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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB N="54" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->
<HEAD>A Caveat for Young Men.<LB> OR, The Bad Husband turn'd Thrifty.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L><HI>This Caveat may &s;erve both for Old and yong,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For to remember that Old Age will come;</HI></L>
<L><HI>If you the&s;e Ver&s;es do minde and read,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I hope hereafter you will take better heed:</HI></L>
<L><HI>This Song it was &s;et forth and penn'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To teach Bad Husbands to amend.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Therefore bad Husbands mend your lives,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And be more kinder to your Wives.</HI></L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER><HI>To the Tune of, <HI>Hey ho my Honey.</HI></HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>ALL you young Ranting Blades,</L>
<L>that &s;pend your time in vain,</L>
<L>Remember that old age,</L>
<L>you cannot it refrain:</L>
<L>And whil&s;t that you are young,</L>
<L>this Caveat take of me,</L>
<L>Be ruled by no tempting tongue,</L>
<L>to bring you to poverty.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been a bad Husband long</HI></L>
<L><HI>and have &s;pent &s;tore of &s;ilver and gold,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet now Ile &s;ave &s;omething whil&s;t I am yong,</HI></L>
<L><HI>to keep me when I am old.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I had good &s;tore of means,</L>
<L>and I liv'd mo&s;t gallantly:</L>
<L>But yet upon Whores and Queens,</L>
<L>I &s;pent it by and by:</L>
<L>My Hoa&s;tis &s;he was full of laughter,</L>
<L>&s;o long as I had money good &s;tore;</L>
<L>And my Children mu&s;t drink fair water,</L>
<L>whil&s;t I in the Ale-hou&s;e did roar.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Wife would me intreat,</L>
<L>the Ale, hou&s;e to refrain;</L>
<L>Then I with anger great,</L>
<L>made an&s;wear &s;traight again:</L>
<L>If you begin to &s;cold,</L>
<L>then I will bang thy coat;</L>
<L>What woman her tongue can hold,</L>
<L>when a man &s;wallows all down his throat</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Children and I mu&s;t &s;it,</L>
<L>until we &s;tarve and pine,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t you your guts full get,</L>
<L>of Tobacco, B&eacute;er, and Wine.</L>
<L>Half that you &s;pend in vain,</L>
<L>and m&eacute;erly throw away,</L>
<L>Our Family would maintain,</L>
<L>and our Hou&s;e-Rent it would pay,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been a bad Husband long,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and have &s;pent &s;tore of &s;ilver and gold;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet now Ile &s;ave &s;omething whil&s;t I am yong,</HI></L>
<L><HI>to keep me when I am old.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>But yet I'de not be rul'd</L>
<L>by the&s;e words &s;he did &s;ay,</L>
<L>My &s;elf I often fool'd,</L>
<L>which brought me to decay:</L>
<L>I no &s;ooner had &s;old a Cow,</L>
<L>but &s;traight to the Ale-hou&s;e I ran;</L>
<L>My Hoa&s;tis unto me would bow,</L>
<L>until all my money was gone.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She'd chuck me under the chin,</L>
<L>and perhaps would give me a ki&s;s,</L>
<L>As <HI>Venus</HI> drew <HI>Adonis</HI> in,</L>
<L>my Hoa&s;tis would never mi&s;s:</L>
<L>She'd tell me it was too early,</L>
<L>or el&s;e it was too late,</L>
<L>until by the Oyl of Barley,</L>
<L>they had gotten my whole e&s;tate,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus day and night I ranted,</L>
<L>and no company did refu&s;e,</L>
<L>whil&s;t my wife and children wanted,</L>
<L>I did my &s;elf abu&s;e:</L>
<L>I could not &s;carce afford</L>
<L>my children clothes to wear;</L>
<L>Nor my wife one good word,</L>
<L>&s;uch was her grievous care.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The more my wife did &s;peak,</L>
<L>the wor&s;er I would be,</L>
<L>I'de drink till my brains did ake,</L>
<L>onely to anger &s;he,</L>
<L>So long as I had a penny;</L>
<L>i'de never give out for gain;</L>
<L>But &s;ince I have found by many,</L>
<L>a Good Fellow's a co&s;tly name.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At la&s;t I did perceive,</L>
<L>my E&s;tate was almo&s;t gone,</L>
<L>Then it was time to leave,</L>
<L>and &s;ome words I thought upon:</L>
<L>I went into an Ale-hou&s;e,</L>
<L>where all my Coyn I had drown'd;</L>
<L>In company with good fellows,</L>
<L>I had &s;pent an hundred pound,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I then the&s;e words replied,</L>
<L>Hoa&s;tis, money I have none,</L>
<L>A Flagon &s;he me denied,</L>
<L>and bid me &s;traight be gone:</L>
<L>what, will you not tru&s;t me a Flagon,</L>
<L>tho&s;e words replied I,</L>
<L>No, quoth &s;he not a Nogging,</L>
<L>if you &s;hould &s;tarve and dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I then went &s;ighing home,</L>
<L>and a vow &s;traightway did make.</L>
<L>They &s;hould &s;it whil&s;t day of Doom,</L>
<L>before one penny of me &s;hould take:</L>
<L>A new life I will now begin,</L>
<L>the Ale-wives &s;hall &s;it like Elves;</L>
<L>They &s;hall both Card and Spin,</L>
<L>or el&s;e go hang them&s;elves.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now I all men advi&s;e,</L>
<L>this Caveat think upon,</L>
<L>Be ruled by your wives,</L>
<L>for old age it will come.</L>
<L>If they know you have money,</L>
<L>the Ale-wives with you will crack,</L>
<L>They'l &s;uck you as Bees &s;uck honey,</L>
<L>then hang you behind your back,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore in time be ruled,</L>
<L>&s;ave &s;omething whil&s;t you have it,</L>
<L>By no Ale-wives be you fooled,</L>
<L>and then repent too late:</L>
<L>For when that all is gone,</L>
<L>and you have but little &s;tock,</L>
<L>If to the Ale-wives you make moan,</L>
<L>they will you but jear and mock.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have been a bad Husband long,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and have &s;pent &s;tore of &s;ilver and gold;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet now Ile &s;ave &s;omething whil&s;t I am yong,</HI></L>
<L><HI>to keep me when I am old.</HI></L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<BYLINE>By John Wade.</BYLINE>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed, for <HI>W. Thackeray, T. Pa&s;&s;inger</HI> and <HI>W. VVhitw<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ood</HI></P>
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