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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Tobies Experience Explaind:</HEAD>
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<L>Good Fellows all, whatever you be,</L>
<L>I pray take this advice of me:</L>
<L>Strength will decay Old age will come,</L>
<L>Therefore &s;ave &s;omething while your yong</L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>That Dill Doul</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>GOod Fellows all I pray draw near,</L>
<L>to what I here have lately pend.</L>
<L>You'l &s;ay 'tis true I do not fear,</L>
<L>and take the Author for your friend:</L>
<L>For by experiance I have &s;een;</L>
<L>how Landladys, draw good Fellows in,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With pray come in, will not you &s;tay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I have not &s;een you this many a day.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Come <HI>Joan,</HI> where is our Maid gone?</L>
<L>bring a Chair for this hone&s;t man,</L>
<L>Come pray &s;it down you'l &s;tay &s;o long,</L>
<L>to &s;moak a pipe e'er you are gone;</L>
<L>Such tricks they have, and ten times wor&s;e,</L>
<L>to draw the Coyn out of your pur&s;e</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With pray Sir &s;tay will you go away,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I have not &s;een you this many a day.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then &s;he'l whi&s;per in your ear,</L>
<L>pray Sir, will you drink Ale or Beer,</L>
<L><HI>Ioan</HI> fill a Flaggon, of the be&s;t,</L>
<L>this is my friend, and my old gue&s;t:</L>
<L>And &s;omething more I will you tell,</L>
<L>you are a man that I love well,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And you &s;hall &s;tay, you &s;hall not goe away,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I have not &s;een you this many a day.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then perhaps a Maid may be,</L>
<L>will come and &s;mile up in your face,</L>
<L>And She'l &s;it down upon your knee,</L>
<L>to keep you longer in that place:</L>
<L>Then you may ki&s;s, and &s;omething more,</L>
<L>&s;o long as you have money in &s;tore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>The&s;e are the bates which they do lay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>poore hone&s;t men for to betray.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some Landladys have got the Gout,</L>
<L>they &s;carce can turn their Ar&s;s about,</L>
<L>They are &s;o la&s;y, and &s;o fat,</L>
<L>their money is &s;o ea&s;ily got:</L>
<L>Some do complain of the Exci&s;e,</L>
<L>but I am &s;ure that poor trades men pays;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Their mea&s;ure now is made &s;o &s;hort.</HI></L>
<L><HI>that we may pay full three pence a quart.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Labouring man mu&s;t work all day,</L>
<L>for meat and one poor &s;ixpence pay,</L>
<L>If in an Ale hou&s;e once he went,</L>
<L>how quickly is that &s;ixpence &s;pent:</L>
<L>Therefore go not into their dore,</L>
<L>for they are fat enough before,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But mind your wife if you have one,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and let the&s;e fat ar&s;e dames alone.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Good fellows all that &s;tand here by,</L>
<L>will you &s;ay this my &s;ongs a lye,</L>
<L>I think you may confe&s;s 'tis true,</L>
<L>and &s;o I &s;ay as well as you.</L>
<L>It is &s;o publick to be &s;een,</L>
<L>what tricks they have to draw men in,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With pray come in, will not you &s;tay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>pray call when you do come this way,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How happy might we live and brave,</L>
<L>if we our money did but &s;ave,</L>
<L>And not maintain tho&s;e La&s;y queens,</L>
<L>that never doth take any pains:</L>
<L>Nor toyl, nor wag out of their Chear,</L>
<L>to draw a man a pot of Beer,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But call the maid, where is &s;he gone,</HI></L>
<L><HI>draw &s;ome beer for this hone&s;t man.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o I do conclude and end,</L>
<L>I pray ob&s;erve what here is pend,</L>
<L>Bye one of them both great and &s;mall.</L>
<L>and put them up again&s;t your wall:</L>
<L>The price a penny, and that's not dear,</L>
<L>'twill &s;ave you two pence in a year.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;o I hope you I gain thereby,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I end having no more to &s;ay.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> P. Brooksby, <HI>in</HI> We&s;t-&s;mithfield</P>
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