No money, no friend

No money, no friend

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No Money, no Friend.

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The Second Part,

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No Money, no Friend.

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The Spend-thrift he, when 'tis too late,

Laments his ſad and Wretched ſtate:

And all good Men he doth adviſe,

That they would Merry be, and wiſe.

The Tune is, All you that do do deſire to play

The Tune is, At Cards, to paſs the time away.

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All you that freely ſpend your Coyn,

Come learn by this advice of mine;

That you no more ſo play the Fool,

Nor Tipple in the Fuddling-School:

For when that you have ſpent your ſtore,

Your Hoſt will turn you out o'th door.

This by experience I do know,

Who too too lately found it ſo:

Five hundred pound was left to me,

Which I conſum'd immediately:

And when my Money was all gone,

I like an Aſs was lookt upon.

While I had Gold and Silver ſtore,

I thought the world did me adore:

For then each falſe diſſembling Curr,

Would try [...] your humble ſervant Sir:

But now my Money is all ſpent,

Too late, poor Fool, I do lament.

When I was in Proſperity,

Each Top-lath that I paſſed by:

Would cringe and bow, and ſwear to be

My Servant to Eternity:

But now alas, my Money's gone,

And Servants I have never a one.

But now if to their Houſe I go,

E're drink they draw, they'l ſurely know,

If that my Pocket it will ſpeak,

Which is enongh my heart ſo break:

If not, then he who was my friend,

Out of the door ſoon will me ſend.

Oh what a dreadful thing is this,

That I of all my Servants miſs:

And thoſe who did me oft invite,

To drink with them, now do me ſlight:

But if again I Money get,

I ſurely then ſhall have more w [...]t.

The Second Part,

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to the ſame Tune.

Yet is not ſpending all the Crime,

For idly then I ſpent my time,

And rather then Companions lack,

I'de pick up every Idle Jack:

And he that would me Maſter call,

Should me command, my Purſe and all.

The Hoſtis ſhe would flatter then,

And ſay I was a pritty Man:

And this ſo tickled then mine ear,

That I my praiſe ſo oft did hear:

Come hang't ſaid I, giv's 'tather Pot,

And thus I feaſted every Sot.

At laſt I had no Money left,

And then was I of joys bereft:

My Hoſt and Hoſtis they did frown,

And ſaid I was a Drunken Clown:

So then was I diſpis'd by all,

That me before did Maſter call.

From ſtreet to ſtreet as I did paſs,

Folks cry'd, there goes a Drunken Aſs,

Who not long ſince had Money ſtore,

But now no Creature is more poor:

For Pots and Pipes made him ſo low,

That like a Beggar he doth go.

Then who would pitty ſuch a one,

Who could not keep himſelf alone,

If Wife and Children he had had,

The caſe had then been far more ſad:

But he no pitty doth deſerve,

If for a bit of Bread he ſtarve.

This is the pitty I do find,

That when I had it was ſo kind,

To him that ſaid he was my friend,

I'de give him Wine, and money lend:

But now my ſelf I have undone,

My company all men do ſhun.

Let this my caſe a warning be,

That none may play the tool like me,

A greater plague there cannot be,

Then falling from Proſperity,

Into a ſtate ſo deadly low,

Your neareſt friends will not you know.

Account your Money as your Friend,

So ſhall you flouriſh to the end,

But when you come of friends to borrow,

It will but aggravate your ſorrow:

To ſee how they will ſlight you then,

And ſay you are the worſt of men.

Your Pot-Companions will you ſlight,

In whom they once did take delight:

And while your Money it doth laſt,

With Oaths they'l tye their friendſhip faſt

But when that you have waſted all,

Then from you will your Servants fall.

Such ſervants you may have good ſtore,

Who help to eat you out of Door:

And by their drinking in Ere [...]ſs,

Will help to make you Moneyleſs,

Then Young-men warning take by me,

That of my Money was too ſr [...].

This doth my Paſſion much provoke,

To think when I am like to Choake,

Thoſe that I heretofore did feaſt,

They will not mind me in the [...]:

Nor make me drink, who once were proud

To drink with me to be allow'd.

My Kindred and Relations near,

Who once did vow they lov'd me dear:

Will know me not, but me deſpiſe,

As loathſom to their ſcornful eyes:

For without Money there's no Friend,

And thus my Song [...] Woe doth End.

FINIS.

§

Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. VVright, J. Clarke, VV, Thackeray, and T. Paſſinger.

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No money, no friend

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1680

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