%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Country Travellers Advice./ Being an Admonition to his Fellow=Travellers, perswading them to be/ careful to avoid the sin of Drunkenness, which is the fore-runner of all/ other evils, and learn to lead sober lives, that they may see Happy/ Days, Peace and Plenty. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1695 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/04/2007 20684

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2.60 R234273 1 Liggan Water Logan Water Logan Water KInd Travellers, I pray attend,/ To you alone these Lines I send; date from Simpson: tune Pepys 2.60 Wing C6569[A] 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: 60 The Country Travellers Advice./ Being an Admonition to his Fellow=Travellers, perswading them to be/ careful to avoid the sin of Drunkenness, which is the fore-runner of all/ other evils, and learn to lead sober lives, that they may see Happy/ Days, Peace and Plenty. The Country Travellers Advice. Being an Admonition to his Fellow-Travellers, perswading them to be careful to avoid the sin of Drunkenness, which is the fore-runner of all other evils, and learn to lead sober lives, that they may see Happy Days, Peace and Plenty. The Country Traveler's Advice. Being an Admonition to His Fellow Travellers, Persuading Them to Be Careful to Avoid the Sin of Drunkenness, Which is the Forerunner of All Other Evils, and Learn to Lead Sober Lives, that They May See Happy Days, Peace and Plenty. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?210 x 320 damaged surface, uneven inking vertical rules 1695 Printed for Eben. Tracy, at the Three Bibles/ on London-bridge. Eben. Tracy Weinstein: Simpson: tune

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K Ind Travellers, I pray attend, To you alone these Lines I send; Wherein I wholsome Counsel give, That you right sober lives may live. You know the Sin of Drunkenness, No Tongue is able to express What sorrows it will bring Men to, That eagerly the same pursue. I know you Travel up and down To ev'ry Fair and Market-Town, Far from the place of your abode, Thus while you travel on the Road, Unto the Ale-House you must go For Drink and Lodgings, this I know; Yet moderation always use, And don't Gods Creatures there abuse.
Here is a Sin, the which I'll name, Now those that use it are to blame, That is when methods then devise, Their Friend with Liquor to disguise. Thus to impose upon your Friend, The Laws of God you do offend, And you are guilty of the sin, Because you thus betray'd him in. A Stumbling-Block we should not lay In any Friend or Neighbours way, To glory in his shame or fall, Such sins does for just Vengeance call. When sottish Men together meet, The Hostess she both kind and sweet, Will be deluding them to stay, Till what they have becomes the prey.
In Liquors strong your Wits you drownd And all your sences quite confound, And being stript of all your store, You then may trot and sweat for more. At length with a sad akeing heart, These boon Companions often part; The Hostess will small kindness show, By sad experience this I know. We often do bad Husbands see Reduc'd to woful Poverty; From thence a thousand evils flows, It makes mens very Friends their Foes. The sin of Drunkenness I know Hath prov'd some young-mens overthrow It being the fore-runner still Of all that can be acted ill. Drink causes men to curse and swear, They in that humour do not care What crying sins they then commit, All fear of God they quite forget. Likewise a Harlots company, By them, alas! is thought to be Far better than a lawful Wife, Which often causes care and strife. From thence strange passions do arise, As cruel blows and frightful crys,
While tears flow like a mighty flood, Those passions often end in blood. Now is not this a woful case, That men should run to loose a Race, And bring themselves to sad distress, And all by brutish Drunkenness. I fear the Ale-Wives I offend, Who does delight that men should spend And waste their substance day by day, That they may go both fine and gay. They flourish that strong Liquor brew, So does the gay Excise-man too; Nay many more both great and small, But the poor Drunkard pays for all. But let all men be rul'd by me, And likewise learn sobriety, That the fine Ale-wives lazy Crew, May work and sweat as well as you. Now to conclude, may Heavens bless King William still with good success, That all the War may ended be, Then happy days we soon shall see.
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