Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 2

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	THE COMMONWEALTH. 437

	King George," in A Collection of State Songs, Poems, £c, that have been •published since the Rebellion, and sung at the several Mug-houses in the cities of London and Westminster, 1716. The copy of the ballad in Mr. Payne Collier's Collection is entitled " The King enjoys hia own again. To be joyfully sung with its own proper sweet tune." The burthen of that, and of the Eoxburghe copy, is " When the King comes home in peace again," instead of "enjoys his own again," as in The Loyal Q-arland. Neither of the ballads has any date or publisher's name; and therefore both were in all probability, privately printed during the civil war. The Roxburghe copy has " God save the King, Amen," in large letters at the end.



	There's neither Swallow, Dove, nor Dade,* The man in the moon may wear out his shoou, Can soar more high, or deeper wade; By running after Charles his wain : Nor shew a reason from the stars, But all's to no end, for the times will not mend What causeth peace or civil wars: Till the King, &c. • Booker, Pond, Rivers, Swallow, Dove, Dade, and printed in 1711, entitled "The ballad of The King thall Hammond, whose namea are mentioned in the ballad, enjoy his own again ; with alearned comment thereupon." were all astrologers and almanack-makers. Ritson copies The account there given of Booker does not agree with his notei about Booker and others from a small jjamphlet that of William Lilly, quoted in a note to Dodsley's Old