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1.180-181 S124544 1 the meddow brow Walking in a Country Town The Meadow Brow TWo louing Friends once meeting/ by chaunce vpon the way: I would you had not said so. {variations in final stanza} THere are some in our Parrish,/ that too much are to blame: I would you had not said so. {variation in final stanza} Pepys 1.180-181 Rollins (1) I:122-127; STC 14045.7 [J. White] for T. L[angley 1618]; Rollins (2) 1210 (July 8, 1618, III, 629, Tho. Langley). Woodblock 1: 1st 1/2 sheet folio, under title and tune, above column 1: 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. : 97 x 62 Woodblock 2: 1st 1/2 sheet folio, under title and tune, above column 2: A man stands in a wide stance, with his right hand on his chest and his left hand extended across his body. He wears a wide brimmed tall hat with a plume, a small ruff, short pantaloons or slops, ans a sword at his waist. He has an open cloak, and his hose are held with ribbon garters, and he has riding boots with spurs. Some grass is behind him. The man appears to be smiling: 84 x 60 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: 180 1: 181 I would you neuer had said so, I would you never had said so, I Would You never Had Said so. The Second part. The Second part. The Second Part. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 269 x 142 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 267 x 146 cropped top edge, damaged surface, uneven inking, set-off from another ballad visible uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons Printer 1618 Printed at London for T. L. T. L. Weinstein: STC and licensing info Langley registered this ballad

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TWo loving Friends once meeting by chaunce upon the way: In kindnesse gave each other, the good time of the day: And the one desir'd the other, along with him to goe: The other denayd, and to him said, I would you had not said so. Beeing demaunded why, that he that wish desir'd? Why sir quoth he my reason is, because I am almost tyr'd: And are you tyr'd quoth he, tis more then I did know? Then truely since with all my hart, I would you had not said so. But seeing you are weary, now let us take repose: Heere let us sit and rest us, and to you Ile disclose: Some Vices in the Country, amongst us dayly grow: If youle attend good Sir quoth hee, I would you had not said so. For truely in the Citty, from whence I came are more: More hatefull vices, name you one, Ile name you halfe a score:
Ist possible (quoth he) the Citty so should flow? With Vice in such abundance, I would you had not said so. But now sir for the Country, because I must begin: Ile first speake of the Mizer, that lump, that heape of sinne: This urchin is a Farmer, whom many men doe know: He scrapes and hoards the Divell and all I would you had not said so. Though Barnes and Racks be full, though Chists be cram'd with Coine: And though he nothing wanteth, yet must he needs purloyne: His Tennants Rents heele raise, his Neighbors heele undoe: By removing of their Land markes, I would you had not said so. And if a Neighbour hath, neere him a pee[ce of?] ground: Heele never leave by right nor wrong, till it to him be bound: If true meanes cannot get it, he then to Law will goe: And wrong a poore man for his owne, I would you had not said so.
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THere are some in our Parrish, that too much are to blame: For in a yeere scarse once, they to the Church ere came: But doth the Alehouse haunt, and so themselves undoe: O Lord sure quoth the other againe, I would you had not said so. O sir I could reveale quoth hee, of truths a number more: Which shame makes me conceale, but yet I greeve therefore: For many doe offend, which heare I may not show: Truely replide the other then, I would you had not said so. Then heare me (qd.) the Townesman for fearelesse Ile begin: Apparantly to tell you, now of the Citties sinne: There's all the acts of Rogarie, or ought that longs thereto: Fore tend it quoth the Countryman, I would you had not said so. The Courtiers proud, and Lawyers, doth knavish cunning use: The Trades man by his bying, doth many men abuse: All the Informers are turnd knaves, they little good do do: The Sargeants cruell, sir quoth he, I would you had not said so. The Broker in the Hundred takes: good man but Foure score: His Conscience is so upright, he will not aske for more: The Bawd she will turne honest, when whores she doth forgoe: That will be never, sir quoth hee, I would you had not said so. The Curtizans shall vertious proove, when all their faults are fled: And Punckes shall surely honest live, when Panders all are dead: The Taylour he [sha]ll steale no more, when he hath no worke to doe: He cannot then the other said, I would you had not said so.
The Brother gainst his brother, and Father gainst the Sonne: The sonne against the Father goes, till they are all undone: And Wives against their Husbands, doe make to much a doe: Sir this quoth th'other grieves me most, I would you had not said so. Most men so impious are, that they devise all evills: And in their dealings worser proove, then doe incarnate Divells, The Citty Wives phantastick prove, yet make a modest show: Their wiles theyle have the other said, I would you had not said so. Their Scycephanting Parrazites, their Mistris humours smooth, And eke the cheating basse Decoy, poore country men doe sooth: Till by their Cheating tricks, they quite doe them undoe: Quoth he this case is pittifull, I would you had not said so. Thus have you heard what newes, is now within the Citty: How all doe practise villanie, without remorse or pittie: Let us now having rested, upon our Jorney goe, Where to, though loath hee greed, yet said I would you had not said so. Trust me it is great pitty, to heare this bad report: Of Country, and of Citty, how all men doe extort: I would they would reforme, and thinke whats best to doe: That Countryman nor Cittizen, Might never gainst them say soe.
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