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4.332 R188356 1 an excellent new Tune An Excellent New Tune THe Poor of this Kingdom such Times never knew, / For the Mony's so bad they look pitiful blew, date from content: Regulation of Coinage Pepys 4.332 Rollins (1) VII:167-170; Wing N550[a]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: 332 The New and True / Touch of the Times: / OR, / No Jest like a True Jest. The New and True Touch of the Times: OR, No Jest like a True Jest. The New and True Touch of the Times: Or, No Jest Like a True Jest. Joy, Thomas 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 198 x 290 uneven inking horizontal rules 1696 London: Printed for Phil. Brooksby, at the Sign of the / Golden=ball, in Pye=corner, near UUest=smithfield. Phil. Brooksby Weinstein: content

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THe Poor of this Kingdom such Times never knew, For the Mony's so bad they look pitiful blew, They do hang down their Heads, and do make a sad moan, Declaring such times before never was known; If the Times don't amend we distracted shall run, For there thousands are ruin'd and clearly undone.
For in Country and Town the Trading's so bad, There is little good Mony these times to be had; When some Mony we have, we cannot lay it out, If that we do go the whole Town round about, This makes us to weep and make pitiful moan, For when we have got Mony, as good we had none
The poor Man that worketh a long Summer's day, Must take a small Shilling at night for his Pay; Then he gives it his Wife some Meat for to buy, And away to the Butcher's the Woman do hie; But the Butcher replied, when the Mony he see, The Grasier will not take such Mony of me. Then strait to the Baker's this Woman may hie, Some Bread for her Family thinking to buy; When she shows him the Mony the Baker will frown, And churlishly speak, saying, Set my Bread down; Thus poor People, with Care, are incumbred here, For the Times they are hard, and all things are dear. There is many Shop-keepers in Country and Town, Through the badness of Mony has laid their Trade down, And many Inn-keepers left drawing of Beer, And Chapmen has left off their Trading this Year; For there's none of them all but will tell unto you, But the Mony's so bad they have nothing to do. There is many brave Gentlemen live in the West, That relieveth the Poor as the Truth is exprest, They do let them have Mony their Wants to supply, Or else in some places they may starve and dye; So these brave noble Men gain'd the Prayers of the Poor, Who relieved so many poor Souls at their door. God bless good King William, who took all this Care For to alter the Coin, which will be most rare; 'Twill be satisfaction all over the Land, Although that the Trading is still at a stand: I hope in this Land Trade will flourish amain, Then God send King William from Flanders again. Then chear up good People in Country and Town, And don't let your Courage at all be cast down, For Mony will be plenty in short time you shall see, Then where will there be such a Kingdom as we? When Mony grows plenty, then that will be rare, Then the Times will be as good as ever they were.
By Thomas Joy. London: Printed for Phil. Brooksby, at the Sign of the Golden-ball, in Pye-corner, near West-smithfield.