The Roxburghe ballads . nder Charles and George command, Sing for joy ! So, as I first begun, sing for joy, Sing for joy ! My subject still shall run, Sing for joy ! Let all good Christians pray, that Peace may bear the sway, Amen, Amen, I say, sing for joy, sing for joy ! jjffnfg. T[homas] R[obins]. London, Printed for Charles Tyus, on London Bridge. [The Roxburghe copy is printed at the back of The Beautiful Shepherdess ofArcadia, beginning, There was a Shepherds Daughter, reprinted RoxburgheBallads, iii. 451. The Loijal Subjects Joy is in Black-letter, with fourcuts: 1st, a Pope erect; 2nd,
The Roxburghe ballads . nder Charles and George command, Sing for joy ! So, as I first begun, sing for joy, Sing for joy ! My subject still shall run, Sing for joy ! Let all good Christians pray, that Peace may bear the sway, Amen, Amen, I say, sing for joy, sing for joy ! jjffnfg. T[homas] R[obins]. London, Printed for Charles Tyus, on London Bridge. [The Roxburghe copy is printed at the back of The Beautiful Shepherdess ofArcadia, beginning, There was a Shepherds Daughter, reprinted RoxburgheBallads, iii. 451. The Loijal Subjects Joy is in Black-letter, with fourcuts: 1st, a Pope erect; 2nd, the woman in mans attire, p. 548; 3rd, Heraldicheading ; 4th, man in trunk hose, i. p. 54. Date, early in June, 1660.] %* Initials of Thomas Robins appear on several other Roxburghe Ballads (invols. iv. p. 470 ; vi. p. 604 ; and also for Robin Hood and the Beggar, still tofollow). These begin, 1st, Good people all I pray draw near. 2nd, Is therenever a man in all Scotland? 3rd, Come, light and listen you gentleman * On this side they have circumscribed God with Us !And in this stamp and Coyn they confide;« Common-wealth on the other, by which we may guessThat GOD and the States are not both of a side. —The States New Coyn, 1649 (see p. 648). 080 €&c Einrj enjoys jris ©ton again. THE Restoration being fully won, Charles II. was welcomedwith enthusiastic rejoicings in London, on his birthday, theever-memorable Royal Oak Day, 29th of May. A celebration ofthis anniversary has not yet lost its charm for us, who have made ita wedding-day and annual festival, neither forgetting nor omittingits due Church-solemnity, seeing how the Church itself had beendespoiled and overthrown during the Rebellion; nevertheless inrecent years a demoralized Privy Council of Laymen officiouslydecreed its cessation, no less than the commemorative-service ofthe 30th of January. We gave already in this volume, MartinParkers ballad, which had helped to sustain the hopes of Cavaliersduring those
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