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5.135 R187373 1 As I sat at my Spinning-Wheele The Spinning Wheel As I Sat at My Spinning Wheel KInd Countrymen, Attention give, / That you may all know how to live; The cause whereof, is this, alas! / Our Mony from us will not pass. [with variations] date from content; Regulation of the Coinage. Pepys 5.135 Rollins (1) VII:175-178; Wing R455A 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: 135 A/ Ready Cure for Uneasie Minds,/ FOR/ That their MONY will not Pass. A Ready Cure for Uneasie Minds, FOR That their MONY will not Pass. A Ready Cure for Uneasy Minds, For Their Money Will Not Pass. 1/2 sheet folio, 250 x 153 cropped right edge, uneven inking 1696 LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge. J. Blare Weinstein

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KInd Countrymen, Attention give, That you may all know how to live; By swimming through this Trying-day, When few knows how to Lend or Pay The cause whereof, is this, alas! Our Mony from us will not pass. I know you are in great distress, And each Man troubled more or less; But in my Muses you may find That which may ease your troubled mind; Which now is vext, for this alas, You Mony have but 'twill not pass. You all do know the very cause, Bad Men did violate our Laws; So that our Coin in all Mens sight, Became too little and too light; And to our Rulers seem'd, alas, Unfit a longer time to pass. To stop such fraud all means was used, But still our Mony was abused; Severitie did not asswage That growing Mischief of our age; And shall we now cry out alas, Because such Mony will not pass. No not at all, but rather say, We hope to see a better Day; Due course is took, Coin to defend, The Clippers gain is at end; Which may make them cry out alas, Clipt Mony will no longer pass. And for such Coin as is too light, We have a way to make it right, Of which he only give this hint, Lets cast it all into the Mint; That we no longer cry alas, Our Mony from us will not pass. If some shall say 'twil be great loss, There is no cure without some cross: To Purge our Humors that are ill, We all must take a bitter Pill; Yet not too bitter, for alas, Where 'tis made good, 'twill freely pass.
Let every Man through out the land, But freely lend a helping hand, A lovely change we all should see, As fast as Mony Coin'd [can] be; And part with none but such alas As now lyes by and will not pass. Then cease, oh Man, for to complain, Count not the loss, but count [the] [ga]in; One thing I see, which greatly [bi]nds, We all shall have contented minds; Which hath been wanting long alas, Because our Mony would not pass. A second Branch, speakes good to all, Thereby our Markets soon will fall; Goods will be cheap of every kind, When Mony runs to please each mind; The rise whereof being this a las, We fear'd what now is come to pass. The Poor to labour will be willing, When they shall have a new Mill'd shilling: And every Man be in a way, To Buy, to Sell, to Lend, to Pay; When Coin that now lyes dead a las, Shall be reviv'd and freely pass. Then mind once more what I did hint, And freely cast into the Mint, All Coin our Laws forbids to run, And do not think you are undone; There is no other way alas, To make light Mony freely pass. And if you do here to consent, You never will the same repent; For why, your Children yet unbread, Will reap the Fruites when you are dead; Not one of them will cry alas, We Mony have but 'twill not pass. And last of all, 'twill be much pleasure When all our Coin is real Treasure: We shall not need to punch nor pounce, When every Crown weighs nigh an ounce; To England, Honour, for alas, Such Coin throughout the World will pass.
LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge.