To a pleasant new tune call'd A pot of good ale 1696 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B06094 Wing T1317G ESTC R185085 53299316 ocm 53299316 180043

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06094) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180043) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2811:10) To a pleasant new tune call'd A pot of good ale [1] p. s.n., [London : 1696?] Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland.

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Taxation -- Great Britain -- Humor -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To a Pleaſant New TUNE CALL'D A Pot of Good Ale. GOOD people, what! will you of all be bereft? Will you never Learn Wit, whil'ſt a penny's left? W'are all like the Dog in the Fable betray'd; To let go the Subſtance, and ſnap at th' Shade. Theſe Specious Pretences, And Foreign Expences. • o war for Religion will waſt all our Chink: It's Snipt, and it's Clipt; And it's Spent, and it's Lent, 'Till it's gone; 'till it's gone, to th' Devil, I think. We pay for our New-born, and pay for our Dead: We pay if we are Single, and pay if we Wed, Which ſhews our unmerciful Senate don't fail, To begin with the Head, and Tax down to th' Tail. We pay through the Noſe. For Subjecting our Foes; Yet for all our Expences, get nothing but Blows. Abroad we are Defeated; At Home we are Cheated. And th' End on't, the End on t, The Lord above knows. We've parted with all our old Money, to ſhew Ho we fooliſhly hop'd, for a plenty of New, But might have remember'd when't comes to a Puſh A bird in the Hand, is worth two in the Buſh. We now like poor Wretches, Are kept Shut, under Hatches At • ack, and at Manger, like Beaſt in the Ark Since our Burgeſſes and Knights, Makes us pay for our Lights; Why ſhou'd we, Why ſhou'd we, be kept in the Dark. FINIS.