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<HEAD>A plea&s;ant new Ballad of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Fourth, and a Tanner of <HI>Tamworth,</HI> as he rode a Hunting with his Nobles to <HI>Drayton Ba&s;set.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To an Excellent New Tune.</OPENER>
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<L>IN Summer time, when leaves grow green,</L>
<L>and birds were &s;inging on every tree:</L>
<L>King <HI>Edward</HI> would a hunting ride,</L>
<L>&s;ome pa&s;time for to &s;&eacute;e:</L>
<L>Our King would a hunting ride,</L>
<L>by eight a clock of the day,</L>
<L>And well was he ware of a bold Tanner,</L>
<L>come riding on the way,</L>
<L>A good Ru&s;&s;et coat the Tanner had on,</L>
<L>fa&s;t buttoned under his Chin.</L>
<L>And under him a good Cow-Hide;</L>
<L>and a Mare of four &s;hilling,</L>
<L>Now &s;tand you here my good Lords all,</L>
<L>under this tru&s;ty tr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>And I will wend to yonder fellow,</L>
<L>to know from whence came he.</L>
<L>God &s;p&eacute;ed God &s;p&eacute;ed, then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>thou art welcome good fellow, quoth he,</L>
<L>Which is the way <HI>to Drayton Ba&s;&s;et,</HI></L>
<L>I pray th&eacute;e &s;hew to me:</L>
<L>The ready way <HI>to Drayton Ba&s;&s;et,</HI></L>
<L>from this place as thou do&s;t &s;tand,</L>
<L>The next pair of Gallows thou com<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t to,</L>
<L>thou mu&s;t turn up on thy right hand,</L>
<L>That is not the way, then &s;aid our King:</L>
<L>the ready way I pray th&eacute;e &s;hew me:</L>
<L>Whether thou be thief or true man, quoth the Tanner,</L>
<L>I<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">me weary of thy company.</L>
<L>Away with a vengeance (quoth the Tanner)</L>
<L>I hold thee out of thy wit,</L>
<L>For all this day have I ridden and gone,</L>
<L>and I am fa&s;ting yet.</L>
<L>Go with me <HI>to Drayton Ba&s;&s;et,</HI> &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>no dainties we will lack,</L>
<L>We<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">l have meat and drink of the be&s;t,</L>
<L>and I will pay the &s;hot,</L>
<L>God-a-mercy for nothing &s;aid the Tanner,</L>
<L>thou &s;halt pay for no dinner of mine,</L>
<L>I have more groats and Nobles in my Pur&s;e,</L>
<L>then thou ha&s;t pence in thine.</L>
<L>God &s;ave your Goods then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>and &s;end them well to the&eacute;e:</L>
<L>Be thou thief or true man, quoth the Tanner,</L>
<L>I am weary of thy company:</L>
<L>Away with a vengeance (quoth the Tanner)</L>
<L>of the&eacute; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;tand in fear:</L>
<L>The apparel thou weare&s;t on thy back,</L>
<L>may &s;eem a good Lord to wear:</L>
<L>I never &s;tole them, &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>I &s;wear to thee by the rood:</L>
<L>Thou art &s;ome Ruffian of the Countrey,</L>
<L>thou rid'&s;t in the mid&s;t of the Wood:</L>
<L>What news do&s;t thou hear then &s;aid our King</L>
<L>I pray thee what news do&s;t thou hear,</L>
<L>I hear no news an&s;wered the Tanner,</L>
<L>but that Cow-hides be dear,</L>
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<HEAD>The &s;econd Part,</HEAD>
<OPENER>to the &s;ame tune.</OPENER>
<L>COw-hides, Cow-hides, then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>I marvel what they be:</L>
<L>Why art thou a fool, (quoth the Tanner)</L>
<L>look I have one under me:</L>
<L>Yet one thing now I would thee pray,</L>
<L>&s;o that thou would not be &s;trange,</L>
<L>If thy Mare be better then my Steed,</L>
<L>I pray thee let us change.</L>
<L>But if thou needs with me will change,</L>
<L>as change full well may ye?</L>
<L>By the faith of my body (quoth the Tanner,</L>
<L>I look to have &s;ome boot of thee:</L>
<L>What boot will you have, then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>what boot do&s;t thou ask on this ground,</L>
<L>No pence nor half-pence, &s;aid the Tanner,</L>
<L>but a noble in gold &s;o round.</L>
<L>Here's twenty good groats then &s;aid our King</L>
<L>&s;o well paid &s;ee you be:</L>
<L>I love thee better then I did before,</L>
<L>I thought thou had&s;t ne'r a penny.</L>
<L>But if &s;o be we needs mu&s;t change,</L>
<L>as change thou mu&s;t abide,</L>
<L>Though thou ha&s;t gotten <HI>Brock</HI> my Mare,</L>
<L>thou &s;halt not have my Cow-hide.</L>
<L>The Tanner took the good Cow-hide,</L>
<L>that of the Cow was hilt,</L>
<L>And threw it upon the Kings &s;addle,</L>
<L>that was &s;o fairly guilt</L>
<L>Now help me, quoth the Tanner,</L>
<L>full quickly that I were gone,</L>
<L>And when I come home to <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">han</HI> my wife,</L>
<L>&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">l &s;ay <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 word"> am a Gentleman.</L>
<L>The King took the Tanner by the leg,</L>
<L>he girded a fart &s;o round,</L>
<L>You'r very homely &s;aid the King:</L>
<L>were I aware I had laid you o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">th ground:</L>
<L>When the Tanner was in the Kings Saddle,</L>
<L>a&s;toni&s;hed then he was,</L>
<L>He knew not the &s;tirrops that he did wear,</L>
<L>whether they were gold or bra&s;s:</L>
<L>But when the St&eacute;ed &s;aw the black Cow-tale wag</L>
<L>and before the black Cow, horn,</L>
<L>The Streed began to run away,</L>
<L>as the Devil the Tanner had born:</L>
<L>Vntil he came into a nook,</L>
<L>a little be&s;ide an Oak,</L>
<L>The &s;t&eacute;ed gave the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">anner &s;uch a fall,</L>
<L>his neck was almo&s;t broke.</L>
<L>Take thy hor&s;e again with a vengeance he &s;aid</L>
<L>with me he &s;hall not abide.</L>
<L>It is no marvel (&s;aid the King) and laught,</L>
<L>he knew not your Cow-hide.</L>
<L>But if that we needs mu&s;t change,</L>
<L>As change well now we might</L>
<L>Ile &s;wear to you plain if you have my Mare,</L>
<L>I look to have &s;ome boot.</L>
<L>What boot will you ask (quoth the Tanner)</L>
<L>what boot will you ask on this ground?</L>
<L>No pence, nor half pence, (&s;aid our King)</L>
<L>but a Noble in gold &s;o round.</L>
<L>Here s twenty good groats, &s;aid the Tanner,</L>
<L>and twenty more I have of thine,</L>
<L>I have ten groats more in my pur&s;e,</L>
<L>we'l drink five of them at the wine:</L>
<L>The King &s;et a Bugle-horn to his mouth,</L>
<L>and blew both loud and &s;hril,</L>
<L>And five hundred Lords and Knights</L>
<L>came riding over a hill.</L>
<L>Away with a vengeance (quoth the Tanner)</L>
<L>with th&eacute;e I<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">le no longer abide,</L>
<L>Thou art a &s;trong thief yonder be thy fellows,</L>
<L>they will &s;teal away my Cow-hide:</L>
<L>No I prote&s;t then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>for &s;o it may not be,</L>
<L>They be the Lords of <HI>Drayton Ba&s;&s;et,</HI></L>
<L>come out of the North-Country.</L>
<L>But when they came before the King,</L>
<L>full low then fell on their kn&eacute;e,</L>
<L>The tanner had rather then a thou&s;and pound,</L>
<L>he had b&eacute;en out of his company:</L>
<L>A Collar a Collar then &s;aid the King,</L>
<L>a Collar then did he cry,</L>
<L>Then would he gave a thou&s;and pound,</L>
<L>he had not b&eacute;en &s;o nigh:</L>
<L>A Collar, a Collar quoth the tanner,</L>
<L>it is a thing will breed &s;orrow,</L>
<L>For after a Collar, commeth a Halter,</L>
<L>and I &s;hall be hanged to morrow:</L>
<L>No, do not fear the King did &s;ay,</L>
<L>for pa&s;time thou ha&s;t &s;hewn me,</L>
<L>No Collar, nor Halter, thou &s;halt have,</L>
<L>but I will give thee a fee:</L>
<L>For <HI>Plumpton</HI> Park I will give th&eacute;e,</L>
<L>with tenement &amp; three be&s;ide,</L>
<L>Which is worth three hundred pound a year,</L>
<L>to maintain thy good Cow-hide:</L>
<L>God-a-merry, God-a-merry. (qd. the tanner)</L>
<L>for this good deed thou ha&s;t done,</L>
<L>If ever thou come&s;t to merry <HI>Tamworth,</HI></L>
<L>thou &s;halt have clout-leather for thy &s;hoon</L>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> F. Goles, T. Vere, J. Wright, <HI>and J.</HI> Clarke,</P>
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