Dramatic Lyrics
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Browning, Robert
date: 0000-00-00
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full text: Robert Browning : Dramatic Lyrics ================================ an electronic edition Version 1.0 1994-08-04 This electronic edition of `Dramatic Lyrics' is based on the two-volume edition `The poetical works of Robert Browning', edited by Augustine Birrell, published in 1896 by Smith, Elder & Co, 15 Waterloo Place, London, and printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, Edinburgh and London. One correction has been made: p. 253, c. 1, l. -3: III. (was: II.) The page number is that of the printed edition. Markup conventions: Page breaks and column titles have been silently removed. Each line of verse has been restored from the occasional line breaks in the printed edition. The indentation of each line has been indicated by similar indentation, but no exact markup has been attempted here <a`> a-grave <a^> a-circumflex <ae> ae-ligature <e'> e-acute <u:> u-umlaut <*1> indicates a numebered footnote. The numbers <*2> in the original started anew for each page. ... In this electronic edition, they start anew for each poem. * 1 The text of the footnote has been moved to the * 2 end of each separate poem, and indicated by ... an asterisk in the first position of the line. The transcription and proofreading was done by Anders Thulin, Rydsvagen 288, S-582 50 Linkoping, Sweden. Email address: ath@linkoping.trab.se I'd be glad to learn of any errors that you may find in the text. This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. DRAMATIC LYRICS. 184-- 185-- CAVALIER TUNES. I. MARCHING ALONG. I. Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And see the rogues flourish and honest folk droop, Marched them along, fifty-score strong, Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song. II. God for King Charles! Pym and such carles To the Devil that prompts 'em their treasonous parles! Cavaliers, up! Lips from the cup, Hands from the pasty, nor bite take nor sup Till you're--- CHORUS.---Marching along, fifty-score strong, Great-hearted gentl…