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<HEAD>THE King and Northern Man: Shewing how a poor <HI>Northumberland</HI> Man (Tenant to the King) being wronged by a Lawyer (his Neighbour) went to the King him&s;elf to make known his Grievance.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Slut,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
<P>Licens'd and Enter'd.</P>
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<LG>
<L>TO drive away the weary day,</L>
<L>a book I chanced to take in hand,</L>
<L>And therein I read a&s;&s;uredly,</L>
<L>a &s;tory as you &s;hall under&s;tand:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Peru&s;ing many a Hi&s;tory over,</L>
<L>among&s;t the leaves I chanc'd to view,</L>
<L>The books name and title is this,</L>
<L>The Second Le&s;&s;on, too good to be true.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There read I of a Northumberland Man,</L>
<L>that was born and brought up in the King's land,</L>
<L>He paid twenty &s;hillings rent a year</L>
<L>to the King, as I do under&s;tand:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By him there dwelt a Lawyer fal&s;e,</L>
<L>that with his farm was not content,</L>
<L>But over the poor Man &s;till hang'd his no&s;e,</L>
<L>becau&s;e he did gather the King's rent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He told him he his lea&s;e had forf&eacute;it,</L>
<L>and that he mu&s;t there no longer abide:</L>
<L>The King by &s;uch Loons hath mickle wrong done,</L>
<L>and for you the World is broad and wide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The poor Man pray'd him for to cea&s;e,</L>
<L>and content him&s;elf, if he would be willing,</L>
<L>And pick no vantage in my lea&s;e,</L>
<L>and I &s;hall give thee forty &s;hilling.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It's neither forty &s;hilling, nor forty pound,</L>
<L>i&s;e warrant thee, can &s;o agree thee and me,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s thou yield me thy farm &s;o round,</L>
<L>and &s;tand to my courte&s;ie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The poor Man &s;aid, I may not do &s;o,</L>
<L>my Wife and my Bearns will make ill work; mark.</L>
<L>If thou with my farm wilt let me go,</L>
<L>thou &s;eem'&s;t a gude Fellow, i&s;e give thee five</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Lawyer would not be &s;o content,</L>
<L>but further i'th matter he means to &s;mell:</L>
<L>The Neighbours had the poor Man provide his rent,</L>
<L>and make a &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to the K. him&s;el.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He gat a humble &s;taff on his back,</L>
<L>a jerkin, I wot, that was of grey:</L>
<L>With a good blew bonnet, he thought it no lack;</L>
<L>to the King he is ganging as fa&s;t as he may.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He had not gone a mile out o'th' Town,</L>
<L>but one of his Neighbours he did e&s;py;</L>
<L>How far is't t'th' King, for thither i'm bound;</L>
<L>as fa&s;t as ever I can hye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am &s;orry for you, Neighbour, he &s;aid,</L>
<L>for your &s;implicity I make moan,</L>
<L>Ile warrant you, you may ask for the King,</L>
<L>when nine or ten days journey you have gone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had I wi&s;t the King had wond &s;o far,</L>
<L>i&s;e never a &s;ought him a Mile out o'th' town</L>
<L>He's either had &s;ought me, or we'd ne'r ha' come near,</L>
<L>at home I had rather ha' &s;pent a crown.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when he came to the City of London,</L>
<L>of every Man he for the King did call:</L>
<L>They told him, that him he need not to fear,</L>
<L>for the King he lies now at the White-hall,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And with '&s;pying of Farues in the City,</L>
<L>becau&s;e he had never been there beforn,</L>
<L>He lee &s;o long a bed the next day,</L>
<L>the Court was remov'd to Wind&s;or that morn.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You ha' lay too long, then &s;aid his Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>you ha' lay too long by a great while:</L>
<L>The King is now to Wind&s;or gone,</L>
<L>he's further gone by twenty mile.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I think I was cur&s;t, then &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>if I had been wi&s;e I might ha' con&s;ider,</L>
<L>Belike the King of me has gotten &s;ome weer,</L>
<L>he had ne'r gone away, had not I come hither.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He fled nor for you, then &s;aid his Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>but hye you to Wind&s;or as fa&s;t as you may:</L>
<L>Be&s;ure it will require your co&s;t,</L>
<L>for look what is pa&s;t the King will pay?</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>But when he came to Wind&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">or Ca&s;tle,</L>
<L>with his humble &s;taff on his back,</L>
<L>Although the gates wide open &s;tood,</L>
<L>he laid on them till he made 'um crack.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why &s;tay, pray Friend, art mad quoth the Porte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>what makes thee keep this &s;tir to day?</L>
<L>Why, I am a Tennant of the King's,</L>
<L>who have a me&s;&s;age to him to &s;ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The King hath Men enough, &s;aid the Porter,</L>
<L>your me&s;&s;age well that they can &s;ay.</L>
<L>Why, ther's ne'r a Knave the King doth keep,</L>
<L>&s;hall ken my &s;ecret mind to day:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I were told e're I came from home,</L>
<L>e're I got hither it would be dear bought,</L>
<L>Let me in, i&s;e give thee a &s;ingle penny,</L>
<L>I &s;ee thou wilt ha' &s;mall, e're thou do it for nought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Gramercy, &s;aid the Porter then,</L>
<L>thy reward is &s;o great I cannot &s;ay nay:</L>
<L>Yonder's a Nobleman within the Court,</L>
<L>I'll fir&s;t hear what he doth &s;ay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the Porter came to the Nobleman,</L>
<L>he &s;aid he would &s;hew him pretty &s;port,</L>
<L>There's &s;ike a Clown come to the gate,</L>
<L>as come not the&s;e &s;even years to the Court.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He calls all Knaves the King doth keep,</L>
<L>he raps at the gates, and makes great din;</L>
<L>He's pa&s;&s;ing liberal af reward,</L>
<L>he'd give a good &s;ingle penny to be let in.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let him in, then &s;aid the Nobleman,</L>
<L>Come in Fellow, the Porter gan &s;ay;</L>
<L>If thou come within thy &s;elf, he &s;aid,</L>
<L>thy &s;taff behind the gate mu&s;t &s;tay;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And this Cuckold's cur mu&s;t lig behind,</L>
<L>what a Deel, what a Cur ha&s;t got with thee?</L>
<L>The King will take him up for his own &s;el,</L>
<L>I&s;e warrant when as he doth him &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;hrew thy limbs, then &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>then mai&s;t thou count me a Fool or wor&s;e,</L>
<L>I wot not what Bankrupt lies by the King,</L>
<L>for want of money he may pick my pur&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let him in with his &s;taff and dog, &s;aid the Lord,</L>
<L>he gave a nod with's head, and a bend with's knee,</L>
<L>If you be Sir King, then &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>as I can very well think ye be:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For as I was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">old e're I came from home,</L>
<L>you'r goodlie&s;t Man that e're I &s;aw beforn,</L>
<L>With &s;o many jingle jangles about one neck,</L>
<L>as is about yours, I never &s;aw none,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am not the King &s;aid the Nobleman.</L>
<L>Fellow, though I have a proud coat.</L>
<L>If you be not the King, help me to the &s;peech of him,</L>
<L>you &s;eem a gude Fellow, i&s;e give you a Groat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Gramercy, &s;aid the Nobleman.</L>
<L>thy reward is &s;o great, I cannot &s;ay nay;</L>
<L>I'll go know the King's plea&s;ure, if I can,</L>
<L>till I come again be&s;ure you &s;tay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here's &s;ike a &s;taying, then &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>belike the King's better than any in our Country</L>
<L>I might a gane to the farthe&s;t nuke i'th' hou&s;e,</L>
<L>neither Lad nor Loon to trouble me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the Nobleman came to the King,</L>
<L>he &s;aid he could &s;hew his Grace good &s;port,</L>
<L>Here's &s;uch a Clown come to the gate,</L>
<L>as came not this &s;even years to the Court.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He calls all Knaves your Highne&s;s keeps,</L>
<L>and more then that, he terms them wor&s;e,</L>
<L>He'll not come in without his &s;taff and dog</L>
<L>for fear &s;ome Bankrupt will piek his pur&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let him in with his &s;taff, then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>that of his &s;port we may &s;ee &s;ome:</L>
<L>We'll &s;ee how he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ll handle every thing,</L>
<L>as &s;oon as our matth of Bowls is done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Nobleman led him through many a room,</L>
<L>and through many a gallery gay;</L>
<L>What a deel doth the King with &s;o many Hou&s;es,</L>
<L>that he gets them not fill'd with corn and hay?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At la&s;t they '&s;pied the King in a garden,</L>
<L>yet from his game he did not &s;tart;</L>
<L>The day was &s;o hot, he ca&s;t off his doublet,</L>
<L>he had nothing from his wa&s;t but his &s;hirt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lo yonder's the King, &s;aid the Nobleman,</L>
<L>behold, follow, lo here he goes:</L>
<L>Believ's he's &s;ome Unthrift, &s;ays the poor Man,</L>
<L>that has lo&s;t his mony, and pawn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d his cloths.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when he came before the King,</L>
<L>the Nobleman did his courte&s;ie:</L>
<L>The poor Man followed after him,</L>
<L>and gave a nod with's head, and a bend with's knee:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And if you be Sir King, then &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>as I can hardly think ye be:</L>
<L>Here is a gude Fellow that brought me hither,</L>
<L>is liker to be the King than ye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am the King, his Grace now &s;aid,</L>
<L>Fellow, let me thy ca&s;e under&s;tand.</L>
<L>If you be Sir King, I'm a Tenant of yours,</L>
<L>that was born and brought up in your own land:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There dwells a Lawyer hard by me,</L>
<L>and a fault with my lea&s;e he &s;aith he hath found,</L>
<L>And all was for felling five poor a&s;hes,</L>
<L>to build an hou&s;e upon your own ground.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ha&s;t thou a lea&s;e here, &s;aid our King?</L>
<L>or can&s;t thou &s;hew to me the deed?</L>
<L>He gave it into the King's own hand,</L>
<L>and &s;aid, Sir, here 'tis, if that you can read.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let's &s;ee thy lea&s;e, then &s;aid the King,</L>
<L>then from his black box he pull'd it out,</L>
<L>He gave it into the King's own hand,</L>
<L>with four or five knots, ty'd fa&s;t in a clout.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We'&s;t never unloo&s;e the&s;e knots, &s;aid the King,</L>
<L>he gave it to one that behind him did &s;tay.</L>
<L>It is a proud Hor&s;e, then &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>will not carry's own provender along the high-way:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pay me forty &s;hillings, as i&s;e pay you,</L>
<L>I will not think much to unloo&s;e a knot;</L>
<L>I would I were &s;o occupied every day,</L>
<L>I'd unloo&s;e a &s;core of 'em for a great.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the King had gotten the&s;e letters read,</L>
<L>and found the truth was very &s;o,</L>
<L>I warrant thee, thou ha&s;t not forfeit thy lea&s;e,</L>
<L>if thou had&s;t feld five A&s;hes mo.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ay, every one can warrant me,</L>
<L>but all your warrants are not worth a flee,</L>
<L>For he that troubles me, and will not let me go,</L>
<L>neither cares for warrant of you nor me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou'&s;t have an Injunction, &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>from troubling of thee he will cea&s;e,</L>
<L>He'll either &s;hew the good cau&s;e why,</L>
<L>or el&s;e he'll let thee live in peace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What's that Injunction? &s;aid the poor Man:</L>
<L>good Sir, to me I pray you &s;ay,</L>
<L>Why, it is a letter I'll cau&s;e to be written;</L>
<L>but art thou &s;o &s;imple as thou &s;how it to day?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why if't be a Letter, I'm never the better,</L>
<L>keep it to thy &s;elf, and trouble not me;</L>
<L>I could ha' had a letter written cheaper at home</L>
<L>and ne're a come out of my own Country.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou'&s;t have an Atachment &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>charge all that thou &s;ee&s;t take thy part.</L>
<L>Till he pay thee a hundred pound,</L>
<L>be&s;ure thou never let him &s;tart:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If any &s;eem again&s;t thee to &s;tand,</L>
<L>be&s;ure thou come hither &s;traightway.</L>
<L>Ay, marry, is that all i&s;e get for my labour,</L>
<L>then I may come trotting every day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou art hard of belief, then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>to plea&s;e him with letters he was willing,</L>
<L>I &s;ee you have taken great pains in writing,</L>
<L>with all my heart i&s;e give a &s;hilling.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I'll have none of thy &s;hilling, &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>Man, with thy money God give thee win,</L>
<L>He threw it into the King's botom,</L>
<L>the mony lay cold next to his skin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;hrew thy heart, then &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>thou art an Carl &s;omething too bold;</L>
<L>Do&s;t thou not &s;ee I am hot with Bowling,</L>
<L>and the mony next my skin lies cold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I never wi&s;t that before &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>before &s;ike time as I came hither,</L>
<L>If the Lawyers in our Country thought 'twas cold,</L>
<L>they would not heap up &s;o much together.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The King called up his Trea&s;urer;</L>
<L>and bad him fetch him twenty pound;</L>
<L>If ever thy errand lye here away,</L>
<L>I'll bear thy charges up and down.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the poor Man &s;aw the Gold down tendred</L>
<L>for to receive it he was willing:</L>
<L>If I had thought the King had had &s;o mickle gold</L>
<L>be&s;hrew my heart, i'de ha' kept my &s;hilling.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The poor Man got home the next Sunday,</L>
<L>the Lawyer &s;oon did him e&s;py;</L>
<L>O Sir, you have been a Stranger long,</L>
<L>I think from me you have kept you by.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It was for you indeed, &s;aid the poor Man,</L>
<L>the matter to the King, as I have tell:</L>
<L>I did as my Neighbour put into my head,</L>
<L>and made a &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to him my &s;el.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What a De'il did&s;t thou with the King, quoth Lawyer,</L>
<L>could not Neighbours &amp; Friends agree thee &amp; me?</L>
<L>The De'il a Neighbour or Friend that I had,</L>
<L>that would have been &s;uch a Day's Man as he:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He has gin me a letter, but I know not what they call't.</L>
<L>but if the King's words be true to me</L>
<L>When you have read and peru&s;ed it over,</L>
<L>I hope you'll leave, and let me be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He has gin me another, but I know not what too,</L>
<L>but I charge you all to hold him fa&s;t,</L>
<L>Till he pay me an hundred pound</L>
<L>I will go tye him fa&s;t tull a po&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Marry God forbid, the Lawyer &s;aid,</L>
<L>then the Tachment was read before them there,</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t needs &s;omething credit me,</L>
<L>till I go home and fetch &s;ome mear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Credit, nay that's it the King forbad,</L>
<L>he bade if I got thee I &s;hould thee &s;tay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>The Lawyer paid him an hundred pound</L>
<L>in ready mony e're he went away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Would every Lawyer were &s;erved thus,</L>
<L>from troubling poor Men they would cea&s;e;</L>
<L>They'd either &s;hew him good cau&s;e why,</L>
<L>or el&s;e they'd let him live in peace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus I end my merry &s;ong,</L>
<L>which &s;hews the plain Man's &s;implene&s;s,</L>
<L>And the King's great mercy in righting wrongs</L>
<L>and the Lawyer's fraud and wickedne&s;s.</L>
</LG>
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