%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Nobleman's Generous Kindness: / OR, / The Country Man's Unexpected Happiness: / Giving a true Account of a Nobleman, who taking notice of the Poor Man's Industri- / ous Care and Pains for the maintaining of his Charge, which was seven small Children, meeting / him upon a Day, discoursed with him, and invited him and his Wife, with his Children, home / to his House, and accordingly bestowed upon him a Farm of thirty Acres of Land, to be con- / tinued to him and his Heirs for ever. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1696-1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/29/2012 31880

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R188689 A Nobleman liv'd near a Village of late, / Hard by a poor Thresher, whose Charge it was great, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 159 The Nobleman's Generous Kindness: / OR, / The Country Man's Unexpected Happiness: / Giving a true Account of a Nobleman, who taking notice of the Poor Man's Industri- / ous Care and Pains for the maintaining of his Charge, which was seven small Children, meeting / him upon a Day, discoursed with him, and invited him and his Wife, with his Children, home / to his House, and accordingly bestowed upon him a Farm of thirty Acres of Land, to be con- / tinued to him and his Heirs for ever. The Nobleman's Generous Kindness: OR, The Country Man's Unexpected Happiness: Giving a true Account of a Nobleman, who taking notice of the Poor Man's Industri-ous Care and Pains for the maintaining of his Charge, which was seven small Children, meeting him upon a Day, discoursed with him, and invited him and his Wife, with his Children, home to his House, and accordingly bestowed upon him a Farm of thirty Acres of Land, to be con-tinued to him and his Heirs for ever. The Nobleman's Generous Kindness: OR, The Country Man's Unexpected Happiness: Giving a true Account of a Nobleman, who taking notice of the Poor Man's Industrious Care and Pains for the maintaining of his Charge, which was seven small Children, meeting him upon a Day, discoursed with him, and invited him and his Wife, with his Children, home to his House, and accordingly bestowed upon him a Farm of thirty Acres of Land, to be continued to him and his Heirs for ever. 1696-1696 E. Brooksby

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A Nobleman livd near a Village of late, Hard by a poor Thresher, whose Charge it was great, He had seven Children, and most of them small, And none but his labour to keep them withal. He never was given to idle and lurk, This Nobleman see him go daily to work, His flail, with his bag, and his bottle of beer, As cheerful as those that had Hundreds a Year. Thus careful and constant each Morning he went To his daily labour with joy and content, So jocund and jolly, both wistle and sing, As blithe and as brisk as a Bird in the Spring. One Morning this Noble Man taking his walk, He met with this poor Man, and freely did talk;
He asked him many a Question at large, Familiarly talking concerning his Charge: Thou hast many Children I very well know, Thy labour is hard, and thy wages is low, And yet thou art chearful; I pray tell me true, How you do maintain them so well as you do? I carefully carry home all that I earn; Now dasly experience by this I do learn, That though it is possible we may live poor, We still keep a ravenous wolf from the door, I reap and I mow, and I harrow and sow, Sometimes I to hedging and ditching do go; No work comes amiss, for I thresh [?]d I plow: Thus I eat my bread by the sweat of [?] brow.
My Wife she is willing to pull in the yoak, We live like two Lambs, and we never provoke Each other; but like to the labouring Ant, We do our endeavour to keep us from want. And when I come home from my labour at night To my Wife and Children, in whom I delight, To hear them come round me with tatling noise; Now these are the riches that poor Men enjoys. Though I am as weary as weary may be, The Youngest I commonly dance on my knee: I find that content is an absolute feast, I never repind at my Charge in the least. The Nobleman hearing then what he did say, Was pleasd, and invited him home the next day; His Wife and his Children he chargd him to bring, In token of favour he gave him a ring. Then thanked his Honour, and taking his leave, He went to his Wife, who would hardly believe, But that this strange story himself he might raise, Yet seeing the ring she was then in amaze. Betimes in the morning the good Wife arose, And made them all fine with the best of their Cloaths: The good Man and Wife, with his Children small, They then was to dine at the Noblemans Hall. And when they came there, as the truth doth report, All things was prepard in a plentiful sort: And they at the Noblemans table did dine, With all sorts of dainties, with plenty of Wine. All this being over, he soon let him know, What he then intended on him to bestow: A Farm, with full thirty good Acres of land, And gave him the writings then with his own hand. Because thou wast careful and good to thy Wife, Ill make thy days happy the rest of thy life; It shall be for ever to thee, and thy Heir, For why? I beheld thy industrious care. No tongue then was able in full to express The depth of their joy, and their true thankfulness, With many a courtesie and bow to the ground. But such Noblemen there is few to be found.
London: Printed for E. Brooksby, at the Sign of the Golden-ball, in Pye-corner.