As I was going by Charing Cross
The following is partly quoted in an old song in a MS. at Oxford, Ashmole, No. 36, fol. 113.
“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First;
Oh dear! my heart was ready to burst!”
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