Evidently this song, with its revived popularity turned against the "Exclusionists," as the lawful heirs of Puritans and Presbyterians, galled them bitterly. They attempted several replies.

One is "The Tories' Confession; or, A Merry Song in Answer to the Whigs' Exaltation: To the Tune of Forty-One." London: J. H., 1682. It is given on our p. 268, and begins,

A Pox on Whigs, we'l now grow wise,

Let's cry out, "Guard the Throne!

Another is at Oxford, in the Douce Collection, II. 182, and begins, similarly,

A Pox on Whigs! we'll now grow wise,
Let's cry out, "Pull them down!"
By that we'll rout the Good Old Cause,
And mount one of our own.

We'll make the Roundheads stoop to us,

For we their betters be,

We'll pull down all their pride with speed,
Such Tories now are we !

The title is "The Popish Torys' Confession; or, An Answer to the Whigs' Exaltation." To the same Tune, and printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, T. Passinger, and M. Coles: 1683. Like our New Ballad, with the Definition of the word Tory (on p. 257), it repeats the story of the nickname having an Irish origin,

No honest man, who King and State does love,
Will of a name so odious approve,

Which from the worst of Irish thieves at first
Had its beginning, and with blood was nurst,
Which shows it is of a right Popish breed,

As in their own Confession you may read.

This line refers to "The Tories' Confession," already mentioned. In one of the special verses, written for our broadside, we find, on line 70, an allusion to an agitator who died on the scaffold, 31st August, 1681:

"But now the days are alter'd since, as College plain did see."

Meaning Stephen College, "the Protestant Joyner," concerning whom see Bagford Ballads, pp. 97, 99, 676, 791, 818, 821, and 1061. The poem or ballad "On the Death of the Protestant Joyner" is in Loyal Poems and Satyrs upon the Times, since the beginning of the Salamanca Plot, written by several Hands. Collected by M. T. (i.e. by honest Matthew Taubman, who succeeded Thomas Jordan as City Poet, in 1685; writing the City Pageant in that year and the four following years; and was himself succeeded by Elkanah Settle in 1691). Printed for John Smith, 1685. It was not improbably written by Matt. Taubman himself, although he is careful to announce that the Loyal Poems "collected by" him were "written by several Hands." They were dangerous days, and none could tell which side would next be uppermost. The ballad begins,

Stephen College, inventor of " The Protestant Flail." 263

Brave Colledge is Hang'd, the Chief of our hopes,
For pulling down Bishops and making New Popes:
Our dear Brother Property crawls on the Ground,
In Poland, King Anthony ne're will be Crown'd:

For now they're resolv'd that Hearts shall be Trump,
And the Prentices swear they will burn the Old Rump.

Brave Colledge, both Champion and Carver of Laws,
Who dyed undaunted, and stuck to the Cause;
What mischief might thou to the Godly have done,
Had thy daring Soul dreaded the World to come?
And all thy dear Party to danger expos'd,

If thou to the World had'st thy secrets disclos'd.

(etc. 10 more verses.)

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The allusion in fourth line is to the Earl of Shaftesbury, and his supposed pretension to the crown of Poland: a favourite joke in 1682. The tune of the ballad is "Now, now, the Fight's done" (on which see our p. 243): this we learn from the reprint in Nath. Thompson's Loyal Songs, 1685, p. 64. Our "dear Brother Property" refers to one of the occasionally-conforming Aldermen and Sheriffs, Presbyterian at heart: probably the miserly Sir Slingsby Bethell. As to the Old Cause (of line eighth above; also of the left-hand cut on p. 265, and the Mountebank's words in the chief cut), see our pp. 201, 258, and 267, motto. Dryden's Palamede (Marriage à la Mode, 1673, Act iv. sc. 3) says that,

Rogues may pretend Religion and the Laws,

But a kind Mistress is the Good Old Cause.

This, however, is mere persiflage. "The Good Old Cause" was Republicanism, and overthrow of the Church. We shall meet "The Cause" again on pp. 264, 267, also in some Loyal Ballads, and find Algernon Sydney dying for it, valiantly.

Another rare ballad on College, the Protestant Joyner (London, printed for R. Hardy] in the Year 1681), is in the Luttrell Collection, II. 95, entitled Have you any Work for a COOPER ? or, A Comparison Betwixt a Cooper's and a Joyner's trade," etc., being a quibble on Shaftesbury's family name of Cooper, and Ashley. It is to the tune of "The Fryar and the Nun" (which is an old sixteenthcentury tune, afterwards called "The Wiltshire Wedding "=" All in a misty morning "), and begins,

The Cooper and the Joyner are two famous Trades:

They both are cunning Work-men; they both are crafty Lads:
They both can varnish off their Work; both will you Trepan:
Yet say what you will, the Cooper is the Man. ...

They both work in Timber, but not in the same Wood:
The Cooper works in Ash, that Hilts makes firm and good
For the Axe, that on the Head all Lordly Traitours knocks :
Yet say what you will, the Cooper is the Fox.

[i.e. Ashley.

1 This, like the preceding one, is a Quarles verse: Lords in broadside text.

2 Loyal Song has "peel'd."

3 This verse is not D'Urfey's, but was early added to those by Quarles.

4 This is a Quarles verse, but made by transposing two half-verses.

5 Loyal Song has "Grove."

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6 Ibid. "Tub." No wise words have come from this piece of furniture since Diogenes fell asleep. The Cask has been more fortunate; except the water-cask.

The Whigs shall rule Committee-Chair,1
who will such Laws invent

As shall Exclude the Lawful Heir 2
by Act of Parliament:

We'l cut his Royal Highness down,

e'n shorter by the Knee:

That he shall never reach the Throne,

Then Hey, Boys, up go We. We'l smite the Idol in Guild-Hal, and then (as we were wont)

We'l cry it was a Popish-Plot,

and Swear those Rogues have don't:

His Royal Highness to un-throne,

our Interest will be:

For if he e're enjoy his own,

Then Hey, Boys, up go we.

Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in West Smithfield.

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[Black-letter. Date, 1682. The Tub-preacher cut is mutilated from one of 1642.]

1 This verse and the next are by Tom D'Urfey.

2 The Duke of York. Alderman Cornish found the truth of lines 55, 56.

3 This verse and the next are found only in our broadside; no other

4 See previous page 262.

5 Misprinted, by some upset of type "to Tybh go we. urn y."

6 Sic. This is slightly altered from Quarles's verse.

copy known.

7 In Loyal Songs and Pills, "Our Elders." Quarles's original reading is,

"And when the Popish Saints are downe, then Barrow shall be sainted."

• We restore the right word Throne, from Loyal Songs; broadside has “town."