%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The West-Country MISER: / OR, AN / Unconscionable Farmer's Miserable End: / Who having Hoarded up his Corn in hopes it would rise to a higher Price, was Disappointed so that he fell into Despair, and / Died at last by the fright of an Apparition. 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 06/25/2014 33462

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1 Love's a sweet passion: or, Fond Boy, &c. Fond Boy Love's a sweet passion: or, Fond Boy, &c. LEt all loving people be pleas’d to atte[n]d, / To a woful relation sent up by a friend, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 754 The West-Country MISER: / OR, AN / Unconscionable Farmer's Miserable End: / Who having Hoarded up his Corn in hopes it would rise to a higher Price, was Disappointed so that he fell into Despair, and / Died at last by the fright of an Apparition. The West-Country MISER: OR, AN Unconscionable Farmer’s Miserable End: Who having Hoarded up his Corn in hopes it would rise to a higher Price, was Disappointed so that he fell into Despair, and Died at last by the fright of an Apparition. The West Country MISER: OR, AN Unconscionable Farmer's Miserable End: Who having Hoarded up his Corn in hopes it would rise to a higher Price, was Disappointed so that he fell into Despair, and Died at last by the fright of an Apparition. ?-? J. Wolrah

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LEt all loving people be pleas'd to atte[n]d, To a woful relation sent up by a friend, Of a co[u]pl[e] of farmers who happen'd of late, To discourse as the[y] met at the parish church gate: Now the one was a miser who hoarded hi[s] sto[r]e, And [t]he other was loving and good to the poor. The miser he seem'd to be troubl'd in mind, For his heart was to cruel oppression enc[l]i[n]'d, Though he came from a sermon, yet nevertheless, In a passion th[e]se words he began to express: Now the price is abated of all sorts of grain, But I'll never sell mine till they raise it again. O neighbour! How can you thus murmu[r]ing stand, When the Lord by a gracious and plentiful hand, Has been pleas'd to replenish our barns again,
Therefore sure we we have not any [c]ause to complain: I re[j]oyce in a p[l]enty, for last yea[r] I know That t[h]e poor they with hungery beliies did go. The miser reply'd with a fury so hot, Friend, a fix for the poor, faith, I value them not, A good pr[i]ce I am willing to make of my corn, But I ne'er was so bauk'd since the day I was born; Above two-hund[r]ed pound I shall loose now I fear, By the wheat which I might have sold off the last year. The other said, Neighbour, you have your d[e]sert, You can blame none alive but your covetuous heart, For you reckon to sell it for twice as much more, And for that very reason you keep up your store; Since you had such a cruel and covetous mind, I declare of a truth you were serv'd in your kind.
The miser cry'd, When I lye down in my bed, I have nothing but troubles and cares in my head; O, this plenti[f]ul summer my purpose did cross, I am almost distracted to think of my loss; But I'll keep it as long as my ba[r]ns w[i]ll hold, E'er at such a low ma[r]ket my corn shall be sold. O cruel oppressor, the other reply'd, The sw[e]et blessings of God then it seems you will hide, Which he sends for to nourish the race of mankind, In your barns fo[r] profit it must be confin'd; Sure the name of a ch[r]istian you do not deserve, Who desires to see your poor brethren starve. If God had no greater compassion then you, N[e]ighbour, what would this land of poor sufferers do? In the tilling our ground we might labour and strive, Ay, and yet not have bread for to keep us alive; O but blessed be God in the heaven's above, He has sent us down showers of his infinite love. They parted and home the old miser repair'd, As he enter'd the yard he was wofully scar'd, There the Devil with silver and gold d[i]d appear, For to bye al[l] his corn that was left the last year: And no sooner the miser had set him a price, But this strange apparition was gone in a trice. He run in and told them what he had beheld, Being frighted they were with astonishment fill'd; All the ni[g]ht in his bed he raving did lye, Let [m]e sell of my co[r]n, I'll no[t] keep it not I: To the grief of his friends thus he languishing lay, And he dy'd about five of the clock the next day. Now let not our thoughts after vanities range, For this was a sad sudden and sorrowful change, On the wealth of the world he had set his whole heart, Yet from that he was fo[r]ced with sorrow to part: Now let his fatal end be a warning [to] all, Who in dealing makes not any conscience at all.
London: Printed for J. Wolrah, in Holbourn.