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" WHat Creature's this with his short hairs, His little band and huge long ears, That this new faith hath founded, The Puritans were never such, The Saints themselves, had ne'er so much, Oh, such a knave's a Roundhead. "
Rump: Or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the ... - Page 42
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Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse: Written in the Time of the Civil Wars ...

Samuel Butler, Sir Roger L'Estrange - 1715 - 302 pages
...~ THE ROUND-HEAD. By Mr. B UTLER, Author of Hudibras. W Hat Creature's that with his fhort . (Hans, His little Band, and huge long Ears, That this new Faith hath founded? The Saints themfelves were never fuch, Th.« Prelate nt'er rul'd half fo much. O .' fuch a Rogue's 4 Round-bead....
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The Posthumous Works of Mr Samuel Butler, (author of Hudibras): Compleat in ...

1754 - 358 pages
...cavalier, No traytor like Jack Prejbyter. .:\ . ', The Round-Head. . WHAT creature's that with his fhort hairs, . . His little band, and huge long ears, That this new faith hath founded ? The faints them felves were never fuch, _ The prelate ne'er rul'd half fo much. O / fuch a rogufs a mund-hcad....
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The Twenty-ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration, Volume 2

William Henry Pyne - 1825 - 408 pages
...we are now all attention, Master Walton. Si — len-cee." What creature's that with his short hair, His little band and huge long ears, That this new...The saints themselves had ne'er so much, Oh ! such a knave is a Round-head. " Chorus if you please gentlemen." t>2 THE LOYAL FEAST. What's he that doth...
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The twenty-ninth of May: rare doings at the Restoration, by Ephraim Hardcastle

William Henry Pyne - 1825 - 762 pages
...we are now all attention, Master Walton. Si— len-cee." What creature's that with his short hair, His little band and huge long ears, That this new...The saints themselves had ne'er so much, Oh ! such a knave is a Round-head. " Chorus if you please gentlemen." Oh ! such a knave is a Rountl-he.ad. What's...
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Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the ...

Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 640 pages
...fashionably-attired 1 A song, printed in 1611, entitled The Character of a Roundhead, thus commences — " What creature's this, with his short hairs, His little...never such, The saints themselves had ne'er so much ; — gentleman describes his visit to woo a Puritan lady, and he says — " She told me that I was...
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Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the ...

Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 660 pages
...Character of a Roundhead, thus commences — " What creature's this, with his short hairs, His little hand, and huge long ears, That this new faith hath founded...ne'er so much ; — Oh, such a knave's a Roundhead!" gentleman descrihes his visit to woo a Puritan lady, and he says — " She told me that I was too much...
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Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume: From the 13th to the 19th ..., Volume 27

Frederick William Fairholt - 1849 - 302 pages
...round heads. A song printed in 1641, entitled The Character of a Roundhead, commences thus : — " What creature's this ? with his short hairs, His little band, and huge long ears, That this new faith has founded ? The Puritans were never such, The saints themselves had ns'er so much, — Oh such a...
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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ...

Percy Society - 1849 - 422 pages
...round heads. A song printed in 1641, entitled The Character of a Roundhead, commences thus : — " What creature's this ? with his short hairs, His little band, and huge long ears, That this new faith has founded ? The Puritans were never such, The saints themselves had ns'er so much, — Oh such a...
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Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the ...

Frederick William Fairholt - 1860 - 638 pages
...lady, and he says — • A »mg, printed in 1841, entitled The Character of a Roundhead, thus com" What creature's this, with his short hairs, His little...ne'er so much ; — Oh, such a knave's a Roundhead!" f As late as 1684 they are thus noticed in Southernc's play, The Ditappointment — " The zealous of...
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Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Volume 1

William Walker Wilkins - 1860 - 332 pages
...worth repetition, — at leaft, the firft four ftanzas of it : — What creature's that, with his fhort hairs, His little band, and huge long ears, That this new faith hath founded ? The faints themfelves were never fuch, The prelates ne'er ruled half fo much ; O ! fuch a rogue's a Roundhead....
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