%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The New Compos'd Medly: / OR, / The true Vertue of the Hop-Sack. / If ever this be seen by Men, / Which I do here unfold, / It will be in a Hop-Sack then / As true as e're was told. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1702 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/11/2008 22033

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4.369 R188630 1 With a Hop-Sack With a Fading With a Hop-Sack I Pray draw near, and you shall hear, / a story which is known to be true, In a Hop-Sack. Pepys 4.369 Wing N600[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: 369 The New Compos'd Medly: / OR, / The true Vertue of the Hop-Sack. / If ever this be seen by Men, / Which I do here unfold, / It will be in a Hop-Sack then / As true as e're was told. The New Compos'd Medly; OR, The true Vertue of the Hop-Sack. If ever this be seen by Men, Which I do here unfold. It will be in a Hop-Sack then As true as e're was told. The New Composed Medley: Or, the True Virtue of the Hop-sack. If Ever this be Seen by Men, Which I Do Here Unfold, It Will be in a Hop-sack Then, as True as Ever Was Told. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 210 x 300 uneven inking 1671-1702 Printed for I. Deacon, in Guilt=spur=street. J. Deacon Spufford and BBTI

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 3/11/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Various Subjects alcohol appearance class economics/trade London urbanlife 03/11/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/24/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad checked 11/07/06 Transcriber Cat Zusky Original transcription 9/20/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I Pray draw near, and you shall hear, a story which is known to be true, The knaves in White Fryers will make it their case, to pay all their Creditors what is their due, In a Hop-Sack. The London Misses they have said, they cannot indure the name of a Whore, Therefore they protest they will leave off their trade and never will follow that calling no more, In a Hop-Sack. Besides they make a sad complaint, and say that Pride too much does abound, Therefore they will leave off their powder and paint.
and ever hereafter will modest be found, In a Hop-Sack. The Ale-wives they are loving still, for if a Man be willing to call, She'l draw him good Liquor as much as he will, without e're a penny of Money at all, In a Hop-Sack. The Miser he does hate his Gold, and is resolved to save no more, For if it be true; now as I have been told. he'l sell all he has, and will give to the poor, In a Hop-Sack.
Both Lords and Earls will go to Plow, that Ralph and Roger may live at their ease, And e'ry fair Lady will Milk the brown Cow, and Lawyers at Westminster plead without fees, In a Hop-Sack. The Landlords they act very fair, poor Men of them has no cause to complain, They having no reason at all to take care, to get up their rent for he'l gift them again, In a Hop-Sack. The Poets now are grown so rich, as having gotten so much by their pen, They cannot be quiet, their fingers does itch, to build some new Colledge for poor decay'd men, In a Hop-Sack. Poor Men they now may live at rest, if this be true as I have been told, Bad Wives they will never their Husbands molest, theyl learn to live quiet and never will scold, In a Hop-Sack. There's no Man need in Jayl abide, he may come out without paying of fees, The doors of the Prisons are opened wide, and every prisoner walks where he please, In a Hop-Sack. The Taylors now will steal no more, that practice they will clearly refrain, What e're they have Cabbidg'd they vow to restore, and bring it to every Master again, In a Hop-Sack. The Brokers now by joynt consent, from griping poor men they will refrain, And likewise forgive them the Money they lent, restoring them all their Apparel again, In a Hop-Sack. Some Men who has most handsome Wives, their reputation they often stain, But now theyr resolved to live better lives, and never to Cuckold their Husbands again, In a Hop-Sack. Now to conclude and make an end, I hope all you that hear me this day, Will buy of my Ballads which here I have pen'd, for every Sillable's true, by my fay. In a Hop-Sack.
Printed for J. Deacon, in Guilt-spur-street.