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1.52-53 S1852 1 A pleasant new Tune What if a day A Pleasant New Tune VVHat if a day, or a month, or a yeere, / Crowne thy delights MAn's but a blast, or a smoake, or a clowd, / That in a thought, STC notes Thomas Campion as the author, from whom poem this ballad is expanded Pepys 1.52-53 STC 4541.5 [A Mathewes?] for H. Gosson [c.1625?]; Rollins (2) 2909 (Dec. 14, 1624, IV, 132). Woodblock 1: 1st 1/2 sheet, under title and tune, above 1st column: An older man (perhaps a lord or noble?), stands facing forward. He wears a dark, flat hat, a small ruff, and a long coat with detailed trim. he holds a sword against his chest with his right hand. He has a beard and short hair. : 70 x 46 Woodblock 2: 1st 1/2 sheet, under title and tune, above 2nd column: A man, standing, holds his right hand above a seated woman's head (perhaps cutting her hair?). The woman sits to the left of the cut, facing the man. Her chair is simple and wooden. she wears a black dress and a small ruff. The man is smaller and is standing. He wears an elaborate short tunic and vest. He has a moustache and a beard.: 71 x 59 Woodblock 3: 2nd 1/2 sheet, under title and tune, above 3rd column : An older man stands facing his right , with both hands in the air. He has a beard, and wears a vest, short gathered pants. He wears hose and shoes.: 72 x 35 Woodblock 4: 2nd 1/2 sheet, under title and tune, above 4th column: A man (bellman?) walks facing right. He carries a lantern in his right hand, and balances a staff or polearm over his shoulder, in his left hand, he carries a large bell. The man wears a fitted hat, a long cloak, and a short tunic. A dog walks behind him.: 82 x 90 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: 52 1: 53 A Friends aduice: / In an excellent Ditty, concerning the variable changes in this World. A Friends advice: In an excellent Ditty, concerning the variable changes in this World. A Friend's Advice: In an Excellent Ditty, Concerning the Variable Changes in this World. The Second Part. The Second Part. The Second Part. Campion, Thomas 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 254 x 156 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 260 x 151 cropped bottom edge, uneven inking uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons 1625 Printed for H. Gosson H. Gosson Weinstein: STC; liscensing info I could not find the liscensing info.

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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 5/20/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Devotion & Morality advice affliction/health death religiousconcepts 5/20/2008 Checker Jessica C. Murphy rechecked transcription, updated metadata, ESTC ID from bl.uk entered 5/20/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph rechecked transcription, updated metadata, ESTC ID from bl.uk entered 7/9/2007 Checker Gordon Batchelor created xml, entered metadata, checked transcription 1/6/2005 Transcriber Kathryn Dolan original transcription 7/9/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created; unclear to me who SC is.
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">A Friends advice:</hi> </seg> <seg n="2" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">In an excellent Ditty, concerning the variable changes in this World.</hi> </seg> <seg n="3" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">To a pleasant new Tune.</hi> </seg>
W Hat if a day, or a month, or a yeere, Crowne thy delights with a thousand wisht contentings, Cannot the chaunce of a night or an houre, Crosse thy delights, with as many sad tormentings? Fortunes in their fairest birth, Are but blossomes dying, Wanton pleasures, doting mirth, Are but shadowes flying: All our joyes are but toyes, Idle thoughts deceiving; None hath power of an houre, In our lives bereaving. What if a smile, or a becke or a looke, Feede thy fond thoughts, with many a sweet conceiving: May not that smile, or that becke, or that looke, Tell thee as well they are but vaine deciving? Why should beauty be so proud, In things of no surmounting? All her wealth is but a shroud, Of a rich accounting: Then in this repose no blisse, Which is so vaine and idle: Beauties flowers have their howers, Time doth hold the bridle. What if the world with allures of her wealth, Raise thy degree to a place of high advancing? May not the World by a check of that wealth, Put thee againe to as low dispised chancing? Whilst the Suune of wealth doth shine,
Thou shalt have friends plenty: But come want, then they repine, Not one abides of twenty: Wealth and Friends holds and ends, As your fortunes rise and fall, Up and downe, rise and frowne, Certaine is no state at all. What if a griefe, or a straine, or a fit, Pinch thee with paine, or the feeling panges of sicknes: Doth not that gripe, or that straine, or that fit, Shew thee the forme of thy owne true perfect likenesse? Health is but a glimpse of joy, Subject to all changes: Mirth is but a silly toy, Which mishap estranges. Tell me then, silly Man, Why art thou so weake of wit, As to be in jeopardy, When thou maist in quiet sit? Then if all this have declar'd thine amisse, Take it from me as a gentle friendly warning; If thou refuse, and good counsell abuse, Thou maist hereafter deerely buy thy learning: All is hazard that we have, There is nothing byding, Dayes of pleasure are like streames, Through faire Medowes gliding, Wealth or woe, time doth goe, There is no returning, Secret Fates guide our states, Both in mirth and mourning.
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The Second Part. To the same Tune.</hi> </seg>
M An's but a blast, or a smoake, or a clowd, That in a thought, or a moment is dispersed: Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or sodaine is rehearsed: Hopes are chang'd, and thoughts are crost, Will nor skill prevaileth, Though we laugh and live at ease, Change of thoughts assayleth, Though a while Fortune smile, And her comforts crowneth, Yet at length failes her strength, And in fine she frowneth. Thus are the joyes of a yeare in an hower, And of a month, in a moment quite expired, And in the night with the word of a noyse, Crost by the day, of an ease our hearts desired: Fayrest blossoms soonest fade, Withered, foule, and rotten, And through griefe, our greatest joyes Quickly are forgotten: Seeke not then (mortall men) Earthly fleeting pleasure, But with paine strive to gaine Heavenly lasting treasure. Earth to the world, as a Man to the earth, Hath but a poynt, and a poynt is soone defaced: Flesh to the Soule, as a Flower to the Sun, That in a storme or a tempest is disgraced: Fortune may the Body please, Which is only carnall,
But it will the Soule disease, That is still immortall, Earthly joyes are but toyes, To the Soules election. Worldly grace doth deface Mans divine perfection. Fleshly delights to the earth that is flesh, May be the cause of a thousand sweet contentings, But the defaults of a fleshly desire Brings to the Soule many thousand sad tormentings: Be not proude presum[c]ious Man, Sith thou art a poynt so base, Of the least and lowest Element, Which hath least and lowest place: Marke thy fate, and thy state, Which is only earth and dust, And as grasse, which alasse Shortly surely perish must. Let not the hopes of an earthly desire, Bar thee the joyes of an endlesse contentation, Nor let not thy eye on the world be so fixt, To hinder thy heart from unfeyned recantation: Be not backward in that course, That may bring thy Soule delight, Though another way may seeme Far more pleasant to thy sight; Doe not goe, if he sayes no That knowes the secrets of thy minde, Follow this, thou shalt not misse An endlesse happinesse to finde.
FINIS. Printed for H. Gosson.