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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>JACK CATCH HIS <HI>BRIDEWEL</HI> ORATION, OR A WORD OR TWO OF ADVICE TO HIS FRIENDS.</HEAD>
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<L>GOod People all, ob&s;erve what I &s;hall tell;</L>
<L>My Name 'tis known, &s;ome know my name too well;</L>
<L>For many I have fingered in my time,</L>
<L>And made &s;ome 'gain&s;t their Wills to <HI>Wrymouth</HI> climb;</L>
<L>Strong Hemp the mighty Engine of my Trade,</L>
<L>Has got me Coyn, of which bad u&s;e I made,</L>
<L>Yet money more than manners &s;till I had,</L>
<L>More luckle&s;s is my Fate, my Ca&s;e more bad:</L>
<L>Little I thought thus to be gaz'd upon;</L>
<L>What mean you Friends, thus to come Crouding on?</L>
<L>What though I'm caught, who many caught before,</L>
<L>It does not hinder but I may catch more;</L>
<L>What though more Sauce than Pigg brought me to this?</L>
<L>Come tell me which of You han't done ami&s;s;</L>
<L>You Leer and Gape as if ye came to flout;</L>
<L>Poor <HI>Jack</HI> i'th Pens, who wou'd, but can't get out:</L>
<L>Well, well my Neighbors, 'tis not kindly done;</L>
<L>The ca&s;e in time good folks may be your own,</L>
<L>Or wor&s;e perhaps, the need that here I thump,</L>
<L>May be a means to make &s;ome of ye jump:</L>
<L>A do&s;e of This, Friends, manag'd well by me,</L>
<L>Will make you know the <HI>Squire</HI> o'th <HI>Triple-Tree:</HI></L>
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<L>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Mi&s;s,</HI> my Daughter, vvhat are you come too?</L>
<L>Fie naughty Girl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> has't nothing el&s;e to do;</L>
<L>Go get thee home, thou little &s;taring fool,</L>
<L>When I come out thou &s;halt to'th Boarding-School;</L>
<L>I have no time to hear you vvhimper novv;</L>
<L>Go, get ye home, and &s;ee vvhat's there to do,</L>
<L>Go, let my Journymen have Tripes enovv:</L>
<L>And novv good People I mu&s;t tell you plain,</L>
<L>Was I once out, I'd ne'r come here again,</L>
<L>Though 'tis a Man&s;ion I have had before,</L>
<L>A Place vvhere I have been in days of Yore,</L>
<L>And you vvill &s;ay I might have vvarning ta'n,</L>
<L>And not have tempted Fate to come again,</L>
<L>But novv I'm in, your admonitions vain:</L>
<L>Alack and Welladay, vvhat mu&s;t <HI>I</HI> do?</L>
<L>Speak Friends, a word of Comfort, one or tvvo,</L>
<L>As <HI>I</HI> in &s;uch a ca&s;e might do to you:</L>
<L>No vvay but to &s;ubmit? No there is none;</L>
<L>Well, vvell my Friends, no more it &s;hall be done,</L>
<L>And Rea&s;on too, &s;ince there is no other vvay,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> vvas a Coxcomb e'r to di&s;obey.</L>
<L>Thus haughty <HI>Jack</HI> you &s;ee vvill bate his Pride</L>
<L>Rather than be a Tennant to St. <HI>Bride:</HI></L>
<L>Then learn by me all you that &s;tomach it,</L>
<L>All you that grumble as you thought not fit,</L>
<L>To your Superiors freely to &s;ubmit,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t <HI>I</HI> put in and nimbly tye the String,</L>
<L>Which may perhaps too late Repentance bring,</L>
<L>And you a Tune that does not plea&s;e you Sing;</L>
<L>But <HI>I</HI> have &s;aid enough to you, and now</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> vvill go think vvhat el&s;e <HI>I</HI> have to do;</L>
<L>But &s;tay, <HI>I</HI> had forgot, <HI>I</HI>'ve more to &s;ay;</L>
<L>You that are Servants ha&s;ten home <HI>I</HI> pray,</L>
<L>And &s;tand not loitering here, le&s;t in the end,</L>
<L>It be your lot in this place to be pen'd;</L>
<L>And you that are not, mind your bu&s;ine&s;s too,</L>
<L>For here <HI>I</HI>'m &s;ure you little have to do,</L>
<L>Say <HI>Jack Catch</HI> told you that, and &s;o Adeu.</L>
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<P><HI>This may be Printed,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>January <HI>the</HI> 14th. 1685.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>D. M.</HI> 1686.</P>
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