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England

About this eBook

Editor

Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889

Title

The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684

Credits

Transcribed from the 1863 Griffin Bohn and Co. edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700

Category

Text

eBook-No.

1030

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1030

Release Date

September 1, 1997

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The CAVALIER SONGS AND BALLADS OF ENGLAND
2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF BALLAD AND SONG BOOKS AND MSS. QUOTED IN THIS COLLECTION.
5. 5.CAVALIER SONGS AND BALLADS. — WHEN THE KING ENJOYS HIS OWN AGAIN. — WHEN THE KING COMES HOME IN PEACE AGAIN. — I LOVE MY KING AND COUNTRY WELL. — THE COMMONERS. — THE ROYALIST. — THE NEW COURTIER. — UPON THE CAVALIERS DEPARTING OUT OF LONDON. — A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS. — THE MAN O’ THE MOON. — THE TUB-PREACHER. — THE NEW LITANY. — THE OLD PROTESTANT’S LITANY. — VIVE LE ROY. — THE CAVALIER. — A CAVEAT TO THE ROUNDHEADS. — HEY, THEN, UP GO WE. — THE CLEAN CONTRARY WAY, OR, COLONEL VENNE’S ENCOURAGEMENT TO HIS SOLDIERS. — THE CAMERONIAN CAT. — THE ROYAL FEAST. — UPON HIS MAJESTY’S COMING TO HOLMBY. — I THANK YOU TWICE; — THE CITIES LOYALTIE TO THE KING. — THE LAWYERS’ LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF CHARING-CROSS. — THE DOWNFAL OF CHARING-CROSS. — THE LONG PARLIAMENT. — THE PURITAN. — THE ROUNDHEAD. — PRATTLE YOUR PLEASURE UNDER THE ROSE. — THE DOMINION OF THE SWORD. — THE STATE’S NEW COIN. — THE ANARCHIE, OR THE BLEST REFORMATION SINCE 1640. — A COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES, A CROWN FOR CROMWELL, AND A PIT FOR THE PEOPLE. — A SHORT LITANY FOR THE YEAR 1649. — THE SALE OF REBELLION’S HOUSE-HOLD STUFF. — THE CAVALIER’S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS, BEING CALLED TO THE WARRS. — THE LAST NEWS FROM FRANCE. — SONG TO THE FIGURE TWO. — THE REFORMATION. — UPON THE GENERAL PARDON PASSED BY THE RUMP. — AN OLD SONG ON OLIVER’S COURT. — THE PARLIAMENT ROUTED, OR HERE’S A HOUSE TO BE LET. — THE SECOND PART — A CHRISTMAS SONG WHEN THE RUMP WAS FIRST DISSOLVED. — A FREE PARLIAMENT LITANY. — THE MOCK SONG. — THE ANSWER. — AS CLOSE AS A GOOSE. — THE PRISONERS. — THE PROTECTING BREWER. — THE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE DEVIL FOR STEALING AWAY PRESIDENT BRADSHAW. — A NEW BALLAD TO AN OLD TUNE,—TOM OF BEDLAM. — SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON, ANGLICE MERCURIUS POETICUS. — THE SECOND PART OF ST GEORGE FOR ENGLAND. — A NEW-YEAR’S GIFT FOR THE RUMP. — A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE OLD PARLIAMENT; OR, THE SECOND PART OF KNAVE OUT OF DOORS. — THE TALE OF THE COBBLER AND THE VICAR OF BRAY. — THE GENEVA BALLAD. — THE DEVIL’S PROGRESS ON EARTH, OR HUGGLE DUGGLE. — A BOTTLE DEFINITION OF THAT FALLEN ANGEL, CALLED A WHIG. — THE DESPONDING WHIG. — PHANATICK ZEAL, OR A LOOKING-GLASS FOR THE WHIGS. — A NEW GAME AT CARDS: OR, WIN AT FIRST AND LOSE AT LAST. — THE CAVALEERS LITANY. — THE SECOND PART. — THE CAVALIER’S COMPLAINT. — AN ECHO TO THE CAVALIER’S COMPLAINT. — A RELATION. — THE SECOND PART. — THE GLORY OF THESE NATIONS; — THE NOBLE PROGRESS, OR, A TRUE RELATION OF THE LORD GENERAL MONK’S POLITICAL PROCEEDINGS. — ON THE KING’S RETURN. — THE BRAVE BARBARY. — A CATCH. — THE TURN-COAT. — THE CLARET DRINKER’S SONG, OR THE GOOD FELLOW’S DESIGN. — THE LOYAL SUBJECTS’ HEARTY WISHES TO KING CHARLES II. — KING CHARLES THE SECOND’S RESTORATION, 29 TH MAY. — THE JUBILEE, OR THE CORONATION DAY. — THE KING ENJOYS HIS OWN AGAIN. — A COUNTRY SONG, INTITULED THE RESTORATION. — HERE’S A HEALTH UNTO HIS MAJESTY. — THE WHIGS DROWNED IN AN HONEST TORY HEALTH. — THE CAVALIER. — THE LAMENTATION OF A BAD MARKET, OR THE DISBANDED SOULDIER. — THE COURTIER’S HEALTH; OR, THE MERRY BOYS OF THE TIMES. — THE LOYAL TORIES’ DELIGHT; OR, A PILL FOR FANATICKS. — THE ROYAL ADMIRAL. — THE UNFORTUNATE WHIGS. — THE DOWNFALL OF THE GOOD OLD CAUSE. — OLD JEMMY. — THE CLOAK’S KNAVERY. — THE TIME-SERVER, OR A MEDLEY. — THE SOLDIER’S DELIGHT. — THE LOYAL SOLDIER. — THE POLITITIAN. — A NEW DROLL. — THE ROYALIST. — THE ROYALIST’S RESOLVE. — LOYALTY TURNED UP TRUMP, OR THE DANGER OVER. — THE LOYALIST’S ENCOURAGEMENT. — THE TROUPER. — ON THE TIMES, OR THE GOOD SUBJECT’S WISH. — THE JOVIALISTS’ CORONATION. — THE LOYAL PRISONER. — CANARY’S CORONATION. — THE MOURNFUL SUBJECTS, OR THE WHOLE NATION’S LAMENTATION, FROM THE HIGHEST TO THE LOWEST. — “MEMENTO MORI.” — ACCESSION OF JAMES II. — ON THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY MONARCH KING JAMES, ON HIS EXALTATION ON THE THRONE OF ENGLAND. — IN A SUMMER’S DAY.
6. 6.FOOTNOTES

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