The Lawyers' Lamentation For The Loss Of Charing-Cross
From a Collection of Loyal Songs, 1610 to 1660.)

Undone! undone! the lawyers cry,
They ramble up and down;
We know not the way to WESTMINSTER
Now CHARING-CROSS is down.
Now fare thee well, old Charing-Cross,
Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
And so pull'd down by the RUMP.

And when they came to the bottom of the Strand
They were all at a loss:
This is not the way to WESTMINSTER,
We must go by CHARING-CROSS.
Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
And so pull'd down by the RUMP.

The Parliament did vote it down
As a thing they thought most fitting,
For fear it should fall, and so kill 'em all
In the House as they were sitting.
Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
And so pull'd down by the RUMP.

Some letters about this CROSS were found,
Or else it might been freed;
But I dare say, and safely swear,
It could neither write nor read.
Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
And so pull'd down by the RUMP.

The WHIGs they do affirm and say
To POPERY it was bent;
For what I know it might be so,
For to church it never went,
Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
And so pull'd down by the RUMP.

This cursed RUMP-REBELLIOUS CREW,
They were so damn'd hard-hearted;
They pass'd a vote that CHARING-CROSS
Should be taken down and carted:
Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
And so pull'd down by the RUMP.

Now, WHIGS, I would advise you all,
'Tis what I'd have you do;
For fear the King should come again,
Pray pull down TYBURN too.
Then fare thee well, old stump;
It was a thing set up by a King,
And so pull'd down by the RUMP.