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R214586 2 Abington Fayre UNKNOWN Abington Fair the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune TO Fashions strange the world is bent, / one fashion giues not al content, MAn=hood Ile prayse the best that I can, / for he that wants manhood is counted no man And shew which best becomes the nose. [with variation] Yet brother-hood best becomes the nose. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 338 1: 339 The praise of Brotherhood: / OR, / A description of Hoodes writ in Verse, not in Prose / Shewing which best becomes the Nose. The praise of Brotherhood: OR A description of Hoodes writ in Verse, not in Prose Shewing which best becomes the Nose. The praise of Brotherhood: OR A description of Hoods writ in Verse, not in Prose Shewing which best becomes the Nose. 1633-1633 R. Harper

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TO Fashions strange the world is bent, one fashion gives not al content, For some with maskes their faces hide, and some theire brests lay open wide. Some goe with curled locks of haire and some fine hoods like hankes doe were, Then choyce of hoodes I will disclose, And shew which best becomes the nose. He that through stormes and tempests doth ride hath neede of a hood his head for to hide, To keep off each blast of the Northerne winde for to much cold comfort I know is unkind, When tempests rise and windes doe blow, and sturdy stormes their fury shew, A Close hood is good, when cold the wind blowes, Yet brother-hood best becomes the nose. He that will have the world to his minde must search well his wits now fashions to finde, And study new fangles to pleasure fond fooles, for wantons are willing to follow bad rules. Deceipt is unseemely it blindes the eyes, plain-dealing is pleasing which fooles doe despise; Keepe peace in thy bosome, shew love to thy foes, For brother-hood best becomes the nose. For brother,hood most I must commend, the vertue thereof so farre doth extend, true love and peace and charity, in brother-hood doe hidden lye,
He that true brotherhood hath possest, shall livd well beloved and die double blest, Greate hopes therein I doe repose For brother-hood best becomes the nose. In dayes of old when I was but a boy, then Brother-hood went for a fashion each day, But brother-hood now is out of request and other hoodes are accounted best, For now strange tricks and trifles they use, which makes the poore man to stand in a muse, I doe say no more then all the world knowes, For brother-hood best becomes the nose. Priest-hood is an order divine, let them that attaine it in glory so shine, That poore men unlearned may find out the way which leades unto Re[st] that shall never decay, This priest-hood was unto the learned ordaynd, O blest is the man that true wisedome hath gaynd To succour the needy and pray for his foes, For brother-hood best becomes the nose. Knight-hood proceedes from honour and fame when men try there Valour to win them a name With undaunted force to fight in the field, to purchase renowne with sword and with shield:He that fights in field with might and with mayne, deserves well the honour of Knight-hood to gaine, Thus poore men by Valour to honour have rose, For brotherhood best becomes the nose.
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MAn-hood Ile prayse the best that I can, for he that wants manhood is counted no man And he that wants manners is counted an asse, A dunce, or a foole, but for that let it passe. Manhood is more then some men have possest, yet he that hath man-hood is a man at the least, And a man is a man, where so ever he goes Yet brother-hood best becomes the nose. Woman-hood next I i[n] order apply, in good sooth gossipe, Ile tell you no lye, A beautifull woman from woman-hood free, is like a faire Image made of an old tree, A modest woman is accounted wise and a shamelesse woman is a griefe to the eyes, A woman thats shameles her shame wil disclose Then brother-hood best becomes the nose. Neighbour-hood next doth follow in rancke but men are not now so free and so franke, So franke, and so free, So loving and kinde, for neighbour-hood now is quite worne out of minde Each man for himselfe now, and God for us all: for neighbour-hood now among men is but small, Yea those that are friends live as if they were foes, Though brother-hood best becomes the nose. The French-hood is a fashion of old, in Fraunce well respected as I have bin told For it so well becomes the Crowne, that it is held in high renowne, Old women doe thinke it is wonderfull rare, as if that none with them might compare, But for all that I doe depose, that brother-hood best becomes the nose.
Yet cause the French-hood doeth make a fine show, therefore Ile speake of it as much as I know, For sure the French-hood much honour doth gayne, it holds all the witt that comes in the braine: Give Jone the French-hood and she will appeare to looke like a Lady all times of the yeare For hoods are deceitfull which makes me suppose, That brother-hood best becomes the nose. Child-hood, is a wonderfull simple thinge, Yet time and old age more wisedome will br[ing] Yet some men in age are so Childish grone as if that true man-hood they had never kno[wn] Let child-hood alone for children to use, and when they are old they will it refuse As a child growes in age so in wisedome he growes, Yet brother-hood best becomes the nose. But yet theres one hood which I have not exprest. and that is cald fals-hood more worse then the rest For false-hood breeds folly in an[y] mans heart: that doth so unwisely from vertue depart He that two faces beares under a hood, his deeds are deceitfull they cannt be withstood It will make true friends to be mortall foes, Then brother-hood best becomes the nose. I would that the world to love were inclind that each man might bare a brotherly mind, For brother-hood then would come in request and poore men find comfort which are much oppres[t] He that hath purchast much wealth and much gol[d] and lets his poore brother to starve in the cold, I respect such a friend but as one of my foes For brother-hood best becomes the nose.
Printed at London for R, Harper. FINIS. J.D.