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<DATE>2009-02-06</DATE>
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<NAME>Megan Marion</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B090011.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<VID>183520</VID>
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<HEAD>The Rich FARMERS Ruine VVho Murmured at the Plenty of the Sea&s;ons, becau&s;e h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> could not Sell Corn &s;o Dear as his Covetous hear<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> de&s;ired.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Why are my Eyes-&s;till flowing,</HI> As it is play'd on the <HI>Violin.</HI></OPENER>
<P>This may be Printed, <HI>R.<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></P>
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<L><HI>A</HI> We <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">thy Man a Farmer, who had Corn great &s;tore</L>
<L>Yet he was Cruel always to the Poor;</L>
<L>And as the truth of him does very well appear,</L>
<L>He thought he ne'r &s;old his Corn too dear;</L>
<L>As to the Market one day he did go</L>
<L>Finding the Prizes of Corn to be low;</L>
<L>Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d he, before I will &s;ell ought of mine,</L>
<L>I'le carry it home for to fatten my Swine.</L>
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<L>In former days, as I can make it well appear,</L>
<L>By my own Farm. I got hundreds a Year;</L>
<L>I &s;old for Ten the Corn that will not now fetch Five,</L>
<L>Is this the way for a Farmer to Thrive?</L>
<L>Yet I will now &s;ell no more at this Price,</L>
<L>But am re&s;olved to &s;tay for a Ri&s;e:</L>
<L>Thus he re&s;olved to hoard up his &s;tore,</L>
<L>That he might then make a Prey of the Poor.</L>
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<L>Another Farmer likewi&s;e then was &s;tanding by,</L>
<L>Who when he heard him he thus did reply;</L>
<L>You have a Farm and likewi&s;e Land, which is your ow<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>What cau&s;e have you then to make this &s;ad moan?</L>
<L>I that have nothing but what I do Rent,</L>
<L>With Years of plenty, rejoyce in content:</L>
<L>Give him the prai&s;e who &s;uch plenty does &s;end,</L>
<L>Left when you murmur you highly offend.</L>
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<L>Said the Mi&s;er, what tho' I have got hou&s;e and Lan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Yet I would have you now well under&s;tand,</L>
<L>I am not free to &s;ee the wa&s;ting of it all,</L>
<L>And after that into Poverty fall:</L>
<L>Have we not rea&s;on, alas! to Complain,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the Cheapne&s;s of all &s;orts of Grain?</L>
<L>If it continue, as &s;ure as the Sun,</L>
<L>I &s;hall be ruin'd and clearly undone.</L>
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<L>I, but Neighbour, pray tell me wherefore do you gr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Does not a plenty the poor Men relieve?</L>
<L>Here do I find, had you your will in &s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing Grain,</L>
<L>Then m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ght the Poor &s;oon have cau&s;e to complain:</L>
<L>For you are cruel, mo&s;t har&s;h and &s;evere,</L>
<L>And think you can never &s;ell it too dear:</L>
<L>Why &s;ays the other, what's poor Men to me?</L>
<L>I'le keep my Corn till one Peck will fetch three.</L>
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<L>Then home he went, and bitterly he did repine,</L>
<L>And in his Sub&s;tance he &s;oon did decline;</L>
<L>For he was &s;oon as Poor as any Man alive,</L>
<L>For after this he by no means cou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d Thrive:</L>
<L>As he was walking one day round his Ground,</L>
<L>His Hou&s;e was Robb'd of five hundred pound;</L>
<L>Yet this was but the beginning of Woe,</L>
<L>For in two Years he was brought very low.</L>
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<L>His Corn did wa&s;te, and many of his Cattle dy'd,</L>
<L>Al&s;o great Lo&s;&s;es and Cro&s;&s;es be&s;ide;</L>
<L>Both Hou&s;e and Land through perfect need, at length he &s;old,</L>
<L>Not<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing but Ruine he then could behold:</L>
<L>Tho' all was bla&s;ted and clearly decay'd.</L>
<L>Yet none would pitty him, but thus they &s;aid:</L>
<L>Seeing the Poor he did thus Circumvent,</L>
<L>This is no more then a ju&s;t Puni&s;hment.</L>
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<L>Like one forlorn and de&s;olate, he then did Roam,</L>
<L>Having no Dyet, Apparel, or Home,</L>
<L>But his poor Life he ended Lodging in a Barn,</L>
<L>From whence all Covetous Farmers may learn,</L>
<L>How to give thanks for a Plentiful Year,</L>
<L>And not to murmur that Corn is not dear:</L>
<L>For tho&s;e that &s;hall do it mo&s;t highly offend,</L>
<L>Think of this <HI>Farmers</HI> Vnpro&s;perous End.</L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>I. Back,</HI> at the Black Boy on <HI>London-Bridge,</HI> near the <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aw-Bridge.</HI></P>
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