%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Joviall Crew, / OR, / Beggers-Bush. / In which a mad Maunder doth vapour and swagger, / With praiseing the Trade of a Bonny bold Begger. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1647-1647 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/01/2012 31858

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R179058 1 From hunger and cold From Hunger and Cold From Hunger and Cold A Begger, a Begger, / A Begger Ile bee, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 150 The Joviall Crew, / OR, / Beggers-Bush. / In which a mad Maunder doth vapour and swagger, / With praiseing the Trade of a Bonny bold Begger. The Joviall Crew, OR, Beggers-Bush. In which a mad Maunder doth vapour and swagger, With praiseing the Trade of a Bonny bold Begger. The Jovial Crew, OR, Beggar's Bush. In which a mad Maunder does vapor and swagger, With praising the Trade of a Bonny bold Beggar. 1647-1647 William Gilbertson

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A Begger, a Begger, A Begger Ile bee, Theres none leads a life so jocond as hee; A Begger I was, And a Begger I am, A Bagger Ile be, from a Begger I came: If (as it begins) our Trading do fall, I fear (at the last) we shall be Beggers all. Our Trades-men miscarry in all their affayrs, And few men grow wealthy, but Courtiers & Players. A Craver my Father, A Maunder my Mother, A Filer my Sister, a Filcher my Brother, A Canter my Unckle That card not for pelfe; A Lifter my Aunt, a Begger my selfe; In white wheaten-staw, when their bellies were full, Then I was begot, between Tinker & Trull; And therefore a Begger, a Begger Ile be, For none hath a spirit so jocond as he.
When Boyes do come to us, And that their intent is. To fallow our Calling, we nere bind them prentice, Soon as they come toot, We teach them to doot, And give them a Staff and a Wallet to boot, We teach them their Lingua, to crave and to Cant, The Devill is in them, if then they can want If any are here that Beggers will be, We without Indentures will make them free Wee Begg for our Bread, But sometimes it happens We feast it with Pigg, Pullet, Conny and Capons For Churches Affaires, We are no Mer-slayers We have no Religion, yet live by our prayers But if when we begg men will not draw their purses We charge & give fire, with a volly of curses The Divel confound your good worship we cry And such a bold brazen-facd Begger am I.
WE do things in season, And have so much reason, we raise no Rebellion, nor never talk treason We billet our Mates, At very low rates, Whilst some keeps their Quarters as high as the Gates, With Shinkin ap Morgan, with Blew-Cap, or Tege. We enter into no Covenant nor League; And therefore a bonny bold Begger Ile be, For none lives a life so happy as he. We never do prate, In matters of State, For fear we should come to Hugh Peters his Fate: Whilst Scripturs unfolders And Treason upholders, Have lost their heads, we keep ours on our shoulders Our Plots & our Projects, are never so tall, To reach to the Top-mast of Westminster-hall And therefore a merry brave Begger Ile be, For none wears his Noddle so safely as he. For such petty Pledges, As Shirts from the Hedges, We are not in fear to be drawn upon Sledges But sometimes the Whip, Doth make us to scip, And then we from Tything to Tything do trip: For when in a poor Bousing-Ken we do bib it We stend more in awe of the Stocks then the Gibbet And therefore a merry mad Begger Ile be, For when it is night, to the Barn goes he.
We throw down no Alter, Nor ever do falter So much, as to change a Gold-Chain for a Halter: Though some men do flout us, And others do doubt us, We nere go without forty pieces about us, But many brav fellows are fine & look fiercer That owe for their cloths to the Taylor and Mercer: And if from the Stocks I can keep out my feet, I fear not the Compter, Kings-bench, nor the Fleet. Sometimes I do frame, My selfe to be lame. And when a coach comes, I do hop to my game We seldome miscarry, Yet never do Marry By the Gowns Common-Prayer, nor the Cloak Directory; But Harry and Mary (like Birds of a feather) do nothing but kiss, laugh & lye down together Like piggs in the pease-straw, intangled they lye Till there they beget such a bold Rogue as I. To summe all in brief, We live by relief, And pray for King Charls, our Commander in chief; God blesse all the Peers, The wise Over-seers That they may consider the poor Caveliers. For if they do let them but lower to fall, Theyl take our profession, and begger us all: And then it will be, but a folly for me, A merry sould, bonny bold Begger to be.
London, Printed for William Gilbertson dwelling at the Bible in Giltspurstreet.