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S124356 14 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN It is not your Northern Nanny Sweet, If You Love Me It Is Not Your Northern Nanny Sweet is the Lass that loves me Sweet, If You Love Me Sweet is the Lass That Loves Me IN ancient times when as plain dealing / Was most of all in fashion, NO Gold nor Silver parchment lace / Was worn but by our Nobles, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. [with variation] While Mock-begger hall stands empty. Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 218 3: 219 Mock-Beggers Hall, with his scituation in the spacious Country, called, Any where. Mock-Beggers Hall, with his scituation in the spacious Country, called, Any where. Mock-Beggars Hall, with his situation in the spacious Country, called, Anywhere. 1633-1633 Richard Harper

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IN ancient times when as plain dealing Was most of all in fashion, There was not then half so much stealing, Nor men so given to passion; But now a days, truth so decays, And false knaves there are plenty, So pride exceeds all worthy deeds, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. The hangman now the fashion keeps, And swaggers like our gal[l]ants; While love and charity sits and weeps, To see them waste their Talents; Spend all their store upon a whore, Such Prodigals there are plenty; Thus brave it out, while men them flout, And Mock-begger hall stands empty. Ned Swash hath fetchd his cloaths from pawn With dropping of the barrell, Joan Du[s]t hath hought a smock of Lawn, And now begins to quarrell, She thinks her self poor silly elfe, To be the best of twenty, And yet the whore is wondrous poor, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. I read in ancient times of poor, That men of worthy calling, Built Alms-houses and Spittles store, Which now are all down falling;
And few men seek them to repair, Nor now is there one among twenty, That for good deeds will take any care, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. Farm-houses which their fathers built And Land well kept by tillage, Their prodigall Sons have sold for gilt, In every Town and Village: To the City and Court they do resort With gold and Silver plenty; And there they spend their time in sport, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. Young Land-lords when to age they come, Their rents they would be racking, The tenant must give a golden sum, Or else he is turnd packing: Great fines and double rent beside, Or else theyl not contented bee, It is for to maintain their monstrous pride, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. Their fathers went in homely freez, And wore good plain cloth breeches; Their stockings with the same agrees, Sowd on with good strong stitches: They were not called Gentlemen, Though they had wealth great plenty. Now every gulls grown worshipfull, While Mock-begger hall stands empty.
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NO Gold nor Silver parchment lace Was worn but by our Nobles, Nor would the honest harmless face, Wear Cuffs with so many doubles; Their bands were to their shirts sown then, Yet cloth was full as plenty; Now one band hath more cloth then ten, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. Now we are Apes in imitation, The more indeeds the pity; The City followes the strangers fashion, The Country followes the City: And ere one fashion is known throughout, Another they will invent yee; Tis all your gallants study about, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. Me thinks it is a great reproach To those that are nobly descended, When for their pleasures cannot have a coach, Wherewith they might be attended; But every beggerly Jack and Gill, That eat scant a good meal in twenty, Must through the streets be jaunted still While Mock-begger hall stands empty. Theres some are rattled thorow the streets, Probatum est, I tell it; Whose names are wrappd in parchment sheets, It grievs their hearts to spell it, They are not able two men to keep, With a coachman they must contented be, Which at Goldsmiths hall door ins box lies a sleep, While Mock-begger hall stands empty,
Our Gentlewomen whose means is nothing To that which they make shew off, Must use all the fashions in their cloathing, Which they can hear or know of; They take such care themselvs to deck, That money is oft so scanty, The belly is forcd to complain to the back, While Mock-begger hall stands empty. There is a crue, and a very mad crue, That about the Town doth swagger, That seems like Knights to the peoples view, And wear both sword and dagger; That sweetens their cloaths once a weak, Hunger with them is so plenty, The Broker will not have them to seek, While mock begger hall stands empty. Some Gentlemen and Citizens have In divers eminent places, Erected houses fine and brave, Which stood for the owners graces, Let any poor to such a door Come, they expecting plenty, They there may ask till their throats are sore, For Mock-begger hall stands empty. Thus plainly I to you declare, How strangely times are changed; What humors in the people are, How virtue is estranged: Now [e]very Jackanapes can strut, Such Coxcombs there are plenty, But at the last in Prison shut, So Mock-begger hall stands empty.
London, Printed for Richard Harper, at the Bible and Harp in Smithfield.