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<DATE>2007-12-07</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B071112.tech.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>THE
Extravagant Spend-thrift,
OR,
<HI>Wit Dearly Bought.</HI></HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>For what he &s;pent he did repent,</L>
<L>when he beheld his grief,</L>
<L>To end the &s;trife, his loving wife,</L>
<L>afforded him relief.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To an Excellent new Tune,</OPENER>
<P><TEXT>
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<DIV1 TYPE="license">
<P>This may be Printed</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>ATtend a while and I will declare,</L>
<L>what did occa&s;ion my woful fail,</L>
<L>And you that hear me, I pray beware,</L>
<L>let me a warning be to you all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Wife I marry d who loved me,</L>
<L>as &s;weet a woman as e're had man,</L>
<L>was I brought her to mi&s;ery.</L>
<L>For I to ruin did then run an.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I haunted Caverns both day and night,</L>
<L>I made my Gold and my Silver flye:</L>
<L>And tho&s;e in whom I did take delight,</L>
<L>in time of need they did me deny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With Harlots daily I led my life,</L>
<L>while I had Money they took my part</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e &s;et me again&s;t my wife,</L>
<L>when there was never no due de&s;art.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My aged Father and Mother mild,</L>
<L>intreated me that I would refrain</L>
<L>Such company, but I &s;till revil'd,</L>
<L>for I did in di&s;obedience fell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My wife her Portion I clearly &s;pent,</L>
<L>I pawn'd her Kings and I &s;old her clo&s;e</L>
<L>I &s;hipt my &s;elf then to Sea I went,</L>
<L>For my chiefe&s;t friends I made my foes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THen while our ve&s;&s;el was under &s;ail,</L>
<L>a &s;torm and tempe&s;t did &s;oon ari&s;e,</L>
<L>We had no hopes of a plea&s;ant Gail,</L>
<L>and nothing &s;een but waves and Skies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alas we had little hope at all,</L>
<L>our &s;hip &s;he ran foul upon the &s;and,</L>
<L>And there was &s;taved in pieces &s;mall,</L>
<L>when we were many leagues from land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>&V;pon our rack then we did contrive,</L>
<L>to &s;ave our lives then if it might be,</L>
<L>And I was one that did &s;oon arive,</L>
<L>where I came a &s;hore at <HI>Barbury.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then I beholding my&s;elf forlorn,</L>
<L>&s;o weak and feeble I could not &s;tand</L>
<L>Almo&s;t as naked as I was born,</L>
<L>quite &s;uccourle&s;s in a forreign Land,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I got my pa&s;&s;age in a &s;hort while,</L>
<L>of one that freely gave it me,</L>
<L>Thus I arrived to my native I&s;le,</L>
<L>but I was as poor as poor might be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then to my Harlot I took my way,</L>
<L>on whom I had freely &s;pent my Tol<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>But when &s;he &s;ee me in poor array.</L>
<L>&s;he did not know me, her love was co<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She would not grent me the lea&s;t relief ,</L>
<L>though I with her h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d went <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">e&punc;,</L>
<L>My heart was ready to break with grief,</L>
<L>for &s;he kickt me and &s;hov'd me out of door</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then I was in a mo&s;t di&s;mal ca&s;e,</L>
<L>of my old Father I made a proof,</L>
<L>But he would not let me &s;ee his face,</L>
<L>no nor once come underneath his roof.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What cour&s;e to take then I did not know,</L>
<L>my former friends has for&s;ook me quite,</L>
<L>Then to my Wife I re&s;olv'd to go,</L>
<L>and though I was in a woful plight,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;he beheld my calamity,</L>
<L>&s;he was not able for to &s;uffice,</L>
<L>Her very bowels did earn for me,</L>
<L>the tears did trickle down from her eyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How I was &s;lighted I made appear,</L>
<L>laid &s;he my &s;ave then he rul'd by me,</L>
<L>Though all the world &s;hould for&s;ake my dear</L>
<L>I will prove a con&s;tant wife to thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She then forgave me all that was pa&s;t,</L>
<L>and Re&s;olving to work for more</L>
<L>And now as long as ever life &s;hall la&s;t,</L>
<L>my loving wife I will thee adore,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho&s;e men that have &s;uch vertuous wives,</L>
<L>let their affection now never cea&s;e,</L>
<L>There's none that lead more quiet lives,</L>
<L>then tho&s;e that live here in love &amp; Peace.</L>
</LG>
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<P>Printed for <HI>I&punc; Back,</HI> at the <HI>Black Boy,</HI> on <HI>London-Bridge.</HI></P>
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