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Upon bringing in the Plate

Alexander Brome

“Upon bringing in the Plate” as printed in Rump Songs (1662).

Alexander Brome: Collected Lyrics Text 73 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

All you that would no longer

To a Monarch be subjected,

Come away to Guildhall, and be there liberall,

Your Wish shall be there effected.

Come come away, bring your Gold, bring your Jewells,

Your silver Shap’t, or Molten,

If the King you’l have down, and advance to the Crown

Five Members and K———

Verse 2

Regard no Proclamations,

They’re Subjects fit to Jest on,

Henry Elsing’s far better than C. R.

Resolv’d upon the Question.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 3

You Aldermen first send in

Your Chaines upon these Summons,

To buy Ropes ends, for all the Kings Friends,

They’re Traytors to the Commons.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 4

Your Basons large, and Ewers,

Unto this use alot them,

If ere you mean your hands to clean

From th’ Sins by which you got them.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 5

Bring in your Cannes and Gobletts,

You Citizens confiding,

And think it no scorn, to drink in a Horn

Of your own Wives providing.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 6

Ye Bretheren strong and lusty,

The Sisters Exercise yee,

Get Babes of Grace, and Spoons apace,

Both Houses do advise yee.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 7

Let the Religious Sempstress

Her silver Thimble bring here,

’Twill be a fine thing in deposing a King,

To say you had a Finger.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 8

Your Childe’s redeemed Whistle

May here obtain Admittance,

Nor shall that Cost be utterly lost,

They’le give you an Acquittance.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 9

The Gold and Silver Bodkin,

The Parliament woo’d ha both,

Which oft doth make, the House to take

A Journey on the Sabboth.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 10

You that have store of Mony

Bring’t hither, and be thrifty,

If th’ Parliament thrive, they’le so contrive

You shall have back Four for Fifty.

Come, come away, &c.

Verse 11

If when the Councell’s ended,

Your Plate you will recover,

Be sure you may the chief Head that day

On the Bridge or Tower discover.

Come, come away, &c.

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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), “Upon bringing in the Plate”

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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