FIFTH MONARCHY-MEN must down, boys,
With bulleys of every sect in town, boys;
We'll rally and to 't again,
Give 'em the rout again;
Fly like light about,
Face to the right-about,
Charge them home again
When they come on again;
SING TANTARA RARA, BOYS,
TANTARA RARA, BOYS,
This is the life of an Old Cavalier.
Ballad: A Caveat To The Roundheads
From the Posthumous Works of Samuel Butler.
I come to charge ye
That fight the clergy,
And pull the mitre from the prelate's head,
That you will be wary
Lest you miscarry
In all those factious humours you have bred;
But as for BROWNISTS we'll have none,
But take them all and hang them one by one.
Your wicked actions
Join'd in factions
Are all but aims to rob the King of his due;
Then give this reason
For your treason,
That you'll be ruled, if he'll be ruled by you.
Then leave these factions, zealous brother,
Lest you be hanged one against another.
Ballad: Hey, Then, Up Go We
This song, says Mr Chappell, in his Popular Music of the Olden
Time, which describes with some humour the taste of the Puritans,
might pass for a Puritan song, if it were not contained in the
"Shepherds' Oracles," by Francis Quarles, 1646. He was cup-bearer
to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I., and
afterwards chronologer to the city of London. He died in 1644, and
his Shepherds' Oracles were a posthumous publication.
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