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1.186-187 S113519 1 When Phoebus did rest, &c. Drive the Cold Winter Away When Phoebus Did Rest ALl hayle to the dayes, / That merite more praise, to driue the cold winter away, [with variations] THis time of the yeare, / Is spent in good Cheare, Pepys 1.186-187 STC 6923 [M. Flesher] for H. G[osson c. 1625] Woodblock 1: 1st 1/2 sheet folio, under title and tune, above columns 1, 2: Four men sit at a table, underneath a decorative arch (possibly at a pub). The men wear buttoned jerkins, and three of the four wear hats. On the table before them is an assortment of plates, foods, utensils, jugs and glasses. The men appear to be having an animated conversation; one is drinking, others gesture, and one rests his hand on another's shoulder. : 46 x 109 Woodblock 2: 2nd 1/2 sheet folio, under title and tune, above columns 3,4: A family sits and stands around a wooden table. to the left of the cut, the father, in a brimmed hat, eats with a spoon or fork in his right hand. to his left, a boy sits with a bowl and spoon in front of him on the table. Next to him, a second boy in similar clothes holds a spoon spoon in his mouth with his right hand. At the far right of the cut, a mother sits at the other head of the table. Her hair is pulled back and she has a high collar. She holds a spoon to her mouth with her right hand. At the mother's left side, with it's back to the reader, a young child stands on a stool to reach the table. In a long gown, this child east with a spoon. A final child, standing with its back to the reader, is to the infant's left. On the table are several plates and some food. In the background are three windows.: 79 x 139 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: 186 1: 187 A pleasant Countrey new Ditty: / Merrily shewing how / To driue the cold Winter away. A Pleasant Countrey new Ditty: Merrily shewing how To drive the cold Winter away. A Pleasant New Country Ditty: Merrily Showing How to Drive the Cold Winter Away. The second part. The second part. The Second Part. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 261 x 130 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 263 x 148 cropped right edge, creased, uneven inking uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons 1625 Printed at London for H. G. H. G. Weinstein, BBTI, Plomer, ESTC Weinstein lists I:186-187 under H. G. [Henry Gosson]. She notes STC lists H. G[osson]. BBTI and Plomer confirm Gosson's activity ca. 1628. ESTC lists H. G[osson].

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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 2/15/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America State & Times alcohol holidays/seasons nobility/court 02/15/2008 Checker Jessica C. Murphy transcription rechecked, metadata updated, estc id entered from bl.uk 06/26/2007 Checker Eugene Hart Ballad Checked 7/17/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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A Ll hayle to the dayes, That merite more praise, then all the rest of the yeare: And welcome the nights, That double delights, as well the poore as the Peere: Good fortune attend, Each merry mans friend, that doth but the best that he may: Forgetting old wrongs, With Carrols and Songs, to drive the cold winter away . Let misery packe, With a whip at his backe, to the deep Tantalian flood: In the Lethe profound, Let envy be drown'd, that pines at another mans good: Let sorrowes expence, Be banded from hence, all payments of griefe delay: And wholly consort, With mirth and with sport, to drive the cold winter away . Tis ill for a mind, To anger inclind, to ruminate injuries now: If wrath be to seeke, Do not let her thy cheeke, nor yet inhabite thy brow. Crosse out of those bookes, Malevolent lookes, both beauty and youthes decay: And spend the long night, In honest delight, to drive the cold winter away .
The Court in all state, Now opens her gate, and bids a free welcome to most: The City likewise, Though somewhat precise, doth willingly part with her cost: And yet by report, From City and Court, the Countrey gets the day: More Liquor is spent, And better content, to drive the cold winter away . The Gentry there, For cost do not spare, the Yeomanry fast in Lent: The Farmers and such, Thinke nothing too much, if they keep but to pay their Rent: The poorest of all, Do merrily call, want, beares but a little sway: For a Song or a tale, Ore a Pot of good Ale, to drive the cold winter away . Thus none will allow, Of solitude now, but merrily greets the time: To make it appeare, Of all the whole yeare, that this is accounted the Prime. December is seene, Apparel'd in greene, and January fresh as May: Comes dancing along, With a Cup and a Song, to drive the cold winter away .
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T His time of the yeare, Is spent in good Cheare, kind neighbours together meet: To sit by the fire, With friendly desire, each other in love to greet: Old grudges forgot, Are put in the Pot, all sorrowes aside they lay: The old and the yong, Doth Caroll his Song, to drive the cold winter away . Sisley and Nanny , More jocund then any, as blithe as the Month of June : Do Caroll and sing, Like birds of the Spring, no Nightingale sweeter in tune: To bring in content, When Summer is spent, in pleasant delight and play: With mirth and good cheere, To end the old yeere, and drive the cold winter away . The Shepheard, the Swaine, Do highly disdaine, to waste out his time in care: And Clim of the Clough, Hath plenty enough, if but a penny he spare: To spend at the night, In joy and delight, now after his labours all day: For better then Lands, Is helpe of his hands, to drive the cold winter away .
To Maske and to Mum, Kind neighbours will come, with Wassels of hot brown Ale; To drinke and carouse, To all in this house, as merry as Bucks in the pale: Where Cake, Bread and Cheese, Is brought for your fees, to make you the longer stay: At the fire to warme, Will do you no harme, to drive the cold winter away . When Christmas tide, Comes in like a Bride, with Holly and Ivy clad: Twelve dayes in the yeare, Much mirth and good cheare, in every houshold is had: The Countrey guise, Is then to devise, some gambole of Christmas play: Whereas the yong men, Do best that they can, to drive the cold winter away . When white-bearded Frost, Hath threatened his worst, and fallen from Branch & Bryer: Then time away cals, From Husbandry Hals, & from the good Countrymans fire: Together to go, To Plow and to sow, to get us both food and array: And thus with content, The time we have spent, to drive the cold winter away .
Printed at London for H.G. FINIS.