%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Age and Life of MAN. / Here you mao see the frailty that in men, Till they have run the years threescore and ten. Fancy, Peter University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1674-1679 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/20/2008 20655

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2.32 R187427 1 Jane Shore Come Live with me and be my Love Jane Shore AS I was wandring all alone / A project then I thought upon: Then fear your God make no delay, / for time and Tide for none will stay. At four times seven a wife he gets, / using and mustering up his wits Then fear your God make no delay, / for time and Tide for none will stay. [not final stanza] author unclear: By P, Fanc[r][?]; author noted by Wing; original not heavily inked compared to facsimile; verso pasted down. Pepys 2.32 Wing F406[a]B 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. 2: 32 The Age and Life of MAN. / Here you mao see the frailty that in men, Till they have run the years threescore and ten. The Age and Life of MAN. Here you mao see the frailty that in men Till they have run the years threescore and ten. The Age and Life of Man. Here You May See the Frailty That in Men Till They Have Run the Years Threescore and Ten. The second part The Second part The Second Part Fancy, Peter 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 208 x 312 cropped bottom and right edges, torn bottom edge, holed, creased, damaged surface, uneven inking, verso shows through hatched border: 8 x 145 1674-1679 London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clark. F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clark. Blagden

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AS I was wandring all alone A project then I thought upon: The which in my senses ran that I should right the age of man, Man he is Clay, and came from earth and sinners live till day of death From one sin to another run and never leaves till he's undone. Then fear your God make no delay, For time and Tide for none will stay. The first of seven years in a Cradle, to stand or go he is not able, Whiles other Creatures making scorn tramples him down when he is born: So weak he is he cannot go and poor is born we all do know Into this world stark naked he came, and so shall go out of the same. Then fear your etc.
At two times seven his friends to rule provide for keeping him at School, That what to him in youth is told may do him good when he is old i But he so given is to play he truants most his tune away: When age comes on, he'l then repent. that he his time had so mispent. At three times seven he is very idle that all his friends cannot him bridle. Then fear your God, make no delay. For Time and Tide for none will stay. His thoughts run wandring too and fro, perswade him well you are his foe: In other Countries he will Rome and have no mind to stay at home: That all his friends are grieved still while he pursues his headstrong will. Then etc.
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At four times seven a wife he gets, using and mustering up his wits How he should thrive he takes great pains, alass for little or no gains, He then to bend his senses rowse things most convenient for his house: Which in time wasts & fades away, even so must man that is but Clay. Then fear etc. At five times seven a charge comes on, which in the world few think upon: He labours hard with right good will, striving like stones against a hill: Or like a flood that swiftly goes at one time ebbs, another flows: Even so is man that's rich to day to-morrow God takes all away. Then fear etc. At six times seven then he should leave and for his former folly grieve: His heart is vext with sobs and sighs for all his former vain delights Good Husbandry he then home takes bad husbandry he then forsakes: And sober lives, and those defie such as do hate good husbandry Then fear etc. At seven times seven a covetous mind is all to which he is inclind Covetous he is in himself to purchase up all worldly wealth. Gathering up that which is but dross which may prove once to be a cross Except his talent he improve towards the poor by acts of love. Then fear your God, make no delay, For time and tide for none will stay.
At eight times seven his cunning skill striving with all his worldly will: In bargaining and selling then making his children mighty men. Leaving behind him that which he for it shall never t[hank]ed be As he did gather and lay it by, the Prodig[a]l did make it fly. Then fear etc. At nine times seven he waxes old, his limbs benum'd, and veins are cold: His children glad with much content, their father have so good judgment: So knowing is in every cause his wit doth make young men to pause: Yet all this world he now must leave and now prepare himself for grave. Then fear etc. At ten times seven his glass is run and he poor soul can no way shun: No, he must leave children and wife, to give the world can't save his life, Happy is he that liveth here, and keeps his Conscience pure and cleer, Although in dust his body lye his soul shall mount up to the Sky. Then fear etc. Thus have I shown from Stage to Stage, the frail condition of mans age, From seven till seven we pass till when we reach the years threescore and ten: Let us all joyn with one accord, and with due reverence fear the Lord. Then may we all rejoyce and sing. Hallelujah to our heavenly King.
By P, Fanc[y] London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clark.