While Sam enjoys his wishes;
The Dolphin, too, must cast her crown:
Wine was not made for fishes.
Pages 115, 374. ’Tis not the silver, &c.
The mention, on pp. 116, of “our bold Army” turning out the “black Synod,” refers less probably to Colonel “Pride’s Purge” of the Presbyterians, on 6th December, 1648, than to the events of April 20, 1653; and helps to fix the date to the same year. In 6th verse the blanks are to be thus filled, “Arms of the Rump or the King;” “C. R., or O. P.;” the joke of “the breeches” being a supposed misunderstanding of the Commonwealth-Arms on current coin (viz., the joined shields of England and Ireland) for the impression made by Noll’s posteriors. Compare “Saw you the States-Money,” in Rump Coll., i. 289. On one side they marked “God with us!”
“Common-wealth on the other, by which we may guess
God and the States were not both of a side.”
Pages 121, 375. Come, let’s purge our brains.
This song is almost certainly by Thomas Jordan, the City-Poet. With many differences he reprints it later in his London in Luster, as sung at the Banquet given by the Drapers Company, October 29th, 1679; where it is entitled “The Coronation of Canary,” and thus begins (in place of our first verse):—
Drink your wine away,