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438 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
Though for a time we see Whitehall [Did Walker no predictions lack
With cobwehs hanging on the wall, In Hammond's bloody almanack?
Instead of silk and silver brave, Foretelling things that would ensue,
Which formerly it us'd to have, That all proves right, if lies be true ;
With rich perfume in every room, But why should not he the pillory foresee,
Delightful to that princely train, [shall be Wherein poor Toby once was ta'en ?
Which again you shall see, when the time it And also foreknow to the gallows he must go,
That the King, &c. When the King, &c. d ]
Full forty years the royal crown Till then upon Ararat's hill
Hath been his father's and his own ; b My Hope shall cast her anchor still,
And is there any one but he Until I see some peaceful dove
That in the same should sharer be ? Bring home the branch I dearly love ;
For who better may the sceptre sway Then will I wait till the waters abate,
Than he that hath such right to reign? Which now disturb my troubled brain,
Then let's hope for a peace, for the wars will Else never rejoice till I hear the voice,
Till the King, &c. [not cease That the King enjoys his own again.
The following stanzas are not contained in The Loyal Garland, from which
Ritson reprinted the song : —
Oxford and Cambridge shall agree And then all our trade shall flourishing be
With honour crown'd, and dignity ; To which ere long we shall attain ; [made,
For learned men shall then take place, For still I can tell all things will be well,
And bad be silenc'd with disgrace : When the King comes home in peace again.
They'll know it to be but a casualty Maidens shall enjoy their mates,
That hath so long disturbed their brain ; And honegt men theh . , ost estate3 .
For I can surely tell that all things will go well Women ghaU haye what they do ^
When the King comes home in peace again. ^^ husl)and3; who are coming back
Church Government shall settled be, When the wars have an end, then I and my
And then I hope we shall agree All subjects' freedom shall obtain; [friend
Without their help, whose high-brain 'd zeal By which I can tell all things will be well,
Hath long disturb'd the common weal ; When we enjoy sweet peace again.
Greed out of date, and cobblers that do prate ^ h peQple nQW walk {n great ffiar
Of wars that still disturb their brain ; ]> A ^ co everywhere,
The which you shall see, when the time it shall ^.^ ^ fchen ^^ afc ^ ^
That the King comes home in peace again. And justice sha]1 keep them ^ awe .
Tho* many now are much in debt, The Frenchies shall flee with their treacherie,
And many shops are to be let, And the foes of the King asham'd remain : [be
A golden time is drawing near, The which you shall see, when the time it shall
Men shops shall take to hold their ware ; That the King comes home in peace again.
Plays, vol. xi., p. 4G9. Booker is mentioned by Killegrew, instrument-maker to them ; and having, with much ado,
in The Parson's Wedding, act i., sc. 2 ; by Pepys, in his got knowledge of their place of abode, was judged by the
Diary, Feb. 3, 1666-7; by Cleveland, in his Dialogue be- Roundheads fit for their purpose, and had a pension as-
tiveen two Zealots; and by Butler, in Hudibras. One of signed him to make the stars speak their meaning, and
his almanacks for 1661 was sold in Skegg's sale. Pond's justify the villanies they were putting in practice."
almanack is mentioned iii Middleton's play, No wit, no help Hammond's almanack was called "bloody," because he
like a woman's ; and the Rev. A. Dyce, in a note upon the always put down in a chronological table when such and
passage, quotes the title of one by Pond, for the year such a Koyalist was executed, by way of reproach to
1607. An almanack for the year 1636, "by William Dade, them.
gent., London, printed by M. Dawson, for the Company b This fixes the date of the song to the year 1643. The
of Stationers," was once in my possession. According to number was changed from time to time, as it suited the
the pamphlet which Ritson quotes, Dade was "a good circumstances of the party.
innocent fiddle-string maker, who, being told by a neigh- ° Walker was a colonel in the army of the Parliament,
bouring teacher that their music was in the stars, set him- and afterwards a member of the Committee of Safety,
self at work to find out their habitations, that he might be d This stanza is not in the ballad copies.