%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> I tell you, John Iarret, you'l breake:/ OR,/ Iohn Iarrets wiues counsell to her husband, to haue care to his estate in this hard/ time, lest he turne Bankerout. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1630 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/09/2007 20075

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1.170-171 S2152 1 The Wiving Age Whoop! Do me no harm good man The Wiving Age PRay gentle Iohn Iarret, give care to my words,/ It is my true kindnesse this counsell affords, I tell you, Iohn Iarret, you'l breake/ I tell you, Iohn Iarret, you'l breake. {with variations} YOu see how the Farmers doe hoord vp their graine,/ No eare will they lend to the poore mens complaine, Pepys 1.170-171 STC 14476 [M. Flesher for F. Grove 1630]; Rollins (2) 1305 (Dec. 20, 1630, IV, 246, Fran. Grove). Woodblock 1: below title, above first column: A well-dressed man wears a broad-brimmed hat with a large plume and stands looking to his right. His weight is on his right leg and he holds his left leg and hand slightly off to the side. He holds his cape over his right arm and holds his stick in his left hand with the tip sitting on the ground behind him. He wears a beard and possibly mustache and wears an elaborate collar or ruff. He wears a jerkin and slops, riding boots and gloves.: 88 x 60 Woodblock 2: below title, above second column: A lady, possibly an aristocrat or royalty, stands turned slightly towards her right. She holds her right hand high in front of her chest and holds a feather fan high by her face. She wears a large, ornate collar or ruff and an ornate gown and cloak. Her dress has an ornate bodice. Her left hand rests against her left hip.: 88 x 60 Woodblock 3: below title and cast fleuron, above first column: A man stands looking slightly towards his right with his weight on his right leg. He wears a hat, he has a beard, and his right hand is at his hip and his left hand touches the cape slung over his left shoulder. He wears a jerkin, slops, and riding boots with the spurs visible. His sword is slung from his right hip and the tip is visible appearing on his left side. : 99 x 62 Woodblock 4: below title and cast fleuron, above second column: A well-dressed woman stands facing the left of the cut. She holds a large feather fan in her right hand, and rests her left hand at her waist. She wears a stiff ruff, buttoned bodice, and patterned sleeves and cuffs. A long necklace falls to her chest. She has a long skirt with vertical lines or pleats, and a crosshatched underskirt shows below it. She has a small hat with a plume, and her hair is pulled back. Her facial expression is unclear. : 89 x 50 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: 170 1: 171 I tell you, John Iarret, you'l breake:/ OR,/ Iohn Iarrets wiues counsell to her husband, to haue care to his estate in this hard/ time, lest he turne Bankerout. I tell you, John Jarret, you'l breake: OR, John Jarrets wives counsell to her husband, to have care to his estate in this hard time, lest he turne Bankerout. I Tell You, John Jarret, You'll Break: or, John Jarret's Wives Counsel to Her Husband, to Have Care to His Estate in this Hard Time, lest He Turn Bankrupt. The second part. The second part. The Second Part. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 264 x 174 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 264 x 170 uneven inking cropped right edge, damaged surface, uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons Printer 1630 {imprint cropped?} Weinstein: licensing info Weinstein does not appear to assign I:170-171 to a publisher. She notes under imprint "impringt cropped?". Her notes show that STC records F. Grove as publisher. ESTC notes that the imprint is from STC, and lists publisher as F. Grove.

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/9/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America State & Times advice infidelity marriage vice virtue 8/9/2007 Checker Gordon Batchelor ESTC matching record found: S2152 . 2/4/2005 Transcriber Apri Medina 8/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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PRay gentle John Jarret, give eare to my words, It is my true kindnesse this counsell affords, And every good husband to his wife accords: If your time you wast away at Alehouse boords, I tell you, John Jarret, you'l breake, I tell you, John Jarret, you'l breake. You see how the world to vices inclines. Which if you doe follow, my soule thus divines, That you'l want the mony which you wast in wines: Men being drunkards, are worse than base swines. I tell you John Jarret, etc. They say, at the Talbot you runne on the score, Beside, at S. Katherines you keepe a brave whore. Where you on a night spent an Angell and more: If you use such dealings, twill make you full poore. I tell you, etc. I heare y'have a wench, they call her Blacke Kate, Whose dwelling, they say, is neere to Billingsgate, Besides, how you gave her a new gowne of late: If you upon harlots doe thus waste your state. I tell you, etc. Besides, at S. Toolies, another mans wife, They say that (John Jarret) you love as your life, Twixt her and her husband you daily breed strife, Consuming your meanes, if you lead still this life, I tell you, etc.
I heare say at Wapping that you keepe another, And when you goe there, you say tis to your brother But you maintaine her, with the old bawd her mother Such scurvy dealings I by no meanes can smother: I tell you, etc. You rise in the morning before breake of day, And unto the Alehouse you straight take your way, Where you in base manner at shuffle-boord play, Untill you have wasted your money away. I tell you, etc. You have a Bastard at Brainford at nurse, That weekly doth cost you two shillings thats worse: These things, sweet John Jarret, will empty your purse Besides, if you still persever this course, I tel you, etc. You into ill company daily doe rome, Whilst I and your children sit sighing at home, With brown bread and small drink I sit like a mome And sometimes at midnight you drunke in do come I tell you, etc. This is a hard world, and every thing's deare, Sweet gentle John Jarret, my counsell pray heare Before all be wasted, I pray' have a care. For if you doe hold this course one other yeere. I tell you. John Jarret, you'l breake, I tell you, John Jarret, you'l breake.
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YOu see how the Farmers doe hoord up their graine, No eare will they lend to the poore mens complaine, Although we should starve, these Curmugins will gaine They never thinke on us, nor pitty our paine, I feare me, John Jarret, you'l breake, I feare me, John Jarret, you'l breake. This is no world to borrow nor lend Nor (if you consider it) vainely to spend: Receive this my counsell (good John) as a friend, For if you pursue this vaine course to the end, I tell you, etc. When you in your shop should be plying your worke, In some scurvy blinde Alehouse you all day doe lurke, More like than a Christian to some Jew or Turke: If thus you neglect your living and worke, I tell you, etc. Be rul'd by my counsell, good husband, I pray, For t'will be your owne I'm sure another day: Yet, if you please live full well you may, But if you persist in your drinking and play, I tell you, etc. You know, you have wasted away a good Farme, And now we want firing for to keepe us warme, Besides a good house for to shelter a storme: I give not this counsell unto you for harme: I tell you, etc.
Give over in time your scurvy base whores, For feare they should fill you with scars & with sores And laboure besides to pay your old scores: If whores still you follow, with company that rores, I tell you, etc. You see that the ould yeare is almost quite spent The new one is comming, good John then repent Your wicked old follies, and with one consent, Your downe-sinking state with care to prevent. I tell you, etc. Some that have enough, at Gods blessings repine, But whilest I live, that fault shall not be mine, Then to thy power, sweet John, with me joyne, And pray that God daily will guard thee and thine, I tell you, etc. Be rul'd by your wife, that doth love you full deare, And all ill society see you forbeare, And of these children I pray have a care, Begin a new course, I pray, with the yeare, Or else, sweet, etc. There commeth no goodnes by following of queane[s] But ryotous drinking, and wasting of meanes. Who trusts to such harlots, on wickednes leanes, And may with the Prodigall feed upon beanes. I tell you, John Jarret, you'l breake, I tell you, John Jarret, you'l breake.
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