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5.394 R172548 1 The Old man's Wish The Old Man's Wish The Old Man's Wish AH how I sigh! and how I moan! I hope his Worship now is blest, / I wish his Soul eternal rest (with variations; not stanzas 10, 12, 13, 14) see also 5.393, 5.395 Pepys 5.394 Wing B525[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. 5: 394 The Baker's Lamentation/ For the great Loss of/ The pretended Worshipful Esquire WICKHAM. The Baker's Lamentation For the great Loss of The pretended Worshipful Esquire WICKHAM. The Baker's Lamentation for the Great Loss of the Pretended Worshipful Squire Wickham. 1/2 sheet folio, 267 x ?185 cropped right and bottom edges, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1684-1700 Printed for J. Bissel near the Hospital-Gate, in West-Smithfield. J. Bissel PBA

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AH how I sigh! and how I moan! Now the good Squire Wickham's gone: I hope his Worship now is blest, I wish his Soul eternal rest. He bequeath'd Five hundred pound, The Devil knows where 'tis to be found: For which I hope his Worship's blest, I wish his Soul eternal rest. To shew his Money he did not grutch, He's kindly left my Wife as much: For which we hope his Worship's blest. I wish his Soul eternal rest. But let's consider my dear honey, What we shall do with all our Money: For which I hope his Worship's blest, And wish his Soul eternal rest. But that which pleases me much the rather, Is, that we shall have it altogether: For which I hope his Worship's blest, And wish his Soul eternal rest. There's Betty who minded was by no man, Is turn'd by her Legacy Gentlewoman: For which she hopes his Worship's blest, And wishes his Soul, etc. The Church-Warden too, may pray for me, For helping him to his Legacy, Who begg'd his Worship might be blest, And pray'd for his Souls, etc.
Five hundred pound he has given more, To th' good Church-Wardens in trust for th' poor For which they hope his Worship's blest, And wish his Soul, etc. But all I fear the poor Old Wretches, Will never get it from out their clutches: But if the Poor are thus opprest, His Worships Soul will never rest. When th' Poor still walk with empty Pitcher, And find they're ne'er a cross the richer, Thus when they handle their empty Purses, They'll change their Prayers all into Curses. Some say that we an Estate shall find, To pay us when the Devil is blind: For which we hope his Worship's blest, And wish his Soul eternal rest. For now the Baker finds the Jest, He prays no more for's Worship's Rest, But swears, if living, he now would take him, And for his Worship's Bounty Bake him. The Church-Wardens too, it does so vex 'em, To think how th' Parish will perplex 'em: Say rest the Bones of Squire Wickham, They presently answer, the Devil pick 'em. Since never was Squire so misus'd, And for his bounty so abus'd: His liberal Legacies does so mad 'em, They all could wish the Devil had him.
Printed for J. Bissel near the Hospital-Gate, in West-Smithfield.