Rump Songs

Rump:
Or an
Exact Collection
Of the Choycest
Poems
And
Songs
Relating to the
Late Times.

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By the most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661

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London,
Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, and Henry Marsh at the Princes Armes in Chancery-lane. 1662.

To the
Reader.

Thou hast here a Bundle of Rodds; not like those of the Roman Consulls, for these are signes of a No-Government. If thou read these Ballads (and not sing them) the poor Ballads are undone. They came not hither all from one Author; (thou wilt soon perceive the same hand held not the Pen) yet none but shew either Wit or Affection (and that’s better) or Both, which is best of all. The truth is, this Rump, and indeed the whole Carcase was so odious and bloody a Monster, that every man has a stone or rotten Egge to cast at it. Now if you ask who nam’d it Rump, know 'twas so stil’d in an honest Sheet of Paper (call’d The Bloody Rump) written before the Tryal of our late Soveraign of Glorious Memory: but the Word obtain’d not universal notice till it flew from the mouth of Major General Brown at a Publick Assembly in the daies of Richard Cromwell. You have many Songs here, which were never before in Print: We need not tell you whose they are; but we have not subjoyned any Authors Names; heretofore it was unsafe, and now the Gentlemen conceive it not so proper. ’Tis hoped they did His Majesty some Service, ’twas for that end they were scribbled. Now (thanks be to God) we have liv’d to that day, that there is no Cavalier, because there is nothing else, and ’tis wondrous happy to see how many are his Majesties Faithfull Subjects, who were ready to hang the Authors of these Ballads. But he that does not blot out all that’s past, and frankly embrace their New Allegiance, or remembers ought but what shall preserve Universal Peace and Charity, let him be Anathema; For he were a strange man that should now be unsatisfied, when those that writ against the King do now write for Him, and those who wrote for Him, need now write no more. Let Heaven now continue these Blessings on His Majesty, that no one Enemy live unreconciled, nor any false Friend be undiscovered, that so there be no strife, but who shall shew most Duty to so Excellent a King.

Farewell.

The Stationers to the Reader.

Gentlemen,

You are invited here to a Feast, and if Variety cloy you not, we are satisfied. It has been our Care to please you; and it is our Hope you will retribute an Acknowledgement. These are select Things, a work of Time, which for your sake we Publish, assuring you that your Welcome will Crown the Entertainment.

Farewell.

Yours,

H. B. H. M.

Contents (not listed in original)

• The Zealous Puritan
• Pyms Juncto
• Upon Mr. Pyms Picture
• A Song to the Tune of Blue Cappe for me
• Mr Hampdens Speech against Peace at the close Committee
• A Song to the Tune of The Queens old Souldier
• A Song to the Tune of Cuckolds all a-row
• The Humble Petition of the House of Commons
• The Answer to the Petition, &c
• To the five Principal Members of the Honourable House of Commons
• The Parliaments Pedigree
• To those who desire no Peace
• The French Report
• A Loyal Subjects Oath
• Short and Sweet
• To the City of London
• The Players Petition to the Parliament
• A Madrigall on Justice, alluding to the Parliament
• The Call
• Englands Woe
• Upon Ambition
• The Argument
• The Character of a Roundhead
• A Curtain Lecture
• A Mad World My Masters
• The Riddle
• An Answer to a Love-Elegy in Latin
• The Penitent Traytor
• The Passage of a Coach travelling to Dover
• The Five Members Thanks to the Parliament
• Upon the Parliament Fart
• The old Earle of Bristol’s Verses on an Accommodation
• The Rump’s Hypocricy
• The Parliaments Hymnes
• The Round-heads Race
• On the Queens Departure
• Pyms Anarchy
• To my Lord B. of S. he being at York
• An Elegie on the Most Reverend Father in God William, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
• A Mock Remonstrance referring to the Porters Petition
• The Caution
• Lilly contemn’d
• A Monster to be seen at Westminister
• London sad London
• Upon bringing in the Plate
• The Prentices Petition to the Close Committee
• Londons Farewell to the Parliament
• New-England is preparing a-pace
• Sir John Hotham’s Alarm
• Some tell of Africk Monsters
• The Sence of the House
• Essex Petition to the Best of Princes
• The Cryer
• The Cavaliers Prayer
• To whom it concerns
• To the City
• The Monster
• The Earl of Essex his Speech to the Parliament after Keinton Battle
• A Dialogue between two Zealots upon the &c in the Oath
• Stand off my Masters: ’Tis your pence apeece
• A Committee
• The Model of the New Religion
• To a Fair Lady weeping for her Husband Committed to Prison by the Parliament
• Mr Fullers Complaint
• Upon wearing the Kings Colours
• A Western Wonder
• The world is now turn’d upside-down
• Upon Alderman Atkins bewraying his Slops on the great Training day
• The Downfall of Cheapside-Crosse
• A Vindication of Cheapside-Crosse against the Roundheads
• A Song in defence of Christmass
• The Bishop of Ossery on the Rebells
• A Bill on St. Paul’s Church Door
• What though the Zealots, pull down the Prelates
• On two Parliaments dissolved
• Collonel Vennes Encouragement to his Souldiers
• A Second Western Wonder
• The Battel of Worcester
• Smectymnuus
• A Lentan Letany
• An Elegie on the Death of Sir Bevile Grenvile
• To my Lord Bishop of S. on New-years day
• The Kings Cabinet opened
• A New Diurnal of Passages more Exactly drawn up than heretofore
• The holy Pedler
• The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbyter
• The way to wooe a Zealous Lady
• A Hue and Cry after the Reformation
• The Times
• The Commoners
• The Scots Curanto
• An Answer to a Letter from Sir John Mennis
• The Kings Disguise
• The Rebell Scot
• The Scots Apostasie
• The Scots Arrears
• A Song on the Schismatick Rotundos
• Cromwell’s Panegyrick
• The Scotch War
• The Power of Money
• Contentment
• On the Goldsmiths Committee
• The mad Zealot
• Of banishing the Ladies out of Town
• Loyalty confin’d
• On the demolishing the Forts
• Upon Routing the Scots Army
• The disloyal Timist
• Room for a Gamester that plays at all he sees
• A Medley of the Nations
• Let the Trumpets sound
• The Levellers Rant
• The Safety
• The Leveller
• The Royalists Answer
• The Independents resolve
• The Lamentation
• The Reformation
• Chronosticon
• An Elegie upon King Charles the first, murthered publickly by his Subjects
• An Elegie on the best of Men, the meekest of Martyrs, Charles the First, &c
• On the Death of his Royal Majestie, Charles late King of England, &c
• An Epitaph
• The Engagement stated
• On the happy Memory of Alderman Hoyle that hang’d himself
• The States New Coyne
• The Rebellion
• On Britannicus his leap three Story high, and his escape from London
• An Epigram on the People of England
• Another
• Upon report there should be no more Terms kept at Westminster
• Upon the Cavaliers departing out of London
• On Col. Pride
• Upon the General Pardon past by the Rump
• Upon Olivers dissolving the Parliament in 1653
• Admiral Deans Funeral
• The merry Goodfellow
• The Rebells Reign
• The Resolve
• Upon Cromwell’s pulling out the Long Parliament
• The Advice
• Sharers in the Government
• Upon Cromwell’s refusing the Kingly Power
• The Encounter
• The Good Old Cause
• The Protecting Brewer
• The Power of the Sword
• Cromwell’s Coronation
• The Brewer
• In imitation of Come my Daphne, a Dialogue between Pluto and Oliver
• A Quarrel betwixt Tower-hill and Tyburn
• The Bloody Bed-roll, or Treason displayed in its Colours
• The four Legg’d Elder
• News from Colchester
• The Four-legg’d Quaker
• A Jolt on Michaelmas day 1654
• The House out of Doors
• The Rump
• Sir Eglamor and the Dragon
• The Cities Feast to the Lord Protector