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He equates the song with Bolingbroke's On the Idea of a Patriot King (1738), also written for the private circle of Frederick, Prince of Wales, in which Bolingbroke had 'raised the spectre of permanent standing armies that might be turned against the British people rather than their enemies'. Īccording to Armitage 'Rule, Britannia' was the most lasting expression of the conception of Britain and the British Empire that emerged in the 1730s, 'predicated on a mixture of adulterated mercantilism, nationalistic anxiety and libertarian fervour'. Handel used the first phrase as part of the Act II soprano aria, 'Prophetic visions strike my eye', when the soprano sings it at the words 'War shall cease, welcome peace!' The song was seized upon by the Jacobites, who altered Thomson's words to a pro-Jacobite version. It quickly became so well known that Handel quoted it in his Occasional Oratorio in the following year. First heard in London in 1745, it achieved instant popularity. 'Rule, Britannia!' soon developed an independent life of its own, separate from the masque of which it had formed a part.

Some versions replace 'broad Atlantic' for 'deep Atlantic'. In this song, 'Married to a mermaid' is pronounced as 'marry-ed to a mer-may-ed', and 'captain' as 'cap-i-tain'. The chorus, from Rule, Britannia!, is sometimes performed as: A version written, composed and performed by Arthur Lloyd has the lyrics: īritons never, never, never shall be slaves. It is a traditional sailors' song and regularly performed by choirs, and its lyrics have many versions. Married to a Mermaid tells the story of a young man, in some versions a sailor or a farmer, who falls overboard from a ship and is married to a mermaid, and later rises from the sea and says goodbye to his comrades and messmates and his ship's captain. This became extremely popular when Mallet produced his masque Britannia at Drury Lane Theatre in 1755. In 1751 Mallet re-used the text of 'Rule, Britannia!', omitting three of the original six stanzas and adding three new ones by Lord Bolingbroke, to form the repeated chorus of a comic song 'Married to a Mermaid'. While thou shalt flourish great and free,īlest Isle! With matchless beauty crown'd,

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