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James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.

April 11

The Protestants’ Joy

By Old Ballad

  • Coronation of William and Mary, April 11, 1689.


  • LET Protestants freely allow

    Their spirits a happy good cheer,

    The Eleventh of April now,

    Has proved the best day in the year:

    Brave boys let us merrily sing,

    Whilst smiling full bumpers go round,

    Here’s joyful good tidings I bring,

    King William and Mary is crowned.

    That power that blest the design,

    Afford them a prosperous reign,

    We ne’er shall have cause to repine,

    Our liberties they will maintain:

    Some villains that would us destroy,

    In strong iron fetters lie bound,

    Whilst we are transported with joy,

    That William and Mary is crowned.

    *****

    They’ll root out the relics of Rome,

    And make this a flourishing isle.

    And truth in its glory shall bloom,

    Which Romans did envy a while:

    The Mass and the Rosary too,

    Was all but a mere empty sound,

    The Papists look pitiful blue,

    Now William and Mary is crowned.

    But every Protestant soul,

    Was sensible of their relief,

    Therefore in a full flowing bowl,

    They drown all the relics of grief:

    And drink their good Majesties’ health,

    With reverend knees to the ground,

    And wishing them honour and wealth

    Who is with a diadem crowned.

    We’ll tender our lives at his feet,

    Who stood for the Protestant cause,

    And made the proud Romans retreat,

    Defending religion and laws:

    We’ll conquer or fight till we die,

    To make our monarch renowned,

    Now thanks to Heaven on high,

    That William and Mary is crowned.