%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Good News for England, Or, / The Worst is past. / Impossible things you never will see / This I declare to you, / When these things appear to be / You'l find my lines are true. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 0-1689 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/10/2008 21958

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4.296 R188125 1 the Woody Querristers, Or Covetousness out of England shall run Cook Lorrel The Woody Choristers, or Covetuousness Out of England Shall Run COme listen to me and I will declare / a story as true as you ever did hear, and only will shew that the worst is past. [with variations] Pepys 4.296 Wing G1052[a]D 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: 296 Good News for England, Or, / The Worst is past. / Impossible things you never will see / This I declare to you, / When these things appear to be / You'l find my lines are true. Good News for England, Or, The Worst is past. Impossible things you never will see This I declare to you, When these things appear to be You'l find my lines are true. Good News for England, or, the Worst is Past. Impossible Things You Never Will See This I Declare to You, When These Things Appear to Be, You'll Find My Lines Are True. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 205 x 196 cropped top edge, holed surface, set-off from opposite page visible vertical rule 0-1689 Printed for J. Coniers at the Raven the first Shop in / Fetter-laine next Holbourn. J. Coniers BBTI

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COme listen to me and I will declare a story as true as you ever did hear, I merry will be while my money doth last and only will shew that the worst is past. When the Monument melts by the heat of the Sun and men without legs Foot-races shall run When fruit-trees no more shall meet with a blast, Then you may be sure the worst is past. When Beggar-men they are chosen for Sheriffs and Taylors forswear ever playing the Thieves When brokers shall turn honest men at the last Then you may be sure the worst is past. When women shall know how to govern their Tongues and the poor no more shall receive any wrongs When Thieves at the Gallows are all tyed up fast, Then you may be, etc. When Souldiers no more to the Warrs they shall go nor Waterman on the River shall row When Debtors no more into prison are cast, Then you may be, etc.
When Misers shall throw away Silver and Gold and impudent Whores no longer be bold When Pick-pockets prove honest men at the last Then you may be, etc. When Tally-men they for no profit shall sell and sick shall be stronger than those that are well Then Lawyers shall plead without Fees at the last Then you may be, etc. When Atheists shall go to Church for Devotion and drunkards for greediness drink up the Ocean When the Fish shall forsake the Fresh-rivers at last, Then you may be, etc. When Phoebus and Luna no longer shall shine and the Clouds they drop down great showers of wine. When Seamen shall fear e'ry pittiful blast, Then you may be, etc. When Maidens for sweet-hearts no longer shall pine and the Turk & the Christian together shall joyn When the Tyde o're the Monument shall run at last Then you may be, etc.
When blind-Men shall go to look on the tombs and Aldermen cry will you buy any Brooms, When Ships they shall sail without ere a Mast, Then you may be, etc. When Swallows shall breed in the midst of December and a Usurer's Conscience grows soft & Tender When Milers shall take no tole at the last Then you may be, etc. When Sack shall be sold for a penny a quart and Vintners refuse to take any thing for't, When women's crape Gowns for a hundred year last Then you may be, etc. When in Morefields and Fleetstreet there is not a Whore and Cuckolds in England there shall be no more, When hungry men shall desire for to fast, Then you may be, etc. When Butchers shall trade without selling of meat and couzening Gamesters no more shall cheat When Belmen shall turn all poets at last Then you may be, etc. Then cunning Solicitors just you shall find and all the whole world shall be of one mind When highway-men they to be hang'd shall make hast Then you may be, etc. When Shop-keepers deal without telling of lyes and Jessebels never appear in disguise When Bells without mettle are known to be cast, Then you may be, etc. When Farmers shall live without sowing of Corn & wedding Gold rings be made of green horn When Whores draw carts as they did in times past Then you may be, etc. When Traitors shall all their own Treasons confess then God for a certain this Nation will bless When Jack-Ketch shall grieve for the men he hang'd last Then you may be, etc. And when all these things you do perfectly see I hope you will not be forgetful of me But then will conclude I spoke truth at the last And so may conclude that the worst it is past.
This may be Printed, R.L.C. Printed for J. Coniers at the Raven the first Shop in Fetter-laine next Holbourn.