%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Dying Mans good/ Counsel to his Children and Friends./ Being a fit pattern for Old and Young, Rich and Poor, Bond and Free to take example by/ the same, that they may live an honest sober Godly life in this world; that they may/ enjoy life everlasting in the World to come. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1681-1684 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/30/2007 20668

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2.44 R234259 1 In Summer Time In Summer Time In Summer Time GOod people all listen a while/ & give ear unto my song, Pepys 2.44 Wing D2955[A]; Rollins (2) 655 (Mch. 1, 1675, ii, 500); Rollins (2) ?656 (Mch. 30, 1686, iii, 303, Jno. Back). 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: 44 The Dying Mans good/ Counsel to his Children and Friends./ Being a fit pattern for Old and Young, Rich and Poor, Bond and Free to take example by/ the same, that they may live an honest sober Godly life in this world; that they may/ enjoy life everlasting in the World to come. The Dying Mans good Counsel to his Children and Friends. Being a fit pattern for Old and Young, Rich and Poor, Bond and Free to take example by the same, that they may live an honest sober Godly life in this world; that they may enjoy life everlasting in the World to come. The Dying Man's Good Counsel to His Children and Friends. Being a Fit Pattern for Old and Young, Rich and Poor, Bond and Free to Take Example by the Same, That They May Live an Honest Sober Godly Life in This World; That They May Enjoy Life Everlasting in the World to Come. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 295 uneven inking vertical rules and cast fleurons 1681-1684 London Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke. W. Thackery, and T. Passinger. J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackery, T. Passinger. Blagden

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GOod people all listen a while & give ear unto my song, Let not vain thoughts your hearts beguile nor be led by no evil tongue. All you that stands about my bed and here is come my death to view, Think on my words when I am dead and what I speak you'l find them true. First to my Children I will speak which in this world I now must leave, See that a godly course you take And look no man you do deceive,
Help for to Right the fatherless the hungry see you cloath and feed, Wrong not a widdow in distress thou know'st not but thou maist come to need. What thou dost give, give with a good will rejoyce not at thy brothers fall, To make neighbours friends pray use your skill a day will come will pay thee all. Hate not a man tho he be poor let not pride thy heart overthrow Relieve those that ask at thy door thou knowest not what thou may come to.
FOr Gold and silver is but dross and Goods has wings to fly away, But count that same a greater loss that brings thy soul unto decay. Hate drunkenness that deadly sin which will bring thee to poverty, A Harlots door dont enter in be sure no good will come thereby. Likewise my daughters which I have and to other maidens I will speak, That when I am laid within my Grave my counsel they much on may make. O mind your Bibles more then pride for in this world thou have not long to stay And God above will be your guide if you his holy word obey. Dress you your selves in civil sort be not pufft up with every wind. Do not regard the worlds report and thou Reward in Heaven shalt find. For all these earthly joyes are vanity therefore mark well what I shall say, Tho thou dost climb never so high yet still thou art but dust and clay. Man's life you see is like a span or like the flowers i'th field do grow, Here to day, to morrow is gone all this for certain truth we know. Then who woud be proud of what they have when death doth come thou must away, The Rich the poor must go to'th Grave for time and Tide for none will stay. Rejoyce O young man in thy youth yet count thy mirth but vanity, And know this for certain truth that one day thou and all must dye.
Do not we see before our eyes how sudden some are snatcht away, Death at our doors he knocks and cryes prepare you for your dying day. Yet some on their means do set such love their hearts so hardened are withall, They think not on that God above though he himself to them doth call. But let me perswade all such as those with speed a new life to begin, For when that death thine eyes do close thoul't find what danger thou art in. Therefore whilst thou hast time and space make use of it while you are here, Then welcome death come when thou wilt of it thou needs not stand in fear. For after death comes you can't repent and for every idle word you say, And how thy precious time thou'st spent thou must give account at the latter day. What pleasure man here canst thou find altho thou sports thy time away, Thy glass is running prethee mind thy soul doth both waste and decay. Thus Friends and Neighbours you da hear what a righteous man he doth come too, T[h]en to serve the Lord let it be your care and so I bid you all adieu. And then departed this old man in love in happiness and peace, No doubt his soul to heaven is gone where Angels sing and never cease All you that now have heard these Lines & mark these words which here is pen'd, I pray you bear them in your mind that you may make a Godly End.
London Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackery, and T. Passinger.