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This tune is referred to under the various names of Love lies bleeeding, Law lies bleeding, The Cyclops, The Sword, and The power, or The dominion, of the Sword.

In The Loyal Garland, fifth edition, 1686, is “The Dominion of the Sword: A Song made in the Rebellion.” Commencing—

It is also in Loyal Songs, i. 223, 1731 (there entitled “The power of the Sword”); in Merry Drollery complete, 1661 and 1670; in Pills to purge Melancholy, vi. 190; &c.

In the Bagford Collection, a song, “printed at the Hague, for S. Browne, 1659,” is named “Chips of the old Block; or Hercules cleansing the Augean Stable. To the tune of The Sword.” It commences—

Other copies of this will be found in King’s Pamphlets, vol. xvi.; in Rats rhymed to death, 1660; and in Loyal Songs, ii. 53.

“Love lies a bleeding; in imitation of Law lies a bleeding,” is contained in Merry Drollery complete, 1661 and 1670. There are also copies in ballad form in which the tune is entitled The Cyclops.

“A new Ignoramus: Being the second new song to the same old tune, Law lies a bleeding,” was printed by Charles Leigh in 1681, and included in Rome rhym’d to death, 8vo., 1683. It commences—

This is included in 180 Loyal Songs, 1685 and 1694, with several other political songs to the same tune. Among them, another “Ignoramus,” beginning—

The tune of Love lies bleeding is contained in every edition of The Dancing Master, from and after 1686; in 180 Loyal Songs, 1685 and 1694; in Walsh’s Dancing Master; in Pills to purge Melancholy; &c.

