Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries/Volume 1

Political Ballads

Vol. I.

London
Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.
New-street Square

Political Ballads
of the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Annotated
By W. Walker Wilkins

 

“More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels”—Selden’s Table-talk

 

In Two Vols.

Volume the First

 

London
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
MDCCCLX

Contents
Of
The First Volume.

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Preface
Charles I.
A. D.		Page
1641.	The Organ’s Echo	3
	On the Army Marching from London	7
1643.	When the King enjoys his own again	10
1644.	A Prognostication on Will Laud, late Archbishop of Canterbury	13
1646.	A Mad World, my Masters	19
	The New Litany	23
1647.	The Parliament	28
	The Anarchie, or the Blesed Reformation since 1640	32
	On his Majesty coming to Holmby	38
	The Members’ Justification	40
	The Cryes of Westminster	43
	I Thank You Twice	54
	Prattle Your Pleasure (under the Rose)	57
	The Old Protestant’s Litany	59
	The Cities Welcome to Colonel Rich and Colonel Baxter	65
1648.	The Puritan.	71
The Commonwealth.
1649.	A Coffin for King Charles, a Crown for Cromwell, and a Pit for the People	79
	The Dominion of the Sword	89
	A Salt Tear	91
	The State’s New Coin	95
1652.	Upon the General Pardon Passed by the Rump	96
1653.	The House out of Doors	100
	The Parliament Routed	105
	The Sale of Rebellion’s House-hold Stuff	111
	A Christmas Song	117
1654.	A Jolt on Michaelmas Day	121
1655.	A Free Parliament Litany	125
1657.	The Protecting Brewer	132
1657.	A Ballad	135
1659.	A New Ballad to an Old Tune	138
1660.	Win at First, and Lose at Last	144
Charles II.
1660.	The Noble Progress	153
	A Ballad	159
	The Cavalier’s Complaint	162
	An Echo to the Cavalier’s Complaint	165
1661.	A Turn-coat out of the Times	167
1663.	The Old Cloak	173
1666.	Clarendon’s House Warming	1777
1674.	On the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderment presenting the King and the Duke of York with a Copy of their Freedom	185
1676.	The History of Insipids	190
1678.	The Geneva Ballad	203
	Titus Telltroth	207
	Information	231
1679.	On the Lord Chancellor’s Speech to Parliament	216
	A New Satirical Ballad of the Licentionsness of the Times	219
	Geneva and Rome; or, the Zeal of both boiling over	224
1680.	The Loyal Tories Delight	227
1679.	The King’s Vows	231
1683.	The Loyal Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, upon their Election	236
	London’s Lamentation for the Loss of their Charter	241
	Vienna’s Triumph	245
	Dagon’s Fall	249
James II.
1687.	A Short Litany	255
1688.	The Advice	258
	The Catholic Ballad	261
1687.	The True Protestant Litany	268
1688.	Private Occurrences	270
	Lilli Burlero	275
	A New Song of an Orange	279
Index of Names		281