I wish a good happy conclusion,
The State would so much stand our friend,
To end this unhappy confusion;
The which might be done in a trice,
In giving of Caesar his due;
If we were so honest and wise
As to think of the figure of TWO.
Here's a health, etc.

If any desire to know,
This riddle I now will unfold,
It is a man wrapped in woe,
Whose father is wrapped in mould:
So now to conclude my song,
I mention him so much the rather
Because he hath suffer'd some wrong,
And bears up the name of his father.
Here's a health, etc.



Ballad: The Reformation



Written in the year 1652, by Samuel Butler. From his Posthumous
Works.


Tell me not of Lords and laws,