%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> [Folly] p[lainl]y made Manifest, / BY / An Extravagant Husband / Being his kind Advice to all, of high or low Degree, / Least they in Poverty do fall, and bring themselves to misery. 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 06/19/2014 32964

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R227177 1 I have a Mistris of my own. UNKNOWN I have a Mistriss of my own. BAd husbands now I pray draw near, / and also hearken to my Ditty; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 161 [Folly] p[lainl]y made Manifest, / BY / An Extravagant Husband / Being his kind Advice to all, of high or low Degree, / Least they in Poverty do fall, and bring themselves to misery. [Folly] p[lainl]y made Manifest BY An Extravagant Husband Being his kind Advice to all, of high or low Degree, Least they in Poverty do fall, and bring themselves to misery. Folly plainly made Manifest, BY An Extravagant Husband Being his kind Advice to all, of high or low Degree, Least they in Poverty do fall, and bring themselves to misery. ?-? Deacon

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BAd Husbands now I pray draw near, and also hearken to my Ditty; Of evil company beware, for if you don't the more's the pitty: For by the same we plainly see, some men do work their own undoing, And bring themselves to poverty, and their poor Families to ruine. For those that do delight in it, would certainly increase their trouble Beside they dulsifie their wit, and add their sorrows ten times double For when that you have wasted all, they will certainly abuse you, When you in any troubles fall, they will utterly refuse you.
I do remember formerly, when I us'd the trade of drinking, My wife and I could not agree, for my pocket that was shrinking: Daily I did take much pains, yet my folly over-rul'd me, The Ale-house then receiv'd the gains, and in my trouble they did fool me. My Wife with tears perswaded me, but I afforded her no pitty, But gave my self such liberty, I rambled thorow Town and City: Thus my wife and Children small, they might weep till they were weary, While I for Liquor freely call'd, with which I made my heart full merry
THus my wife and children small, they had nothing to relieve them, When they to her for Bread did call, she had never a bit to give them: Then her sorrows they were great, she with tears did much lament it, To see her poor unhappy state, and knows not how to be contented. The Ale-wives kindness to him in a time of Trouble. At length I being out of work, they did much deride and flout me, And said that I was but a shark, and they had rather been without me: Thus when I did stand in need, all my former friends did slight me, Which made my very heart to bleed, I had nothing to delight me. But I made a vow therefore, in the heat of my vexation, I'le set a cross upon their door, and then i'le find my habitation: My life I will begin a new, what I do get i'le save together, The Proverb old is very true, a penny is good in rainy weather.
All company I have forsook, and Ale-houses where I did lie at, And better courses I have took, which brings me to much peace & quiet I'le be a Husband to my wife, and I will do my best endeavour, To have the Comfort of our life, and live in love like lambs together. I very seldom had my health, beside the charge of my expences, I often was beside my self, for drinking rob'd me of my sences: I'le never do the like again, I will utterly refrain them, The Hostess she shall sit and Spin, for they are fools that will maintain them Let all bad husbands mend with speed, before old age doth overtake you, For when you most do stand in need, your feigned friends will quite forsake you When your youthful strength is past, you will be from them quite absented, Griefs and sorrows comes at last, then too late you may repent it.
FINIS. Entred according to Order. Prin[ted for] J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street.