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1.156-157 S126200 1 The Golden Age Whoop! Do me no harm good man The Golden Age YOu Poets that write of the ages that's past,/ I pray stay your hand and write not too fast, O this is an honest age,/ This is a plaine dealing age. {with variations in final stanza} ALso the Butcher so ioviall and bold,/ Is turn'd a plaine dealer as you may behold, author name from STC and Rollins Pepys 1.156-157 STC 20315 for H. G[osson 1632]; Rollins (2) 1134 (May 24, 1632, IV, 278, Henry Gosson, Fran. Coles). Woodblock 1: first 1/2 sheet folio, below cast fleuron, title and tune, above column 1, 2 : A bearded man stands facing the left of the cut. He wears a broad brimmed hat, a baldrick, a jerkin, and a short kilt or slops. His slops are either ornately decorated or have somethign handing against them from his belt. He holds his right hand out, bent at the elbow, and his left arm reaches across his body toward his right. The man stands on a tiled floor.: 79 x 71 Woodblock 2: first 1/2 sheet folio, below cast fleuron, title and tune, above column 2, 3: A noble or lord stands facing his left. He holds his (large) right hand in the air, and carried a rolled scroll in his left hand. He wears a large hat, a small ruff, and a short sleeved black overcoat. He wears decorative wrist cuffs a short fancy tunic, hose, and black shoes. he has pronounced eyebrows and a moustache.: 77 x 57 Woodblock 3: 2nd 1/2 sheet folio, below cast fleuron, title and tune, above column 3: A well-dressed man stands on some type of tiled floor. He wears a plumed hat or helmet and possibly has a mustache or beard. He wears an ornate waistcoat and breeches, and has some sort of collar or ruff around his neck. A ribbon is tied across his chest and he wears a heavy cape. A sword swings from his waist and points in the direction of the man's left. Another object appears to be attached to his waist on the right side. His left hand holds his waist and his right hand is extended to his side.: 77 x 60 Woodblock 4: 2nd 1/2 sheet folio, below cast fleuron, title and tune, above column 4: An old woman stands facing forward, her right arm extended and in her right hand she holds an object. She wears a full-skirted, ornate dress and a cord with tassles falls from her waist. She wears ornate, puffed sleeves and her bodice is elaborately embroidered. Her hair is pulled back into a bun or bonnet.: 82 x 40 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 156 1: 157 The Honest Age,/ OR/ There is honesty in all Trades;/ As by this Ditty shall appeare,/ Therefore attend and giue good eare. The Honest Age, O R There is honesty in all Trades; As by this Ditty shall appeare, Therefore attend and give good eare. The Honest Age: or, There Is Honesty in all Trades; As by this Ditty shall Appear, therefore Attend and Give Good Ear. The second part. The second part. The second part. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 259 x 160 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 260 x 165 cropped right edge, torn bottom edge, uneven inking cropped top edge, creased, uneven inking vertical rule and cast fleurons vertical rule and cast fleurons Printer 1601-1640 London, Printed for H.G. H. G. Weinstein: STC and licensing info. Weinstein lists I:156-157 under H. G. [Henry Gosson]. BBTI and Plomer confirm Gosson's activity ca. 1628. ESTC lists H. G[osson].

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YOu Poets that write of the ages that's past, I pray stay your hand and write not too fast, Ile write of an age that for ever shall last, Plaine dealing in Country and City is plac't. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. Some people at these strange tidings will muse, And some will be joyfull to heare such rare newes, Then list to my Ditty for it briefly shewes, No man Ile offend, then let no man refuse, To heare of this honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. And first to goe forw[a]rd as now I intend, I heare that the Broker his money will lend To any poore Neighbour his estate to amend, How well is that man that hath got such a friend. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. The Chandler that keepes coles and fewel to sell, Doth top heape his measure and soundly it fill, For S[ope] Starch, and Candle he wayeth so well, That of his plaine dealing his neighbors can tell. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age.
The Taylor doth scorne to deceive any friend, But unto plaine dealing his mind he doth bend, If once he were false he hath sworne to amend, No more cloth, nor silke, lace, to hell he will send. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. The Cookes in Pye-corner deceit will not use, In rosting meat three times their trade to abuse, They'l rather both custome and money refuse, Than use a man falsely if that they can chuse. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. The Tapster is willing to give men content. To sell them full measure his humour is bent If a man score a dozen he will not repent, Nor take of you hate for the beere which is spent. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. I heare this of Bakers in sizing of bread, Tho some think that conscience from Bakers is fled Since one through the Pillery put forth his head, No more of their company will be misled. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age.
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The second part. To the same tune:</hi></seg>
ALso the Butcher so joviall and bold, is turn'd a plaine dealer as you may behold, They'l put forth no [tainted] meat for to be sold To wrong any Neighbour for silver nor gold, O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. The Miller that used too deepe to take tole, Is now in great feare to endanger his soule, Of late Robin Conscience tooke him by the pole. And charg'd him to flye those offences so foule. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. The Brewer that made his beere very small, Hath changed his hand since Malt had a fall, And by this meanes gained the love of them all, The rich and the poore, the great and the small. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. And the neat Shooemaker who merrily sings, Whose predecessors were heires unto Kings, To such good perfection all matters he brings, That throughout all Europe his credit rings, O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. The Weaver, the Glover, the Mason also, The Painter that makes such a gorgious show, The Pewterer, the Plummer with other trades mo
Will use no false dealing where ever they goe. O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. The Cooper, the Blacksmith the ancient translater The Copper-nos'd tinker with his wife that kind creture And that swaggering Sowgelder & Jack that great eater Hath sworne to his wife that he never will beat her O this is a quiet age, This is a plane dealing age. The Spendthrift that used in Taverns to rore, With wine and Tobacco and sometimes a whore Say's now hee'l live honest and doe so no more. If he have spare money hee'l give it to the poore, O this is an honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. All this honest company which I have nam'd, I trust will like of it I shall not be blam'd, For this rare new Ditty in love I have fram'd, I know no plaine dealing man will be asham'd. To heare of this honest age, This is a plaine dealing age. Thus here you see honesty flyes up and downe, through Citty, through Country through Village & Town, Amongst other vertues it merits renown, By this for example that it may be knowne, That this is the honest age, The best and honstest age.
London, Printed for H. G. F I N I S L.P.