A Mock Song

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  I.
  Now Whitehall's in the grave,
  And our head is our slave,
The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster;
  Now the miter is lost,
  The proud Praelates, too, crost,
And all Rome's confin'd to a cloister.
  He, that Tarquin was styl'd,
  Our white land's exil'd,
  Yea, undefil'd;
Not a court ape's left to confute us;
  Then let your voyces rise high,
  As your colours did flye,
  And flour'shing cry:
Long live the brave Oliver-Brutus.

  II.
  Now the sun is unarm'd,
  And the moon by us charm'd,
All the stars dissolv'd to a jelly;
  Now the thighs of the Crown
  And the arms are lopp'd down,
And the body is all but a belly.
  Let the Commons go on,
  The town is our own,
  We'l rule alone:
For the Knights have yielded their spent-gorge;
  And an order is tane
  With HONY SOIT profane,
  Shout forth amain:
For our Dragon hath vanquish'd the St. George.

© Richard Lovelace