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British Library - Poetical Broadsides
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ROOME FOR
CUCKOLDS:
OR MY
LORD LAMBERTS
ENTRANCE
INTO
SODOME and GOMORAH.
To the Tune of, Is there no more Cuckolds but I.

YOu Cow-hearted Citizens,
what is your Damn'd pretence,
To keep yourselves within your Beds,
and not Fight for your Prince;
Whose Majesty should you behold.
your shames would breed your woe;
And then (like Fools) you will cry out,
Cuckolds all-a-Row.

Ther's some of you, whose Bishops Lands
do so much clogg your heels,
That now you cannot sturr, whereas
else, you would Run on Wheels:
But yet I hope a time will come,
when you shall be made know,
And told unto your faces, that you are
Cuckolds all-a-row.

But yet for one most reverend Act,
you are to be commended;
That through your Rams-head zeal you have
your brother Rump befriended.
To set them in the Parliament house,
their Wisdomes for to show;
But they (and you) are all a like
Cuckolds all-a-row.

Yet I advise you, set this Rump.
in Salt, for fear of Stinking;
'Twill fall unto the Divels share,
because 'tis his by drinking:
In spight of all their Acts, and Laws,
Hee'l carry them down below
Then Hell, and City, like to like,
Cuckolds all-a-row.

I doubt, your Lambert is undone,
and now he may goe Preach;
For 'ts the English all a-moade,
For every Rogue to Teach:
Hee'l Nose it bravely in a Tub,
to let the City know
That they'l be Damn'd, unless they Dip,
Cuckolds all a-Row.

But where's your mighty Fleetwood now
his Honour's worn to the Stump;
Hee'l serve Ambassador to Hell,
to make way for the Rump.
And thus King-killers one by one
will to the Devill go,
Upon the City Asses backs, like
Cuckolds all-a-row.

And now Cow-hearts, look to your Shops,
the Red-coats will you fright,
And Plunder you, because they know
your Horns hang in your light:
No matter, for You have been the cause
of all the Kingdoms Wo,
And do deserve still to be call'd
Cuckolds all-a-row.

But if that you would honest grow,
and doe a glorious thing;
Which is, to Rowse and take your Armes
and Fight for Charles your KING:
Which Act your Credits will regain,
and all the World shall know
That you no more shall, then be cal'd
Cuckolds all-a-Row.


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