The Loyal Tories' Delight, with Pork in Favour.

"Rouse up, ye Tories of this factious land,
Now Loyalty hath got the upper hand:
The Rabble-rout their errours shall disclaim,
And homage pay to York's illustrious name . . .
"Now the loud threat'ning Tempest is dispers'd,
And all their shamming Plots are quite revers'd,
Great James's happy Restauration here
Makes a new day in London's hemisphere;
The clouds are gone that did oppress his Reign,
And joyful day breaks forth in this glad Land again :
Then to the mighty Duke of York and Albany
Now London, London, show thy Loyalty."

-London's Joy and Loyalty, 1682.

THE intrigues of the Shaftesbury faction, to elevate their sham

Protestant puppet as a popular idol, in factious rebellion against the Court, gained fluctuating triumphs, such as causing James Duke of York to resign the post of Lord High Admiral, in 1673, on account of the Test Act excluding him as a Roman Catholic; the addresses against his second marriage to Mary of Modena, she being of the same religion; his virtual banishment to Brussels in March, 167 (when, as the price of his obedience, he obtained the King's Gazetted denial that any marriage had taken place with Monmouth's mother); the attempts at the Exclusion; the second departure for Brussels, in 1679, after the King's illness, and before going to Scotland in October. York's first return southward was on Feb. 24, 1680; the second shortly before March 3rd, 168, the third not long after. Thenceforward he kept his place firmly, until he knelt weeping at his brother's death-bed.

Few or none of these occasions were left without some manifestation of loyal and even affectionate regard from his adherents. We possess a large number of poems, poor enough as literature, giving good wishes at departure, and welcome on each return. Thus, one "Farewell to H.R.H. James Duke of York, on his voyage to Scotland, October 20, 1680," begins "Go, best in all that's good: We cannot bear The radiant lustre of thy virtues here." And "The Duke's welcome from Scotland to London begins, "Art come, sweet Prince? Wilt once more deign to chear With thy bright beams our drooping Hemisphere?" Two other congratulatory poems to him begin, respectively, "They who oppose your Right unto the Crown," and "When you, great Sir, begin to disappear." (See in next volume a poem entitled "Iter Boreale.")

In a most rancorous Satire of the day, taking as its Juvenalian motto Quem Natura negat, dabit Indignatio versum, and beginning, "I who from drinking ne'er could spare an hour," of date not before 1682, is the following attack on the Duke of York:

The Exclusion faction against York receives an Answer. 633

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Praising York's Loyalty 's like praising his Face:
Charles only his base Treason could forgive,

And York alone so good a Brother leave.
An infamy so mean no Age has known,

To seek from Rebels' hands a Brother's Crown.
From his confiding Friends he falsely ran,
And was a full-grown Knave e'er yet a Man.
The Quiet which on England he has brought
Appears in his still carrying on the Plot:
Of which his weakness the Foundation laid,
And obstinacy since has perfect made.
In Scotland we a well-drawn model see
Of what he purposes we once shall be.

By Coleman's Speech at Tyburn too we find
He has a heart that ne'er forgets his friend.

This ironically refers to Edward Coleman having expected a reprieve, through the interest exerted by the Duke of York in his behalf, and immediately before execution uttering despairingly the words, "No faith in man!" which were charitably supposed to refer to some broken promise of York to save him.

In a Tory Satyr, beginning, "Among the race of England's modern Peers," is an exhortation to King Charles to "disperse those sawcy flies," to scatter his enemies, and make them fall, like our anthem; and to recall his brother York:

To Mon[mouth], Shaftesbury, and Maxfield bring [=Macclesfield.
The just resentments of an injur'd King.

Call home thy banish'd Brother, by whose hand,

Being Lord o' th' Sea, thou'rt King again at Land.
Let that wrong'd Prince enjoy his antient Right,
The Sailor's genius, and their god in fight:
Then shall the Navy stretch its joyful wings,
While every Muse of Britain's Triumph sings.
The French no more shall dare our Ships despise,
But Homage pay where e'er thy Standard flies.
All honest men with signs of Joy shall greet
This prosp'rous Leader, and thy matchless Fleet:
Whose happy conduct shall again restore
Those wreaths of Glory which our Fathers wore.
Then Knaves and Plotters shall be publick made,
And we no more of Perjuries afraid;
The Nations all throughout will then proclaim
Th' Injustice done to his illustrious name:

And thou, great King, rejoice above the rest,
With such a Subject and a Brother blest.

Such was the answer given by Yorkists to the rabid abuse hurled against James by the so-called Protestant dissenters, among which is The Respondent; or, Litany for Litany, beginning, "From Kings that would sell us to pay their old scores (about April, 1680):

From a plotting false Duke that delighteth in blood,
Half Fool and half Knave, that never did good,

But the welfare of England hath ever withstood,

Good Lord, deliver us!

From his having the Crown, while it is his main scope
By fire and faggot to set up the Pope;

Whose Treasons deserve both a Hatchet and Rope,
Good Lord, deliver us!

Soon after the same time, viz. in 1680, or during the week's sitting of the Oxford Parliament, in March, 168%, appeared this impertinent

Satyr on Old Rowley.

How our good King does Papists hate, at every coming Sessions

Then of his Laws he'll nothing 'bate, but make perhaps some fresh ones:
At other times he's rul'd by 's Brother,

As was his Father by his Mother.

Silly and sauntering he goes, from French ǝoч to Italian,1
Unlucky in whate'er he does, an old ill-favour'd Stallion:

Fain the good man would live at ease,

And ev'ry чund and Party please.

When the soлou

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Now he by Hyde, then Clifford rules, Osborne and up-start Fellows;
want, they're Knaves and Fools, as he himself can tell us:
Till then, tho' Parliaments complain,

He says they're rude, and hate his reign.

A pretty set he has at hand of slimy Portsmouth's creatures,3

Godolphin, Lory, Sund[erlan]d, French Gamesters and deep Betters:
Who would reform this brutal Nation,

And bring French Slavery in fashion.

King of three mighty Kingdoms, he, thinks Beggars only Loyal,
Knaves wise, French true, and Popery quite clear'd at Wakeman's Trial.
Nay, what seem'd never to be done,

The Chits have made him hate his Son!

Rise, drowsy Prince, like Sampson shake these green wyths from about thee;
Banish thy Dalilah, and make thy People no more doubt thee.

In vain they fright thee with a War,

Thou art not hated, tho' they are.

Rogue, Knave, and Bigot all love thee, because they fear thy Brother,
Queen Mary's days they would not see, and can expect no other:

No misery a Land can want

Rul'd by a Fool, Goat, Tyrant, Saint.

Men say we act like 'Forty-Two, yet none tell thee the reason:
But when the same Diseases grow, like-Medicines come in season.
Twice we thy Armies have o'erthrown,

And without blood voted them down.5

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1 Louise de Querouaille (Portsmouth) of France; and Hortensia Mancini (Mazarine), born at Rome. Compare our third note on p. 616.

2 Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon; Sir Thomas Clifford, who died in September, 1673; and Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, impeached in 1678. 3 Louise de Querouaille Madam Carwell, again.

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4 "The Chits:" Sidney Godolphin, Laurence Hyde (in 1683 created Earl of Rochester), and Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. See pp. 83, 170, 203, 204, and 302. For Sir George Wakeman's trial, see p. 202.

5 Flanders troops, and the Tangiers Garrison: shabby tricks of the Commons.

Bear, like the Turk, no Brother near the Throne." 635

Dukes thou creat'st, yet want'st an Heir, thy Portuguese is barren;
Marry again, and ne'er despair: in this lewd Age we are in,

Some Harry Jarmyn will be found

To get an Heir fit to be crown'd.2

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Thy Brother York would come to Blows, while thou art yet in being;
He shall not rule! as now he does, while thou art yet foreseeing:
But if thou'rt wise, deceive his hope,
Leave him to Irish, French, and Pope.

Thou dost not use the Power in hand, yet for the Ills that are done,
When Rogues pretend thy own Command, thou'rt ready with a Pardon ; 3
As if 'twere thy Prerogative

That Murd'rers, Knaves, and Traytors live.

For shame, give o'er! new Counsels chuse; if with the eyes of others
Thou need'st must see, thy Nation's use, and not thy Popish Brother's.
Brother to Brother should be kind,

Yet bear thou Littleton in mind!

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One of the short and vigorous ditties of the time, when it became necessary for loyal men to assert their convictions in rebuke of noisy sedition, is A New Song on the King's Health: see page 643.

Until the reaction had arisen against the perjuries, the greed, and the blood-shedding of the Sham-Plot denouncer, Titus Oates, few men dared to publicly protest against such iniquity, fearing to incur the dangerous hatred of the "Evidences," who were banded together in a common cause against all honest men. But the time had now come for the ghastly mockery to be derided openly, and loyal men spoke fearlessly, as had their fathers in the last days of the Protectorate, when the storm raged in which (as many believed) the fiend was claiming the soul of the great Regicide. Thus had the three Troopers affrighted propriety in the Devil tavern, roaring out their suggestive toast, prematurely, before the Restoration:

The Prentice dropp'd his can of beer, the host turn'd pale as a clout,
The ruby Nose of the toping 'Squires grew white at the wild men's shout;
Then into their cups they flung the crusts, and show'd their teeth with a frown,
They flash'd their swords as they gave the toast

"God send this Crumb-well down!" 5

1 Buckingham and Shaftesbury disgracefully urged on Charles a divorce from his Queen Catharine of Braganza. Compare p. 664. The vile accusation of her designing to poison him, made by Oates, was with the approval of the Commons. 2 The old scandal concerning Henry Jermyn, Lord Dover, having intrigued with Henrietta Maria before the death of Charles I., as he certainly did later. He was believed to have been privately married to her when Queen Dowager.

3 Specially alluding to the pardon signed by Charles for Earl Danby, and pleaded by him, to the anger of the rebellious Commons, in 1679.

Probably alluding to the legal disability under which a Next-heir lies, of being trustee or guardian, while having direct interest in the death of the ward. Or else it refers to Halifax's " Expedient" of limitations, to controul a Popish Successor explained by Sir Thomas Littleton and Sir Thomas Meres in the Oxford Parliament of 168f. See next volume, p. 29.

5 From "The Three Troopers," one of the late George Walter Thornbury's spirited Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads, 1857.

[Roxburghe Collection, III. 911.]

The Loyal Tories' Delight;

A pill for Fanaticks.

Being a most pleasant and new Song.

TO THE TUNE [ITS OWN] OF, Great York has been debar'd of late, §c.

G1

Reat YORK has been debar'd of late

From Court by some accursed Fate, 1
But ere long we do not fear

We shall have him, have him here:
We shall have him, have him here.

The Makers of the Plot we see,
By puшep Old Tony's treachery,
How they would have brought it about,
To have given great York the rout:

2

To have given great York the rout, &c.

God preserve our gracious King,

And safe tydings to us bring!

Defend us from the sham black Box,3

And all puшep Fanatick Plots;

And all puupp Fanatick Plots.

Here Charles's Health I drink to thee,

And wish him all Prosperity;

God grant that he long time may Reign,
To bring us home great York again :

To bring us home great York again.

That he, in spight of all his Foes,

Who Loyalty and Laws oppose,

May long remain in health and peace,

Whilst Plots and Plotters all shall cease:
Whilst Plots and Plotters all shall cease.

Let Whigs go down to Erebus,

And not stay here to trouble us,

With noisy Cant and needless fear,

Of Ills to come, they know not where:

Of ills to come, they know not where:

1 He had gone to Brussels, on 3rd March, 167, and having returned home uninvited on 24th February, next year, was soon afterwards sent to Scotland. 2 The presentation of the Duke of York, as a Popish recusant, by Shaftesbury and his confederates, on 16th June, 1680. Compare p. 665 for list of peers, etc. 3 The Black Box was reported to contain the proofs of Monmouth's legitimacy. (See "The Black Box boxed," pp. 624, 625; and Bagford Ballads, p. 785.)