News! news! here’s the occurrences and a new Mercurius,
A dialogue between Haselrigg the baffled and Arthur the furious;
With Ireton’s readings upon legitimate and spurious,
Proving that a Saint may be the Son of a Wh——, for the satisfaction of the curious.
From a Rump insatiate as the Sea,
Libera nos, Domine, &c.
Old songs have rarely, if ever, been modernized so successfully as “The Queen’s Old Courtier,” of which “The Fine Old English Gentleman” is no unworthy representative. Popular though it was, thirty or forty years ago, it is not easily met with now; thus we may be excused for adding it here:—
THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.
I’ll sing you a good old song, made by a good old pate,
Of a fine old English gentleman, who had an old estate,