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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The We&s;t-Country MISER: OR, AN <HI>Uncon&s;cionable Farmer's Mi&s;erable End:</HI></HEAD>
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<P><HI>Who having Hoarded up his Corn in hopes it would ri&s;e to a higher Price, was Di&s;appointed &s;o that he fell into De&s;pair, and Died at la&s;t by the fright of an Apparition.</HI></P>
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<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>Love's a &s;weet pa&s;&s;ion:</HI>or,<HI>Fond Boy,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
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<L>Let a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">l loving people be pleas'd to atte<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</L>
<L>To a woful relation &s;ent up by a friend,</L>
<L>Of a co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">pl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> of farmers who happen'd of late,</L>
<L>To di&s;co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e as the met at the pari&s;h church gate:</L>
<L>Now the one was a mi&s;er who hoarded hi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>And he other was loving and good to the poo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
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<L>The m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;er he &s;eem'd to be troubl'd in mind,</L>
<L>For his heart was to cruel oppre&s;&s;ion enc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">'d,</L>
<L>Though he came from a &s;ermon, yet neverthele&s;s,</L>
<L>In a pa&s;&s;ion th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e words he began to expre&s;s:</L>
<L>Now the price is abated of all &s;orts of grain,</L>
<L>But I'll never &s;ell mine till they rai&s;e it again.</L>
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<L>O neighbour! How can you thus murmu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ing &s;tand,</L>
<L>When the Lord by a gracious and plentiful hand,</L>
<L>Has been pleas'd to rep<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">eni&s;h our barns again,</L>
<L>The<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">fore <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ure we have no<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> any <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">au&s;e to complain:</L>
<L>I re<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">oyc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1+ letters">n a p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">enty, for la&s;t year I know</L>
<L>That t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e poor they with hungery bellies did go.</L>
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<L>The mi&s;er reply'd with a fury &s;o hot,</L>
<L>Frien<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">, a fi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the poor, faith, I value them not,</L>
<L>A good <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ce I am willing to make of my corn.</L>
<L>But I <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">r was &s;o bauk'd &s;ince the day I was born;</L>
<L>About two hundred pound I &s;hall loo&s;e now I fear,</L>
<L>By the wheat which I might have &s;old off the la&s;t ye<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">r.</L>
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<L>The other &s;aid, Neighbour, you have your d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ert,</L>
<L>You can blame none alive but your covetuous heart,</L>
<L>For you reckon to &s;ell it for twice as much more,</L>
<L>And for that very rea&s;on you keep up your &s;tore;</L>
<L>Since you had &s;uch a cruel and covetous mind,</L>
<L>I declare of a truth you were &s;erv'd in your kind.</L>
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<L>The mi&s;er cry'd, When I lye down in my bed,</L>
<L>I have nothing but troubles and cares in my head;</L>
<L>O, this plentiful &s;ummer my purpo&s;e did cro&s;s,</L>
<L>I am almo&s;t di&s;tracted to think of my lo&s;s:</L>
<L>But I'll keep it as long as my ba<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ns will hold,</L>
<L>E'er at &s;uch a low ma<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ket my corn &s;hall be &s;old.</L>
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<L>O cruel oppre&s;&s;or, the other reply'd,</L>
<L>The &s;w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">et ble&s;&s;ings of God then it &s;eems you will hide,</L>
<L>Which he &s;ends for to nouri&s;h the race of mankind,</L>
<L>In your barns fo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> profit it mu&s;t be confin'd;</L>
<L>Sure the name of a chri&s;tian you do not de&s;erve,</L>
<L>Who de&s;ires to &s;ee your poor brethren &s;tarve.</L>
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<L>If God had no greater compa&s;&s;ion then you,</L>
<L>Neighbour, what would this land of poor &s;ufferers do?</L>
<L>In the tilling our ground we might labour and &s;trive,</L>
<L>Ay, a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">d yet not have bread for to keep us alive;</L>
<L>O <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ut ble&s;&s;ed be God in the heaven's above,</L>
<L>He has &s;ent us down &s;howers of his infinite love.</L>
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<L>They parted and home the old mi&s;er repair'd,</L>
<L>As he enter'd the yard he was wofully &s;car'd,</L>
<L>There the Devil with &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ver and gold did appear,</L>
<L>For to bye al<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> his corn that was left the la&s;t year:</L>
<L>And no &s;ooner the mi&s;er had &s;et him a price,</L>
<L>But this &s;trange apparition was gone in a trice.</L>
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<L>He run in and told them what he had beheld,</L>
<L>Being frighted they were with a&s;toni&s;hment fill'd;</L>
<L>All the ni<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ht i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> his bed he ravi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">g did lye,</L>
<L>L<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">t <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;ell off my co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n, I'll not keep it not I:</L>
<L>To the gri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">f of his fri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">nds thus h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> langui&s;hing lay,</L>
<L>And he dy'd about five of the clock the next day.</L>
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<L>Now let not our thoughts after vanities range,</L>
<L>For this was a &s;ad &s;udden and &s;orrowful change,</L>
<L>On the wealth of the world he had &s;et his whole heart,</L>
<L>Yet from that he was forced with &s;orrow to part:</L>
<L>Now let his fatal end be a warning to all,</L>
<L>Who in dealing makes not any con&s;cience at all.</L>
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<P>London: <HI>Printed for</HI> J. Wolrah, <HI>in</HI> Holbourn.</P>
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