To all these matters before ye?
I'll sell them all for an old song,
And so I do end my story.
Says old Simon, etc.



Ballad: The Cavalier's Farewell To His Mistress, Being Called To
The Warrs



The following song was extracted from the MS. Diary of the Rev.
John Adamson (afterwards Rector of Burton Coggles, Lincolnshire),
commencing in 1658; by a correspondent of Notes and Queries, First
Series, Jan. 18, 1851.


Fair Fidelia, tempt no more,
I may no more thy deity adore
Nor offer to thy shrine,
I serve one more divine
And farr more great than you:
I must goe,
Lest the foe
Gaine the cause and win the day.
Let's march bravely on,
Charge ym in the van,
Our cause God's is,
Though their odds is