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4.313 R174521 1 an Excellent New Tune, Sung at the Court, Call'd, The Boarding School Make Your Honors, Miss An Excellent New Tune, Sung at the Court, Called, The Boarding School YOung=men & Maids to these few lines give ear, / And a Relation you shall hear, Pepys 4.313 Wing D1197[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: 313 THE / Dispairing PRODIGAL: / OR, / The Happy Surprisall. THE Dispairing PRODIGAL: OR, The Happy Surprisall. The Despairing Prodigal: Or, the Happy Surprisal. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?190 x 333 cropped right edge, creased surface, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 0-1689 Printed for I. Conyers at the Black Raven in Holbourn. J. Conyers BBTI

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YOung men & Maids to these few lines give ear, And a Relation you shall hear, If the whole life of a young Gentle-man, That in his tender--years began, To practice all things, that deserved praise, And some years thus spent his daies,
He was a Darling and the only Child, Of a most [tender]--Father mild, Who had design'd him, for to study Law, Since he Excelled others he saw, Thus for a while he learned Authors tries, And his acquaintance did surprize.
TO his Inferiours, he was always kind, And of a sweet--temper of mind, This made him soon honour'd by great and small, And that he was loved of all, But by Acquaintance he mispent his time, Did Idely waste most of his Prime. Learning was left, Books were not minded more, Which he had admir'd so much before. His Chamber, which [Conce], and his chief delight, He only haunted at twelve at Night, Sweet Serenades, Frolicks, and pleasures fine, These does Embrace and think Divine. Now for to Court he does resolve to trie, And to admire every black eye, Every sweet Dimple in the Female Face, Every soft--mould, and every Grace, No Ladies heart, but he could Charm and Win, And his Attempts now does begin. He had now learnt, though the Ladies--Fair, Have hearts as hard as the Flints are, Yet if 'tis true (which is by Rumor sed,) These will soon break on a Down-Bed, Ladies, he thinks, sometimes are Falling Stars, And take Delight, in Cupids Wars. He likes the Foe, with a sweet Virgins Fate, To [fright] the Fair-Head-Piece, with Lace, Up to the Knees in Silken--Stockings--soft, 'Tis in these Wars he would fight oft, There's no great danger, in such Duels, sure Such Pleasing--Wars, Maids may Endure. These Evil--Courses reacht his Fathers Ears, Rais'd in his brest many sad fears, He sends for home this his beloved--Son, Shews him his grief says he's undone, And does command now by his dying Breath, That he observe after his death.
Never to part with this house, which you have, When you have laid me in my Grave, Nor open this Closed door which you see, Of which this same, here is the Key, 'Till you han't left one six penca for to pay, And so farewel, mind what I say. After a while he sold a fair--Estate, And was reduc'd to a sad Fate, Credit he lackt, and now had Friends no more, And was become wretched and poor, At last he thought upon the Closet-Door, Which 'till this time was lockt secure. Round there he looks with discontented eyes, And a sad Mottoe there he spies, With this Inscription, Now go hang your self, Writ in large Lines round every shelf, With a Huge Rope, and a Noose, fitted there, And for his fate, now doth prepare. Now all the youths great Expectation's gone, Nothing but sighs and tears come on, Once he had hopes that he should Treasure find, But now complains fortunes--unkind, At laste the Rope he does with Horrour take, And does resolve to yield to fate, This to a false-Ceeling was fixt which fell, And round his head, money--Pell--mel, Bags of bright Gold and of pure Silver fine, Which sight the Miser thinks Divine, Thus this same [strange]--surprize, and all this strife Ended with Joy and a good--life,
FINIS.
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