A Merry life and a short, or, The VVay to bring a noble to nine-pence ... tune of The new corant ...

A Merry life and a short, or, The VVay to bring a noble to nine-pence ... tune of The new corant ...

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A Merry Life and a Short: Or, The VVay to bring a Noble to Nine-Pence.

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A Merry Life and a Short: Or, The VVay to bring a Noble to Nine-Pence.

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By this Example you may learn to ſhun

Expences vain, which many bath undone:

A Hawk, a Hound, and alſo change of Whores,

Will turn a rich man quickly out of doo [...]s,

Tune of the new Corant, now [...]l in uſe.

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THe VVorld it goes merrily round

now I have time for to reckon my gains,

I once had ten hundred pound,

& now I have nothing but 9 pence remains:

I thought it would never be day,

my money in my Pocket did burn,

But now it is melted away,

and o [...]re a new leaf I muſt turn.

To tell you what haſt I did make,

thinking my gold it would never have end,

I prodigal courſes did take.

[...]

My ſilver I loſt it like hay,

for I had no need for to borrow,

I would have my humour to day,

and I never took care for to morrow.

I bought me a Hawk and a Hound,

and a good Gelding to gallop along,

I hunted within my own ground,

and thus I followed my pleaſure ding dong

I got whatſoever I thought,

at all might my ſences delight,

Believe me I wanted for nothing,

but a Lady to lye with all night.

I ranged the City about,

of all the beauties to take a full view,

And many a fine girl I found out,

every day changing an old for a new,

I then was ſo wanton and wild,

and given ſo much to the game,

Although I got twenty with child,

I yet acknowledged the ſame.

VVhen I met with a wench that was fair,

then I would lay her down flat as a cake,

Her humour I pleas [...]d to a hair,

& Gloves & Ribbons I bought for her ſake.

I tumbled her over and over,

and call'd for a glaſs of good ſack,

And after I ſaw I could love her,

I gave[?] her what e're ſhe did lack.

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THere was ſcarce a girl in the town,

but ſhe was willing my love to imbrace

Becauſe I was prodigal grown,

and never valued for coſt in the caſe.

Rich Dinners I oft did provide,

my Ladies of Pleaſure to feaſt,

Then afterwards up and go ride,

for the ſecond courſe ſtill I would faſt.

There's dainty fine ſimpering Sue,

lives at a houſe of reſort in the ſtrand,

And if I ſhould give her her due,

a better never ingag'd with a man.

There's Moll at the maypole as good,

and Grace in the heart of the City,

And Nan at the Man in the wood,

all are Girls that are wondrous pretty.

Beſides many more I could name,

girls that are uſed to play in the dark,

Dame Venus hath taught them the game,

& ever ſince they will mount like a lark.

On ſuch I my money would waſt,

to charm all their ſences aſleep,

The pleaſures of Love I would taſt,

though I pumpt my purſe never ſo deep.

One morning as I did go out,

I heard a Lady moſt ſweetly did play,

And caſting my eye all about,

I ſaw the window wherein her lute lay.

Then up to her chamber in haſt,

I came for to bid her good morrow,

And lovingly then we imbrac'd,

but it afterward prov [...]d to my ſorrow.

Although in Dame Ve [...]u [...] ſweet wars,

I a bold VVarriour often had been,

I ſtill did eſcape without ſcars,

for ſuch hot ſervice I never had ſeen.

A pox take her trade for a whore,

Old Nick take her craft ſo to move me,

To leave her I had not the power,

when I heard her cry love me, O love me.

I wiſh I had been in the ſtocks,

when I did gaze on her powder and paint,

She ſent me away with a pox,

and prov [...]d a devil more like then a ſaint.

And t [...]us from the beſt to the [...]orſt,

I danced my Sellingers round,

But I may remember the laſt,

for it coſt me no leſs then ten pound.

And thus I have taken my ſwing

till my money was waſted and gone,

A Noble to Nine-pence to bring,

that you do ſee may be eaſily done:

But if that you follow my ways,

you never will thank me for't,

For t [...]o many do now a days,

live a merry life and a ſhort.

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Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-ball, neer the Hoſpital-Gate in Weſtſmit [...]-field.

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A Merry life and a short, or, The VVay to bring a noble to nine-pence ... tune of The new corant ...

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— A Merry life and a short, or, The VVay to bring a noble to nine-pence ... tune of The new corant ...,

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Printed for P. Brooksby ...,. [London] :: [between 1672 and 1696]. (Date of publication suggested by Wing.) (Imperfect: creased, stained and torn, with loss of text.) (Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.)

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