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<DATE>2009-01-06</DATE>
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<NAME>tcpstaff</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081112.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="S">18008</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99884357</BIBNO>
<VID>183056</VID>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB N="262" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->
<HEAD>Mondayes VVorke. <HI>OR</HI>
<L>The two hone&s;t neigbours both birds of a feather</L>
<L>Who are at the Ale-hou&s;e both merry together.</L></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the tune of, <HI>I owe my Ho&s;te&s;&s;e money.</HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>GOod morow neigbour <HI>Gamble,</HI></L>
<L>Come let you and I goe ramble,</L>
<L>La&s;t night I was &s;hot</L>
<L>Through the braines with a Pot,</L>
<L>and now my &s;tomacke doth wamble:</L>
<L>Your Po&s;&s;ets and your Caudles,</L>
<L>Are fit for babes in Cradles:</L>
<L>A piece of &s;alt Hogge,</L>
<L>And a haire of the old Dogge</L>
<L>is good to cure our drunken Noddles.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t, come hither,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here's two birds of a feather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>With a Pot and a To&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and let vs be merry together.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I ro&s;e in the morning early,</L>
<L>To take this Iuice of barly,</L>
<L>But if my wife <HI>Ione</HI></L>
<L>Know where I were gone,</L>
<L>&s;h&eacute;e'd call me to a Parley&punc;</L>
<L>My bones I doe not fauour,</L>
<L>But hone&s;tly doe labour:</L>
<L>But when I am out.</L>
<L>I mu&s;t make a mad bout</L>
<L>come here's halfe a pot to th&eacute;e neigbour.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Gramarcy neighbour <HI>Iinkin,</HI></L>
<L>I &s;&eacute;e thou loue&s;t no &s;hrinking,</L>
<L>And I for my part,</L>
<L>From thee will not &s;tart,</L>
<L>come fill vs a little more drinke in.</L>
<L>I'th weeke we aske but one day,</L>
<L>And that's next after Sunday,</L>
<L>Our cu&s;tome w&eacute;e'le hold,</L>
<L>Although our Wiues &s;cold,</L>
<L>the Mault-man comes a Monday.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Come let's haue our Liquor about vs,</L>
<L>Mine Ho&s;t doe not mi&s;doubt us,</L>
<L>Yet if we &s;hould call,</L>
<L>And pay none at all,</L>
<L>you were better be without vs:</L>
<L>But we are no &s;uch fellowes,</L>
<L>Though &s;ome in clothes excell vs,</L>
<L>And yet haue no coyne,</L>
<L>For Liquor to Ioyne.</L>
<L>yet we haue both whites and yellowes.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We &s;corne tho&s;e rooking Rorers,</L>
<L>That are &s;uch common &s;corers,</L>
<L>No coyne they can &s;pare,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they are</L>
<L>&s;uch Dicers and &s;uch Whorers.</L>
<L>But we doe hate &s;uch doing,</L>
<L>W&eacute;ele wa&s;t no meanes in wooing,</L>
<L>Yet &s;uch as they be</L>
<L>Make you thinke that we</L>
<L>will not pay what is owing.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t, come hither,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here's two birds of a feather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>With a pot and a To&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and let vs be merry together.</HI></L>
</LG>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<PB N="263" REF="1"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->
<HEAD>The &s;econd Part.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>COme ply your worke my Ma&s;ters,</L>
<L>Let vs not be time wa&s;ters,</L>
<L>To worke or to play</L>
<L>Very hard (as &s;ome &s;ay)</L>
<L>is a &s;igne of good fore-ca&s;ters.</L>
<L>Much prate to me is loathing</L>
<L>To cumber the hou&s;e for nothing,</L>
<L>I hate a long tale,</L>
<L>Giue me &s;ome more Ale,</L>
<L>which is meate, drinke, and cloathing,</L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t, come hither,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here's two birds of a feather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>With a Pot and a To&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and let vs be merry together</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If wicked <HI>Will</HI> the Weauer,</L>
<L>Or <HI>True</HI> the Taylor either,</L>
<L>Were here with vs now,</L>
<L>To part we knew not how,</L>
<L>till we were drunke together:</L>
<L>Or <HI>Tom</HI> the neate Shoomaker,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Kit</HI> the Iouiall Baker,</L>
<L>If any one of the&s;e</L>
<L>Come hither and &s;&eacute;e's,</L>
<L>with vs h&eacute;ele be a Partaker.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t, come hither,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here's two birds of a feather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>With a Pot and a To&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and let vs be merry together.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ith there is no more here</L>
<L>W&eacute;ele &s;ay as we did before here,</L>
<L>Betw&eacute;ene vs weel&egrave; call,</L>
<L>And pay for it all,</L>
<L>for we &s;corne to goe on the &s;core here,</L>
<L>Let's take off our Liquor roundly,</L>
<L>And though we doe drinke &s;oundly,</L>
<L>Our humour is &s;uch,</L>
<L>W&eacute;ele not drinke &s;o much,</L>
<L>vntill we both on the ground lye.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t, come hither,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here's two birds of a feather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>With a Pot and a To&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and let vs be merry together.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now le&s;t our Wiues &s;hould find vs,</L>
<L>Tis fit we &s;hould look behinde vs,</L>
<L>Let's &s;ee what is done,</L>
<L>Then pay and be gone.</L>
<L>as hone&s;tly hath a&s;&s;ign'd vs.</L>
<L>Tis &s;trong Ale I conceiue it,</L>
<L>Tis good in time to leaue it,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e it will make,</L>
<L>Our foreheads to ake,</L>
<L>tis vanity to out braue it.</L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t, come hither</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here's two birds of a feather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come hither mine Ho&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>With a Pot and a To&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and let vs be merry together.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>London Printed for F. Grove.</P>
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