[Ebsworth Coll., V. 10; Luttrell's, II. 154; Wood's, 417, 57; 27, 8vo. 557.] Did Jemmy. An Excellent New Ballad. TO AN EXCELLENT NEW TUNE, CALLED Young Jemmy. Ld Jemmy is a Lad right lawfully descended, No Bastard born nor bred, nor for a Whig suspended: The true and lawful Heir to th' Crown, by right of Birth and Laws, And bravely will maintain his own, in spight of all his Foes. Old Jemmy is the Top and Chief amongst the Princes; No Mobile gay Fop, with Brimigham pretences: A Heart and Soul so wondrous great, and such a conqu'ring Eye, That every Loyal Lad fears not in Jemmy's Cause to die. Old Jemmy is a Prince of noble Resolutions, Whose powerful influence can order our Confusions: 4 8 But Oh! he fights with such a Grace, no force can him withstand; No God of War but must give place where Jemmy leads the Van. 12 To Jemmy every Swain does pay due Veneration; And Scotland does maintain his Title to the Nation. The Pride of all the Court he stands, the Patron of his Cause, The Joy and Hope of all his Friends, the Terrour of his Foes. 16 Maliciously they Vote, to work Old Jemmy's Ruin, And zealously promote a Bill' for his undoing; Both Lords and Commons most agree to pull his Highness down, But ('spight of all their Policy) Old Jemmy's Heir to th' Crown. 20 1 The Exclusion Act, after which the Commons hankered: until their fall. 1 The Schismatick and Saint, the Baptist and the Atheist, Swear, by the Covenant, Old Jemmy is a Papist; Whilst all the Holy Crew did plot to pull his Highness down, 24 Great Albany they swear, he before any other, Shall be immediate Heir unto his Royal Brother, Who will, in spight of all his foes, his Lawful Rights maintain, 28 The Whigs and Zealots Plot to banish him the Nation, But the Renowned Scot hath wrought his Restauration. With high Respects they treat his Grace, his Royal Cause maintain, Brave Albany (to Scotland's Praise) is mighty York again. Against his envious Fates, the Kirk hath taught a Lesson, A Blessing on the States, to settle the Succession. 32 They real were, both Knight and Lord, and will his Rights maintain, By Royal Parliament restor'd, Old Jemmy's come again. 36 And now he's come again, in spight of all Pretenders, Great Albany shall Reign amongst the Faith's Defenders. Let Whig and Brimigham repine; they shew their Teeth in vain ; The Glory of the British Line, Old Jemmy's come again. Finis. 40 [By Matt. Taubman.] London: Printed by Nathanael Thompson, 1681. [White-letter. No woodcuts: those at beginning belong to p. 659.] 1 Wit and Mirth version has "the Quaker" instead. 2 We prefer the Wit and Mirth reading "the Noble Scot did raise unto Renown instead of "unto a Crown." This noble Scot (not referring to James Scot, Duke of Monmouth, his rival), is an awkward equivalent for "Noble Scotland." Compare line 30, where it is thus to be interpreted, certainly not meaning Monmouth. James Stuart was "Duke of York and Albany." 3 Sic. Awkward text here: possibly York is a misprint for "back." The sense is "who will in spite of Foes and Fops (i.e. Monmouth) his lawful rights maintain." The "Fop" is a nickname almost monopolized by Monmouth: thus in the sixth line, "No Mobile gay Fop, with Brimigham pretences." From "Mobile," of 1679 date, came our word Mob. Brimigham is indisputably intended for Birmingham; even at that time notorious for vile adulterations and political baseness. Coining found there its metropolis, for the impoverishment of loyal subjects. The name "Brummagem was proverbial for fraudulence and falsehood. Two hundred years have not improved matters, but in some notable respects merely developed the evil among the Caucusian race, who use shoddy for carpets, rotten iron for steel screws, and combine virulent denunciations of Imperialism or national honour with their money-making sale of war-material, to all people who are willing to slaughter the English: so long as "Peace at any price" is not accepted as our shibboleth at the bidding of Radicalism. Amid its many faults it has one compensating virtue: the most intelligent and honest race of Booksellers: including Messrs. Bennett, Downing, Hitchman, and Wilson. Ad Lectorem. Our present Here we pause, leaving the adherents of "Young Jemmy" Monmouth and of "Old Jemmy" York pitting their own favourites against each other, and backing them heavily with more than ballads. volume ends with this flourish of partizan trumpets, immediately before the assembly and dissolution of the week-long Parliament at Oxford (see p. 192); after which no farther meeting of the so-called national representatives took place during Charles the Second's reign. For his remaining four years of life he was "going to do without them." The more active passages of arms between the rival claimants of Succession are still to be described, in ballad-verse and editorial comment. These, including the abortive Rye-House Plot, the landing in the West, and the disastrous fight at Sedgemore, with the execution of sundry leaders, form the subject of songs, satires, lampoons, squibs, and historical notes, at the beginning of next volume of our Roxburghe Ballads. It will be better to delay enumeration of such few errors as have yet been detected. The pressure of our work has been too continuous, during the production of the present volume, to admit a thoroughly searching examination. Probably, little or nothing will be lost by a brief delay of our Errata: owing to the close connexion existing with the volume immediately following; the two being more related to one another, in their historical materials, than is either of them to the three volumes of Miscellaneous Roxburghe Ballads already issued under the care of the original Editor. Our almost unavoidable division of the rich store of Political satires and lyrics, explained in the General Introduction, separates the Second Group of Monmouth Ballads damagingly from the others. Could they all have been kept together, it would have been expedient to add here the necessary Index, but this will be now delayed until the completion of the entire work. Only the usual Index of First Lines, Tunes, Titles, and Burdens or Chorus-refrains is given: but this is enlarged (as before, in the Bagford Ballads Index) to contain also the numerous First Lines, Tunes, and Burdens, and even the Titles, of poems which are mentioned, or quoted from, without the whole of the said poems or ballads being given in our pages. Of the few already-noticed omissions or errors the following alone need here be mentioned:: Page 17, tenth line, "Port" is an evident corruption of "I will be a Park.” 83, note 3. Add " Compare pp. 170, 204, 302, and 634." 97. The Fraserian Episcopus could not have written it, for we possess a copy of this "Fifth of November" dated 1758, the entire eight verses. We never thought it quite bad enough to be his. 193. Let Bumpers go round is the same tune as one used for "Let Traitors plot on!" (see pp. 389 and 628), the music to which was composed by Thomas Farmer, and the words perhaps by Thomas D'Urfey. The ballad, to which Let Bumpers go round was the burden, is "Gallantry a-la-mode," given complete on p. 629. 203. The Pair Royal signifies three of a sort: not Charles and James. Cf. p. 527, where the correction is made: Pair-Royal is a Card term. 261. Abbey-Lubbers will be commented on in next volume, when the Litany reappears. 285. Nota Bene. Near the end of first note, erase the words “but we are elsewhere assured that her death did not take place until 1691: " which refers to such authorities as the Editor of De Grammont's Memoirs, to Mrs. Jameson, and others, who were incorrect. Mr. Akerman was right; shown on p. 525. 290, bottom line of text. The date should be March, 1683. ,, 439, first Note. Obsolete: misprinted obselete. 568, top-line, Read "Heroical Epistle from Lord All-Pride:" not to. Accredited Authors of Rorburghe Ballads given complete in this Wolume (whether certain or doubtful). Author of The Satyr against Hypocrites, 541. Behn, Mrs. Aphara, 643, 658. Bowne, Tobias, 342, 344; perhaps also, 347. Brown, Tom, 643, 645, 647. Buckingham (George Villiers), second Duke of, 528. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (his Epigrams), 117, 166. Dryden, John, (falsely accredited) 82, 83; (rightfully) 89, 536. Duke, Richard, (M.A.), 159, 163, 165, 169. D'Urfey, Thomas, (in part) 260, 264; 389, 404, 414. Edgworth, Ezekiel (Archdeacon of Newgate), 188. Etherege, Sir George, 573, 574. Ferguson, Robert (doubtful), 626. Grimstone, Lord William, 433. Hicks, (Captain) William, 400. Jordan, Thomas, (City Poet) 210, 213. Karl von Nirgends, Der Herr, 716. Lee, Nathaniel, (dramatist) 33, 38. Marvell, Andrew, (doubtful) 522; 527. Matthews, Sir Toby, (extremely doubtful) 429. Oldham, John, 643, 645, 647. P., W., 461, 464. Parker, Martin (earlier version), 100. Pitcairn, Archibald, (M.D.) 536. Pope, Walter, (M.D.) 109. Quarles, Francis, 260, 265, 266. Ravenscroft, Edward, (dramatist) 61. Robins, Thomas, 476, 477. Rochester (John Wilmot), Earl of, 187, 193, 301, 567, 570. Rowlands, Samuel, 47. Scroop, Sir Car, 57, 575, 576. Sedley, Sir Charles, 37. Shadwell, Thomas, (dramatist) 42, 45, 457, 481. Taylor, J. (a prisoner in the King's Bench), 155. |