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<HEAD>The Farmers Reformation:</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">OR, a Pattern for all Bad Husbands to Amend their Lives.</HEAD>
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<L>When all is &s;pent, there's no content,</L>
<L>but Sorrow will attend:</L>
<L>Before too late, renew thy State,</L>
<L>and learn thy Life to mend.</L>
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<OPENER>Tune of, the <HI>Ladyes of London.</HI></OPENER>
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<P>This may be printed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<LG>
<L>I Have been &s;uch a bad Husband of late,</L>
<L>that trouble and &s;orrow's en&s;uing</L>
<L>Having con&s;umed a worthy E&s;tate,</L>
<L>which almo&s;t has proved my Ruine.</L>
<L>Now I re&s;olve to alter my Life,</L>
<L>that Comforts I may be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>And will be loving and kind to my Wife;</L>
<L>there can be no greater a ble&s;&s;ing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How like a &s;orrowful Man do I look;</L>
<L>I troubled am out of mea&s;ure;</L>
<L>When I con&s;ider'd the cour&s;es I took,</L>
<L>while I was con&s;uming my trea&s;ure:</L>
<L>Every Day I wa&s;ted my &s;tore,</L>
<L>and call'd a good Husband a Mi&s;er;</L>
<L>But I re&s;olve I will do &s;o no more,</L>
<L>but leave off, and learn to be wi&s;er.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>When to the Market I went with my Corn,</L>
<L>as &s;oon as I &s;old it, to Gaming:</L>
<L>I &s;pent more free than a Gentleman born;</L>
<L>yet thought I wan't worthy of blaming.</L>
<L>Some I would lend, to others I'de give,</L>
<L>and they'd be as commonly craving:</L>
<L>But I will do &s;o no more while I live,</L>
<L>I'll learn to be Thrifty and &s;aving.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I from the Ale-hou&s;e to the Tavern wou'd come,</L>
<L>with tho&s;e that wou'd call me their honey:</L>
<L>All the long night I would &s;eldom come home,</L>
<L>as long as I had any Money,</L>
<L>While my poor Wife &s;hed many a Tear,</L>
<L>to &s;ee how I dayly did u&s;e her:</L>
<L>But I will now be more kind to my Dear,</L>
<L>and never no more will abu&s;e her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By this my Gaming I &s;oon made a hand</L>
<L>of what my old Father did leave me,</L>
<L>As being forced to Morgage my Land;</L>
<L>this did of all Comfort bereave me:</L>
<L>So that I then was near to de&s;pair,</L>
<L>and gave my &s;elf to melancholly:</L>
<L>But at length I re&s;olv'd to take care,</L>
<L>now, now, I have &s;een my own folly.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>While to that ruinous rate I did run,</L>
<L>I &s;eldom or never repented,</L>
<L>Till I perceived that I was undone,</L>
<L>and then I was griev<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d and lamented;</L>
<L>Yet I re&s;olv<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d this cour&s;e I would take,</L>
<L>for the future time that's en&s;uing,</L>
<L>All my bay Company I would for&s;ake;</L>
<L>I found they had proved my Ruine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Goods and Comforts doth daily increa&s;e,</L>
<L>by Labour I this have obtained,</L>
<L>And my kind Wife has the ble&s;&s;ing of peace,</L>
<L>&s;ince Company I have refrained:</L>
<L>Yet my old Cronys flout me each day,</L>
<L>and count me no more than a Mi&s;er;</L>
<L>Yet I'll not value what ever they &s;ay,</L>
<L>I mean to grow older and wi&s;er,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>E'ry bad Husband take warning by this,</L>
<L>and count it not as a dead Letter:</L>
<L>Though by your Folly you have done ami&s;s,</L>
<L>'tis never too late to grow better:</L>
<L>If thou ha&s;t got a loving kind wife,</L>
<L>then, then, thou ha&s;t rea&s;on to prize her;</L>
<L>Ay and to Love her as dear as thy Life,</L>
<L>and always grow older and wi&s;er.</L>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. Kell,</HI> at the Blew Anchor near <HI>Pye-Corner.</HI></P>
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