his pride
1641 'The King shall rule the Commons' cried;
The Commons would not brook such stuff
And cut his head off. 'Quantum Suff.'
The 'Grand Remonstrance' is put forth
By the Commons who are wrath
With the King's despotic ways
Quite unsuited to these days.
The King tries hard to put in jail
Five Members but without avail;
Hollis, Strode, Haslerig and Pym
And Hampden (we must mention him);
They're guarded from the Royal hands
By Watermen and City Bands.
The 'die is cast' and Civil War
For seven long years the Nation tore.

Civil Wars Cromwell greatest of the foemen
1642-1648 With his faithful English Yeomen;
These 'Roundheads' sober, grim, religious
To 'Cavaliers' gave blows prodigious.
Their character's seen in the cry
'Trust God and keep your powder dry.'
Naseby The Cavaliers and Roundheads fought
1645 In many a field, 'till Naseby brought
To Generals Cromwell and Fairfax
A crowning victory, though not 'pax.'
The King's beheaded, but the State
Experiences no headless fate;
A commonwealth's forthwith proclaimed
And Cromwell's soon Protector named.
Dunbar In sixteen-fifty Dunbar sees
1650 The Royal Scots brought to their knees;
Worcester And in the second Worcester fight
1651 Cromwell for good asserts his might.
And there are those who love to tell
About that day at Boscobel
When Charles the Second's Majestye
Found itself doubly 'up a tree.'
And now we meet that quiet man
Known as the early Puritan;
Mild and placid in his talk,
Calm and measured in his walk.

[Illustration: "PAINT ME WARTS AND ALL"

IRON JELLOIDS The Great Tonic]

Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell bluff and bold,
1649-1660 Was cast in Nature's sternest mould,
Lacking maybe the courtly grace
And proud of warts upon his face.