01 Jul 05 - 04:00 PM (#1513960)
Subject: Lyr Add: When The King Comes Home In Peace Again
From: chico
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Oxford and Cambridge shall agree, with honour crown'd, and dignity;
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For learned men shall then take place, and bad be silenced with disgrace
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They'll know it to be but a casualty, that hath so long disturb'd their brain;
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For I can surely tell that all things will go well, when the King comes home in peace again.
Church government shall settled be, and then I hope we shall agree
Without their help, whose high-brain'd zeal hath long disturb'd the common weal;
Greed out of date, and cobblers that do prate of wars that still disturb their brain;
The which you will see, when the time it shall be that the King comes home in peace again.
Though many now are much in debt, and many shops are to be let,
A golden time is drawing near, men shops shall take to hold their ware;
And then all our trade shall flourishing be made, to which ere long we shall attain;
For still I can tell all things will be well when the King comes home in peace again.
Maidens shall enjoy their mates, and honest men their lost estates;
Women shall have what they do lack, their husbands, who are coming back.
When the wars have an end, then I and my friend all subjects' freedom shall obtain;
By which I can tell all things will be well when we enjoy sweet peace again.
Though people now walk in great fear along the country everywhere,
Thieves shall then tremble at the law, and justice shall keep them in awe
The Frenchies shall flee with their treacherie, and the foes of the King ashamed remain
The which you shall see when the time it shall be that the King comes home in peace again.
The Parliament must willing be that all the world may plainly see
How they do labour still for peace, that now these bloody wars may cease;
For they will gladly spend their lives to defend the King in all his right to reign
So then I can tell all things will be well when we enjoy sweet peace again.
When all these things to pass shall come then farewell Musket, Pick, and Drum,
The Lamb shall with the Lion feed, which were a happy time indeed.
O let us pray we may all see the day that peace may govern in his name,
For then I can tell all things will be well when the King comes home in peace again. [From a broadside in the Roxburghe Collection of Ballads. It appears to have been written shortly after Martin Parker's original ballad obtained popularity among the Royalists, and to be by another hand. It bears neither date nor printer's name; and has 'God save the King, Amen,' in large letters at the end. --Charles Mackay]
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