And if their hounds do chance to smell
A man whose fortunes are
Of some account, whose purse is full,
Which now is somewhat rare;
A MONSTER now, DELINQUENT term'd,
He is declared to be,
And that his lands, as well as goods,
Sequester'd ought to be.
As if our prisons were too good,
He is to Yarmouth sent,
By virtue of a warrant from
The King and Parliament.
Thus in our royal sovereign's name,
And eke his power infused,
And by the virtue of the same,
He and all his abused.
For by this means his castles now
Are in the power of those
Who treach'rously, with might and main,
Do strive him to depose.
Arise, therefore, brave British men,
Fight for your King and State,
Against those trait'rous men that strive
This realm to ruinate.
'Tis Pym, 'tis Pym and his colleagues,
That did our woe engender;
Nought but their lives can end our woes,
And us in safety render.
Ballad: The Man O' The Moon
Hogg, in his second series of Jacobite Relics, states that he "got
this song among some old papers belonging to Mr Orr of Alloa," and
that he never met with it elsewhere. In his first series he
printed a Scottish song beginning, -
"Then was a man came fron the moon
And landed in our town, sir,
And he has sworn a solemn oath
That all but knaves must down, sir."
In Martin Parker's foregoing ballad, "When the King enjoys his own
again," there is also an allusion to the man in the moon:-
"The Man in the Moon
May wear out his shoon
By running after Charles his wain;"
as it would appear that the "Man in the Moon," was the title
assumed by an almanack-maker of the time of the Commonwealth, who,
like other astronomers and astrologers, predicted the King's
restoration.
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