%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The poore man payes for all. / This is but a dreame which here shall insue: / But the Author wishes his words were not true. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1601-1601 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/20/2011 30223

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S120071 2 In slumbring sleepe I lay Rogero In Slumbering Sleep I Lay the same tune Rogero The Same Tune AS I lay musing all alone, / upon my resting bed, Me thought I saw most stately wiues, / goe ietting on the way, how poore men payes for all. [with variation] and poore men pay for all. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 326 1: 327 The poore man payes for all. / This is but a dreame which here shall insue: / But the Author wishes his words were not true. The poore man payes for all. This is but a dreame which here shall insue: But the Author wishes his words were not true. The poor man pays for all. This is but a dream which here shall ensue: But the Author wishes his words were not true. 1601-1601 H.G.

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AS I lay musing all alone, upon my resting bed, Full many a cogitation did come into my head: And waking from my sleepe, I my dreame to mind did call, Me thought I saw before mine eyes, how poore men payes for all. I many objects did behold, in this my frightfull Dreame, A part of them I will unfold: and though my present Theame Is but a fancy you may say, yet many things doe fall Too true alas: for at this day the poore man payes for all. Me thought I saw (which causd my care) what I wish were a fable, That poore men still inforced are to pay more then they are able: Me thought I heard them weeping say, their substance was but small, For rich men will beare all the sway, and poore men pay for all. Me thought I saw how wealthy men did grind the poore mens faces, And greedily did prey on them, not pittying their cases:
They make them toyle and labour sore for wages too too small: The rich men in the Tavernes rore: but poore men pay for all. Me thought I saw an Usurer old, walke in his Fox-furd gowne, Whose wealth and eminence controld the most men in the Towne: His wealth he by extortion got, and rose by others fall, He had what his hands earned not, but poore men pay for all. Me thought I saw a Courtier proud goe swaggering along, That unto any scarce allowd the office of his tongue: Me thought, wert not for bribery, his Peacocks plumes would fail, He ruffles out in bravery, but poore men pay for all. Me thought I met (sore discontent) some poore men on the way, I asked one whither he went so fast and could not stay? Quoth he, I must goe take my Lease, or else another shall: My Landlords riches doe increase, but poore men pay for all.
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ME thought I saw most stately wives, goe jotting on the way, That live delightfull idle lives, and go in garments gay, That with the moon their shapes doe change or else theil chide and brawle, Thus women goe like monsters strange, and poore men pay for all. Me thought I was ith Countrey, where poore men take great paines, And labour hard continually. onely for-rich mens gaines, Like th Israelites in Egypt, the poore are kept in thrall: The task-masters are playing kept. but poore men pay for all. Me thought I saw poore Tradesmen ith City and else-where, Whom rich men keepe as beads-men, in bondage care and feare: Theil have them worke for what they list, thus weakest goe to the wall, The rich men eate and drinke the best, but poore men pay for all. Me thought I saw two Lawyers base one to another say. We have had in hand this poore mans Case, a twelve-month and a day. And yet weel not contented be to let the matter fall, Beare thou with me & Ile beare with thee, while poore men pay for all.
Me thought I saw a red-nose Oast, as fat as he could wallow, Whose carkasse, if it should be roast, would drop seven stone of tallow, He growes rich out of measure, with filling measure small, He lives in mirth and pleasure, but poore men pay for all. And so likewise the Brewer stout, the Chandler and the Baker, The Mault-man also without doubt, and the Tobacco-taker, Though they be proud and stately growne, and beare themselves so tall, Yet to the world it is well knowne, that poore men pay for all. Even as the mighty Fishes still, doe feed upon the lesse; So rich men, might they have their will, would on the poore men ceaze: It is a proverbe old and true, that weakest goe to th wall, Rich men can drinke till th sky looke blue, but poore men pay for all. But now, as I before did say, this is but a Dreame indeed, Though all dreames prove not true, some m[ay] hap right as I doe reade. And if that any come to passe, I doubt this my Dreame shall: For still tis found too true a case, that poore men pay for all.
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