The Roxburghe ballads . to place ;And full low hath cut him downe, thinking thereby to gaine a Crowne:But alas ! they have made him quite away : and now the Knave of Clubs bearesall the sway. [1648-9]. Two woodcuts on the broadside: one is the Courtier and Husbandman, froman early Civil War tract, as on p. 273 ; the other is the origiual wherefrom twofigures (p. 615) were shorn away, later (for Londons Drollery, 1680, reproducedby us in vol. iv. p. 221): the two figures represent a devil laying his clasp on aman: he (in the original) presses forward to join six men, who are togetherupholding a
The Roxburghe ballads . to place ;And full low hath cut him downe, thinking thereby to gaine a Crowne:But alas ! they have made him quite away : and now the Knave of Clubs bearesall the sway. [1648-9]. Two woodcuts on the broadside: one is the Courtier and Husbandman, froman early Civil War tract, as on p. 273 ; the other is the origiual wherefrom twofigures (p. 615) were shorn away, later (for Londons Drollery, 1680, reproducedby us in vol. iv. p. 221): the two figures represent a devil laying his clasp on aman: he (in the original) presses forward to join six men, who are togetherupholding a mounted globe of the World : three on each side supporting thestand, courtier, lawyer, ploughman, etc. The tune was used for Hownow, good fellow, what all amort? We shall reach a thirteen years later versionof the New Game of Cards, time of the Restoration (Roxb. Coll., II. 522),beginning, Ye merry hearts that love to play. It bears the signature ofLaurence Price ; and he may have written the original version, 1646-8.]. [This Woodcut G1S ^ajestp in opimv. (King Charles I. confined in Carisbrooke Castle, 1648.) So restless Cromtvell could not cease, in the inglorious arts of Peace ;But through adventurous Warre urged his active starre .... Though Justice against Fate complaine, and pleade the ancient rights in vaine,But these do hold or breake, as men are strong or weake .... Where twining subtile fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scopeThat CHARLES himself might chase to Carisbrooke1 s narrow case. That thence the Royal Actor borne, the tragic Scaffold might adorne,While round the armed bands did clap their bloudy hands : He nothing common did or mean, upon that memorable scene,But with his keener eye the axes edge did trye ; Xor called the Gods, with vulgar spite, to vindicate his helplesse Right,But bowed his comely head, downe, as upon a bed. — Andrew Marvels Horatian Ode!1 OF the three poems on Charles I. belonging to the originalHarleian and Pearson Collection, th
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