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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Merry TOM of all Trades.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>Or,</HI> A trick to get Mony at every dead lift,</L>
<L>Made known by TOM of all trades that bravely could &s;hift.</L>
<L>From one place to another about he did range,</L>
<L>And at his own plea&s;ure his trade he could change.</L>
<L>The tune is, Behold the man&punc; &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L><FIGURE>
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<HI>MY name is</HI> Tom of all trades</L>
<L>theres many knows me well</L>
<L>But no man n&eacute;eds examine me,</L>
<L>to know where I do dwell,</L>
<L>For why my common cu&s;tome is</L>
<L>to ramble up and down</L>
<L>And I have left behind me&punc;</L>
<L>full many a gallant Town.</L>
<L><HI>Then hey for Tom of all trades</HI></L>
<L><HI>is all the peoples cry&punc;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Point their fingers at me.</HI></L>
<L><HI>as I am pa&s;&s;ing by.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I am a Taylor,</L>
<L>and work well as I can,</L>
<L>And if you'l take my own word for't</L>
<L>I am an hone&s;t man.</L>
<L>All tho&s;e that are my Cu&s;tomers</L>
<L>I u&s;e them all &s;o well</L>
<L>The third part of their cloth</L>
<L>I throw it in to hell,</L>
<L><HI>Yet hey, &amp;c,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I am a Glover</L>
<L>and make perfumed gloves,</L>
<L>Of every kind of Fa&s;hion</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
<L>All tho&s;e that do deal with me,</L>
<L>good peni worths &s;hall have,</L>
<L><HI>You know that</HI> Tom of all tradas,</L>
<L>doth &s;eldome play the knave.</L>
<L><HI>Yet hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I am a &s;hoemaker.</L>
<L>fine ware I make to &s;ell,</L>
<L>And I can fit a pretty wench</L>
<L>and plea&s;e her humours well.</L>
<L>But if in drawing on her &s;hooes</L>
<L>my hand &s;hould chance to &s;lip.</L>
<L>I &s;oon can make amendes again,</L>
<L>with &s;macking of her lips,</L>
<L><HI>But hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I am a Weaver</L>
<L>and let my &s;huttle flye.</L>
<L>But if the Ale-hou&s;e catch me,</L>
<L>then wo be to the pie.</L>
<L>And if I chance to l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">yter</L>
<L>but fiue dayes in the w&eacute;ek,</L>
<L>Tis ten to one on Sunday but</L>
<L>my dinner is to &s;&eacute;ek.</L>
<L><HI>Yet hey for Tom of all trades</HI></L>
<L><HI>is all the peoples cry.</HI></L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="4 words"> at me</HI></L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 line"></HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
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SOmetimes I am a Baker,</L>
<L>wherein is no deceit,</L>
<L>There's no man can accu&s;e me</L>
<L>for making too much weight:</L>
<L>But for my Lord Mayors Officers</L>
<L>I dare not come them nigh,</L>
<L>For fear that they &s;hould pul my head</L>
<L>into the Pillory.</L>
<L><HI>Then hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I am a M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ller,</L>
<L>my actions are &s;o ju&s;t,</L>
<L>I never cozen any one,</L>
<L>but them that doe me tru&s;t.</L>
<L>When I put in my Tole-di&s;h,</L>
<L>&s;o hone&s;tly I deale.</L>
<L>That out of one whole bu&s;hel of gri&s;t</L>
<L>I but a peck doe &s;teale.</L>
<L><HI>Yet hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I am a Black&s;mith,</L>
<L>and <HI>Uulcan</HI> is my name,</L>
<L>But if my wife doe horn me,</L>
<L>thers no man can her blame.</L>
<L>For if it be my Fortune</L>
<L>a Cuckold for to dye,</L>
<L>Theres others of my Neighbors may</L>
<L>doe &s;o as well as I.</L>
<L>Yet hey, &amp;c,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Brewers trade I practice,</L>
<L>&s;ometimes the re&s;t among,</L>
<L>And I can make my Ale and B&eacute;ere</L>
<L>both nappy &s;tout and &s;trong,</L>
<L>But like to o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">her Brewers</L>
<L>I order can the matter,</L>
<L>For if I put in too little Mault,</L>
<L>I put in the more water.</L>
<L><HI>Yet hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I am a Shavor.</L>
<L>and Barb well I can,</L>
<L>And I can trim a Woman</L>
<L>as well as any man,</L>
<L>My Razor and my Wa&s;hing-balls,</L>
<L>make me &s;o neat a Barber,</L>
<L>That I can cut the hair &s;o clo&s;e</L>
<L>a Lou&s;e can have no harbour,</L>
<L><HI>Yet hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes I k&eacute;ep an Ale-hou&s;e,</L>
<L>the be&s;t trade of them all.</L>
<L>For that will &s;urely &s;tand fa&s;t</L>
<L>when other Trades do fall.</L>
<L>I likewi&s;e k&eacute;ep two wenches brave,</L>
<L>that can both ki&s;&s;e and &s;pin,</L>
<L>And they wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">l wait on Gentlemen</L>
<L>and bring the profit in.</L>
<L><HI>Yet hey, &amp;c,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When all the&s;e Trades do fail me,</L>
<L>the truth of all is &s;o,</L>
<L><HI>Vnto</HI> Barbado<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="over-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">, Jamaica, or</L>
<L><HI>New-England</HI> will I goe.</L>
<L><HI>Or to</HI> High Spaniola,</L>
<L>among the Golden Ore,</L>
<L>For there is room enough for me</L>
<L>and forty thou&s;and more.</L>
<L><HI>Then hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
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