%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Conscience by Scruples, / AND / Money by Ounces; / OR; / New Fashioned SCALES for Old Fashioned MONEY. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1697 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/07/2008 21969

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4.307 R174153 1 The Scotch Hay-makers The Scotch Haymakers The Scotch Haymakers THere is a cursed Project, grown common in the town,/ As plaguy an invention as ever yet was known: imprint unclear: Printed for Charles [B]arnet, 1697. date from imprint and context: Regulation of the Coinage (1696) Pepys 4.307 Rollins (1) VII:277-280; Wing C5897[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: 307 Conscience by Scruples, / AND / Money by Ounces; / OR; / New Fashioned SCALES for Old Fashioned MONEY. Conscience by Scruples, AND Money by Ounces; OR, New Fashioned SCALES for Old Fashioned MONEY. Conscience by Scruples, and Money by Ounces; Or; New Fashioned Scales for Old Fashioned Money. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 280 x ?195 cropped top and right edges, creased and damaged surface vertical rules 1697 Printed for Charles Barnet, 1697. Charles Barnet Weinstein: imprint and context

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THere is a cursed Project, grown common in the town, As plaguy an invention as ever yet was known: By the Jacobitish Crew and the Devil else knows who, That try their tricks, the Land to vex, and Nation to undo, Oh ye sneaking Rebels, ye Rebels in grain; Now one Plot has miscarry'd, you strive to Plot again, Such a Jacobitish Crew, sure England never knew, Oh Rebels, Rebels, Cursed Rebels, what d'ye mean to do? Forsooth our antient Money, so spatious large and broad, Which Misers horded up Sir, and worshipt as a God, Which wou'd make a man to skip, and like any Fidler leap A while ago esteemed so, it scarce abroad wou'd creep, But the time now being come sir, it pears in light, And we are grown so prodigal to take it by its weight, This Jacobitish Crew, what will the whoresbirds do, Oh Money Money, duce is in ye, don't you mean to go, I offer,d once a shilling to one of Taffys tribe, A woundy Money weighter: a Jacobite beside, But he cry'd out, Splutera-nails; hur will fetch her weights and scales Hur will not do, hur will not go, hur will not take her else, No, by hur Saint David her is not weight, Nor will her take hur shilling, if her lack a little bit, Do not take hur for a Vool, by saint Taffys three leg'd stool Her too light money wants a penny of her weight in full.
I left the Roguish Taffy to hunt the town about, And at length by chance it happen'd, I found a Quaker out Says I, Prithee honest Friend, prithee wilt thou be so kind, As to take this shilling, this large shilling, wilt thou honest friend Streight sir he weigh'd it, and swore by all his Light, Friend thou beest a naughty Fellow, thy money is not weight thou oughtest to be beat, because thou goest to cheat, For thy too light money wants a penny of its toping weight Then I began to maunder, at this confounded work, I storm'd like a tarpaulion, and swore like any Turk, What the Dickens will ye do! Hah, what wont my money go Thou quaking Devil pray be civil: or ile weigh thee too, why does the spirit move thee, pray wherefore dost thou stump the devil has no weights nor scales, he'l take thee by the lump For thy Conscience is so small, thou hast got just none at all, O thou'rt inhumane to weigh mammon in a brazen scale. But since this sad Confusion of weighing silver Coyn, By Jacobites and Brethren is scattered tho' the tow, Let us all with one Consent future Evils to prevent Take such money still as e'nt forbid by Act of Parliment, And that we may show all the Rebels a trick, If they don't mend their manners we will send 'em told Nick Long may our Nation thrive, and long may our Cer Live, But Confound those Rebels, sneaking Rebels, that Sn grieve
Printed for Charles [B]arnet, 1697.