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In "The Recovery" (of Peace, after Shaftesbury's flight and death),
beginning "Yet once more Peace turns back her head to smile,
are the well-understood allusions to "Potapski," and his malady :—
In a dark cell the Wayward Brothers met,
I' th' midst a chair there was for Satan set,
Which in his Absence [that Hell might not fret,]
A little wither'd Conjuror supply'd,

And all his Imps drank venom from his side:
His word was (then he out his Tap did pluck),

"Come my young Pugs of Treason, come and suck!"
The Hellish rite perform'd, to work they go,
To raise up Darkness from the shades below:
Here first was rais'd, the wond'ring world to scare,
The Armies Harris muster'd in the Air.

But now the charm's dissolv'd, and England's free
From the Enchantment, does its madness see.

The tunes named are found in the Pills to Purge Melancholy, where the words are also, both songs being by Tom D'Urfey: (1) "In January last, on Munnonday at morn. This belonged to his comedy of "The Fond Husband; or, The Plotting Sisters," 1676. (2) The Gowlin, or Golin, is an Anglo-Scotch song, beginning "Abroad as I was walking, upon a Summer's day," in his comedy of "Trick for Trick; or, The Debauched Hypocrite," 1678. We may as well give the first verse of each song, Winter and Summer: In January last, on Munnonday at morn,

As I along the Fields did pass to view the Winter's corn,

I looked me behind, and I saw come o'er the Knowe

One glinting in an Apron, with bonny brent brow.

Five more verses follow. Here is the first verse of the Gowlin:

Abroad as I was walking upon a Summer's day,

There I met a Beggar-woman cloathed all in gray;

Her Cloathes they were so torn, you might have seen her skin,
She was the first that taught me to see the Golin,

Ah, see the Golin, my Jo! see the Golin!

In the second verse of Mrs. Aphara Behn's "Young Jemmy" she writes thus of Monmouth, who was celebrated for his dancing, as may be seen by innumerable allusions to it in contemporary poems: But oh! he dances with a grace, none like him e'er was seen, No god that ever fancied was had so divine a mien.

This appears to be her reminiscence of Sir John Suckling's Ballad on a Wedding (="I tell thee, Dick, where I have been "):—

But oh! she dances such a way,

No Sun upon an Easter-day

Is half so fine a sight.

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[Roxburghe Collection, II. 556; IV. 85.]

Young Jemmy ;

Dr,

The Princely Shepherd.

BEING A MOST PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL NEW SONG.

In blest Arcadia, where each Shepherd feeds

His numerous Flocks, and tunes on slender Reeds
His song of Love, while the fair nymphs trip round,
The chief amongst 'em was young Jemmy found:
For he with glances could enslave each heart,
But fond Ambition made him to depart

The Fields to Court, led on by such as sought

To blast his Vertues: which much sorrow brought.

TO A PLEASANT NEW PLAY-HOUSE TUNE, OR, In January last; OR, The Gowlin.

With every Beauty clad, and every Swain exceeding : A face and shape so wonderous fine, so charming every part, That every Lass upon the Green for Jemmy had a heart.

In Jemmy's powerful Eyes young Gods of Love are playing, And on his face there lies a thousand smiles betraying. But O! he dances with a grace, none like him e're was seen, No God that ever fancied was had so divine a meen.

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Young Jemmy; or The Princely Shepherd.

To Jemmy every Swain did lowly doff his bonnet:

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every Lass' did strain to praise him in her Sonnet: The pride of all the Youths he was, the Glory of the Groves; The pleasure of each tender Lass, and theme of all their Loves. 12

Ut oh! unlucky Fate! ah! curse upon Ambition:

For glittering hope he left his shade, his glorious hours are gone:
By flattering Fools and Knaves betray'd, poor Jemmy is undone.3 16
Than Jemmy none more kind, and courteous had been ever,
Thinking the like to find, but he as yet did never:
For the false Swains that led him forth to expectations high,
Design'd but to Eclipse his worth, brave Jemmy to out-vye.

But Jemmy saw not this, when in the Groves delighting,
Nor thought to tread amiss, at such a fair inviting:
But Jemmy was mistaken there, for he was led astray;

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Whilst each kind Swain and Nymph so fair for Jemmy sigh'd all day.

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For Jemmy's loss the streams ran hoarse as if with mourning; The birds forgat their Leams, and Flowers so late adorning. The pleasant Plains hung down their heads, as bearing part o' th' grief; And wishing he had longer staid, but Jemmy 'd no belief.

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For Jemmy's strutting veins with youthful blood were flowing, Which made him raise his strains to his almost undoing. Though each kind Villager did pray he would again return; And tread still in the pleasant Way: but Jemmy it did scorn. For Jemmy in fierce Arms, more than his Crook delighting, Despis'd the Wood-Nymphs' charms, that were so much inviting: And dreams of digging Trenches deep, storming each Fort and Town, Ambition still disturb'd his sleep, whilst Jemmy sought renown. 36 But Jemmy now may see that he was led to ruin, By such as glad would be of his utter undoing:

Yet that his Wand'ring he'd retrieve, the wish is of the Swains, And in Arcadia happy live, where his great Father reigns.

Finis.

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

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[In Black-letter. Four woodcuts: first two removed to p. 667. Date, 1681.]

1 Mrs. Behn's original reading in the song has "Nymph."

2 Mrs. Behn has "The joy of ev'ry tender Lass: the theam of all our Loves." 3 This ends the original, which reads, "A curse upon Ambition!"

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4 As almost invariably of old, "Then" was printed for our modern "Than." Misprinted "has," unless we take it to represent "has never yet done so." 6 Leams were flashes or flames; but here it may be for Lemans sweethearts.

Did Jemmy.

"Jemmy the Valiant, the Champion Royal,

His own and the Monarchie's Rival withstood;
The bane and the terrour of all the Dis-loyal,

Who spilt the late Martyr's, and sought for his blood.
Jemmy, who quell'd the proud Foe on the ocean,
And reign'd the sole Conquerour over the Main;
To this brave Hero let's all pay Devotion,
Since He is England's Admiral again.'

-The Royal Admiral: a Loyal Song. 1682.

APHARA BEHN'S Roxburghe Ballad of "Young Jemmy," in

1681, was quickly followed by another, written by Matt. Taubman,
in praise of the Duke of York and Albany as " Old Jemmy," to the
same tune.
It contrasts the claims of the two Heirs-presumptive:

Old Jemmy is the Top and Chief amongst the Princes;
No Mobile gay Fop with Brimigham pretences.

To designate the handsome "Fop" Monmouth as Brimigham (=Brummagem or Birmingham) was to indicate him as counterfeit coin, a base metal imposition, bearing illegitimately the impress of the King's name and likeness. A Tory song on "His Royal Highness the Duke of York's return from Scotland," in 1682,= "Room, room for Cavaliers, bring us more Wine," denounces the besetting sin of Birmingham, uttering false coin to cheat the nation : Thus Brimigham still the Stamp-Royal rebukes, With Brazen-fac'd Impudence guilded so fine Who hates the King's Picture as well as the Duke's, And loves it in nothing unless in his Coyn. But let him still pass

For a counterfeit thing;
About with the Glass,
And merrily sing

For Ben is confounded, that poɔ Roundhead :
Then let us be Loyal, and true to our King.

[Ben Harris.

The political duel between Lord Shaftesbury as an Exclusionist and the unyielding Duke of York as next heir to the throne, had already been waged for several years, with varying prospects of success, but at the time to which we have arrived it must have been clear to most shrewd observers that the King's brother would ultimately win, for he possessed more of that "staying power" which tells so favourably in a protracted contest. Shaftesbury had been celebrated for his readiness and trickery, knowing when to secure his own safety by the sacrifice of associates; full of expedients and wiles, a prompt Opportunist, delighting in danger so much (says Dryden) that he risked the vessel in which he rode, by adventuring too

Shaftesbury playing Fast and Loose.

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closely amid the breakers, for the sake of displaying his able pilotage when destruction seemed imminent. There had been something singularly winning in his personal manners, his cheerfulness, his unfailing confidence in himself and in his own multitudinous resources. Hence it befell that, unwarned by the experience of others who had found him a perilous companion and often treacherous, there were always friends to rally round him: men of duller wits, who were willing to serve as his tools, because they believed him to be a man of genius, and were impressed by his persuasive eloquence. Between him and York there was a natural and mutual repugnance. The early portraiture of Shaftesbury, by Samuel Butler in the Third part of Hudibras, shows him in his fertility of resources :—

His cheerful spirits and his enfeebled frame are described in the Essay on Satyr, by Lord Mulgrave (= Lord All-Pride, whose Doll Common, Mrs. Corey, acted Sempronia in Ben Jonson's Catiline's Conspiracy; see pp. 575, 663):

1 Personal government of Charles I.; of the Parliament; and of the Protectorate.