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S121719 WHat meane the rimes that run thus large in euvery shop to sell? / With wanton sound, and filthie sense, me thinke it grees not well Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 18274 Against filthy writing / and such like / delighting. Against filthy writing and such like delighting. Against filthy writing and such like delighting. Brice, Thomas Printer John Alde 1562-1562 Edmond Halley

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WHat meane the rimes that run thus large in every shop to sell? With wanton sound, and filthie sense, me thinke it grees not well We are not Ethnickes we forsoth, at least professe not so Why range we then to Ethnickes trade? come bak, where wil ye go? Tel me is Christ, or Cupide Lord? doth God or Venus reigne? And whose are wee? whom ought wee serve? I aske it, answere plaine If wanton Venus, then go forth, if Cupide, keep your trade If God, or Christ, come bak the best, or sure you will be made Doth God? is he the Lord in deed? and should we him obey? Then his commaundement ought to guide, all that wee doo or say But shew me his commaundement then, thou filthy writer thou Let seet, I cease, if not, geve place, or shameles shew thee now. WE are no foes to musicke wee, a mis your man doth take us so frendes to thinges corrupt and vile, you all shall never make us If you denie them such to bee, I stand to prove it I, If you confesse (defend them not) why then doo you reply? But such they bee I will mainteine, which yet you bothe defend And judge them fooles, that them mislike, would God you might amend But, substance onely I regarde, let Accidencis go Both you and wee, bee that wee bee, I therfore leave it so And yet I wishe your tearmes in deed, upon some reason stayd If mine be not, reprove them right, Ile blot that I have sayd And that I wrote, or now doo wrighte, against you as may seeme What cause I had, and have, I yelde, to modest men to deeme I wishe you well I doo protest, (as God will, I will so) I cannot helpe, as frend ye wot, nor will not hurt as so But for the vile corrupting rimes, which you confesse to wrighte My soule and hart abhorres their sence, as far from my delight And those that use them for their glee, as you doo vaunte ye will I tell you plainly what I think, I judge them to bee ill This boasting late in part hath causd, mee now to say my minde Though chalenges of yours also, in every place I finde.
Thomas Brice. Imprinted at London by John Alde for Edmond Halley and are to be solde in Lumbard strete at the signe of the Egle.