%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Knauery in all Trades,/ OR,/ Here's an age would make a man mad. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1632 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/09/2007 20073

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1.166-167 S126207 1 Ragged and torne and true Old Simon the King Ragged and Torn and True AS I was walking of late,/ within the fields so faire, All honesty is decay'd,/ here's an age would make a man mad. THe Taylor can neuer liue well,/ as many men plainely perceiues, Pepys 1.166-167 STC 19250 for F. Grove [1632]; Rollins (2) 1383 (July 16, 1632, IV, 281, Fran. Grove). Woodblock 1: above first column, below title, to left of second woodcut: A well-dressed man looks to the left, wears a round hat, and wears an ornate robe or cape with short sleeves attached. Below his cape or robe he wears an ornate jerkin or doublet and slops. He wears hose and black shoes. In his left hand he holds a scroll. His right arm is bent at his side and he holds his hand at shoulder height. : 78 x 57 Woodblock 2: above second column and cast fleuron, below title: An ornately dressed man stands looking to his right with his weight on his left leg. He wears ornately decorated slops, a jerkin or doublet, and a sash extends across his chest from his right shoulder to his left hip. He has curly hair and wears a broad-brimmed hat. His elbows are held in at his waist but he raises his hands in front of him.: 79 x 72 Woodblock 3: above first column and cast fleuron, below title: A knight, noble, or lord stands facing forward. He wears a large plumed hat, a ruff, and an ornate, dark cape. His sword hangs from his right hip behind him, with the tip visible to his left. He wears riding boots with spurs. He wears a moustache and seems to be smiling. His right hand is at his hip and his left hand is held in front of him. : 84 x 65 Woodblock 4: above second column, below title: 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 45 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: 166 1: 167 Knauery in all Trades,/ OR,/ Here's an age would make a man mad. Knavery in all Trades, OR, Here's an age would make a man mad. Knavery in All Trades: or, Here's an Age Would Make a Man Mad. The second part. The second part. The Second Part. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 270 x 147 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 270 x 140 uneven inking, set-off from opposite page visible creased, uneven inking, set-off from opposite page visible cast fleurons cast fleurons Printer 1632 London, printed for F. Groue. F. Groue Weinstein: licensing info Weinstein lists I:166-167 under Francis Grove. BBTI confirms only one person with intitials F. G. active in 1629. ESTC lists the ballad under F. G[rove].

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AS I was walking of late, within the fields so faire, My minde to recreate, well nye orecome with care: I heard two men discourse, as I along did walke, It mov'd mee with remorse, to hearken to their talke, Full oftentimes they said, (to heare them I was sad) All honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad. The one to the other did say, what course shall I take to live, For none can thrive at this day, but such as their mindes doe give? To over-reach and deceive, and doing of others wrong, All they that such courses leave, may sing the Begger-Boyes Song, A man can scarce thrive by his trade mens consciences are so bad, All honesty is decay'd, here's an age will make a man mad. Hee that is rich already, is like still to bee so, And he that is poore and needy, his burthen must undergoe; Tis a Proverb us'd in our Towne, it hath beene and ever will, That if a man be once downe, the world cryes downe with him still, How shall a man finde a trade, whereby true meanes may be had, All honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad.
If a poore man be wrong'd by a rich, as alas we daily see, Without money to goe through stitch, in a pittifull case is hee: He were better to pocket up wrong, than himselfe into trouble to draw, For unlesse his pockets be strong, tis but folly to meddle with Law, This makes many men dismay'd, for the fee makes a case good for bad, All honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad. Betweene the Lawyer and the money-begetting Mizer, Men lose both house and land, and afterwards wish they had bin wiser: Although we have plenty of Graine, yet the rich make among us a dearth, Which causeth the poore to complaine, as though little grew on the earth, Ingrossing is growne such a trade, that the poore have great cause to be sad, All honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad. One tradesman deceaveth another, and sellers will conycatch buyers, For gaine one wil cheat his own brother, the world's full of swearers and lyars: Men now make no conscience of oathes, and this I may boldly say, Some Rorers doe were gallant clothes, for which they did never pay: The rich shall a Saint be made, though his life be never so bad, All honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad.
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THe Taylor can never live well, as many men plainely perceives, Unlesse he have gaines from hell, or lives upon Cabidge leaves; O is't not a pittifull case, and a thing which few men beleeves? A Taylor that will live in grace, cuts out of one gowne three sleeves: Thus they must use their Trade, or else little meanes can be had, All honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad. The Victualers, Tapsters and Cookes, are hindered very sore, With man[y] sharking Rookes, that use to encroch on their skore: And when they are once in chalke, the hoose they will refraine, And to other places they'l walke, but never come there againe, This trusling without being paid, breakes many an honest Lad, All honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad. Plaine dealing now is dead, and truth is so rare to finde, That most men now are led, contrary unto kinde: Where one man's just and sound, whose words and deeds agree, A dozen may be found, that will from their promise flee, Such knaves makes men afraid, to beleeve a tru[e] hearted Lad, For honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad.
Such horrible abuse, is practis'd in this Nation, A fashion now in use, next month is out of fashion: Our men are effeminate, which all their manhood disgraces, And makes our foes of late, to jeere us to our faces, They were of us afraid, when English hearts wee had, Our honour is much decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad. A man I may rightly say, may be mad to note these times, Since Vertue doth decay, and Vice to preferment climes: Now covetousnesse and pride, is ore the Land bespread, All charities laid aside, and conscience is quite dead: The Master abuseth his Maid, which makes the Mistris sad, Thus honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad. Some men that have wives at home, both beautifull, vertuous, and chaste, Abroad amongst whores doe rome, and with them their meanes they wast: While the wife at home doth stay, the husband in Tavernes doth roare, She thinkes he is busie all the day, indeed so he is with his whore: In briefe no more need be said, all things doe appeare too bad, For honesty is decay'd, here's an age would make a man mad.
London, printed for F. Grove. FINIS. M.P.