A looking-glass for a bad husband: or, A caveat for a spend-thrift. You that are guilty of that sinful crime of drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time: lay up your money, do not it vainly spend; for in your greatest need, it will be your best friend. Endeavour in your youth, left in old age you want; for when the poverty doth come, friends will be scant. To the tune of, The poor man's comfort: or, Digby. / By T.L.

A looking-glass for a bad husband: or, A caveat for a spend-thrift. You that are guilty of that sinful crime of drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time: lay up your money, do not it vainly spend; for in your greatest need, it will be your best friend. Endeavour in your youth, left in old age you want; for when the poverty doth come, friends will be scant. To the tune of, The poor man's comfort: or, Digby. / By T.L.

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A Looking-Glass for a Bad Husband: Or, A Caveat for a Spend-thrist.

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A Looking-Glass for a Bad Husband: Or, A Caveat for a Spend-thrist.

You that are guilty of that sinful Crime

Of Drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time:

Lay up your Money, do not it vainly spend;

For in your greatest need, it will be your, best Friend.

Endeavour in your Youth, lest in old Age you want;

For when that Poverty doth come, Friends will be scant.

By T. L.

To the Tune of, The, Poor Man's Comfort: Or, Digby.

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YOu that are bad Husbands

I pray you draw near,

Good Counsel here's for you,

If you will give ear:

Then observe it rightly,

and bear it in mind,

A great deal of Benefit

in it you'l find.

Here you may learn how

to live gallant and brave,

If you will endeavour

for to get and save.

Then take care how in idle

your mony you spend,

For in time of need

it will be your best Friend.

You see that the times

are very hard grown,

Trading it is dead both

in Country and Town:

If a Man he han't where withal

him to maintain,

To make his complaint

it is all but in vain.

For money is scarce,

and Charity's cold:

Then save some-thing in youth

against you are old,

Then take care, &c.

Now you that intend

good Husbands to be,

Observe well this Rule

in every degree:

If you do get money

don't spend it in wast,

For when it is gone,

you will want it last.

To be careful and loving,

you must always strive,

O that is the right ready

way for to thrive,

Then take care how in wast

thou dost thy money spend,

For in time of need

it will be thy best Friend.

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FIrst at thy imployment

and work be not slack.

To get Food for the Belly,

and Cloaths for the Back.

When then thou half got money,

don't spend it in vain:

But keep it and save it,

thy Charge to maintain.

Take care and refrain

from all bad company:

For that is the high way

unto Poverty.

Then take care how in wast

thou dost thy mony spend,

For in time of need

it will be thy best Friend.

Refrain from the Ale-house,

and dont it frequent:

To be thrifty and careful

let thy mind be bent.

But if thou dost chance

with a Friend for to méet,

With a Flaggon or two

thou then maist him greet:

And when thou hast done,

then to work again fall:

Some thing hath some favour,

though it be but small.

Then take, &c.

If that thou art blest

with a good careful Wife,

Be loving unto her

all dayes of thy Life.

If she gives thee good counsel,

do not it refrain,

Thoult find at the last

it will be for thy gain.

Shun the company of Harlots,

for they'l thee betray,

And bring both thy Body

and Soul to decay.

Then take &c.

Also unto Gameing

do not thy self use,

To hazard thy money,

in danger to lose.

For many by gaming

confounds their Estate,

And then they repent it,

when it is too late.

Such idle course besure

always defye,

Endeavour for to follow

good Husbandry.

Then take &c.

But some there be that

will at an Ale-house sit,

And waste away credit,

doth money and wit:

Vntil they have spent all,

they will nere quiet rest,

But makes themselves

worser then is any Beast.

So they can have their

fill of strong drink, they don't care

Tho she belly and back

do go empty and bare.

Then take &c.

I heard of a Prodigal

swaggering young Heir,

Who spent six hundred pound

in less than two year:

He capor d and vapor'd,

and took his delight;

He ranted in Taverns

both day and night:

But when all his Gold

it was wasted and gone,

O then he was slighted

by every one.

Then take &c.

And thus you may see

that bad Husbandry

Will bring a Man at last

unto beggary.

For those that are Spend-thrifts,

alwayes thred-bare be,

VVith their cloaths all torn,

a sad fight for to see:

But those that are careful

their mony to save,

They doth maintain their

Family gallant and brave.

Then take &c.

To conclude, I advise

all good Fellows that are

In time, of the main chance

for to have a care.

Take heed, and be saving

of that which thou haft,

It is not good in plenty

for to make waste.

Remember this Proverb,

and bear it in mind,

VVhen Poverty comes,

Friendship is hard to find.

Then take care how in wast

thou dost thy money spend,

For in time of need

it will be thy best Friend.

FINIS.

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London, Printed for VV. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and VV. VVhitwood.

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A looking-glass for a bad husband: or, A caveat for a spend-thrift. You that are guilty of that sinful crime of drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time: lay up your money, do not it vainly spend; for in your greatest need, it will be your best friend. Endeavour in your youth, left in old age you want; for when the poverty doth come, friends will be scant. To the tune of, The poor man's comfort: or, Digby. / By T.L.

Lanfiere, Thomas.

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Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[157]

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181906

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— A looking-glass for a bad husband: or, A caveat for a spend-thrift. You that are guilty of that sinful crime of drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time: lay up your money, do not it vainly spend; for in your greatest need, it will be your best friend. Endeavour in your youth, left in old age you want; for when the poverty doth come, friends will be scant. To the tune of, The poor man's comfort: or, Digby. / By T.L., Lanfiere, Thomas..

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Printed for VV[illiam]. Thackeray, T[homas]. Passenger, and VV[illiam]. VVhitwood.,. London, :: [between 1670-1677]. (Verse: "You that are bad husbands ...") (Date, place of publication and publisher's names from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.) (Attributed to Thomas Lanfiere.) (Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library.)

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