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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140720.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>JACK</HI> the Plough-Lads <HI>LAMENTATION:</HI></HEAD>
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<L>His Ma&s;ter has for&s;aken the Plough and the Cart,</L>
<L>Which grieves poor <HI>IACK</HI> unto the heart,</L>
<L>For night and day he doth &s;orely complain,</L>
<L>And doth wi&s;h that his Ma&s;ter would come home again.</L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Prentices fuddle no more.</HI></OPENER>
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<L><HI>GEntlemen, Gentlemen,</HI> li&s;ten to my Ditty,</L>
<L>and a prety new &s;iory I to you will &s;ing,</L>
<L>No harm I do mean to Town nor to City;</L>
<L>But I wi&s;h us good tydings to come this <HI>Spring:</HI></L>
<L>Or he that has mo&s;t will &s;oon have but little.</L>
<L>Poor <HI>England</HI> is gotten to &s;uch a mad &s;train,</L>
<L>Rich <HI>jack</HI> with poor Gill may walk to the <HI>Spittle.</HI></L>
<L><HI>To pray for good tydings to come o're the main.</HI></L>
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<L>For I am a poore <HI>Plough-lad,</HI> and in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>My Ma&s;ter is gone alas! what &s;hall I do,</L>
<L>And I a poor Servant here &s;orely oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>Great loads and taxations I am brought unto;</L>
<L>Yet ou't I livy well as many can tell,</L>
<L>My land in good <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">lage my &s;elf to maintain;</L>
<L>Now every <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">un threatens me for to pillage,</L>
<L><HI>But I would that my Ma&s;ter would come home again.</HI></L>
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<L><HI>Gentlemen, Gentlemen,</HI> I could well think on it,</L>
<L>If that my Ma&s;ter would come home again,</L>
<L>Though it may be there is &s;ome would look &s;adly on it,</L>
<L>Yet he that is hone&s;t would never complain:</L>
<L>A Servant thats true, his joys would renew;</L>
<L>But he that is rotten be &s;ure would complain,</L>
<L>But if it were faulty, it were be&s;t to be packing.</L>
<L><HI>If that my Ma&s;ter &s;hould come home again.</HI></L>
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<L><HI>Countrey-man, Cuntrey-man,</HI> that hears my <HI>Ditty</HI></L>
<L>Li&s;&s;en unto me, mark what I &s;hall &s;ay,</L>
<L>Ther's no hone&s;t man in Town nor in Citty,</L>
<L>But if he be bound then he mu&s;t obey:</L>
<L>His gold and his money he mu&s;t not &s;pare,</L>
<L>The Cau&s;e of poor <HI>England</HI> for to maintain,</L>
<L>And the w&eacute;eping-cro&s;&s;e may &s;all to his &s;hare,</L>
<L><HI>But I would that my Ma&s;ter would come home agai<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
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<L><HI>Yeomandry, Yeomandry,</HI> to you I call,</L>
<L>Li&s;&s;en unto me as well as the re&s;t;</L>
<L>Your lands and your livings be they great or &s;mall,</L>
<L>Your fortune's to pay here as well as the re&s;t:</L>
<L>Though Canons be roaring, and Bullets be flying,</L>
<L>And legs and Armes doth fly in the main,</L>
<L>Men &s;till mu&s;t &s;tand to it and never fear dying.</L>
<L><HI>But I would that my ma&s;ter would come home.</HI></L>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<HEAD>The &s;econd part,</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>ANd as for us Plough-men as well as the re&s;t,</L>
<L>Much &s;orrow comes to us: <HI>yet for us now pray,</HI></L>
<L>We do not with&s;tand, but mu&s;t pay with the be&s;t,</L>
<L>If for it we work, I &s;ay, both night and day:</L>
<L>To the Plough and Cart with a heavy heart,</L>
<L>To &s;tir up our ground, and to &s;ave our Grain;</L>
<L>So &s;mall is our &s;hare that fals to our part,</L>
<L><HI>Would God that my Ma&s;ter would come home again.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Thus like to the <HI>Ant</HI> and the painful <HI>Bee.</HI></L>
<L>We labor and toyl all the days of our life,</L>
<L>Though &s;mall to be got, we mu&s;t give a great fee,</L>
<L>Nay, I could &s;ay more, but I love no &s;trife:</L>
<L>Yet few there be, but may under&s;tand</L>
<L>The truth of my Ditty why I do complain:</L>
<L>Yet I wi&s;h true Peace would pity this Land,</L>
<L><HI>Would God that my Ma&s;ter would come home again,</HI></L>
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<L>And now for all <HI>Trade&s;-men</HI> that lives in the City,</L>
<L>I wi&s;h you good fortune as well as the re&s;t;</L>
<L>I pray you con&s;ider well of this my Ditty,</L>
<L>And th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n you may &s;ee who is the mo&s;t oppre&s;t:</L>
<L>For we with hard labor our money do get,</L>
<L>With toyling and moyling in &s;orrow and pain,</L>
<L>No &s;ooner we have it but from us irs fet.</L>
<L><HI>But I wou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d thus my Ma&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r would come home again.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>O my Ma&s;ter is gone, and my Mi&s;tris too,</L>
<L>And I am de&s;pi&s;ed by every Clown.</L>
<L>My &s;orrows increa&s;e, alas! what &s;hall I do,</L>
<L>No plea&s;ure I finde in City nor Town:</L>
<L>For I do lament, and &s;orely repent,</L>
<L>The lo&s;&s;e of my Ma&s;ter it will be my hane</L>
<L>Though &s;ome do rejoyce, I am di&s;content</L>
<L><HI>Would God that my Ma&s;ter would come home again.</HI></L>
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<L>And now to conclude, and end this my Ditty,</L>
<L>The truth of my minde I here have made known,</L>
<L>All hone&s;t Plough-men in Town or in City,</L>
<L>May well under&s;tand why I make this mone:</L>
<L>For my Ma&s;ter i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> fled, and Love bani&s;hed,</L>
<L>Small truth in this world I &s;ee for to rain,</L>
<L>No plea&s;ure I find at beonor at boord,</L>
<L><HI>Vntil that my Ma&s;ter doth come home again.</HI></L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>T.R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard Burton.</HI> 1654.</P>
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