%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A merry Progresse to London to see / Fashions, by a young Country Gallant, that had more Money / then Witte. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1615 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/29/2008 20088

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1.198-199 S124570 1 Riding to Rumford Riding to Rumford MY Mother to Heauen is gone, / ten Pounds she gaue mee; taking Tobacco. [with variations] THen tracing the gallant Streets / of London Citty, with Tobacco. [with variations] Pepys 1.198-199 Rollins (1) I:148-155; STC 16761.3 [W. White] for J. White [c.1615]. Woodblock 1: : A dark-skinned man wearing nothing but a white loincloth stands smoking a large pipe. He holds the pipe in his right hand and an upright spear in his left hand.: 52 x 38 Woodblock 2: : A well-dressed man with a beard stands facing towards his right with his weight on his right leg and his left arm and leg held out behind him. He wears a wide-brimmed hat with a large feather in his cap. An elaborate cape is draped around his shoulders. His sword his hung at his right hip and the tip is visible beneath the bottom of the cape. He wears short pants that are tied at the knees with bows. Visible on the ground behind him are a few small plants.: 81 x 50 Woodblock 3: below title, between cast fleurons, above 2 columns and cast fleurons: Three figures stand facing forward, a man flanked by two women. The three appear to hold hands. The two women are dressed identically in ornate gowns with large skirts, different patterned underskirts, large ruffs around the neck, and elaborate headpieces. They appear to be wearing a tiara- or crown-like object on top of their heads. The man in the middle wears slops, an ornate doublet or jerkin with a white collar, and a hat. : 57 x 80 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: 198 1: 199 A merry Progresse to London to see / Fashions, by a young Country Gallant, that had more Money / then Witte. A merry Progresse to London to see Fashions, by a young Country Gallant, that had more Money then Witte. A Merry Progress to London to See Fashions, by a Young Country Gallant, That Had More Money Than Wit. The Second part of the merry Progresse to London. The Second part of the merry Progresse to London. The Second Part of the Merry Progress to London. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 268 x 145 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 267 x 129 creased, damaged surface, uneven inking uneven inking sidepiece: 222 x 25, cast fleurons cast fleurons Printer 1615 Imprinted at London for I. White. I. White Weinstein: STC Weinstein lists I:198-199 under John White. BBTI lists only John White active during this period with initials/name J. or I. White. Plomer lists a John White working from ?1613-1624. ESTC lists this ballad under I. White.

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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 2/29/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America State & Times alcohol appearance London 2006 Transcriber Apri Medina original transcription 2/29/08 Checker Jessica C. Murphy checked transcription, entered ESTC ID from bl.uk, entered metadata, created xml 8/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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M Y Mother to Heaven is gone, ten Pounds she gave mee; Now never a Penny's left, as God shall have mee: Yet still my heart is free, I live at liberty, And keepe good company, taking Tobacco. Old Woman, fare thou well, thankes for thy kindnesse, My Plough and Cart are gone, with my good Geldings: I have no foote of Land, Nor one Groat at command: Which way then shall I stand to a pipe of Tobacco? My Purse will chincke no more, my Pocket's empty: I am turnd out of doore; farewell good Company. Friendship now slender growes, Poverty pa[rt]eth those That for Drinke sell their Cloathes and for Tobacco. My Cloake is layde to pawne, with my old Dagger: My state is quite orethrowne, how shall I swagger? Yet Ile [doe] what I can, And be no Coward tho, But proove my selfe a man, at a pipe of Tobacco. In an old Satten sute without a Penny, We Gallants may brag it brave: as well as any.
What though my Credit's lost, Yet can I find a Post Still to score with mine Host, for a pipe of Tobacco. Upon a proper Nagge daintely paced; To London first I came, all with Gold laced: Then with my Puncke each day, Road I to see a Play; There went my Gold away, taking Tobacco. Twenty good Sheepe I brought, left by my Mother: Eawes and Lambs, Cowes & Calves, one with the other: With which I payd a shot, For a Pipe and a Pot: All these were bravely got, and spent in Tobacco. No companion was I then for clownish Carters: I wore imbrodred Hose, with golden Garters: My Silver-hatched Sword, Made me sweare like a Lord, Come Rogue, (at every word) fill mee Tobacco.
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T Hen tracing the gallant Streets of London Citty, A Damsell mee kindly greets, courtious and witty: Shee like a singing Larke, Ledd mee into the darke, Where I soone payd a Marke for a Pipe of Tobacco. To Smithfield then gallantly tooke I my jorny, Where I left soone behind part of my Mony: There I found out a Puncke, With whom I was so drunke, That my Purse bottome shrunke away with Tobacco. Pickthatch and Clarken-well , made me so merry, Untill my Purse at last; began to grow weary: Yellow-starcht bonny Kate , with her fine nimble pate, Coosond mee of my plate, with a pipe of Tobacco. Then for Good-fellowship, to Garden-ally , I hied mee to search for Daughters of folly: There I found roaring Boyes, with their faire Female joyes: And the Divell making toyes to take Tobacco. After, to Shores-ditch then, stood I beholding: Where I found sinners store, of the Divels moulding: I speake for no slaunder, The Puncke and her Pander, Like a Goose and her Gander, tooke whiffes of Tobacco.
To Saint Katharns past I next, not without trouble: Where my Pur[s]e lashed out, drinking Beere double: A Tester for each Toast payd I there to my Host; And the Sauce to my cost, was a Crowne for to Tobacce. To Ratcliffe and Wapping then, went I for Shipping; Where as a Lasse lovingly gave mee a whipping: There was a bonny Wench, Stroke a Naile would not clench, That taught me finely French, taking Tobacco. Then straight to Westminster made I adventer, To finde Good fellowes (who) will'd mee to enter, Where I felt such a smoake, As might the Divell choake, There went away my Cloake, with the smoake of Tobacco. Bacward to Barbican quickly I hasted: There met I honest John , My Mony being wasted: A Pipe and a Pot (quoth hee) My friend Ile bestow on thee; Then lets to No-body , there's the best Tobacco. Now farewell Good-fellowship, London I leave thee: Never more whilst I live, shall they deceive mee. Every Streete, every Lane, Holds mee in disdaine, London hath wrought my bane, so farewell Tobacco.
Finis. Imprinted at London for J.White.