%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Jack Pudding's Fegary. / There's many Men do play the Fool / Because that Wit they want; / But Honest Jack doth play the Fool / 'Cause Money it is scant. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1678-1680 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/14/2008 21927

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4.266 R188299 1 I am a very good Maid, &c: I Am a Very Good Maid, etc: ALL you that Delight / in pastimes most Rare, Pepys 4.266 Wing J61[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. 4: 266 Jack Pudding's Fegary. / There's many Men do play the Fool / Because that Wit they want; / But Honest Jack doth play the Fool / 'Cause Money it is scant. Jack Pudding's Fegary. There's many Men do play the Fool Because that Wit they want; But Honest Jack doth play the Fool 'Cause Money it is scant. Jack Pudding's Vagary. There's Many Men Do Play the Fool Because That Wit They Want; but Honest Jack Does Play the Fool Because Money It is Scant. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 280 cropped top and left edges, creased and damaged surface horizontal rule and cast fleurons. 1678-1680 Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, / J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thac- / keray, and T. Passenger. F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, T. Passenger Blagden

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ALL you that Delight in pastimes most Rare, Come see what brave Sights, are at Bartholomew-Fair: Such Sights out of Smithfield, you never did see, The post to the Fair, and be ruled by me. For if with your Money, you easily part, 'Twill certainly vex every Vein of your Heart:
To see for your Coin, how little you have, Jack Pudding is not so much Fool as a Knave. Large Speeches he makes, and if you him believe, To see how he Fools you, he laughs in his Sleeve: And when the Play's done, tell me if you can, Whether he be a Fool, or a politick Man.
There's others beside, that for Money do wait, And a thousand strange things, they will put in your pate: But if you believe such praters as these, They'l tell you the Moon is made of Green Cheese. Some others there are, that have pretty Shows, Will seem as your Friends, but are secretly Foes: And will pocket the Silver, you got with great pain, By showing you Tricks of their Legerdemain. But besides what I speak of, beware of one Trick, Lest Divers your Pockets do Cunningly pick: For certain it is, that many there are, That nothing else come for, to Bartholomew-Fair. Yet some that before have been certainly Bitt, The pleasures of Smithfield, they cannot forget: But though for their Follies, they suffered so deep, Yet from this same Fair, they by no means can keep. For Gentle and Simple, to Smithfield do flye, To see Honest JACK, and to hear how he'l Lye: Yet JACK is Indued with gifts so profound, There's some that does work for him all the year round. He'l wash from his heart, all grief, care, and sorrow, And thinks there will be store of Fools the next morrow:
But if in the Morning a Wet day appears, Then Jack is possessed with sorrows and fears. But the Fair on Jack Pudding don't wholly depend, For there you may meet with a Pockify'd Friend: That for a small piece, such a Fairing will give, You'l never be rid of, as long as you live. You Lusty young Lads that do want to be Tam'd, There's a place near to Smithfield, that must not be Nam'd: And there you may find kind Lasses great store, For a small piece of Coin, you may have a great Whore. But now it is time almost to Conclude, I blame not the Civil, but those that are Rude: For many there be that do go to the Fair, Whose Vertues are great, and their Qualities rare. If all should be base that thither do go, I think there would be such a Damnable Show, That Holland, or France, or the Kingdom of Spain, Could hardly produce, such a Rabble again.
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Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thac- keray, and T. Passenger.