The Roxburghe ballads . only one who has so farfailed ? Can we not accept the true portraiture of that tolerant andsomewhat Saturnine Merry Monarch, without the cheap sneersand foul calumnies of those who, in their wilful perversity, remainblind to his better qualities. To us, loyalists, who cherishremembrance of the twenty-ninth of May, when he made aHollow Oak his royal palace (p. 639), these ballads are welcome. 639 [Woods Collection, 401, art. 171. Probably Unique.] Ct)e i&opal i&attent Cratoeller: %§z E&onoerful (H^capcg of ps gacrco spaie^tu feingCHARLES tfie §>econli from FPomsfer jH
The Roxburghe ballads . only one who has so farfailed ? Can we not accept the true portraiture of that tolerant andsomewhat Saturnine Merry Monarch, without the cheap sneersand foul calumnies of those who, in their wilful perversity, remainblind to his better qualities. To us, loyalists, who cherishremembrance of the twenty-ninth of May, when he made aHollow Oak his royal palace (p. 639), these ballads are welcome. 639 [Woods Collection, 401, art. 171. Probably Unique.] Ct)e i&opal i&attent Cratoeller: %§z E&onoerful (H^capcg of ps gacrco spaie^tu feingCHARLES tfie §>econli from FPomsfer jHgfit; an&Si0 making a ^olloto £)fo ijis IRopal pallact. CJjegoing in a iliucrp^Ctoafc ttat^ spiaa JLam* 3nti tlje2Di0cont0e uettoctn tge iUtng0 #atc0tp ano tfie Cook*maio, imptoping t\jt ling to toino tip tfie lacft; nuttiring not iwb to oo it, oiD tuino it up t\jt torong toap* To the Tune or, Chivy Chase, or, God prosper long our Noble King. [For Chevy Chase, see vol. vi. p. 740.] *m?% mm Iwl 2^ \\i. This man belongs to The Organs Echo,on p. 613. Others Lady, needed here, and for p. 108, GOD hath preserved our Royal King, the second of that name,And those that will not pray for him, indeed they are to hlame ;For thousands have against him spoke, but I shall this disclaim,And wish all others have a care how they should do the same. David, we read, had enemies that did him sore annoy,So CHARLES the Second had the same, who is fair Englands May it was the twenty-nine, King Charles of high Renown,Being his birthday (as tis known), to London came to town ; G40 Escape of King Charles II. from Worcester. But had you seen the triumph made, and Bon-fires flaming high,And all the people for to cry, • God save his Majesty!I will rejoice at his happiness, and pray he long may reign,And of some passages he had with honest Mistris Lane. [jane. From Scotland he to Worcester came ; though friends did look about,Yet Cromwell came with a mighty Force, and did give him the
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