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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081012.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<HEAD>The good Fellowes be&s;t Beloved:</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>Now if you will know what that &s;hould bee,</L>
<L>Ile tell you 'tis called good <HI>Ip&s;e</HI> hee:</L>
<L>'Tis that which &s;ome people do love in &s;ome mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>&s;ome for their profit and &s;ome for their plea&s;ure.</L>
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<OPENER>To the tune of <HI>Blew Capp.</HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>AMong the nine Mu&s;es if any there be</L>
<L>that unto good fellow&s;hip friendly adhere,</L>
<L>Let them give a&s;i&s;tance this time unto me,</L>
<L>for I in this ditty intend to preferre</L>
<L>A thing that's beloved</L>
<L>of rich and of poore,</L>
<L>It is well approoved,</L>
<L>there's rea&s;on therefore,</L>
<L>My due approbation</L>
<L>&s;hall evermore be</L>
<L>In the commendation</L>
<L><HI>of good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All &s;orts and conditions the high and the lowe,</L>
<L>although not alike yet all in &s;ome mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Vnto this my theame their affection will &s;howe,</L>
<L>according as they have time, &s;tomack, or trea|&s;ure:</L>
<L>There's few live &s;o purely,</L>
<L>but they now and then</L>
<L>Will &s;ip it demurely</L>
<L>both women and men,</L>
<L>Both marryd and &s;imple</L>
<L>doe joyntly agr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>To fuddle their no&s;es</L>
<L><HI>with good ip&s;e he.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Both Lawyers &amp; clients that come to the terme,</L>
<L>how e're the ca&s;e goes of one thing I am &s;ure,</L>
<L>Before any bu&s;ine&s;&s;e can be &s;etl'd firme,</L>
<L>good liquor &amp; money the meanes mu&s;t procure,</L>
<L>A Taverne barre often,</L>
<L>makes peace ere they part,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Canary can &s;often</L>
<L>a plaintiffes hard heart,</L>
<L>Their gla&s;&s;es they &s;up off,</L>
<L>and make merry gl&eacute;e,</L>
<L>Such power hath a cup of</L>
<L><HI>good good ip&s;e he.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Taylor coms rubbing his ha~ds in the morn,</L>
<L>and calls for a cup of the But next the wall,</L>
<L>Be it of the Grape or the Barley Corne,</L>
<L>h&eacute;e'le drinke out his breakfa&s;t his dinner &amp; all,</L>
<L>H&eacute;e &s;ayes call and &s;pare not,</L>
<L>Ile goe thorough &s;titch,</L>
<L>Hang pin&s;hing I care not</L>
<L>for being too rich:</L>
<L><HI>Iohn Black</HI>'s a good fellow,</L>
<L>and he alowes me</L>
<L>To make my &s;elfe mellow</L>
<L><HI>with good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The merry Shoo-maker when 'tis a hard fro&s;t,</L>
<L>&s;ayes he cannot work for his waxe it is frozen,</L>
<L>Fayth what &s;hall we doe, let us goe to our Ho&s;t</L>
<L>and make our &s;elves merry with each a halfe dozen,</L>
<L>With this re&s;olution,</L>
<L>they purpo&s;e to thrive,</L>
<L>But ere the conclu&s;ion,</L>
<L>that number proves five,</L>
<L>They &s;ing merry catches,</L>
<L>few trades men that be,</L>
<L>Are Shoo-makers matches</L>
<L><HI>at good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The &s;econd part,</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>THe Ma&s;on and bricklayers are &s;omer birds,</L>
<L>the Winter to them is a time of vacation:</L>
<L>Then they &amp; their laborours live on their words,</L>
<L>unle&s;&s;e (like the Ant) they have made preparation,</L>
<L>And yet though they have not,</L>
<L>they ne'rethele&s;&s;e thinke,</L>
<L>Tu&s;h what if we &s;ave not,</L>
<L>mu&s;t we have no drinke,</L>
<L>W&eacute;ele pawne tray and &s;hovle,</L>
<L>and more if n&eacute;ede be,</L>
<L>Our no&s;es to fuddle</L>
<L><HI>with good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Grim <HI>Vulca~</HI> the black-&s;mith is chief of al trades</L>
<L>then think you that he'l be in drinking inferiour</L>
<L>No truely when h&eacute;e's with his merry comrades,</L>
<L>h&eacute;ele laugh and &s;ing ditties you never heard merrier,</L>
<L>He cryes out h&eacute;e's hot,</L>
<L>and &s;till this is his note</L>
<L>Come gi's t'other pot:</L>
<L>h&eacute;er's a &s;parke in my throate,</L>
<L>Hee calls and he payes,</L>
<L>there is no man more fr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>He &s;eldome long &s;tayes</L>
<L><HI>from good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Tanner when he comes to Leaden-hall,</L>
<L>after a hard journey wil make him&s;elfe merry,</L>
<L>He will have good liquor and welcome with all,</L>
<L>the Bul for good b&eacute;ere and the naggs-head for &s;hery,</L>
<L>No bargaine &s;hall &s;tand,</L>
<L>but what liquor doth &s;eale,</L>
<L>Quite throughout the Land,</L>
<L>thus mo&s;t trade&s;men doe deale,</L>
<L>In Taverne or Alehou&s;e</L>
<L>mo&s;t matches made be,</L>
<L>The fir&s;t word's where &s;hall us</L>
<L><HI>finde good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>London</HI> &s;hopk&eacute;epers that cry what doe lack</L>
<L>when they have &s;old wares &amp; money have taken,</L>
<L>They'l give their chapman a pint o'th be&s;t &s;acke,</L>
<L>the price of it out of their money abating,</L>
<L>The proverb ob&s;erving</L>
<L>they that money take</L>
<L>Mu&s;t pay all the charges,</L>
<L>this bargaine they make,</L>
<L>Thus Liquor makes all men,</L>
<L>mo&s;t friendly agr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>Both lowe men and tall men,</L>
<L><HI>love good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The hone&s;t plain Hu&s;ba~dman when that he goes</L>
<L>to fayre or to market with corne or with cattle:</L>
<L>When he hath di&s;patcht he remembers his no&s;e,</L>
<L>how that mu&s;t be arm'd as it were to a battle,</L>
<L>Then like to a gallant</L>
<L>to drinking he falls,</L>
<L>Yet though h&eacute;e's pot valiant,</L>
<L>he payes what he calls:</L>
<L>He &s;cornes reputation</L>
<L>in that ba&s;e degr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>His chiefe recreation</L>
<L><HI>is good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The generous Servingmen m&eacute;eting each other</L>
<L>as wel as their ma&s;ters &s;omtimes wil be merry,</L>
<L>He that's a good fellow is lov'd like a brother,</L>
<L>with making him welcom they nere are weary</L>
<L>Hee that is a clowne,</L>
<L>as a clowne he may goe</L>
<L>Quite thoroughout the towne,</L>
<L>&s;uch a fellow theyle know:</L>
<L>But tho&s;e that are right</L>
<L>will in union agr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>By morn or by night</L>
<L><HI>at good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In briefe thus it is which both women and men,</L>
<L>&s;o d&eacute;erely affect that before they will lack it:</L>
<L>Theyle pawne all they have nay &amp; &s;o now &amp; then,</L>
<L>gown, kirtle, or wa&s;tcoate, cloake breeches and jacket,</L>
<L>Although they want victuall</L>
<L>if they can get chinke,</L>
<L>B&eacute;e't never &s;o little,</L>
<L>'tis mo&s;t on't for drinke:</L>
<L>The rich and the begger,</L>
<L>the bond and the fr&eacute;e</L>
<L>Will oftentimes &s;wagger</L>
<L><HI>at good ip&s;e hee.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>M. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>London Printed for <HI>Iohn Wright iunior,</HI> dvvelling on Snow hill, at the Signe of the Sunne.</P>
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