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<NAME>Susie Lorand</NAME>
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<HEAD>The poor Mans Coun&s;ellor, OR, <HI>The marryed mans Guide.</HI></HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>If God have ble&s;t thee with a careful wife</L>
<L>Take my directions how to lead thy life,</L>
<L>Tho Riches thou do&s;t want yet thou &s;halt find</L>
<L>Far greater wealth in a contented mind,</L>
<L>Thy hone&s;t labour &s;hall thy charge maintain,</L>
<L>Being truly got, not by unlawful gain.</L>
</LG>
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<OPENER>Tune of, The Poor Man's Comfort,</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>COme friend if thy lei&s;ure permit th&eacute;e to &s;tay,</L>
<L>Ile teach thee &s;ome precepts the &s;ame to obey,</L>
<L>Now thou ha&s;t betaken thy &s;elf to a Wife</L>
<L>How thou mai&s;t live happy all daies of thy life,</L>
<L>Then take my directions tho thou art but poor</L>
<L>Ile learn thee to keep the wolf from the door.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tis not all mens fortune great Riches to have</L>
<L>And they that have little have mo&s;t need to &s;ave,</L>
<L>For Riches have wings and away they will fly</L>
<L>And leave them for&s;aken that once were &s;o high,</L>
<L>A little is better with peace and content</L>
<L>Then wealth in abundance in mi&s;ery &s;pent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The wealth of the world doth too many bewitch</L>
<L>And they are too blame that make ha&s;t to be rich</L>
<L>For goods ill gotten like &s;now-bals will wa&s;t</L>
<L>And he that was rich &s;hall be poor at the la&s;t.</L>
<L>Therefore be content with a lowly degr&eacute;e</L>
<L>And God will provide in due time you &s;hall &s;&eacute;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou ha&s;t a wife that is loving and kind</L>
<L>Great comfort in her at all times thou wilt find</L>
<L>Whatever betide thee &s;he will bear a &s;hare</L>
<L>And help to advize thee in woe or welfare,</L>
<L>Then &s;trive not her patience at all to provoke</L>
<L>But freely &s;ubmit to draw both in a yoak.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>A wife that is froward I do not commend</L>
<L>What thou do&s;t take pains for &s;he'l lavi&s;hly &s;pend</L>
<L>And do what thou can&s;t for to humor her &s;till</L>
<L>She'l hold th&eacute;e in &s;corn if &s;he want of her will,</L>
<L>Make much of thy wife that is loving and cha&s;t</L>
<L>For &s;he will be &s;aving and fearful to wa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Each morning when thou do&s;t thy labor begin</L>
<L>Have God in thy mind 'twill keep thee from &s;in</L>
<L>A penny hard earned, &s;ince it is thy lot</L>
<L>Will do thee more good than a pound thats ill got,</L>
<L>Then labour to thrive by the &s;weat of thy brows</L>
<L>For thats the be&s;t way all hone&s;t men knows.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If God give a ble&s;&s;ing that Children you have</L>
<L>The more you mu&s;t labour in time for to &s;ave</L>
<L>And do not you murmure &amp; count them a charge</L>
<L>The better you'l thrive, &amp; your &s;tock will inlarge</L>
<L>Twil be a great comfort thy children to &s;ee</L>
<L>If that they obedient and dutiful be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let no man intice thee thy money to wa&s;t</L>
<L>Be careful to &s;pare and lay up what thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>Whoever &s;hall ask thee, he is not thy friend</L>
<L>To go to the Alehou&s;e thy money to &s;pend,</L>
<L>Avoid &s;uch bad cour&s;es as bring men to want</L>
<L>And thou &s;halt have plenty when others have &s;cant.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lewd hou&s;es and Gaming be &s;ure that you &s;hun</L>
<L>Ther's many frequent them and &s;o are undone</L>
<L>By &s;uch bad companions a man that's mi&s;led</L>
<L>May quickly be brought to a mor&s;el of bread</L>
<L>A cup of good liquor at home with thy wife</L>
<L>Will chear up your hearts, &amp; prevent farther &s;trife.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be courteous and kind to thy neighbours abo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>And then they will love thee thou need not t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Avoid all contention with &s;trife and debate</L>
<L>For that will procure thee all hone&s;t mens h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>Be civil to all men as they are to thee</L>
<L>Then kindly re&s;pected thou &s;urely &s;halt be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If times do prove hard and Money be &s;cant,</L>
<L>Then labour for little before you do want,</L>
<L>And thankfully take what&s;oever God &s;ends</L>
<L>As times do grow better it will make amends</L>
<L>A dinner of Herbs with content &s;erves as w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>As all the rich dainties which far doth excel.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When thou for thy labour &s;ome Money ha&s;t g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Be &s;ure do not &s;pend it in to&s;&s;ing the pot,</L>
<L>Make ha&s;te to thy wife and children &s;mall,</L>
<L>And that will &s;upply when they for bread do c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>'Twould be a great grief to thee whil&s;t thou d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>To hear thy Babes cry and have nothing to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
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<LG>
<L>Whatever affliction befall thee or thine,</L>
<L>Yet do not thou murmur or &s;&eacute;em to repine,</L>
<L>For God that hath given thee mean to &s;ub&s;i&s;t</L>
<L>Can take it away when&s;oever he li&s;t,</L>
<L>Therefore be contented whatever betide,</L>
<L>Submit with all patience and God will provi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Take care to remember what here I have told</L>
<L>And value it dearer then &s;ilver or gold,</L>
<L>When thou art inclined to wander a&s;tray</L>
<L>Perhaps it may bring thee into the right way</L>
<L>And by thy example all others may &s;ee,</L>
<L>'Tis good to be careful and live hone&s;tly.</L>
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