%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE/ Troubles of this World;/ OR,/ Nothing Cheap but Poor Mens Labour./ Concluding with a Line of Comfortable Consolation, to Chear up/ our Drooping Hearts, in a time of Trouble. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1675-1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/04/2007 20710

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2.87 R234293 1 The Spinning Wheel The Spinning Wheel The Spinning Wheel LEt honest Tradesmen now attend,/ And bear a mournful part with me, Here's nought but poor mens labour cheap. [with variations; not stanza 12] Pepys 2.87 Rollins VI:273-277; Wing T2311A 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: 87 THE/ Troubles of this World;/ OR,/ Nothing Cheap but Poor Mens Labour./ Concluding with a Line of Comfortable Consolation, to Chear up/ our Drooping Hearts, in a time of Trouble. THE Troubles of this World; OR, Nothing Cheap but Poor Mens Labour. Concluding with a Line of Comfortable Consolation, to Chear up our Drooping Hearts, in a time of Trouble. The Troubles of this World; Or, Nothing Cheap but Poor Men's Labor. Concluding With a Line of Comfortable Consolation, to Cheer Up Our Drooping Hearts, in a Time of Trouble. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 315 cropped top edge, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules, cast fleurons 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, I. Deacon, I. Blare, I. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back BBTI

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LET honest Tradesmen now attend, And bear a mournful part with me, It is to you these Lines I send, For to Condole our Misery; I see the times which makes me weep, Here's nought but poor mens labour cheap.
The Smiles of Fortune now are fled, And Gloomy Clouds with grief appear, Since times are hard, and tradeing dead, And e'ery thing excessive dear; Which makes some thousands sigh and weep, There's none but poor mens labour cheap.
Some persons, that was free to give Relief to their poor Friends of late, Do hardly now know how to live; The Taxes being grown so great, Since things are dear there own they'll keep, There's nought but poor mens labour cheap. From Forreign-Lands all Merchantdise, As Linnen, Silks, Fruit, Sugar, Spice, They to the Nation sorrow rise, And to a vast excessive price, We have just cause to sigh and weep; Here's nought but poor mens labour cheap. Those that have thousands lying by, Will hardly now the Poor regard, Tell them your grief and they reply, That trading's dead and times are hard, And therefore what they have they'll keep, There's nought but poor mens labour cheap. The working man may pinch and spare, To bring the weary week about, At length there comes another care, How he shall lay his money out, Since at a price all things they keep, There's nought but poor mens labour cheap 'Tis to be feard that some there are, Who do in private make their moan, Opprest with poverty and care; Yet cannot make their sorrow known, All things at a high price they keep, There's nought but poor mens labour cheap. There's not a Loaf of Bread we By, But costs a double price or more, Of what it went at formerly, Now this must needs oppress the poor; And give them cause to sigh and weep, There's nought but poor mens labour cheap.
Wee see in Country Court, or Town, The rich will small Compassion show, Upon their sorrows they will frown, Of those that are but mean and low, Those things I see which makes me weep, There's nought but poor mens labour cheap. The Rich men they, continually, run down the Poor Mens Labour still, If he'll not work so; strait they cry, begon, we know another will, And thus the poor in awe they keep; There's nothing but their labour cheap The working man he strait complys, because of his young Children small, For half a Loaf of Bread he Crys, is better far then none at all, Because he hath a charge to keep, He's forc'd to work and labour cheap. When little Babes crys for Relief, the one for Bread, the other Beer, There cannot be a greater Grief, to tender loving Parents dear, Than for to hear them make their moan, For Bread, perhaps, when they have no[ne] Alas, to well, we understand what causes all our grief and care, It is the Wars by Sea and Land, Alas, Alas, who can forbear, In these hard times, to sigh and weep, There's nought but poor mens labour cheap. Let's pray to God, intreat him still, to look upon our grief and pain, And if it be his blessed will, to send the Nation Peace again, For while these Wars and Troubles are, Here's none but Sorrows, Grief, and Care.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back.