%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Cheat in all Trads, or the World turned / upsid down. 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 06/21/2014 32883

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R171302 GOOD People now listen, I cannot forbear, / To tell how the World's enthralled in care; You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 458 A Cheat in all Trads, or the World turned / upsid down. A Cheat in all Trades, or the World turned upside down. ?-?

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GOOD People now listen, I cannot forbear, To tell how the World's enthralled in care; Then to find a just Man I do positively say, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. What a pitiful pass this World's come to, Most Men have forgot to be honest and true; For to find out a Friend when you fall to decay, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. If you have abundance of Money to spend, So long as that lasts you will have a good Friend, But when it is gone, your Friend, will not stay, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The nimble-tongu'd Lawyer will promise you fair, And says that he will of your Cause take great care; But to look for one, who won't cheat you I say, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The Doctors, Physicians, and all the Quack Crew, Will punish your Body, and make you to rue; Your Purse they will empty, or will not long stay, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The Brewer complaineth be the Malt cheap or dear, That he can't afford so much Malt in his Beer; So to find out strong Beer you must go a great way, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The Farmer and Miller, and Baker is pleas'd, When Bread it is dear, tho' the Poor it doth teize, But to find out a Knave on the poor does not prey, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of a Hay. The Butcher is likewise a sly cunning Knave, He'll cheat you with sling, when good Meat you; should have. And if on this World you rely I do say, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The fat Tallow Chandler doth on us exact, An extravagant Price, and blames the late Act, And says that their Scales they justly do weigh. You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The subtle Coal-Merchant as I am alive, To cut all their Measures did lately contrive;
Then to find out a Coal-man that's just in his Way, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The cunning sharp Taylor the Truth for to tell, Give him but an Inch, he will soon take an Ell; Trust Miss that makes Mantua's if such tricks she dont play You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The cursed Distiller by the Fumes of his Still, Draw's thence damn'd Geneva, which thousands do kill And to find out good Brandy in his Shop I do say, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. Next Cut-Throat the Barber does look very big, With old rotten Hair, he'll mix your new Wig; Find a Barber won't bite you that very same way, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. The Tallow man's Conscience is known to be large And the Devil the Pawn-broker ne'er will dischare, Then find out worse knaves search the World I do say You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. There's also Tom Tinker to purchase strong Drink, Cries Kettles or Pots Maids I'll mend for your Chrink If one hole he stop, he'll make two I dare say, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. Next Mr. Church Warden doth walk with a Grace, Unto the Next Tavern, and there takes his Place If in Sack and fat Capons he don't spend the poor's pay You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. Shop keepers do not cozen for to pop of bad Ware All Mortals that's living in Fraud have a Share, Find a Servant won't loiter when his Master's aw You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay Plain Dealing's a Jewel, but he that doth use it, They say dies a Beggar, therefore Men refuse it Find out one that's Upright, then the Truth Sir I say, You may as well find a Needle in a Bottle of Hay. Then since this mad World is so base and unjust, And Whoredom and Vice now amongst us is nurst; Those Men that are honest (tho' poor) I do say, Will be the most happy upon the last Day.
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