But as for BROWNISTS we'll have none,
But take them all and hang them one by one.

Your wicked actions
Join'd in factions
Are all but aims to rob the King of his due;
Then give this reason
For your treason,
That you'll be ruled, if he'll be ruled by you.
Then leave these factions, zealous brother,
Lest you be hanged one against another.



Ballad: Hey, Then, Up Go We



This song, says Mr Chappell, in his Popular Music of the Olden
Time, which describes with some humour the taste of the Puritans,
might pass for a Puritan song, if it were not contained in the
"Shepherds' Oracles," by Francis Quarles, 1646. He was cup-bearer
to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I., and
afterwards chronologer to the city of London. He died in 1644, and
his Shepherds' Oracles were a posthumous publication. It was often
reprinted during the Restoration, and reproduced and slightly
altered by Thomas Durfey, in his "Pills to Purge Melancholy," where
the burthen is, "Hey, boys, up go we."