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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>The forlorne Traveller:</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>Who&s;e fir&s;t beginning was plea&s;ure and joy,</L>
<L>But his riotous &s;pending wrought his decay,</L>
<L>Hee tooke delight to &s;pend and rore,</L>
<L>And at the la&s;t dy'd very poore.</L>
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<OPENER>To a dainty new Court Tune.</OPENER>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<P><FIGURE>
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<L>YOu Yong men that much plea&s;ure have</L>
<L>come lend an eare</L>
<L>To me that once lived fine and brave,</L>
<L>and voyd of all feare,</L>
<L>For I had gold and &s;ilver plenty,</L>
<L>With all things dainty,</L>
<L>and then I did rore;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But now alas I am growne poore,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And not re&s;pected, but am rejected,</HI></L>
<L><HI>woe is mee therefore.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Parents were of good e&s;tate,</L>
<L>and did maintaine</L>
<L>Me for to &s;pend at any rate,</L>
<L>which was but in vaine;</L>
<L>They 'lowd me meanes to &s;pend and revel,</L>
<L>In cour&s;es evill;</L>
<L>they &s;uch true love bore</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>To me, but now, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No Towne nor City in England faire,</L>
<L>but I have &s;eene,</L>
<L>And I doe meane for to declare,</L>
<L>whereas I have beene;</L>
<L>And in each place my meanes con&s;umed,</L>
<L>Thus I pre&s;umed</L>
<L>for to &s;pend and rore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But now alas I am, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From London I to Grave&s;-end went,</L>
<L>with coine great &s;tore,</L>
<L>To Canterbury in famous Kent,</L>
<L>and many Townes more,</L>
<L>Where I did meet with roring Gallants,</L>
<L>That &s;pent their tallents,</L>
<L>thus I company bore;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But now alas, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Su&s;&s;ex, Surrey, and Southampton,</L>
<L>and Barke&s;hire too,</L>
<L>Wilt&s;hire, Dor&s;&s;et&s;hire and &s;o on,</L>
<L>as many more doe,</L>
<L>Till all is &s;pent and they for&s;aken,</L>
<L>Then are they taken.</L>
<L>with &s;orrow full &s;ore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>So is't with me, for I, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Summer&s;et&s;hire and Devon&s;hire,</L>
<L>and Cornwall then,</L>
<L>I travel'd, as you now may heare,</L>
<L>and then backe agen,</L>
<L>Then Glo&s;ter, Hereford, and Wo&s;ter,</L>
<L>Stafford and Che&s;ter,</L>
<L>I ranged all ore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But now alas, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Ho&s;t and Ho&s;te&s;&s;es where I came,</L>
<L>bid me welcome &s;till,</L>
<L>Saying, kind &s;ir your &s;elfe may claime,</L>
<L>even what you will,</L>
<L>You may but aske and have your plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>In any mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>daunce, &s;ing, drinke and rore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But now alas, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To Darby, Yorke and Lanca&s;hire,</L>
<L>and to Comberland.</L>
<L>We&s;tmerland Durram, then I did prepare</L>
<L>to Northumberland,</L>
<L>My money now being much wa&s;ted,</L>
<L>I backward ha&s;ted,</L>
<L>for to fetch &s;ome more;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But now alas I am growne poore,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And not re&s;pected, but am rejected,</HI></L>
<L><HI>woe is me therefore.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>The &s;econd part.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>TO Le&s;ter and to Notingham,</L>
<L>I backe returned,</L>
<L>So to Warwicke and Lincolne came,</L>
<L>whereas I &s;oiourned,</L>
<L>There did I wa&s;t away my trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Beyond all mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>yet &s;till I did rore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But now alas I am growne poore.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And nor re&s;pected, but am rejected,</HI></L>
<L><HI>woe is me therefore.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Norfolke, Suffolke, and Cambridge to,</L>
<L>and through Huntington,</L>
<L>Northampton and Rutland al&s;o,</L>
<L>Oxford, Buckingham,</L>
<L>So I to Bedford, Hartford, E&s;&s;ex,</L>
<L>Then to Middle&s;ex,</L>
<L>where I lived before,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>My friends &s;oone dyed, then I, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My friends being dead, my meanes I &s;old,</L>
<L>and then did goe,</L>
<L>With gallant Sparkes of courage bold,</L>
<L>again&s;t Englands foe,</L>
<L>The <HI>Neptunes</HI> foaming floods we pa&s;&s;ed,</L>
<L>And thus we tra&s;ed</L>
<L>to the forraigne &s;hore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But now alas, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then in the exerci&s;e of <HI>Mars,</HI></L>
<L>wee &s;oone were tride,</L>
<L>Whereas our luckle&s;&s;e fortune was,</L>
<L>&s;oone for to abide,</L>
<L>Hunger and cold with bloody battell,</L>
<L>The Drummes did rattell,</L>
<L>and the Canons rore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>From thence returned I, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I for England came againe,</L>
<L>I tryed my friends,</L>
<L>To &s;ee what meanes I could obtaine,</L>
<L>but their friend&s;hip ends,</L>
<L>They &s;ay I might have beene more carefull</L>
<L>My ca&s;e is fearefull,</L>
<L>which doth grieve me &s;ore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>For now alas, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Once where ere I did come or goe,</L>
<L>I &s;till found friends,</L>
<L>But now I cannot finde it &s;o,</L>
<L>having no meanes,</L>
<L>They will not now &s;o much as know nice,</L>
<L>But doe forgoe mee,</L>
<L>now from doore to doore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>I'm faine to beg, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let this a warning be to all</L>
<L>prodigall youth,</L>
<L>Here you may now behold the fall,</L>
<L>of him that &s;hew'th</L>
<L>His carele&s;&s;e and riotous &s;pending,</L>
<L>But now his ending</L>
<L>is like to <HI>Iane Shore,</HI></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>For he was, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus to conclude I will relate,</L>
<L>of this poore man,</L>
<L>He dy'd in a wofull e&s;tate,</L>
<L>as I under&s;tand,</L>
<L>For in the open fields he dyed,</L>
<L>Being denyed,</L>
<L>to come within doore,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Nay at the Brick-kills he was burned,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And his fle&s;h turned,</HI></L>
<L><HI>to a&s;hes all o're.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>P<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="6 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> London for <HI>F. Coules.</HI></P>
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