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-WAS originally sung in one of Tom D'Urfey's comedies of Don Quixote, acted in 1694, and 1696; and probably composed by himself. In the several stanzas, the author represents his pretty Mad-woman as, 1. sullenly mad; 2. mirthfully mad: 3. melancholy mad: 4. fantastically mad: and, 5. stark mad. Both this and Num. XXII. are printed from D'Urfey's "Pills to purge Melanchol " 1719, vol. 1.

FROM rosie bowers, where sleeps the god of love, Hither ye little wanton cupids fly: Teach me in soft melodious strains to move

With tender passion my heart's darling joy:

Ah! let the soul of musick tune my voice, 5 To win dear Strephon, who my soul enjoys.

Or, if more influencing

Is to be brisk and airy,

With a step and a bound,

With a frisk from the ground, I'll trip like any fairy.

As once on Ida dancing

With an air, and a face,

Were three celestial bodies:

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—WAS written by Henry Carey, a celebrated composer of music in the beginning of the eighteenth century, and author of several little theatrical entertainments, which the reader may find enumerated in the "Companion to the Play-house," &c. The sprightliness of this songster's fancy could not pre

serve him from a very melancholy catastrophe, which was effected by his own hand. In his Poems, 4to. Lond. 1729, may be seen another mad song of this author, beginning thus:

"Gods, I can never this endure,
Death alone must be my cure," &c.

The following rhymes, slight and insignificant as they may now seem, had once a more powerful effect than either the Philippics of Demosthenes or Cicero; and contributed not a little towards the great revolution in 1688. Let us hear a contemporary writer.

"A foolish ballad was made at that time, treating the Papists, and chiefly the Irish, in a very ridiculous manner, which had a burden said to be Irish words, 'Lero, lero, liliburlero,' that made an impression on the [king's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect."-Burnet.

It was written, or at least republished, on the Earl of Tyrconnel's going a second 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 King James II. to the lieutenancy of Ireland in 1686, on account of his being a furious papist, who had recommended himself to his bigoted master by his arbitrary treatment of the protestants in the preceding year, when only lieutenant-general, and whose subsequent conduct fully justified his expectations and their fears. The violence of his administration may be seen in any of the histories of those times: particularly in Bishop King's "State of the Protestants in Ireland," 1691, 4to.

Lilliburlero and Bullen-a-lah are said to have been the words of distinction used among the Irish Papists in their massacre of the Protestants in 1641.

Ho! broder Teague, dost hear de decree?
Lilli burlero, bullen-a-la,

Dat we shall have a new deputie,

Lilli burlero, bullen a-la.

Lero lero, lilli burlero, lero lero, bullen a-la,

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Lilli, &c.

Lero lero, lilli burlero, lero lero, bullen

a-la.

Ver. 7, Ho by my shoul, al. ed.