%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Poets Dream: / OR, The Great Out=cry and Lamentable Complaint of the LAND against / BAYLIFFS and their DOGS. / Wherein is Expressed their Villanous Out=rages to poor Men. With a True De- / scription of their Knavery and their Debuac'h Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the view of all / People. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/30/2014 32838

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R227331 1 Sawney Sawney Will Never Be My Love Again Sawney AS I lay Slumbering in a Dream, / methought the world most strangely went; And that's the cause that the Land Complains. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 95 The Poets Dream: / OR, The Great Out=cry and Lamentable Complaint of the LAND against / BAYLIFFS and their DOGS. / Wherein is Expressed their Villanous Out=rages to poor Men. With a True De- / scription of their Knavery and their Debuac'h Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the view of all / People. The Poets Dream: OR, The Great Out-cry and Lamentable Complaint of the LAND against BAYLIFFS and their DOGS. Wherein is Expressed their Villanous Out-rages to poor Men. With a True De-scription of their Knavery and their Debauc’h Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the view of all People. The Poet's Dream: OR, The Great Outcry and Lamentable Complaint of the LAND against Bayliffs and their DOGS. Wherein is Expressed their Villainous Outrages to poor Men. With a True Description of their Knavery and their Debauched Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the view of all People. ?-? P. Brooksby

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AS I lay Slumbering in a Dream, methought the world most strangely went; The Bayliffs on High Seats was seen, which caused the Poor's great Discontent. They pluckt true Justice from the Throne, Erecting Laws was made of their own, And burthen'd the Poor till they made them groan, And that's the cause that the Land Complains. Their Meeting House was an Ale-wives Bench, fix'd in a Street that is termed Old; Their Speaker was an a Play-house-Wench, both Whore and Thief, and a Devilish Scold.
She'd Guzzel Brandy, Wine, or Ale, And then she'd at her Neighbours Rail, And send for the Bayliffs to have them to Jayl, And that's the cause that the Land Complains. Methoughts a mighty Hunting-match, was made by Bayliffs and their Currs: Poor men was the Deer they strove to catch, the Houses plac'd in the Room of Furrs: The Suburbs-Round it was their Park: The Bayliffs Yell, the Dogs did Bark, The Poor kept as close as Noah in the Ark; A[n]d that's the cause that the Land Complains,
Then Shephard and his Dog wheel'd up toth' right, and thunder'd by a Cursed Lane, And there the Villains wrought their Spight, for by them once was a Poor Man slain: They Swear before they'l ever lack, They'l go to Hell a Pick-a-Pack, And thus poor Debters they go to rack, And that's the cause that the Land complains. There's Cursing Will and Damme-Jack, and Robbin Turners alive agen; And Paunchgut-Tom, (a Hellish Pack,) with perjur'd-Dick and Bawdy Ben: Which formerly on Earth did Dwell, And now they are return'd from Hell, And doth against our Laws Rebell, And that's the cause that the Land complains. When I awaked from my Dream, Methoughts the World turn'd upside down, And in great haste. I Writ this Theam, for the Bayliffs Dogs of our Town: Who for their prey each hour do wait, Like death at every poor Man's Gate, And brings the Realm to a Dismal fate, And that's the cause that the Land complains. When Poor men are out of Employ, and have not a Farthing in the World; The while there Wives and Children Cry, there's many are in a Prison hurl'd. Men are Enticed by the Bumms, Who swear they ne'r will pay their Summs, Thus Poor in Flocks to the Jaylor comes; And that's the cause that the Land complains. The Tally-man, Curmudgeon keeps a Baylif and his Dog to Bite; If in their Books men ever Creeps, they quickly swear they'l have their Right; So soon as e're they do Back-slide, The Torturing Jale they must abide, Then Toby and Dog's Employ'd; And that's the cause that the Land complains. When Rogues are at the Old-Bayly Burn'd, and that their Pilfering Trades do fail; From Thieves to Bayliffs-Dogs have turn'd, to plague and hurry the Poor to Jayl:
How like Kid-Nappers all the Day, In every Corner they Survey, And quaff whole Bowls when they get their Pr[ey] And that's the cause that the Land complains. Ten Groat's the Fees, and a Crown the Arrest and three Round 000's for a Writ beside; Thus Laws are broken, and poor men Opprest, such Racking Torments they must abide: And while the Prisoner sends for Bail, They Tope the Brandy, Beer, and Ale, And makes him pay, or they have him to Jayl: And that's the cause that the Land complains. For Twenty Shillings, Ten, or Five, they'l put a man to a Cursed Charge; Or run him to Jayl they'l soon contrive, where other Bills are exprest at Large: The Jayl-Fees many are bound to Rue, The Garnish, Bed and Turn-Key too, Expects an unexpected Due; And that's the cause that the Land complains Your Moore-field Mobbs, and Whetstone-Whore has Bayliffs and their Dogs for Friends; When Lustful Youth pays Venus Scores, those Spunging Pimps the House attends: If Cullies fight in a Drunken fit, Away goes Toby's Dog for a Writ, Thus many falls in the Bayliffs pit; And that's the cause that the Land complains 'Tis seldom a Bayliff or his Dog, is ever known for to go to Church; As soon as they here the Word of god, they leave the Parson in the lurch: They swear they'l come to church no more, They lay their Sins to Adams Store, And jaunts to Moorfields to a Whore: And that's the cause that the Land complain[s] Thus I conclude and end my Song, desiring that you wou'd be content: There's Christian-Peers that may right our wr[ong] when Heaven yields up a Parliament; I hope true Reason will plead our cause, While they'r erecting wholesome Laws, They'l keep us from the Crocodils paws; And cease the Poor of the Lands complaints
FINIS. Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball near the Bear Tavern in Pye Corner.