The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England
1863
Charles Mackay's 1863 collection of English Cavalier songs and ballads from 1642 to 1684: royalist drinking songs, laments for the king, satires on the Roundheads, and the street verse of the Civil War and Restoration. Over a hundred pieces with Mackay's notes.
- Introduction
- List of Ballad and Song Books and Mss. Quoted in This Collection
- Cavalier Songs and Ballads
- When the King Comes Home in Peace Again
- I Love My King and Country Well
- The Commoners
- The New Courtier
- Upon the Cavaliers Departing Out of London
- A Mad World, My Masters
- The Man O’ the Moon
- The Tub-Preacher
- The New Litany
- The Old Protestant’s Litany
- Vive Le Roy
- A Caveat to the Roundheads
- Hey, Then, Up Go We
- The Clean Contrary Way, Or, Colonel Venne’s Encouragement to His Soldiers
- The Cameronian Cat
- The Royal Feast
- Upon His Majesty’s Coming to Holmby
- I Thank You Twice
- The Cities Loyaltie to the King
- The Lawyers’ Lamentation for the Loss of Charing-Cross
- The Downfal of Charing-Cross
- The Long Parliament
- The Puritan
- The Roundhead
- Prattle Your Pleasure Under the Rose
- The Dominion of the Sword
- The State’s New Coin
- The Anarchie, or the Blest Reformation Since 1640
- A Coffin for King Charles, a Crown for Cromwell, and a Pit for the People
- A Short Litany for the Year 1649
- The Sale of Rebellion’s House-Hold Stuff
- The Cavalier’s Farewell to His Mistress, Being Called to the Warrs
- The Last News from France
- Song to the Figure Two
- The Reformation
- Upon the General Pardon Passed by the Rump
- An Old Song on Oliver’s Court
- The Parliament Routed, or Here’s a House to Be Let
- A Christmas Song When the Rump Was First Dissolved
- A Free Parliament Litany
- The Mock Song
- The Answer
- As Close as a Goose
- The Prisoners
- The Protecting Brewer
- The Arraignment of the Devil for Stealing Away President Bradshaw
- A New Ballad to an Old Tune,—Tom of Bedlam
- Saint George and the Dragon, Anglice Mercurius Poeticus
- The Second Part Of St George for England
- A New-Year’s Gift for the Rump
- A Proper New Ballad on the Old Parliament; Or, the Second Part of Knave Out of Doors
- The Tale of the Cobbler and the Vicar of Bray
- The Geneva Ballad
- The Devil’s Progress on Earth, or Huggle Duggle
- A Bottle Definition of That Fallen Angel, Called a Whig
- The Desponding Whig
- Phanatick Zeal, or a Looking-Glass for the Whigs
- A New Game at Cards: Or, Win at First and Lose at Last
- The Cavaleers Litany
- The Cavalier’s Complaint
- An Echo to the Cavalier’s Complaint
- A Relation
- The Second Part
- The Glory of These Nations
- The Noble Progress, Or, a True Relation of the Lord General Monk’s Political Proceedings
- On the King’s Return
- The Brave Barbary
- A Catch
- The Turn-Coat
- The Claret Drinker’s Song, or the Good Fellow’s Design
- The Loyal Subjects’ Hearty Wishes to King Charles II
- King Charles the Second’s Restoration, 29 Th May
- The Jubilee, or the Coronation Day
- The King Enjoys His Own Again
- A Country Song, Intituled the Restoration
- Here’s a Health Unto His Majesty
- The Whigs Drowned in an Honest Tory Health
- The Cavalier
- The Lamentation of a Bad Market, or the Disbanded Souldier
- The Courtier’s Health; Or, the Merry Boys of the Times
- The Loyal Tories’ Delight; Or, a Pill for Fanaticks
- The Royal Admiral
- The Unfortunate Whigs
- The Downfall of the Good Old Cause
- Old Jemmy
- The Cloak’s Knavery
- The Time-Server, or a Medley
- The Soldier’s Delight
- The Loyal Soldier
- The Polititian
- A New Droll
- The Royalist
- The Royalist’s Resolve
- Loyalty Turned Up Trump, or the Danger Over
- The Loyalist’s Encouragement
- The Trouper
- On the Times, or the Good Subject’s Wish
- The Jovialists’ Coronation
- The Loyal Prisoner
- Canary’s Coronation
- The Mournful Subjects, or the Whole Nation’s Lamentation, from the Highest to the Lowest
- “Memento Mori.”
- Accession of James II
- On the Most High and Mighty Monarch King James, on His Exaltation on the Throne of England
- In a Summer’s Day