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<DATE>2008-11-02</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<VID>181758</VID>
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<HEAD>THE bad Husband's Information of ill Husbandry; Or, <HI>He goes far that never turns.</HI></HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>SHEWING, How a Good-fellow &s;pent mo&s;t of his E&s;tate,</L>
<L>But did repent before it was too late:</L>
<L>Wi&s;hing all others to take warning by this,</L>
<L>And &s;trive in time to mend what is ami&s;s,</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Digby's Farewel:</HI> Or <HI>The Jovial Crew.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>YOu bonny boon blades that are company keepers,</L>
<L>Come hither and li&s;ten unto this my Song,</L>
<L>All you that &s;trong Liquor do love for to tipple,</L>
<L>'Tis unto you that the&s;e Ver&s;es belong:</L>
<L>'Tis known a bad Husband I have been all my life,</L>
<L>But now i'le be loving and kind to my Wife?</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Eor &s;urely I thought it would never be day.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Until I had brought my E&s;tate to decay.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have &s;pent all my trea&s;ure, and wa&s;ted my time;</L>
<L>In keeping of Company both night and day,</L>
<L>And my loving Wife &s;he would often come to me,</L>
<L>Saying <HI>Thomas</HI> come hither and here what I &s;ay:</L>
<L>But I ne'r regarded the words that &s;he told,</L>
<L>So long as my Money and Credit would hold:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For &s;urely I thought &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes to the Market I would go and &s;ell</L>
<L>A Quarter of Barley, or Wheat of the be&s;t,</L>
<L>And when that my pockets with money were fill'd,</L>
<L>My hart and my mind could take little re&s;t;</L>
<L>But unto the Ale-hou&s;e I &s;traight would away,</L>
<L>And there peradventure all night I would &s;tay:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For &s;urely I thought &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when that I unto my Ho&s;tis did come,</L>
<L>I would call for a Flaggon and a private room;</L>
<L>Then her daughter <HI>Katherine</HI> would wait me upon,</L>
<L>And in&s;tead of a Flaggon &s;he brings me a Gun:</L>
<L>My Ho&s;tis &s;he pre&s;ently &s;mil'd in my face,</L>
<L>For &s;he knew I would call for my Liquor apace;</L>
<L>I would pay for it roundly and down with my Ou&s;t,</L>
<L>For I found that my Landlady car'd not to tru&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>IN &s;inging and dancing was all my delight,</L>
<L>And there I would tarry from morning till night;</L>
<L>I would have the Mu&s;ick unto me to play,</L>
<L>And thus I did tipple my money away:</L>
<L>I &s;hould have a Girl to &s;it on my knee,</L>
<L>O &s;uch fooli&s;h fancies have beggered me:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For &s;urely &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But my Wife and Children I left them at home,</L>
<L>Still waiting and waiting when I did come,</L>
<L>To bring them provi&s;ion, or Cloaths to their back,</L>
<L>For I knew very well that &s;uch they did lack;</L>
<L>But though I did know it, I never took care,</L>
<L>Tho their bellies did pinch &amp; their backs did goe bare;</L>
<L>So I had but Liquor to fill up my skin,</L>
<L>I never regarded what ca&s;e they were in.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when that I late came home in the night.</L>
<L>With my wife and my children &s;traight would I fight</L>
<L>And as &s;oon as I put my feet in the door:</L>
<L>I &s;hould out with my pur&s;e and call my wife Whore;</L>
<L>At the&s;e urging &s;peeches &s;he would &s;it and cry,</L>
<L>The more &s;illy Ra&s;cal and Drunkard was I:</L>
<L>For to abu&s;e her that was my be&s;t friend,</L>
<L>But now I'm re&s;olved in time for to mend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For I &s;ee if a man do &s;pend all that he have,</L>
<L>At la&s;t they will count him but a drunken Knave;</L>
<L>They will point their fingers as he doth pa&s;s by,</L>
<L>Saying there goes a Drunkard, and &s;o he will dye;</L>
<L>Therefore all bad Husbands take warning by me,</L>
<L>Le&s;t that you do bring your &s;elves to poverty:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For &s;urely I thought, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For the other day as I pa&s;t up the Town,</L>
<L>I met with my Ho&s;tis in her &s;ilken Gown,</L>
<L>With the Knees of my breeches and elbows bur&s;t out</L>
<L>But &s;he was &s;o ready to give me a flout,</L>
<L>I could not get a Flagon of Beer at her hands,</L>
<L>Tho with her I had &s;pent my hou&s;e, goods &amp; lands:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>It made me to &s;igh and am ready to cry,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O what an ill Husband and Drunkrrd was I;</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if I had been rul'd by my Wife at the fir&s;t,</L>
<L>I might have had &s;ilver and gold in my Pur&s;e,</L>
<L>To maintain good hou&s;e-keeping, &amp; children at nur&s;e,</L>
<L>But I hope it will mend when it is at the wor&s;t;</L>
<L>I am re&s;olv'd now to lead a new life,</L>
<L>And ever be loving and kind to my Wife:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For it makes me to &s;igh and am ready to cry,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O what an ill Husband and Drunkard</HI> was <HI>I;</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now I am re&s;olv'd a new life to begin,</L>
<L>The Ale-wife &s;hall, card and her daughter &s;hall &s;pin,</L>
<L>Before I will be any more &s;uch a Mome,</L>
<L>I'le be a good Husband, and tarry at home;</L>
<L>'Tis not their fair &s;peeches that &s;hall me entice,</L>
<L>Nor bring me again into Fools Paradi&s;e:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For it makes me to &s;igh and am ready to cry,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O what an ill Husband and Drunkard was I&punc;</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Young-men and bad Husbands take warning by me,</L>
<L>Le&s;t that you do bring your &s;elves to poverty;</L>
<L>And in your expences pray be not to bold,</L>
<L>But lay up your Mony again&s;t you are old;</L>
<L>Be &s;ure do not &s;pend your Money in vain,</L>
<L>But keep it in your Pur&s;e your charge to maintain:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then you will not be forc'd to &s;igh and to cry,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O what an ill Husband and Drunkard was I.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="envoy">
<L>Concluding the&s;e Ver&s;es, which here I have pen'd,</L>
<L>I hope that no hone&s;t Man here I offend:</L>
<L>Then read them, and buy them, and bear them away,</L>
<L>And like to me do not wander a&s;tray;</L>
<L>The price is a Penny, and it is not dear,</L>
<L>For there's many a Penny &s;pent wor&s;e in the year;</L>
<L>And if that you chance to take warning by it,</L>
<L>I think you've an excellent penni-worth of Wit,</L>
</LG>
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<P>Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye Corner.</P>
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