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TOM OF BEDLAM. 

 (From Percy's Reliques, vol. ii. p. 357,) 



FoSTH from my sad and darksome cell, Last night I heard the dog-star bark 



Or ftcm the deepe abysse of hell, Mars met Venus in the darke ; 



Mad Tom is come into the world againe LimpingTulcan het an iron barr. 



To see if he can cure his distempered And furiouslye made at the god of warr ■ 



brame. -_ . , , . .... 



Mars with his weapon laid about, 



Feares and cares oppresse my soule ; And Vulcan's temples had the gout, 



Harke, how the anerye Fureys houle 1 For his broad horns did so hang in bis 



Pluto laughes, and Proserpine is gladd Hsht, 



To see poore naked Tom of Bedlam madd. He could not see to aim his blowes 



Through the world I wander night and aright : 



rr. ^y , ,. Mercurye the nimble post of heaven, 



i o seeke ray straggling senses : Stood still to see the quarrell ; 



"w" ^°g'T"= m°ode I mett old Time, Gorrel-bellyed Bacchus, gyant-like, 



With his pentarchye • of tenses : Bestryd a strong-beere barrell. 



When me he spyed. To me he draiike. 



Away he hyed, I did him thanke. 



For Time will stay for no man : But I could get no cyder ■ 



In vain with cryes He dranke whole butts, 



I rent the skyes, Till he burst his gutts, 



For pity IS not common. But mine were ne'er the wyder. 



Cold and comfortless I lye : Poore naked Tom is very drye, 



Helpe, oh helpe, or else I dye I A little' drinke for charilye I 



Harke ! I heare Apollo's teame, Harke, I hear Acteon's borne I 



The carman 'gins to whistle ; The huntsmen whoop and hallowe ; 



Chast Diana bends her bowe, Ringwood, Royster, Bowman Jowler, 



The boare begins to bristle. All the chase do foUowe. 



Come, Vulcan, with tools and with tackles. The man in the moone drinkes clarret, 



To knocke off my troublesome shackles ; Bates powder'd beef, turnip, and oarret. 



Bid Charles make ready his waine But a cup of old Malaga sack 



To fetch me niy senses againe. Will fire the bushe at his backe. 



P. 89. Besides the above songs, William Basse was the author of verses 

 " On William Shakespeare, vifho died in April i6i6," which are printed 

 in Malone's edition of Shakespeare, vol. i. p. 470 ; and another poem by 

 him will be found in the " Annalia Dubrensia, upon the yearely cele- 

 bration of Mr Robert Dover's Olympic Games upon Cotswold Hills," 410, 

 1.636. He was also tlie author of a poem called the Sword and Buckler, 

 printed in 8vo, in 1602, which is supposed to be in Malone's Collection in 

 the Bodleian Library; and of a poem on the Death of Prince Henry, 

 printed in i2mo, in 1613, of which a fragment only is known to exist, 

 which is in the possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq. A quarto volume, 

 in manuscript, entitled " Polyhymnia," a poem by William Basse, was in 

 Mr.Heber's collection. Vide " Bibliotheca Heberiana," Part xi. No. 70. 

 Anthony Wood (Athen. Oxon. edit. Bliss, iv. 222) states that Basse was 

 of Moreton near Thame, in Oxfordshire, and was' sometime a retainer of 

 Lord Wenman, of Thame Park, i.e., Richard Viscount Wenman in the 

 Peerage of Ireland. 



P. 87. Since the Memoir of Walton was printed, a presentation copy 

 of Walton's Lives, ed. 1670, has been discovered in the possession of the 

 Rev. W. Cotton, of Newgate Street, in which Walton wrote "For my 

 brother Chalkhill, Iz. Wa." but the connection between them has not been 

 ascertained. See, however, the Memoir of Walton, p. xciii., and the Pedi- 

 * Pentateuch. 



