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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<P>THE LAMENTABLE COMPLAINT <HI>OF THE</HI> NORTH-WEST <HI>COUNTREY-MAN.</HI></P>
<P><HI>By</HI> T. H.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed according to Order.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed in the yeare, 1645.</P>
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<HEAD>THE COMPLAINT OF THE NORTH-WEST <HI>COUTREY-MAN.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_YOu are well over-taken good Neighbour,</L>
<L>Whether agoo this way,</L>
<L>O how do you good <HI>John,</HI></L>
<L>I am very much di&s;contented</L>
<PB N="2" REF="3">
<L>At the&s;e times, and at my lo&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>Tis no matter which way ich go:</L>
<L>Why man, be contented?</L>
<L>A be on the &s;tronge&s;t &s;ide,</L>
<L>And thou may&s;t do well enough:</L>
<L>How? do wel enough &s;ay you neybour,</L>
<L>Why do you &s;ay &s;o? whether ich am</L>
<L>Roundhead <HI>or</HI> Cavaleer, <HI>the &s;oldiers</HI></L>
<L>Will be &s;hure to drink up all my Beer,</L>
<L>My Hens, Ducks and Gee&s;e,</L>
<L>They will be &s;hure to have a fleece:</L>
<L>In my chimney ich was wont to have</L>
<L>Eight &s;titches of bacon fat and brave,</L>
<L>But now at night it may be well hung,</L>
<L>But in the morning it will be gon,</L>
<L>Such doings makes my heart to ake:</L>
<L>And I for feare do &s;ometimes &s;hake,</L>
<L>A-pies take them all.</L>
<L>My hor&s;es I in field have fed</L>
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<L>In former time where they were bred,</L>
<L>And I road on them in peace,</L>
<L>But now my troubles do increa&s;e,</L>
<L>Altho for them I paid full deare,</L>
<L>Yet I have left me the &s;malle&s;t &s;hare:</L>
<L>A-goodieer take them all.</L>
<L>My Butter, Chee&s;e, Milk Curds, and whay,</L>
<L>They take my very &s;poon-meat away:</L>
<L>What a life is this?</L>
<L>La&s;t week ich chad &s;even &s;core &s;heep,</L>
<L>And ich made account them to keep,</L>
<L>Good profit for to make:</L>
<L>But now, alas, God wot:</L>
<L>They are all gone unto the pot,</L>
<L>Shuch havock now a-days they make,</L>
<L>My corn God Almighty ble&s;t upon the ground,</L>
<L>Into my Barn I brought it &s;ound,</L>
<L>Thinking therby to increa&s;e my e&s;tate,</L>
<PB N="4" REF="4">
<L>And to make me and my hon&s;hold for|tunate:</L>
<L>But now I mu&s;t think of another fate,</L>
<L>Alack, what &s;hall I do:</L>
<L>My woollen, linnen, and &s;huch &s;tuff:</L>
<L>Ye my verie Ruff in danger to be lo&s;t,</L>
<L>My bra&s;s and pewter &amp; &s;huch things:</L>
<L>I and my wifes rings now mu&s;t al-ago,</L>
<L>Mony I had but little &s;tore:</L>
<L>But yet they &s;ay, they will have more:</L>
<L>But wher do think ich &s;hould have it.</L>
<L>Ich have &s;ome religion as well as they,</L>
<L>Surely &s;ome men have gone a&s;tray,</L>
<L>That maketh &s;uch a quille:</L>
<L>But our &s;ins (alas) it was the way&punc;</L>
<L>That brought upon us all this fray:</L>
<L>God knoweth when toull end,</L>
<L>Our pride, &s;ecuritie, oppre&s;sion it was great:</L>
<L>When the Chri&s;tian World was in a fret:</L>
<L>And toild with bloudie War:</L>
<L>But now our &s;hare is come in ha&s;te,</L>
<PB N="5" REF="4">
<L>And daily make us for to wa&s;te,</L>
<L>The like was never known:</L>
<L>So many bloudy battels in four Yeers,</L>
<L>The like &s;torie you did never heare</L>
<L>In any Chri&s;tian age, our land,</L>
<L>Now full well is known to be in wars:</L>
<L>And jars, i&s;h bloudie ones in all the Chri&s;tian World:</L>
<L>This is the land, &s;ay they,</L>
<L>That lived in wealth and &s;tore,</L>
<L>But nowtheir &s;orrows are grown more denie,</L>
<L>Then any Land be&s;ides:</L>
<L>This is Gods true Church wee cannot</L>
<L>But Chri&s;t abundance there will ju&s;ti|fie,</L>
<L>God &s;end them well to end.</L>
<L>God ble&s;s our <HI>King</HI> &amp; <HI>Parlament,</HI></L>
<L>And grant at la&s;t they may con&s;ent,</L>
<L>To have a godly peace:</L>
<L>Lord ble&s;&s;e this people great &amp; &s;mall,</L>
<PB N="6" REF="5">
<L>And grant that we on him may call</L>
<L>In truth and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That he may &s;end us a godly peace,</L>
<L>That &s;o our joys they may increa&s;e:</L>
<L>And we may prai&s;e Gods Name there|fore: <HI>AMEN.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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