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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD><HI>The GOOD-FELLOWS Re&s;olution: OR,</HI> The Bad Husbands Return from his Folly, <HI>Being a Caveat for all Spend-Thrifts to beware of the Main Chance.</HI></HEAD>
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<LG>
<L><HI>Here in this Ballad you may &s;ee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The vain ne&s;s bad Husbandry:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Good Advice here is to be found.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The which may &s;ave you many a Pound.</HI></L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER><BYLINE>By <HI>T. Lanfiere.</HI></BYLINE></OPENER>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>The Plow-Mans Honour made known.</HI></OPENER>
<P><HI>Drink t'other Bowl, I'le follow thee.</HI></P>
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<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI> Have been a bad Husband this full fifteen year,</L>
<L>And have &s;pent many pounds in good Ale, &amp; &s;trong beer</L>
<L>I have Ranted in Ale-hou&s;es day after day,</L>
<L>And wa&s;ted my time and my Money away:</L>
<L>But now i'le beware, and have a great care,</L>
<L>Left at the la&s;t Poverty falls to my &s;hare:</L>
<L><HI>For now I will lay up my Money in &s;tore,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And I never will play the bad Husband no more.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Too long I have lived in this idle cour&s;e,</L>
<L>In &s;pending my money, which hath made me the wor&s;e;</L>
<L>When as I had got Silver plentifully,</L>
<L>I did not regard how fa&s;t I let it flye:</L>
<L>For &s;ometimes I've spend, and &s;ometimes I've Lend,</L>
<L>But the longe&s;t day now I &s;ee mu&s;t have an end:</L>
<L><HI>For now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes in the Ale-hou&s;e a week I would &s;it,</L>
<L>If I with Good-fellows did chance for to meet;</L>
<L>Vntill all my Money was wasted and gone,</L>
<L>Then it was high time to turn out and go home:</L>
<L>My proud Ho&s;tis &s;he, would look &s;cornful on me,</L>
<L>And tell me &s;he did not love &s;uch Company:</L>
<L><HI>But now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Doll Cleanly</HI> that lives in the middle of the Town,</L>
<L>Hath fir&s;t and la&s;t of me had many a Crown;</L>
<L>If then I did come to her and bring &s;tore of Money,</L>
<L>And call apace for Drink, on me &s;he'd look bonny:</L>
<L>Both Early and Late a Boozing I have &s;at,</L>
<L>But my Ho&s;tis and I now is in great Debate:</L>
<L><HI>For now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Too much unto Gameing my &s;elf I would u&s;e,</L>
<L>There was no kind of Exerci&s;e I did Refu&s;e;</L>
<L>A Crown or an Angle I have lo&s;t on a day,</L>
<L>Which would have been better kept then thrown away:</L>
<L>Then Beer it was plenty, no Flaggons &s;tood empty,</L>
<L>Sometimes on the Board &s;tood full eighteen or twenty:</L>
<L><HI>But now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such idle cour&s;es I us'd always to take,</L>
<L>For little account of my Money I've make;</L>
<L>I would call for &s;trong tipple and make my heart merry,</L>
<L>But now of &s;uch actions truly I am weary:</L>
<L>Though thred-bare I went, with my cloaths torn &amp; rent</L>
<L>Yet I to the Ale-hou&s;e would always frequent:</L>
<L><HI>But now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Landladys they would &s;eem loving to be,</L>
<L>If that they &s;aw Money was plenty with me;</L>
<L>But if that I had none at all for to &s;how,</L>
<L>They would look coy on me, as if they did not me know</L>
<L>And if &s;o be that I was never &s;o dry,</L>
<L>To tru&s;t me a Flaggon &s;ome Whores would deny:</L>
<L><HI>But now I will lay up my Money in &s;tore,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And I will never play the bad Husband no more.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L><HI>I</HI> Went to an Ho&s;tis where I us'd to re&s;ort,</L>
<L>And I made her believe that money was &s;hort;</L>
<L>I aske her to tru&s;t me, but &s;he an&s;wered nay,</L>
<L>Enough of &s;uch Gue&s;ts I can have every day:</L>
<L>Then quoth &s;he, pray forbear there's no &s;taying here,</L>
<L>Except you have money you &s;hall have no Beer.</L>
<L><HI>But now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I pull'd out a handful of Money &s;traightway,</L>
<L>And &s;hew'd it unto her, to hear what &s;he'd &s;ay;</L>
<L>Quoth &s;he, you &s;hall have Beer and ale of the be&s;t,</L>
<L>You are kindly welcome, I did &s;peak but in je&s;t:</L>
<L>O no, no, &s;aid I, your words I defie.</L>
<L>I'le &s;ee you hang'd e're with you i'le &s;pend a penny:</L>
<L><HI>But now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus here you may &s;ee and ob&s;erve it full plain.</L>
<L>The Ale-wives and inn-keepers all are for gain;</L>
<L>If a man on them &s;pends all that e're he hath got,</L>
<L>He &s;hall have no thanks, but be counted a Sot:</L>
<L>To you they'l &s;eem kind, whil&s;t you can them Ca&s;h find,</L>
<L>But when you have &s;pent all they will change their mind</L>
<L><HI>But now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If I had but &s;av'd half the money I have &s;pent,</L>
<L>How it would rejoyce my heart with much content;</L>
<L>But &s;ince 'tis all gone, farewel unto it,</L>
<L>Henceforth I'm re&s;olved for to learn more wit:</L>
<L>My folly I &s;ee, in &s;pending &s;o free,</L>
<L>The Ale-wives no more my Pur&s;e-bearers &s;hall be:</L>
<L><HI>For now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then bad Husbands of the main chance have a care,</L>
<L>Left Poverty comes on you e're you are aware:</L>
<L>Take heed how idly your Money you &s;pend,</L>
<L>Make much of that little which God doth you lend.</L>
<L>Endeavour always your &s;tock for to rai&s;e,</L>
<L>Then of hone&s;t people you will have the prai&s;e:</L>
<L><HI>Strive for, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To conclude, take my coun&s;el do not it re&s;train,</L>
<L>You'l find it will be for your profit and gain,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t you are young and lu&s;ty &s;trive to get and &s;ave,</L>
<L>Then things nece&s;&s;ary in old age you'l have:</L>
<L>Be &s;ure do not wa&s;te, left you want at la&s;t,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that plays in Summer in Winter mu&s;t fa&s;t:</L>
<L><HI>Then learn for to lay up your money in &s;tore,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Re&s;olve for to play the bad Husband no more.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>Printed for <HI>F. Coles, T. Vero, J. Wright, J. Clarke. W. Thackeray, and T. Pa&s;&s;inger.</HI></HI></P>
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