A new Carroll compyled by a Burgesse of Perth, to
besung at Easter next 1641. which is the next great episcopall feast
after Christmasse: To be sung to the tune of Gra-mercie good Scot.
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WHen Jock of broad Scotland went South to complain
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That Prel[?]s & pick-thanks this land had ov'rgane,
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He came unto Tweed, Heaven favourd him so,
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The waters soon fell, and so let him go,
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That without great trouble his foot came to land,
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Where Jack of fair England took Jock by the hand.
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Jack bade him beware there were knaves in the way,
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That would meet him and kill him, at least make a fray:
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But Jock went on with a bag full of bloes,
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He had ay two for one, to give to his foes,
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With a club and a cudgell whom ever he fand;
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Yet Jack of fair England took Jock by the hand.
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But Jock being wearie he took him to rest,
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The winter being cold, where the fire was best:
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He sent his complaint, to him who commands,
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It was found to be just, with all his demands:
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How the prelat and pick-thank had just, with all his demands:
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How the prelat and pick-thank had joynd in a band;
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Yet Jack of fair England took Jock by the hand.
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They banded to put both the body and saull
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Of the poore Scot at home in a terrible thrall,
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By loosing the bands of the Kirk and the State,
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Conforming to Rome their Imperiall seate,
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Where beast after beast hath still had command,
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Yet Jack of fair England hath took Jock by the hand.
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The Scot had a good and an honourable cause,
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For still he protected to live by the lawes,
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And that made his courage both courteous and keene
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Although that his purse was sober and meane:
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By begging or stealing he sure could not stand;
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But Jack of fair England hath took Jock by the hand.
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Jack told him so long as his cause was so good,
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He should neither want money, nor fewell, nor food,
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Untill it were clearly both heard and discust,
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And prelates and pick-thanks both dung to the dust.
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Be merrie good Scot, they shall both understand
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That Jack of fair England hath thee by the hand.
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When Jock did send home, he wrote it for newes,
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That England warr'd Ireland in wearing of trewes:
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For Ireland but weares them on their nether parts,
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But England on both their heads and their hearts.
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Let Scotland and Ireland praise God in a band,
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That Jack of fair England took Jock by the hand.
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And also he wrote, that made Scots to dance,
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That England for manners warr'd the kingdome of France
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For still they were giving, God knowes what they got,
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Yet they said and they sang, grand mercie good Scot.
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French manners, an sword, and an idoll we fand,
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For purity and peace, Jack took Jock by the hand.
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Now good Scot returne, thy prelates are gone
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As beasts to their dens ; thy pick-thanks each one
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Are all to the rout, and have quat their cause:
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Take them home with thy self, and after thy Laws
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Sit and judge the false traitours that Joynd in a band,
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For Jack of fair England hath thee by the hand-
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Come heere good Scot as a friend when thou will,
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Goe camp with thy friends in Ireland thy fill;
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Keep order at home, serve GOD and thy Prince,
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Thy Kirk and thy Countery are setled from hence:
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It shall be proclaim'd through many a land,
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That Jack of fair England took Jock by the hand.
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When Jack of fair England hath to do with a man,
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Let Jock of broad Scotland advertis'd be than:
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For Jock shall be ready when Jack hath to do,
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With his club and his cudgell,and his wallet too.
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Till the whoore be hunted by sea and by land,
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It's for God and the King, Jack & Jock joineth hand.
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