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<HEAD>TOBIA'S ADVICE, Or, A Remedy for a ranting Young-Man.</HEAD>
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<L>VVhile you are &s;ingle you take but little care,</L>
<L>Therefore I &s;ay better you married were,</L>
<L>Perhaps there's &s;ome at this will make a Je&s;t,</L>
<L>But <HI>I</HI> &s;ay &s;till a married Life is be&s;t.</L>
<L>Therefore young-men take this Advice of me</L>
<L>Better take one than run to two or three.</L>
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<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>Daniel Cooper.</HI></OPENER>
<BYLINE>By Tobias Bowne.</BYLINE>
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<LG>
<L>ON <HI>May</HI> morning as I walkt forth,</L>
<L>I to my &s;elf was mu&s;ing;</L>
<L>Though<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> I what a fool am I intruth</L>
<L>that I &s;o long am chu&s;ing,</L>
<L>For Maids enough are to be had,</L>
<L>I to my &s;elf was thinking,</L>
<L>Sure I will have one good or bad,</L>
<L>to keep me out of drinking.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Yet &s;ome there be have &s;aid to me,</L>
<L>a &s;ingle life is gallant;</L>
<L>But where is he that I can &s;ee</L>
<L>that lays up any Talant?</L>
<L>They'l &s;ay we'l live &s;o all our life,</L>
<L>for marriage we'l prevent it;</L>
<L>But where is he without a wife</L>
<L>that can live well contented.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For marriage is a thing ordain'd</L>
<L>and what man can deny it?</L>
<L>If my true-love doth con&s;tant prove,</L>
<L>I am re&s;olv'd to try it:</L>
<L>He that doth live a &s;ingle life,</L>
<L>I count a &s;imple action,</L>
<L>But if you get a loving Wife,</L>
<L>that will be &s;atisfaction.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I pray ob&s;erve what I do &s;peak,</L>
<L>you'l &s;ay the&s;e lines are witty;</L>
<L>How many hearts you cau&s;e to break</L>
<L>in Country, Town and City,</L>
<L>And then you think to ca&s;t it off,</L>
<L>and turns it to a laughter;</L>
<L>You think that you do well enough,</L>
<L>but pray mark what comes after.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>When I was young I did the like,</L>
<L>then I was brisk and bonny;</L>
<L>Sometimes walk abroad all night,</L>
<L>and &s;o &s;pent all my money,</L>
<L>But now I &s;ee it's vanity,</L>
<L>i'le &s;trive for to prevent it,</L>
<L>I'le go no more to &s;eek a Whore,</L>
<L>I'm with my wife contented.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All you &s;tand by I ask you why</L>
<L>that Marriage &s;hould be &s;lighted;</L>
<L>Sure you may &s;ay as well as I</L>
<L>youngmen are over-&s;ighted:</L>
<L>But here you run and there you run,</L>
<L>and count your &s;elves brave fellows,</L>
<L>But if that One you had at home,</L>
<L>&s;he'd keep you from the Alehou&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A youngman &s;aid that he would wed</L>
<L>but he aim'd at promotion;</L>
<L>He fain would have a wife in Bed,</L>
<L>but not without a portion:</L>
<L>I call'd him fool unto his face,</L>
<L>I did not like his &s;peeches;</L>
<L>Said I, take thou a virtuous La&s;s,</L>
<L>&s;he's better far than Riches.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If once you get a loving mate,</L>
<L>and you abroad are ranting,</L>
<L>You'l think why &s;hall I &s;tay out late,</L>
<L>my wife &s;he finds me wanting;</L>
<L>I will ha&s;te home unto my choice,</L>
<L>&s;he &s;hall not for me tarry:</L>
<L>And if you will take my advice,</L>
<L>I think it good to marry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then you may live happily</L>
<L>be but a little thrifty;</L>
<L>Sure if you &s;pend your time away</L>
<L>till you do mount to fifty,</L>
<L>And then a wife you chance to have,</L>
<L>you may become a Father;</L>
<L>You'l &s;ay what money might I have &s;av'd,</L>
<L>had I been married rather.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o I bid you all adieu,</L>
<L>I hope you don't deny me,</L>
<L>I do not &s;peak to you or you,</L>
<L>but all that &s;tand here by me,</L>
<L>It's but a penny once your life,</L>
<L>the Ballad's ready for ye;</L>
<L>And &s;o I wi&s;h you a good wife</L>
<L>when that you chance to marry.</L>
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