%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Jolly PORTERS: / OR, / The Merry Lads of LONDON. / Whose kind Advice to their Fellow-Brethren is, That they should love Mirth bet- / ter than Money, and prize Strong Beer before Small. 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 04/10/2008 21954

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4.292 R188346 1 an Orange With a Fading An Orange I Pray now attend to what I have penn'd / It is a new Ditty, the which I here send Bonny Porters. imprint unclear: Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon[,] J. Blare, J. Back[.] Pepys 4.292 Wing J897[a]B 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: 292 The Jolly PORTERS: / OR, / The Merry Lads of LONDON. / Whose kind Advice to their Fellow-Brethren is, That they should love Mirth bet- / ter than Money, and prize Strong Beer before Small. The Jolly PORTERS: OR, The Merry Lads of LONDON. Whose kind Advice to their Fellow-Brethren is, That they should love Mirth bet- ter than Money, and prize Strong Beer before Small. The Jolly Porters: Or, the Merry Lads of London. Whose Kind Advice to Their Fellow Brethren is, that They Should Love Mirth Better than Money, and Prize Strong Beer before Small. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 192 x 305 all edges cropped, damaged surface vertical rule 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back PBA

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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 4/10/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Various Subjects 04/09/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/16/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad checked 02/12/07 Transcriber Talya Meyers Original transcription 9/7/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I Pray now attend to what I have penn'd, It is a new Ditty, the which here I send To my Friends I hope, true Boys that can tope, I mean the stout Yeomen of Ticket and Rope, Bonny Porters. Hugh, Morgan, and Rice, Ralph, William, and Price, It is to you all that I give my Advice, Beware of Small Beer, 'twill hurt you I fear, Stout nappy Strong Liquor your Spirits will chear, merry Porters.
But if you drink Small, 'twill ruine you all, You in a Consumption or Dropsie may fall; Take care what you do, my honest True Blue; For when you are Dead, all the Worlds gone with you, Bonny Porters. If you come in Place, where strong Beer is scarce, I know you will be in a sorrowful case; But if Beer you lack, make shift with good Sack, I know it is good for to strengthen the Back of a Porter.
My Brothers ne'er stand to buy House or Land, But when a good Shilling comes first to your hand, [?]ure of the same, and follow the Game, Or else I must tell you, you are highly to blame, Bonny Porters, Be ruled by me, and then you shall see, You will be all merry, both frollick and free; Dear Friends, for my part, I never do start, But always do love for to chear up my Heart, like a Porter. I'll lay you a Crown, no Lord of Renown Dare do like my self, in Court, City, or Town One night I'll sit late, and spend my Estate, Come tell me what Noble dare spend at that rate like a Porter? Now with a good Will, my Host wash and fill, For why should the Tankards and Flaggons stand still? Your Friends don't offend, but pray now attend, There's more Money got, than we ever shall spend while we are Porters. Now we are well met, and merrily set, We reckon to drink our selves quite out of Debt; As you fill in more, still rub out the Score, And then we may merrily sing, rant and roar, like brave Porters. Should I be chose Sheriff I am apt to believe, I must upon force that great Office deceive, Because I wont Fine, since that Money thats [?]ine] Is hardly enough to buy Beer, Ale, and Wine for a Porter. High Honour I slight, I take more delight To meet with an honest good Fellow at Night, Who takes off his Can, like a right honest Man, And tipples as long as he's able to stand, like a Porter. With Liquor we're Crown'd, while Joys do's abound, And then the whole World it runs merrily round: We will not debate the high Matters of State, Nor trouble our Noddles with things at that rate, but be Porters.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J, Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back[.]