%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Looking-Glass for a Bad Husband: Or, / A Caveat for a Spend-thrift. / You that are guilty of that sinful Crime / Of Drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time: / Lay up your Money, do not it vainly spend; / For in your greatest need, it will be your best Friend. / Endeavour in your Youth, lest in old Age you want; / For when that Poverty doth come, Friends will be scant. Lanfiere, Thomas 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 34086

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R227249 1 The Poor Man's Comfort: Or, Digby. Bonny Sweet Robin; My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone The Poor Man's Comfort: Or, Digby. YOu that are bad Husbands / I pray you draw near, Then take care how in idle / your mony you spend, / For in time of need / it will be your best Friend. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1422 A Looking-Glass for a Bad Husband: Or, / A Caveat for a Spend-thrift. / You that are guilty of that sinful Crime / Of Drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time: / Lay up your Money, do not it vainly spend; / For in your greatest need, it will be your best Friend. / Endeavour in your Youth, lest in old Age you want; / For when that Poverty doth come, Friends will be scant. A Looking-Glass for a Bad Husband: Or, A Caveat for a Spend-thrift. You that are guilty of that sinful Crime Of Drunkenness, strive for to leave it off in time: Lay up your Money, do not it vainly spend; / For in your greatest need, it will be your best Friend. Endeavour in your Youth, lest in old Age you want; For when that Poverty doth come, Friends will be scant. Lanfiere, Thomas ?-? W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood

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YOu that are bad Husbands I pray you draw near, Good Counsel here's for you, if you will give ear: Then observe it rightly, and bear it in mind, A great deal of Benefit in it you'l find. Here you may lea[rn] how to live gallant and brave, If you will endeavour for to get and save. Then take care how in idle your mony you spend, For in time of need it will be your best Friend. You see that the times are very hard grown, Trading it is dead both in Country and Town: If a Man he han't where withal him to maintain, To make his complaint
it is all but in vain. For money is scarce, and Charity's cold: Then save some-thing in youth against you are old. Then take care, etc. Now you that intend good Husbands to be, Observe well this Rule in every degree: If you do get money don't spend it in wast, For when it is gone, you will want it at last. To be careful and saving, you must alwayes strive, O that is the right ready way for to thrive. Then take care how in wast thou dost thy money spend, For in time of need it will be thy best Friend.
FINIS. London, Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood.