A pleasant new Song, Of the backes complaint, for bellies wrong: Or a farwell to good fellowship.
To the tune of A, B, C.
GOod fellowes all to you I send,
These verses which in loue I pend:
Desiring you will compasse keepe,
and bid farwell good fellowship.
I once did beare a good fellowes name,
And still am counted for the same:
But now my vow is ingaged deepe,
to bid farwell good fellowship.
I haue beene of that [...]ett so long,
Till b [...]ke complaines of bellies wrong:
With great exclaimes in euery street,
to make me leaue good fellowship.
Me thinkes I oft doe heare it say,
Mongst drunkards thou consumed away:
Thy [...] [...]emory and witt,
all wasted by good [...]el [...]ship.
Of me thou takest but li [...]le care,
Though b [...]lies and yet backe is bare:
And [...] winter will thee [...],
vnles thou leaue good fellowship.
Thou thinkest good fellowes be thy friends
And what thou ha [...]t [...] them thou spends:
What [...] worke gainst all y• weeke,
comsumeth by good fellowship.
But when that all thy money is gone,
And score nor credit thou hast none:
These friends from thee away will slipe,
and farewe [...]l all good fellowship.
When being gon, at thée they'l laugh,
Tis bad to trust a broaken staffe:
For feare thou fall in danger deepe,
giue ouer in time good fellowship,
For dayly doth attend the same,
Too sisters, call'd begery, and shame:
Whose hands & hearts full fast are knit,
and ioyned to good fellowship.
Besides deseases that doth flow,
From drunkennes as many know:
Who be their smart, haue felt the whipe
that followeth good fellowship.
Surfetes, dropsies, and diuers paines,
Ach of the head, b [...]each of the braines:
Like festred [...]i [...]oile, foule and déepe,
attendeth on good [...]e [...]lowship.
Ten thousand misseries alacke,
Fail [...]s both on bodie and on backe:
As ancient writters, large haue write,
to warne vs from good fellowship.
The second part, wherein is declared, The backes complaint, hath the bellie reformed: To bid farwell good fellowship. To the same tune.
THis sad complaint when I did heare
Uewing my back, I see it was beare▪
And cheifest cause I knew of it,
was kéeping of good fellowship.
Being much moued at the same,
A solemne oath then did I frame:
This hainious wrong, for to aquite,
to bid farwell good fellowship.
And therefore here I bid farwell,
To that which once I lou'd to well:
Henceforth I will in compasse keepe,
therefore farwell good fellowship.
Farwell all such as take delight,
To drinke and go [...]sell day and night:
Their sole sicke healths, & healthles whiff
and causes the [...]a [...]e good fellowship.
Farwell all such that dayly vse,
Themselues and others to abuse:
I [...] using all that they do [...]eete,
with them to keepe good fellowship.
Farwell all such that well are knowne,
To haue a charge to keepe at ho [...]e:
As wife, and child, yet from them flitt
and fly out to good fellowship.
Farwell good fellowes more and lesse,
No tongue is able to expresse,
The wofull wants that dayly hitte,
on them that kéepe good fellowship.
Some that were famous throw all parts,
For workmanship and skill in Arts:
Hath beggery cought vpon the hippe,
for kéeping of good fellowship.
So [...]e that haue had possessions store,
Lands, goods, and cattell, few had more:
But lands, & goods, oxe, horse, and sheepe,
were wasted by good fellowship.
Many examples are dayly séene.
Of such that haue good fellowes beene,
Bacchus braue souldiers, stout and stiffe,
which now lament good fellowship.
And to conclud the sin is such,
The wise man sayes, none shall be ritch
Except he shun that bitter sweete,
which drunkards call, good fellowship.
Then learne this vice for to refraine,
The onely cause of griefe and paine:
Least yee like me in sorrow sit,
lamenting of good fellowship.
Per me Edward Cuker.
FINIS.
Printed at London by W. I.