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<HEAD>A Looking-Gla&s;s for a Bad Husband: <HI>Or,</HI> A Caveat for a Spend-thri&s;t.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L><HI>You that are guilty of that &s;inful Crime</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of Drunkenne&s;s, &s;trive for to leave it off in time:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Lay up your Money, do not it vainly &s;pend;</HI></L>
<L><HI>For in your greate&s;t need, it will be your, be&s;t Friend.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Endeavour in your Youth, le&s;t in old Age you want;</HI></L>
<L><HI>For when that Poverty doth come, Friends will be &s;cant.</HI></L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER><BYLINE>By <HI>T. L.</HI></BYLINE></OPENER>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>The, Poor Man's Comfort:</HI> Or, <HI>Digby.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>YOu that are bad Husbands</L>
<L>I pray you draw near,</L>
<L>Good Coun&s;el here's for you,</L>
<L>If you will give ear:</L>
<L>Then ob&s;erve it rightly,</L>
<L>and bear it in mind,</L>
<L>A great deal of Benefit</L>
<L>in it you'l find.</L>
<L>Here you may learn how</L>
<L>to live gallant and brave,</L>
<L>If you will endeavour</L>
<L>for to get and &s;ave.</L>
<L><HI>Then take care how in idle</HI></L>
<L><HI>your mony you &s;pend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For in time of need</HI></L>
<L><HI>it will be your be&s;t Friend.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You &s;ee that the times</L>
<L>are very hard grown,</L>
<L>Trading it is dead both</L>
<L>in Country and Town:</L>
<L>If a Man he han't where withal</L>
<L>him to maintain,</L>
<L>To make his complaint</L>
<L>it is all but in vain.</L>
<L>For money is &s;carce,</L>
<L>and Charity's cold:</L>
<L>Then &s;ave &s;ome-thing in youth</L>
<L>again&s;t you are old,</L>
<L><HI>Then take care, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now you that intend</L>
<L>good Husbands to be,</L>
<L>Observe well this Rule</L>
<L>in every degree:</L>
<L>If you do get money</L>
<L>don't &s;pend it in wa&s;t,</L>
<L>For when it is gone,</L>
<L>you will want it la&s;t.</L>
<L>To be careful and loving,</L>
<L>you mu&s;t always &s;trive,</L>
<L>O that is the right ready</L>
<L>way for to thrive,</L>
<L><HI>Then take care how in wa&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>thou do&s;t thy money &s;pend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For in time of need</HI></L>
<L><HI>it will be thy be&s;t Friend.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>FIr&s;t at thy imployment</L>
<L>and work be not &s;lack.</L>
<L>To get Food for the Belly,</L>
<L>and Cloaths for the Back.</L>
<L>When then thou half got money,</L>
<L>don't &s;pend it in vain:</L>
<L>But keep it and &s;ave it,</L>
<L>thy Charge to maintain.</L>
<L>Take care and refrain</L>
<L>from all bad company:</L>
<L>For that is the high way</L>
<L>unto Poverty.</L>
<L><HI>Then take care how in wa&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>thou do&s;t thy mony &s;pend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For in time of need</HI></L>
<L><HI>it will be thy be&s;t Friend.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Refrain from the Ale-hou&s;e,</L>
<L>and dont it frequent:</L>
<L>To be thrifty and careful</L>
<L>let thy mind be bent.</L>
<L>But if thou do&s;t chance</L>
<L>with a Friend for to m&eacute;et,</L>
<L>With a Flaggon or two</L>
<L>thou then mai&s;t him greet:</L>
<L>And when thou ha&s;t done,</L>
<L>then to work again fall:</L>
<L>Some thing hath &s;ome favour,</L>
<L>though it be but &s;mall.</L>
<L><HI>Then take, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If that thou art ble&s;t</L>
<L>with a good careful Wife,</L>
<L>Be loving unto her</L>
<L>all dayes of thy Life.</L>
<L>If &s;he gives thee good coun&s;el,</L>
<L>do not it refrain,</L>
<L>Thoult find at the la&s;t</L>
<L>it will be for thy gain.</L>
<L>Shun the company of Harlots,</L>
<L>for they'l thee betray,</L>
<L>And bring both thy Body</L>
<L>and Soul to decay.</L>
<L><HI>Then take &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Al&s;o unto Gameing</L>
<L>do not thy &s;elf u&s;e,</L>
<L>To hazard thy money,</L>
<L>in danger to lo&s;e.</L>
<L>For many by gaming</L>
<L>confounds their E&s;tate,</L>
<L>And then they repent it,</L>
<L>when it is too late.</L>
<L>Such idle cour&s;e be&s;ure</L>
<L>always defye,</L>
<L>Endeavour for to follow</L>
<L>good Husbandry.</L>
<L><HI>Then take &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ome there be that</L>
<L>will at an Ale-hou&s;e &s;it,</L>
<L>And wa&s;te away credit,</L>
<L>doth money and wit:</L>
<L>Vntil they have &s;pent all,</L>
<L>they will nere quiet re&s;t,</L>
<L>But makes them&s;elves</L>
<L>wor&s;er then is any Bea&s;t.</L>
<L>So they can have their</L>
<L>fill of &s;trong drink, they don't care</L>
<L>Tho &s;he belly and back</L>
<L>do go empty and bare.</L>
<L><HI>Then take &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I heard of a Prodigal</L>
<L>&s;waggering young Heir,</L>
<L>Who &s;pent &s;ix hundred pound</L>
<L>in le&s;s than two year:</L>
<L>He capor d and vapor'd,</L>
<L>and took his delight;</L>
<L>He ranted in Taverns</L>
<L>both day and night:</L>
<L>But when all his Gold</L>
<L>it was wa&s;ted and gone,</L>
<L>O then he was &s;lighted</L>
<L>by every one.</L>
<L><HI>Then take &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus you may &s;ee</L>
<L>that bad Husbandry</L>
<L>Will bring a Man at la&s;t</L>
<L>unto beggary.</L>
<L>For tho&s;e that are Spend-thrifts,</L>
<L>alwayes thred-bare be,</L>
<L>VVith their cloaths all torn,</L>
<L>a &s;ad fight for to &s;ee:</L>
<L>But tho&s;e that are careful</L>
<L>their mony to &s;ave,</L>
<L>They doth maintain their</L>
<L>Family gallant and brave.</L>
<L><HI>Then take &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To conclude, I advi&s;e</L>
<L>all good Fellows that are</L>
<L>In time, of the main chance</L>
<L>for to have a care.</L>
<L>Take heed, and be &s;aving</L>
<L>of that which thou haft,</L>
<L>It is not good in plenty</L>
<L>for to make wa&s;te.</L>
<L>Remember this Proverb,</L>
<L>and bear it in mind,</L>
<L>VVhen Poverty comes,</L>
<L>Friend&s;hip is hard to find.</L>
<L><HI>Then take care how in wa&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>thou do&s;t thy money &s;pend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For in time of need</HI></L>
<L><HI>it will be thy be&s;t Friend.</HI></L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>VV. Thackeray, T. Pa&s;&s;enger,</HI> and <HI>VV. VVhitwood.</HI></HI></P>
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