# A Collection of Loyal Songs Written Against the Rump Parliament/Volume 1

A Collection of Loyal Songs Written against the Rump Parliament, Between the Years of 1639 and 1661.
Containing,
A great Variety of Merry and Diverting Characters of the Chief Sectaries, who were the Principal Actors in that whole Scene of Affairs.
With an Historical Introduction to the Whole.
In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
London:
To All True Lovers of our Constitution Both in Church and State,
Their most
Obedient Servant,
The Editor.
The Introduction.
The Publick, we hope, will excuse the Delay, under which this Work (not so easy in Practice, as it seemed to be in Theory) has, this long while, laboured; since, in the Care and Accuracy of its Compilation, they will find an abundant Compensation made for the Exercise of their Patience.
For the Reader is to know, that those Songs were made in the Time of the Great Rebellion; when that Mad and Enthusiastick Spirit, which then reigned in this Nation, filled us with Murther and Bloodshed; destroyed the best of Kings, subverted our happy Constitution, and introduced a wild State of Anarchy and Confusion.
​The Steps, whereby Matters were car- ried on to this deſperate Iffue, were finall in the Beginning, and, to common Obfer- vers, perhaps not vifible: But Men of more Sagacity and Penetration, eaſily per- ceived the fatal Tendency of Sedition, even at its firft fetting out; and, as they perceived, with all, the Infufficiency of the Labours of the Pulpit, or any ferious Treatifes, to fupprefs the growing Hydra, fo they employed the feveral Wits of the Age, Men famous for their Writings, as well as for their Loyal- ty, to expofe its Deformity, as a proper Object both of Horror and Ridicule: And queftionless, their Endeavours would have had their intended Effect, had not its Poi. fon been a little too far radicated, for any Medicine whatfoever to expel. At this Time, with this View, and by Perfons of this Character, were the follow ing Songs and Poems compoſed: And, as they arofe from particular Incidents, which, however minute in themſelves, gave Occa- fion, more or lefs, to the Grand Reſtoration, fo, by a due Perufal of them; a Perfon may be let into the Profpect of fome fecret Springs and Movements, which have ef- caped the Obfervation of our larger Hifto- rians, and is a Branch of Knowledge, not unbecoming the Search of the Curious.
​It may be fome Entertainment to a Genius of this Nature likewiſe, now, that we live in an Age of Peace and Tran- quility (like Mariners that have happily efcaped a Storm) to take a Review of the angry Main, whereon our Forefathers were toffed; and to confider by what Blafts and Incitements the Sea came to Ferment, and its Billows to rife to fuch a prodigious Height at laft. Whether or no this Age is in any Dan- ger of running into the like Confuſion, it may be an invidious Thing to fuggeft: But fure I am, that no better Antidote cap be preſcribed to the good People of England, against any fuch contingent Evil, than what is offered in this little Book: For it is a re- ceived Obfervation, (founded upon the Expe rience of the Times we are now speaking of) that your Men of heavy and melancholick Com- plections are always moft addicted to Se- dition and Mutiny; fuch, as are of a gay and merry Difpofition, are void of Gall and Difcontent, and uncapable of harbour- ing the leaft malevolent Thought againſt any Government. "Tis not of more private Advantage therefore, than it is of happy Emolument to the whole Kingdom, and to the Eafe and Tranquility of our Governours both ​in Church and State, that his Majesty’s good Subjects are, by this Means, furnished with a Set of Songs, which represent, (in their proper and lively Colours,) the Madness and Horrors of the Great Rebellion; whereby they may be taught to sing themselves insensibly into a settled Loyalty, and (if possible) to make those, who are of a contrary Opinion, ashamed, if not convinced, of the Naughtiness of their Principles.
For, when all’s said and done, your serious Discourses will not make that Impression upon Minds, full of themselves, and deeply prejudiced against Conviction, as will a witty Banter, or pleasant Turn, which shews the Man to himself, and sets his Opinion in a new and surprizing Light: Insomuch, that we may venture to say, all the serious Arguments, which, for these many Years, have been advanced in behalf of Episcopacy and Monarchy, will not have the Effect upon a rigid Non-Conformist, either to overcome his Obstinacy, or make him give up the Debate, as will, the Curtain Lecture, the Round-Head’s Race, the Scotch War, the Mad Zealot, the Holy Pedlar, or Cuckolds all a-row; the Scots Curanto, or Schismatick Rotundo’s; the Independents Resolve, the Levellers Rant, or ​almost any other Composition in the whole Number, when sung with a proper Grace and Air, be found to have.
What the incomparable Butler has done, by representing the Factors for Rebellion, and the vile Pretenders to Religion of former Ages, in their proper and native Dress, in order to prevent the Nation from relapsing into the like Distraction; that, have we endeavoured to do in the following Collection, viz. To infuse a Spirit of Loyalty into our Fellow-Subjects, and to make Faction and Hypocrisy for ever ashamed to shew their Heads again. And tho’ we are not insensible that we may incur the Dislike of some, yet this gives us the less Concern, both because we are conscious of the Goodness of our Design, and have the Sentiments of the Poet to support us under it.
Si mala Condiderit in quem quis Carmina, jus est Judiciumque. Esto, si quis mala; sed bona si quis Judice, condiderit, laudatur Cæsare, si quis Opprobriis dignum laceraverit, integer ipse.
Hor. L. 1. Sat. 1.
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