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R214423 4 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Stingo Stingo; Oil of Barley; Cold and Raw Stingo the Same Tune Stingo; Oil of Barley; Cold and Raw The Same Tune COme, and doe not musing stand, / if thou the truth discerne, IF sicknesse come, this Physick take, / it from your heart will set it, with the little Barly-Corne. [with variation] as the little Barly-Corne. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 214 1: 215 The little Barly-Corne. / Whose Properties and Vertues here, / Shall plainly to the world appeare: / To make you merry all the yeere. The little Barly-Corne. Whose Properties and Vertues here, Shall plainly to the world appeare: To make you merry all the yeere. The little Barley Corn. Whose Properties and virtues here, Shall plainly to the world appear: To make you merry all the year. 1618-1618 E.B.

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COme, and doe not musing stand, if thou the truth discerne, But take a full cup in thy hand, and thus begin to learne, Not of the earth, nor of the ayre, at evening or at morne, But joviall boyes your Christmas keep with the little Barly-Corne. It is the cunningst Alchymist, that ere was in the Land, Twill change your mettle when it list, in turning of a hand, Your blushing Gold to Silver wan, your Silver into Brasse, Twill turne a Taylor to a man, and a man into an asse. Twill make a poore man rich to hang a signe before his doore, And those that doe the Pitcher hang, though rich twill make them poore; Twill make the silliest poorest Snake, the Kings great Porter scorne, Twill make the stoutest Lubber weak, this little Barly-Corne. It hath more shifts then Lambe ere had, or Hocus Pocus too, It will good fellowes shew more sport, then Bankes his horse could doe: Twill play you faire above the boord, unlesse you take good heed, And fell you though you were a Lord, and justifie the deed.
It lends more yeeres unto old age, than ere was lent by nature, It makes the Poets fancy rage, more than Castalian water: Twill make a Huntsman chase a Fox, and never winde his horne, Twill cheere a Tinker in the stockes, this little Barly-Corne. It is the only Will othwispe, which leades men from the way, Twil make the tongue-tid Lawyer lisp and nought but (hic up) say, Twill make the Steward droope & stoop, his Bils he then will scorne, And at each post cast his reckning up, this little Barly-Corne. Twill make a man grow jealous soone, whose pretty Wife goes trim, And raile at the deceiving Moone, for making hornes at him: Twill make the Maidens trimly dance, and take it in no scorne, And helpe them to a friend by chance; this little Barly-Corne. It is the neatest Servingman, to entertaine a friend, It will doe more than money can, all jarring suits to end: Theres life in it, and it is here, tis here within this cup, Then take your liquor doe not spare, but cleare carouse it up.
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The second part of the little Barly-Corne,</hi></seg> <seg n="2" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">That cheareth the heart both evening and morne.</hi></seg> <lb/> <seg n="3" rend="left"><hi rend="italic"><hi rend="bold">To the same Tune.</hi></hi></seg>
IF sicknesse come, this Physick take, it from your heart will set it, If feare incroach, take more of it, your heart will soone forget it, Apollo and the Muses nine, doe take it in no scorne, Theres no such stuffe to passe the time as the little Barly-Corne. Twill make a weeping Widdow laugh, and soone incline to pleasure: Twill make an old man leave his staffe and dance a youthfull measure; And though your clothes be nere so bad, all ragged, rent, and torne, Against the cold you may be clad, with the little Barly-Corne. Twill make a Coward not to shrinke, but be as stout as may be; Twill make a man that he shall thinke, that Jones as good as my Lady: It will inrich the palest face, and with Rubies it adorne, Yet you shall thinke it no disgrace, this little Barly-Corne. Twill make your Gossips merry, when they their liquour see, Hey we shall nere be weary, sweet Gossip heres to thee; Twill make the Country Yeoman, the Courtier for to scorne, And talke of Law-suits ore a Can, with this little Barly-Corne.
It makes a man that write cannot, to make you large Indentures, When as he reeleth home at night, upon the Watch he ventures, He cares not for the Candlelight, that shineth in the horne, Yet he will stumble the way aright, this little Barly-Corne. Twill make a Mizer prodigall, and shew himselfe kind hearted, Twill make him never grieve at all, that from his Coyne hath parted, Twill make the Shepheard to mistake his Sheepe before a storme: Twill make the Poet to excell, this little Barly-Corne. It will make young Lads to call most freely for their liquor, Twill make a young Lasse take a fall, and rise againe the quicker: Twill make a man that he shall sleepe all night profoundly, And make a man what ere he be, goe about his businesse roundly. Thus the Barly-Corne hath power, even for to change our nature, And make a Shrew within an houre, prove a kind-hearted creature: And therefore here I say againe, let no man takt in scorne, That I the vertues doe proclaime, of the little Barly-Corne.
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