. The Roxburghe ballads. , to Nellys intensegrief : theme of the Satirists virulence. (Compare p. 524 of our previous volume.) A black-bordered broadside was circulated at this date, entitled An Elogyupon that never-to-be-forgotten Matron, Old Maddam Gheinn, who was unfortu-nately Drownd in her own Fish-pond, on the 29th of July, 1679. The lampoonbegins, Mourners, prepare, let doleful Echoes sound, and ends with this 3Epftapfy. HEre lies intombd, within this Marble Pile,The wonder of her Sex, who for a whileFate durst not venture on, but, taking breath,He has resignd her to the Arms of
. The Roxburghe ballads. , to Nellys intensegrief : theme of the Satirists virulence. (Compare p. 524 of our previous volume.) A black-bordered broadside was circulated at this date, entitled An Elogyupon that never-to-be-forgotten Matron, Old Maddam Gheinn, who was unfortu-nately Drownd in her own Fish-pond, on the 29th of July, 1679. The lampoonbegins, Mourners, prepare, let doleful Echoes sound, and ends with this 3Epftapfy. HEre lies intombd, within this Marble Pile,The wonder of her Sex, who for a whileFate durst not venture on, but, taking breath,He has resignd her to the Arms of , lament! for seldom shall you findThe weaker Sex to bear so strong a mind :Strengthend with all the virtues France or th Rhine,England, or Spain could ere infuse from Bacchus unkind did tempt her to ingageWhere she expird, by subtle Neptunes Fate was cruel, yet her Fame remains,For drinking, none like her the world contains. To after-ages then a Statue raise, That so we may Eternalize her vol. v. T M Cbe SDrfotn ©ealtfi. Drown Melancholy in a Glass of Wine ;We will be jolly : let the Miser pine!Boys, drink about, well make the Tavern roar ;When the Bumpers out, well call again for more :It makes good Blood to run within our Veins,It puts good Reason also in our Brains:He that will deny it, hanged let him be!Heres a health to all the Royal Family. —The Couragious Loyalist, 1683. ._HE following Koxburghe Ballad reappeared with so manychanges (for the most part not improvements) in 1685, as TheLoyal Health, to a delicate new Tune, that it virtually became anew song, only our first two verses remaining in it, with other fourverses additionally given: two before and two behind, like guardsin a procession. It thus began in the re-issue, with allusions toStephen College and to Shaftesbury :— Since Plottings a Trade, like the rest of the Nation,Let em lie and swear on, to keep up the Vocation ;Let Tinkers and Weavers and Joyners agree [College. To
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