The Siluer age, or, The VVorld turned backward to a pleasant new court tune.

The Siluer age, or, The VVorld turned backward to a pleasant new court tune.

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The siluer Age, or, The VVorld turned backward. To a pleasant new Court tune.

The second part. To the same tune.

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The siluer Age, or, The VVorld turned backward. To a pleasant new Court tune.

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MY Lady Pecunia

is a faire creature,

All cloathed in siluer,

according to nature:

She flieth most fréely,

none doth await her,

To wash off her pinions

by counterfeit water.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a changing age.

The Lord and the Lady,

the Begger the Knight,

For Lady Pecunia

cares not a Doi [...]:

Redeemed from prison,

she taketh delight,

To goe to the Prodigall

spender aright.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a wasting age.

Our lusty braue gallants

now walkes among clownes

With their full pockets

well stored with crownes,

To giue to poore people

the rents of their grounds,

Where almes of brasse forthings

are changed to pounds.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a bountifull age.

The Merchant refuseth

is gaine by aduenture,

The Citizen leaueth

to lend by Indenture.

Young gallants grow carelesse

their titles to enter,

But put their whole liuings

to'th stretch of the tenter.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a liberall age.

Rich mizers haue turned

their gold to good cheare,

And bids the poore begger

most kindly draw nears:

And with the fat gluttons,

they spend away sheere,

What greedinesse gained

by fraud in ten yeares.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a spending age.

He that hath riches

lockt vp in his chest▪

With too man [...] crosses

himselfe he hath brest.

To raise vp the diuell,

His mind to molest,

But coniur'd by conscience,

in quiet doth r [...]st.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a mending age.

Young women grow weary

of walking the street,

They scarce in a Tauerne,

will set in their feet,

Their husbands they feare not,

with whom they doe meet,

And like to good Angels

they neuer doe fleet,

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a vertuous age.

The bawd and the pander

are turned to grace,

And for a full pocket

they hold it but base.

A wench that is painted,

comes not into place,

For feare lest the beadle

her shoulders vncase.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this an honest age.

The Tapster still liuing

by foame and by froth,

The [...]oc [...]er that eateth

most like to the moath,

Are no [...] turned honest

and vertuous both:

One penny ill gotten

to take they are loath

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is an honest age.

The second part. To the same tune.

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CArmen and Porters

are now no more dogged,

Nor the old watermen

rough and so hogged,

The Thames lately frozen,

with w [...]nt haue them clogged

Now money comes trouling,

for which they haue iogged.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a bettered age.

Baylifes and Serieants

all pittifull be,

And to the poore debtors

lends money most free.

And wait in the Tauerne,

vntill they agree,

Not taking one penny

in lieu of their fee.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a fauourable age.

The honest true Hostler

repenting his sins,

Now careth for money,

no more then for pine,

The size of his prouander

iustly begins,

As bring Lady conscience

[...]o [...]ll ou [...] good Innes.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a m [...]nding age.

Old frau [...] and false [...]eal [...]ng

[...] changed their [...]tty,

At Aldermans houses

for Porter stands pitty:

With gentle charity,

smiling most pretty,

To giue to poore people,

the loue of the City.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a mercifull age.

The wise and the husband,

vnquiet before:

To win the old bréeches,

will quarrell no more:

For feare of the Begger

that stands at the doore.

For quiet true concord,

brings plentifull store.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a friendly age.

Now Lady Pecunia,

growes out of regard,

and turn'd from the Chamber,

into the cold yard:

And from all true good men,

she well may be spar'd,

When such an age changed,

yet neuer was heard.

Oh this is a siluer age,

Oh this is a wondring age.

FINIS.

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Printed at London by G. E.

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The Siluer age, or, The VVorld turned backward to a pleasant new court tune.

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1623

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A09404

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STC 197.3

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23199683

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26383

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— The Siluer age, or, The VVorld turned backward to a pleasant new court tune.,

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[2] p. : ill.

By G.E.,. Printed at London :: [ca. 1623]. (In double columns.) (In two parts.) (Imprint taken from colophon.) (Date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.).) (Without music.) (Reproduction of original in the Pepys Library.)

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