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My lodgings never are at quiet,
Another duns me for my diet,
I had of him in fifty-three,
Which I forget, so doth not he;
I call him saucy fellow, sirrah,
And draw my sword
To run him thorough!
Have at all!

Yet, once, a friend, that sav'd

Who had a witty wanton wife,

I did, in courtesie, requite,

my

life,

Made him a cuckold and a knight;

Which makes him mount like tennis-ball:

Whilst she and I

Together cry

Have at all!

But those citts are subtil slaves,

Most of them wits and knowing knaves;
We get their children, and they do
From us get lands and lordships too;

And 'tis most fit, in these affairs,
The land should go

To the right heirs:
Have at all!

A soldier I directly hate,

A cavalier once broke my pate,
With cane in hand he overcome me,
And took away my mistress from me;

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For I confess, I love a wench;
Though English, Irish,
Dutch or French:

Have at all!

A soldiers life is not like mine,

I will be plump when he shall pine;
My projects carry stronger force
Than all his armed foot and horse;

What though his morter-pieces roar,
My chimney-pieces

Shall do more:

Have at all!

Thus have I given you, in short,
A courtier of Utopia[s] court;
I write not of religion,

For (to tell you truly) we have none.

If any me to question call

With pen or sword,

Hab-nab's the word:

Have at all!

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XIV.

THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA.

From "Westminster Drollery. Or, A Choice Collection of the Newest Songs and Poems, both at Court and Theatres. By a person of quality. With additions. London, 1672," 12mo. It is probably very little older than the date of the book. The tune may be found in Durfeys "Pills to purge melancholy," vol. iv. p. 32.

SOME years of late, in eighty-eight,

As I do well remember,

It was, some say, the nineteenth of May,

And, some say, in September,

And, some say, in September.

The Spanish train lanch'd forth amain,

With many a fine bravado,

Their (as they thought, but it prov'd not)

Invincible Armado,

Invincible Armado,

There was a little man, that dwelt in Spain,

Who shot well in a gun-a,

Don Pedro hight, as black a wight

As the Knight of the Sun-a*,

As the Knight of the Sun-a.

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* The hero of an old romance translated from the Spanish, under the title of "The Mirrour of knighthood," several volumes, 1598, &c. 4to. black letter. The person meant by don Pedro was Alonzo Perez de Guzman, duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish fleet.

King Philip made him admiral,

And bid him not to stay-a,

But to destroy both man and boy,

And so to come away-a,

And so to come away-a.

Their navy was well victualled,

With bisket, pease and bacon;

They brought two ships, well fraught with whips, But I think they were mistaken,

But I think they were mistaken.

Their men were young, munition strong,

And, to do us more harm-a,

They thought it meet to join the fleet,
All with the prince of Parma,

All with the prince of Parma.

They coasted round about our land,
And so came in by Dover;

But we had men set on 'um, then,
And threw the rascals over,

And threw the rascals over.

The queen was, then, at Tilbury,

What could we more desire-a?

And sir Francis Drake, for her sweet sake,

Did set them all on fire-a,

Did set them all on fire-a.

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Then, strait, they fled, by sea and land,
That one man kill'd three score-a;
And had not they all ran away,

In truth, he had kill'd more-a,

In truth, he had kill'd more-a.

Then let them neither brag nor boast,

But, if they come agen-a,

Let them take heed, they do not speed

As they did, you know when-a.
As they did, you know when-a.

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XV.

THE PRODIGALS RESOLUTION;

OR,

MY FATHER WAS BORN BEFORE ME.

BY THOMAS JORDAN.

From "London Triumphant," 1672, 4to. This Jordan was the professed pageant-writer and poet-laureat for the city, and really seems to have possessed a greater share of poetical merit than usually fell to the lot of his profession. He also published "A royal arbour of loyal poesie, consisting of poems and songs." London, 1663, 12mo. (printed likewise under the title of "Musick and poetry, songs and poems, with notes"...) three or four plays, and several other small pieces.

I AM a lusty, lively, lad,

Now come to one and twenty;
My father left me all he had,

Both gold and silver plenty;

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