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4.323 R188673 1 The Orange With a Fading The Orange THe Parliament all, near Westminster Hall / Have rated the Coals, for the great and the small, For the Collier. [with variations] Pepys 4.323 Rollins (1) V:261-264; Wing N797[G] 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: 323 A New-Years-GIFT / FOR / Covetous COLLIERS. A New-Years GIFT FOR Covetous COLLIERS. A New Year's Gift for Covetuous Colliers. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 295 cropped bottom edge, creased surface, uneven inking horizontal rule and cast fleurons 1682-1692 Printed for I. Millet, at the Angel in Little=Britain. J. Millet PBA

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THe Parliament all, near Westminster Hall Have rated the Coals, for the great and the small, A Bonefire let's make, bonny boys for their sake, And thank them for this Noble Act that they make, For the Collier. Though Coals we had store, the wretched and Poor, The Widdows, and Orphans, might starve within door, The Price was so high, that the Poor could not buy, And their Bushels so short, that the Nation cry'd Fye, On the Collier. Old Nick that is black, as the Colliers foul Sack, Will carry them all, (e're belong) Pick a Pack, Since the Price of their Coales, they did rise more and more, And for starving the Poor, as I told you before, O brave Collier.
But now let us Sing, and let all the Bells Ring, But all things in order, first, God save the King, And the Parliament Men, agen, and agen, And let all the whole Realm, to this Act say Amen. For the Collier. Their Covetousness, kind Heav'n did not Bless, The Colliers-Caball, will no more have success, 'Twas Black, and twas Base, as the Colliers foul-face, But this (my Masters) a pittiful Case, For the Collier. We here might enlarge, and tell of our Charge, Since their Conscience was long as their Lyter or Barge As thick, and as Teugh, very much of that Hue, And the Nation, and People abus'd by the Crew, Of the Colliers.
In sharp Winter weather, these Rooks hung together, And like very Black-Birds were all of a Feather, Their prizes they rais'd, but 'tis now, thanks be prais'd, As the Parliament pleases, and that has amaz'd the Old Colliers. We have heard of Old Cole, a Jolly Old Soul, That would take off his Bottle, and drink off his Bowl, Sure he was no Kind, nor yet any good Freind, When he liv'd in the World to this damnable Fiend, The Black Collier. If there comes but one Frost, the Coles must more cost, For he cares not a T--- if the poor were all lost, If they can get Sack, and if nothing they lack, They mind not what others do bear on their Back, O brave Collier. Thus they fill their Purse, and the Realm fares the worse, Both the good honest Granum, and old honest Nurse, When they want some Fire, to broil their Beef-Stake, How often they wish that the Devil may take, The Old Collier. Alas! how we look, in the Chimney-nook, When we want meat, and Fire, and are quite forsook, As cold as the Clay, we appear all the day, And this is the damnable fault I must say. of the Collier. 'Tis Coals that we want, and 'tis Coals that are scant, And that is the truth, and the short, and long on t, Then can this be Civil, when all this same Evil, We know does proceed from that covetous Devil: the Collier. My Masters I tell ye, Im'e sure that the belly, Cannot be kept warm, if that Nick or young Nelly, No Sea-cole have got, for to put in the Pot And this same falls heavy, because of the Sot, The old Collier, Then lads stout and tall, old Grannums and all, Let us thank our good friends near to Westminster-Hall, Our case it was sad, and so wondrous bad It soon would have made any Mortal man mad, But the Collier.
Printed for J. Millet, at the Angel in Little-Brittain.