%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> [?] / OR / The Good Fellows Frolick / BEING / The Jovial Companions Pastime. / He takes no care to hoard up Wealth and Treasure, / But is resolv'd to spend his time in pleasure: / So he but get good Liquor of the strongest, / He care no more, let them take all lives longest. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1663-1674 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/28/2008 21902

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4.242 1 leave the World behind us Leave the World Behind Us COme prethy Wil let us drink our fill / now we are met together For thee and I and all must dye / and leave the world behind us (not final stanza) title cropped; imprint unclear: London Printed for F. Col[e]s, T, Vere, and J, Wright. Pepys 4.242 Wing G1050[C] 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. 4: 242 [?] / OR / The Good Fellows Frolick / BEING / The Jovial Companions Pastime. / He takes no care to hoard up Wealth and Treasure, / But is resolv'd to spend his time in pleasure: / So he but get good Liquor of the strongest, / He care no more, let them take all lives longest. [?] OR The Good Fellows Frolick BEING The Jovial Companions Pastime. He takes no care to hoard up Wealth and Treasure, But is resolv'd to spend his time in pleasure: So he but get good Liquor of the strongest, He cares no more, let them take all lives longest. [?] or the Good Fellow's Frolic Being the Jovial Companion's Pastime. He Takes No Care to Hoard up Wealth and Treasure, but is Resolved to Spend His Time in Pleasure: So He but Get Good Liquor of the Strongest, He Care No More, let Them Take All Lives Longest. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?215 x 330 cropped top, bottom and right edges, creased, torn and damaged surface, uneven inking, extensive contemporary paper repair cast fleurons 1663-1674 London Printed for F. Coles, T, Vere, and J, Wright. F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright Blagden

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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 4/28/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Various Subjects advice alcohol class country/nation death economics/trade entertainment 04/28/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/05/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad checked 08/28/06 Transcriber Simone Chess Original transcription 9/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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COme prethy Wil let us drink our fill now we are met together We'l quench our thirst in liquor till we fear no Wind nor Weather, Hang Sorrow cast away care the Parish is bound to find us: For thee and I and all must dye and leave the world behind us Let rich men strive to gather wealth, and wise men spend their spirits We'l drink the tother jovial health according to our merits Whilst we carrouse it merrily we care not who do mind us, For thee etc., We will not to the Indies sail or seek out Forraign Nations At home we'l drink a Cup of Ale and fear no fogs invasions.
When we are on the merry Pin our Liquor will not blind us: For thee, etc., Dick Tarlton was a merry wag as ever trode on leather, He us'd to vapor, boast and brag, and shake his hat and feather Just such as he we two must be even so doth nature bind us For thee, etc., Then Drawer fill us Liquor store we scorn to be so borish, A pritty woman was Jane Shore but she was something whorish: Drink oft thy Glase my honest lad here's nobody doth mind us: For thee etc.
WE'l try each house throughout the town to find out drink that's strongest, And there we'l pitch our Standard down take all that lives the longest, Stand not in awe, for why the Law in Fetters shall not bind us, For thee and I and all must dye. and leave the World behind us. A dish of Musick bring (you Knave) to celebrate our Fancies, Make use of time whist time we have wher's Peg and Sue, and Frances When we are in the silent grave, ther's nobody will mind us For thee etc. Whilst Souldiers fight for wounds & scars and Seamen plows the Ocean, We'l fight at home in Venus Wars we care not for promotion: Affairs of Sates, loads not out pates such troubles shall not find us For thee etc. Then fill us in a cup of Sack hang pinching let us frolick, The more we spend the less we lack Twill cure us of the Cholick:
Now we are born we must be kept as yet they have not pin'd us For thee etc., A short and merry life is best and most to be commended Live free from care and take our rest and always be befriended. We'l never strive to gather Gold since riches will but blind us, For thee etc. We have not long to take our swing by course of natures spinning For both the Beggar and the King hath ending and beginning, Then let us always merry be, until that death do find us For thee etc. And when as death has clos'd our eyes as he will do [?] sr[?]t [?] in, They'l say here's two good fellows lies that often drank at parting, The Bells shall ring, the Clark shall sing, the good old wife shall wind us: The Sexton shall lay, our bodies in Clay Where our Creditors ne're shall find us
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London Printed for F. Coles, T, Vere, and J, Wright.