%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The three merry Coblers, / Who tell how the case with them doth stand, / How they are still on the mending hand. Parker, Martin University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1624-1624 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/22/2011 30279

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S119385 2 the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune The Spanish Gipsie UNKNOWN The Spanish Gypsy COme follow follow me, / to th' Alehouse weele march all three, POore weather, beaten Soles, / Whose case the body condoles For we are still on the mending hand. [with variation] And still we are on the mending hand. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 408 1: 409 The three merry Coblers, / Who tell how the case with them doth stand, / How they are still on the mending hand. The three merry Coblers, Who tell how the case with them doth stand, How they are still on the mending hand. The three merry Cobblers, Who tell how the case with them doth stand, How they are still on the mending hand. Parker, Martin 1624-1624 F. Groue

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COme follow follow me, to th Alehouse weele march all three, Leave Aule[,] Last[,] Threed, and Lether, And lets goe alto[g]ether, Our trade excells most trades ith land, For we are st[il]l on the mending hand. Come Tapster fill us some ale, Then hearken to our tale, And try what can be made Of our renowned trade; We have Aule at our command, And still we are on the mending hand. Though Shoomakers us disdaine, Yet tis approved plaine, Our trade cannot be mist, Let them say what they list, Though all grow worse quite through the land, Yet we are still on the mending hand. When Shoomakers are decayed Then doe they fall to our trade, And glad their mindes they give By mending Shooes to live, When in necessity they stand, They strive to be on the mending hand. Although theres but few of us rich, Yet bravely we go thorow stich. Weret not for this barley broth (Which is meat, drinke[,] and cloth) We sure should purchase house and land, At worst we are still on the mending hand.
We deale most uprightly, Our neighbours that goe awry We easily set upright, The broken we unite, When all men out of order stand; Then we are most on the mending hand: We cannot dissemble for treasure, But give every one just measure, If Bakers kept size like us, They need not be frighted thus, We feare not to have our doings scannd, For we are still on the mending hand. What ever we doe intend We bring to a perfect end. If any offence be past, We make all well at last, We sit at worke when others stand, And still we are on the mending hand. We bristle as well as the best, All knavery we doe detest, What we have promised Weele doe unto a thred, We use waxe, but to seale no Band, And still we are on the mending hand. Our wives doe sit at the wheele, They spin, and we doe reele, Although we take no Fa[r]mes, Yet we can show our armes, And spread them at our owne command. Thus still we are on the mending hand.
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POore weather-beaten Soles, Whose case the body condoles, We for a little gaine Can set on foot againe, We make the falling stedfast stand, And still we are on the mending hand. Youd thinke we were past sence, For we give pieces for pence, Judge, ist not very strange We should make such exchange, Yet so weele doe at your command, And yet weele be on the mending hand. Our hands doe show that we Live not by taking a Fee, We pull a living forth Of things but little worth, Our worke doth th owners understand, Thus still we are on the mending hand. All day we merrily sing, And Customers doe bring, Or unto us doe send, Their Boots and Shooes to mend, We have our money at first demand, Thus still we are on the mending hand. When all our money is spent, We are not discontent,
For we can worke for more, And then pay off our score, We drinke without either bill or band, Because we are still on the mending hand. While other Callings great, For fraud and foule deceit, Are lookt unto by Law, We need not weight a straw, Our honesty spreads through the land, For we are still on the mending hand. Therefore lets be of good cheere, Though Lether be something deare, The Law some course will take Amends for all to make, And by their care we understand, the world is now on the mending hand, We pray for durty weather, And money to pay for Lether, Which if we have, and health, A fig for worldly wealth, Till men upon their heads doe stand, We shall be still on the mending hand.
FINIS. M.P. Printed at London for F. Grove.