Keepe thy head on thy shoulders,
And I will keepe mine.
OR,
A merry health drunke in Wine and Beere,
Not to them that flyes for't,
But to those that stayes heere.
To the tune of, Merrily and cherrily, etc.
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THough Wentworths beheaded,
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Should any Repyne,
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Thers others may come
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To the Blocke besides he!
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Keepe thy head on thy Shoulders
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I will keepe mine;
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For what is all this to thee or to mee?
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drink off our Beere,
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Let who as will run for it
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Wee will stay heere.
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What meanes our brave gallants
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So fast for to flye:
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Because they are afraid
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That some danger might be,
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They car'd not for seeing
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The Deputy dye,
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But what is all this to thee or to mee:
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drink off our Beere,
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Let who as will run for it,
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We will stay heere.
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Since that Finch and Windebanke
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First crost the Seas,
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To shun some great danger
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Its thought they fore-see;
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Ther's many hath catched
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The Running Disease,
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But what is all this to thee or to mee?
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drinke off our Beere,
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Let who as will run for it,
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We will stay heere.
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Although some by running,
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To scape had the hap,
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Which formerly feared
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They punisht should be
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Yet others as cunning,
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Were catcht in the trap,
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But what is all this to thee or to mee,
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drink off our Beere,
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Let who as will run for it,
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We will stay heere.
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A man to doe evill
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And have too much Grace,
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Methinkes its a wonder
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Most strange for to see,
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So little in person,
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Yet great by his place:
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But what is all this to thee or to me,
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drinke off our wine
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Keepe thy head on thy shoulders,
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I will keepe mine.
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The second Part, to the same Tune.
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WHat strength hath an infant
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To doe any harme
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So long as the keeper
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Doth it oversee
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Its fit that a Sucklin
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Were led by the arme
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But what is all this to thee or to me?
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Then merily and cherily
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Lets drink off our wine
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Keepe thy head on thy shoulders
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I will keepe mine.
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Though Jermin and others
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Were loath to rehearse,
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What they thought in England,
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Here acted should be,
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Let Davinant write downe
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Their travells in verse,
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But what is all this to thee or to me,
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drinke up our Beere,
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Let who as will run for it,
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We will stay heere.
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Since no Canterbury,
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Nor old womans tale,
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Or dissimulation
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Will credited be,
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The Popish Supporters
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Begin for to faile,
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But what is all this to thee or to me?
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drinke off our wine,
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Keepe thy head on thy shoulders,
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I will keepe mine.
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Though some with much patience
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Hath suffered long:
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Who after much tryall
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[?] lately set free:
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And others be punish't
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Which did them such wrong,
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But what is all this to thee or to me?
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Then merrily and cherrily, etc.
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Suppose that the Masse-Priests
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And Jesuits all,
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Which troubled our Nation
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Should banished be;
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Weel never be danted
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At Babylons fall,
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For what is all this to thee or to me?
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Then merrily and cherrily, etc.
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Lets never be sorry
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For that which is past,
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That each man ins calling
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Most Jocond may be.
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Still hoping long look't for
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Will come at the last
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And times at more certaine,
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We shortly shall see,
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Then merrily and cherrily
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Lets drinke of our wine, etc.
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If that all false Traytors,
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Were banisht our Land,
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And that from all Popery
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It once might be free,
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Then England and Scotland
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Might joyne hand in hand
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Then times will prove better to thee & to me,
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So merrily and cherrily
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Weel drinke wine and Beere,
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Let who as will run for it,
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We will stay heere.
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