The Cavalier Songs And Ballads of England From 1642 to 1684
The Cavalier Songs And Ballads of England From 1642 to 1684
Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
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And their committees, that townes and cities Fill with confusion ; \ THE AKARCHIB. 75 For the bold troopes of sectaries, The Scots and their partakers, Our new British states, Col. Burges and his mates, The covenant and its makers ; Por all these weele pray, and in such a way. As if it might granted be. Jack and Gill, Mat and Will, And all the world would agree. " A plague take them all ! " sayes Besse ; " And a pestilence too ! " sayes Margery, " The devill ! " sayes Dick ; " And his dam,* too... ! " sayes Nick ; " Amen ! and Amen ! " say I. It is desired that the knights and burgesses would take espedall care to send down full numbers hereof to their re- spectiye counties and burroughs, for which they have serred apprenticeship, that all the people may rejoyce as one man for their freedom. ♦ The old proverbial expression of " the devil and his dam " was founded on an article of popular superstition which is now obsolete. In 1598, a Welshman, or borderer, writes to Lord Burghley for leave " to drive the devill and his dam " from the castle of SkenMth, where they were said to .watch over hidden treasure : " The voyce of the countrey goeth there is a dyvell and his dame, one sitts upon a hogshed of gold, the other upon a hogshed of silver." (Queen Elizabeth and her Times, ii.
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