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Upon Mr. Pyms Picture

Alexander Brome

“Upon Mr. Pyms Picture” as printed in Rump Songs (1662).

Alexander Brome: Collected Lyrics Text 71 1662 · historical text
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Verse 1

Reader, behold the Counterfeit of him

Who now controuls the land; Almighty Pym!

A man whom even the Devil to fear begins,

And dares not trust him with succesless sins;

A man who now is wading through the Floud

Of Reverend Lauds, and Noble Straffords Bloud,

To strike so high as to put Bishops down,

And in the Miter to controul the Crown;

The Wretch hath mighty thoughts, and entertains

Some Glorious Mischief in his Active Brains,

Where now he’s plotting to make England such

As may out-vye the villany of the Dutch;

He dares not go to Heaven, ’cause he doth fear

To meet (and not pull down) the Bishops there:

Is it not strange, that in that Shuttle-head

Three Kingdoms ruines should be buried?

Is it not strange there should be hatch’t a Plot

Which should out-doe the Treason of the Scot,

And even the Malice of a Puritan?

Reader behold, and hate the poysonous man;

The Picture’s like him; yet ’tis very fit

To adde one likeness more, that’s hang like it.

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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.

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Rump Songs (1662), “Upon Mr. Pyms Picture”

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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