This, like Num. XX, was originally fung in one of D'URFEY'S Comedies of Don Quixote, (fift acted about the year 1644) and was probably compofed by that popular Songfter, who died Feb. 26, 1-23. This is printed in the "Hive, a Collection of Songs,” 4 vols. 1721, 12mo. where may be found two or three other MAD SONGS not admitted into thefe Volumes. I Burn, my brain confumes to afhes! Each eye-ball too like lightning flashes! Within my breaft there glows a folid fire, Which in a thousand ages can't expire! Blow, blow, the winds' great ruler! Bring the Po, and the Ganges hither, Pour them all on my foul, It will hifs like a coal, But be never the cooler. 'Twas pride hot as hell, That first made me rebell, From love's awful throne a curft anger I fell ; And mourn now my fate, Which myself did create: Fool, fool, that confider'd not when I was well! Adieu! ye vain tranfporting joys! Off ye vain fantastic toys! That drefs this face-this body-to allure! Bring me daggers, poison, fire! Since fcorn is turn'd into defire. All hell feels not the rage, which I, poor I, endure. ક 15 20 XXIII. LILLI XXIII. LILLI BURLERO. The following rhymes, flight and infignificant as they may now feem, had once a more powerful effect than either the Philippics of Demofthenes, or Cicero; and contributed not a little towards the great revolution in 1688. Let hear a contemporary writer. us "A foolish ballad was made at that time, treating the "Papifts, and chiefly the Irish, in a very ridiculous manner, "which had a burden faid to be Irish words, "Lero, lero, "liliburlero," that made an impreffion on the [king's] army, "that cannot be imagined by thofe that faw it not. The "whole army, and at laft the people, both in city and country, were finging it perpetually. And perhaps never had fo "flight a thing fo great an effect." Burnet. It was written, or at least republished, on the earl of Tyrconnel's going a fecond time to Ireland in October, 1688. Perhaps it is unnecessary to mention, that General Richard Talbot, newly created earl of Tyrconnel, had been nominated by K. James II. to the lieutenancy of Ireland in 1686, on account of his being a furious papift, who had recommended himself to his bigotted mafter by his arbitrary treatment of the protestants in the preceding year, when only lieutenant general, and whofe fubfequent conduct fully juftified his expectations and their fears. The violences of his adminifiration may be feen in any of the hiftories of thofe times: particularly in bishop King's "State of the Proteftants in "Ireland," 1691, 4to. LILLIBURLERO and BULLEN-A-LAH are faid to have been the words of diftinction used among the Irish Papifts in their malacre of the Proteftants in 1041. H° O! broder Teague, doft hear de decree? Dat we fhall have a new deputie, Lilli burlero bullen a-la. Lero lero, lilli burlero, lero lero, bullen a-la, 5 Lero lero, lilli burlero, lero lero, bullen a-la Ho! by fhaint Tyburn, it is de Talbote: Lilli, &c. And he will cut de Englifhmen's troate, Lilli, &c. Dough by my shoul de English do praat, Lilli, &c. De law's on dare fide, and Creish knows what. But if difpence do come from de pope, Lilli, &c. We'll hang Magna Charta, and dem in a rope. Lilli, &c. For de good Talbot is made a lord, Lilli, &c. And with brave lads is coming aboard: Who all in France have taken a fware, 10 15 20 Lilli, &c. Ver. 7. Ho by my shoul. al, ed. Dat Dat dey will have no proteftant heir. Ara! but why does he stay behind? Ho! by my fhoul 'tis a proteftant wind. Lilli, &c. But fee de Tyrconnel is now come ashore, And we shall have commiffions gillore, Lilli, &c. And he dat will not go to de mafs, Lilli, &c. Shall be turn out, and look like an afs. Lilli, &c. Now, now de hereticks all go down, Lilli, &c. By Chrish and fhaint Patrick, de nation's our own. Lilli, &c. Dare was an old prophesy found in a bog, Lilli, &c. 25 30 35 40 "Ireland shall be rul'd by an ass, and a dog." 45 Lilli, &c. Ver.43. What follows is not in fome copies, Bb 4 And |