%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Michaelmas Term: / The Cittizens Kind Welcome to Country-men, that from all / parts of the Land come hither about their needless occasions (needful I mean) with a description of the / seasons and manners of the people therein imployed. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1663-1674 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/22/2008 22016

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4.352 R43453 1 The Rambling Clerk The Rambling Clerk COme hither my Muse if that thou be'st cold, / And warm thy self well with Promethian Fire, I bid them all welcome to Michaelmas Term. (with variations) THe dainty fine Girls that keep shop in the Change / Against this quick season have been exercis'd, I bid them all welcome to Michaelmas Term. [with variations] Pepys 4.352 Wing M1961B; Rollins (2) 1758 (July 8, 1633, IV, 299, Jno. Wright and partners) 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: 352 Michaelmas Term: / The Cittizens Kind Welcome to Country-men, that from all / parts of the Land come hither about their needless occasions (needful I mean) with a description of the / seasons and manners of the people therein imployed. Michaelmas Term: The Cittizens Kind Welcome to Country-men, that from all parts of the Land come hither about their needless occasions (needful I mean) with a description of the seasons and manners of people therein imployed. Michaelmas Term: The Citizens' Kind Welcome to Country-men, that from All Parts of the Land Come Hither about Their Needless Occasions (Needful I Mean) with a Description of the Seasons and Manners of the People There Employed. The second Part, The second Part, The Second Part, 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 274 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 274 1663-1674 Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright. F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright Blagden

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COme hither my Muse if that thou be'st cold, And warm thy self well with Promethian Fire, Which when thou hast done let me be bold, In matter of moment thy aid to require. My mind is resolved to write on a Theam, The which my expression I hope shall confirm, Those men that do rome from all parts of the Realm I bid them all welcome to Michaelmans Term. The Tradsman of London with long Expectation, Have lookt for the coming of this happy time, They are sick at the heart of the tedious vexation, But now on a sudden they'l be in their prime. They think themselves happy; especially some, If Michaelmas rent and their dyet they earn, But now they are glad for their harvest is come, The Country brings mony to Michaelmas Term. The Inholders, Vintners, Victualers, and Cooks, through want of imployment make grievus complaint In all this long season they were off o'th books, But now their red Lettice they do new paint,
Some set up new signes or new florish the old, And mend their old houses if they be infirm, To venture their mony they dare well be be bold, In hope to regain it in Michaelmas Term. The Tapsters Ostlers, and Chamberlains all, Chiefly about Holborn, Fleet-street and the Strand, Since Trinity Term had takings but small, Which caus'd many of them to run behind hand. But now they are jovial and take heart a grace, And both nimble gestures and speeches they learn, Their gains now come tumbling in a great pace, Long time they have wished for Michaelmas Term. Some Atturnies and some that solicite Law cases, That all the Vacation in the Country plods, They like to King Janus can use double faces, And strive to set Neighbour with Neighbour at ods, Now hither they come with their bags full of Law, But the profits they all to themselves do confirm Although it be but for a Truss of Rye straw, The case must be try'd at Michaelmas Term. The rambling Clerks that for lodging and dyet Have run on the Ticket with Vitlers and Cooks, Besides now and then for some overplus royot, Some of them have pawn'd their gowns & their books O now they are frollick and sing care away, For Country Clients about them do swarm, Now all their old scores they'l be able to pay, Their hands are so nimble in Michaelmas Term. The three-penny Ordinaries are so full throng'd, That there you can scarce get one bit of meat, Your country men proudly do scorn to be wrong'd, And yet their own bellies they basly will cheat. The Lawyers hands are still itching for fees, Which makes the plain husbandman let out his farm To come up to London to eat bread and cheese, While Lawyers eat Rost-meat in Michaelmas Term.
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THe dainty fine Girls that keep shop in Change Against this quick season have been exercis'd, To furnish their coffers with fashions all strange, The finest and rarest that can be devis'd, They keep their old Ditty, Sir what is't you lack, Which Country people are greedy to learn, The husband must carry the wife some new knack Or else he's not welcome from Michaelmas Term. The jovial Watermen trim up their Botes, And to be more pliant in plying their fares, With strong beer & Ale they do licker their throats For which they will wander to thee Alehouse by pairs And if the frost do not their labour prevent, Abundance of mony they daily will earn, Which in the vacation will freely be spent, And then they will think upon Michaelmas Term. The feather-heeld wenches that live by their own, Who long have been needy for want of good trading, For when all the gallants are gone out o'th town, Oh then these fine Pinaces lack their due lading: Therefore the vocation they rue like the rest, Because neither dyet nor cloathes they can earne, But now they'r in hope well to feather their nest, They looke for good doings in Michaelmas Term. Pick-pockets & Cheaters with Knights of thee Post, Doe long for the Term-time like hencster men, Where concourse of people is, they doe get most, With rooking exploits which they use now & then: And yet if they chance to be got in the nick, Thee hang-man next sessions will teach them a charm Will cure their disease be they never so sick, Oh then will they think on Michaelmas Term. The Court and the City, the Country withall If you will behold a part of all three, Then come at this time to Westminster-hall, Where people from all parts assembled be: And thus Ile conclude as at first I begun, Experience all this for truth will confirm, I hope I have given distaste to no man For I bid them all welcome to Michaelmas Term.
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright.