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<DATE>2008-12-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>A plea&s;ant new Ballad to look upon, How <HI>Mault</HI> deals with every man.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>MAs</HI> Mault is a Gentleman,</L>
<L>And hath bin &s;ince the world began</L>
<L>I never in my lif knew any man</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>could match with Ma&s;ter Mault &s;ir,</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>I never knew any match <HI>Mault</HI> but once,</L>
<L>The Miller with his <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">nding &s;tones.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &s;aw the like &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L><HI>Mault Mault</HI> thou are a Flower,</L>
<L>Belov'd right well in e'<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ry Bower,</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not be mi&s;&s;ing one half hour,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For laying of his &s;tones &s;o clo&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Mault</HI> gave the Miller a Copper no&s;e,</L>
<L>S<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ying thou and I will never be foes</L>
<L>but unto thee <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">le &s;tick &s;ir,</L>
<L><HI>Mault</HI> gave the M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ller &s;uch a blow</L>
<L>That from his hor&s;e be fell full low,</L>
<L>He taught him his Ma&s;ter <HI>Mault</HI> to know,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our Ho&s;te&s;&s;e Maid was much to blame,</L>
<L>To &s;teal <HI>Mault</HI> away from her Dame,</L>
<L>And in her belly hid the &s;ame</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That when the Mault did work in her head</L>
<L>Twice in a day &s;he would be &s;ped</L>
<L>At night &s;he could not go to bed,</L>
<L><HI>nor &s;carce &s;tand on her feet &s;ir.</HI></L>
<L>Then came in Ma&s;ter <HI>Smith,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;aid that Mault he was a thief,</L>
<L>But malt gave him &s;uch a ba&s;h in y^e t&eacute;eth</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For when his Iron was hot and red,</L>
<L>He had &s;uch an ach all in his head,</L>
<L>His boon Comrades got him to bed</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for he was very &s;ick &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The Carpenter came a p&eacute;ece to &s;hare</L>
<L>And bid Mault come if he dare,</L>
<L>He'd thwack his &s;ides and belly bare,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and him full &s;oundly beat &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>Toth fire he went well armed with chips</L>
<L>Mault hit him right betwixt the lipps</L>
<L>And made him lame on both his hips,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Shoomaker &s;itting on his &s;eat</L>
<L>At Mr. Mault began to fret,</L>
<L>He &s;aid he would the knave &s;o beat</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with his &s;harp Spani&s;h knife &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>But Mault came p&eacute;eping through the hall,</L>
<L>And did his brains &s;o fiercely mall</L>
<L>He tumbled round and caught a fall</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never, &amp;c,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Weaver &s;itting in the Loom,</L>
<L>He threatned Mault a cruel doom</L>
<L>And made him to expulce the room</L>
<L><HI>or throw him in a Dike &s;ir.</HI></L>
<L>Where at a Court &s;ome Weavers kept</L>
<L>And &s;o their Ho&s;te&s;s boldly &s;tept,</L>
<L>Till charged with double pots they &s;lept</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Tinker took the Weavers part</L>
<L>Such furious rage po&s;&s;e&s;t his heart,</L>
<L>He took the pot and drank a quart,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>his wits were very ripe &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>For Mault the upper hand &s;o got</L>
<L>He knew not how to pay the &s;hot</L>
<L>But part without the reckoning pot,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and &s;ound his &s;tomack &s;ick &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The Taylor came to grinde his &s;hears</L>
<L>And &s;hewes to Mault <UNCLEAR>what</UNCLEAR> &s;pl&eacute;en be hears</L>
<L>But &s;oon they f<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ll together by the ears,</L>
<L><HI>and &s;ore each other &s;truck &s;ir.</HI></L>
<L>And when his pre&s;&s;ing Iron was hot</L>
<L>He pre&s;&s;ed a board in&s;tead of a Coat</L>
<L>And &s;ailed home in a feather-bed boat</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never, &amp;c,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Tinker walking round the pan,</L>
<L>But Mault much feard his d&eacute;ep mouthd-can</L>
<L>Though he had conquered many man</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and laid him in the Dike &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>Yet was the Tinker gladly fain</L>
<L>With Mault to have a bout or twain</L>
<L>Till he again was &s;hot ith brain,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then be&s;pake the Tinker anon</L>
<L>Ano &s;aid he'd prove him&s;elf a man,</L>
<L>And laid at Mault till his legs were gone.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Say<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">or he did cur&s;e and ban</L>
<L>He bid the bop &s;o tap the can</L>
<L>Ile have about with Mault anon.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A board they went to try the match,</L>
<L>And long they playd at hope and catch,</L>
<L>Till Mau<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t be&s;tow'd him under a hatch,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>you never, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then came a Chapman travelling by&punc;</L>
<L>With cheaping long his throat was dry.</L>
<L>And at Ma&s;ter Mault mu&s;t fly,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and furiou&s;ly him &s;truck &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>Till having laid at Mault apace.</L>
<L>Great &s;tore of blood was in his face</L>
<L>And he was found in &s;uch a ca&s;e,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ma&s;on came an Oden to make,</L>
<L>The Bricklayer he his part did take</L>
<L>They bound him to the good Ale &s;take</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then Mault began to tell his mind</L>
<L>And ply'd them with Ale, Beer, and Wine</L>
<L>They left the Brick, Axe, Trowel behind,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>they could not lay a Brick &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>Then came the Laborer in his hood,</L>
<L>And &s;aw his two Ma&s;ters how they &s;tood</L>
<L>He took Ma&s;ter Mault by the hood;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and &s;wore he would him &s;trike &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>Mault he ran and for fear did weep,</L>
<L>The Laborer he did skip' and leap.</L>
<L>But Mault made him into the morter leap.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and there he fell a&s;leep &s;ir.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>The Glover came to buy a skin,</L>
<L>Mault bit him right above the chin</L>
<L>The <HI>Pewter-John</HI> came tumbling in,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And laid on heads and arms and joynts</L>
<L>Took away Gloves and a gro&s;s of points</L>
<L>And &s;wore they'd pay him in quarts and pints</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>you never &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus of my Song Ile make on end,</L>
<L>And pray my Ho&s;t to be my friend,</L>
<L>To give me &s;ome drink or money to &s;pend</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for Mault and I am quiet &s;ir,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<P>Printed for <HI>F.</HI> Coles, T. Vere and W. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"></P>
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