Richard Lovelace - A Mock SongRichard Lovelace - A Mock Song
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I.
Now Whitehall`s in the grave,
And our head is our slave,
The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster;
Now the miter is lost,
The proud Praelates, too, crost,
And all Rome`s confin`d to a cloister.
He, that Tarquin was styl`d,
Our white land`s exil`d,
Yea, undefil`d;
Not a court ape`s left to confute us;
Then let your voyces rise high,
As your colours did flye,
And flour`shing cry:
Long live the brave Oliver-Brutus.
II.
Now the sun is unarm`d,
And the moon by us charm`d,
All the stars dissolv`d to a jelly;
Now the thighs of the Crown
And the arms are lopp`d down,
And the body is all but a belly.
Let the Commons go on,
The town is our own,
We`l rule alone:
For the Knights have yielded their spent-gorge;
And an order is tane
With HONY SOIT profane,
Shout forth amain:
For our Dragon hath vanquish`d the St. George.
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