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The Passage of a Coach travelling to Dover

Alexander Brome

“The Passage of a Coach travelling to Dover” as printed in Rump Songs (1662).

Alexander Brome: Collected Lyrics Text 51 1662 · historical text
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This text comes from Rump Songs, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

The Foundation of the Coach, a Guilty Conscience.

The Axeltree, Ambition and Cruelty.

The Wheels, Fears and Jealousies.

The Reins, too much liberty and licentiousness.

The six Horses, five Members and K———

The Postillion, Captain Venne.

The Coach-man, Isaac Pennington Lord Maior:

In the two ends of the Coach sate Essex and B———

In the Boots sate Say and Seal, and the silent Speaker.

On the hinder part of the Coach was written this Ana-gram.

Verse 2

Robert Devereux General

Verse 3

Never duller Oxe greater Rebel.

Verse 4

After the Coach follows Straffords Ghost, crying, Drive

on, Drive on, Revenge, revenge.

As this Coach was going through the City it was

staid by a Court of Guard, who cry’d, Where’s our Mony?

where’s our Plate? the Speaker said, Ye have the Publick

Faith for’t. Whereupon they passed towards Gravesend,

where they stayed at the Sign of the Hope, where was

the Earl of Warwick, with a Ship called the Carry-Knave.

Credits

Written by Alexander Brome

Words by Alexander Brome. Historical text published in Rump Songs (1662); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

Rump Songs (1662), “The Passage of a Coach travelling to Dover”

This 1662 collection (Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times, 1639-1661) is credited to Alexander Brome (died 1666); every contributor died more than 330 years ago, so the text is in the public domain worldwide, and the edition carries a Wikisource PD-old determination.

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