%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 34088

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R227249 1 The Poor Man's Comfort: Or, Digby. Digby's Farewell 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: 1423 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. Endeavor in your Youth, lest in old Age you want; For when that Poverty doth come, Friends will be scant. Lanfiere, Thomas ?-? VV. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and VV. VVhitwood

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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 learn 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.
FIrst at thy imployment and work be not slack, To get Food for the Belly, and Cloaths for the Back. When then thou hast got money, don't spend it in vain: But keep it and save it, thy Charge to maintain. Take care and refrain from all bad company: For that is the high way unto Poverty. Then take care how in wast thou dost thy mony spend, For in time of need it will be thy best Friend. Refrain from the Ale-house, and dont it frequent: To be thrifty and careful let thy mind be bent. But if thou dost chance with a Friend for to meet, With a Flaggon or two thou then maist him greet: And when thou hast done, then to work again fall: Some thing hath some savour, though it be but small. Then take, etc. If that thou art blest with a good careful Wife, Be loving unto her all dayes of thy Life. If she gives thee good counsel, do not it refrain, Thoul't find at the last it will be for thy gain. Shun the company of Harlots,
for they'l thee betray, And bring both thy Body and Soul to decay. Then take etc. Also unto Gameing do not thy self use, To hazard thy money, in danger to lose. For many by gaming confounds their Estate, And then they repent it, when it is too late. Such idle course besure alwayes defye, Endeavour for to follow good Husbandry. Then take etc. But some there be that will at an Ale-house sit, And waste away credit, both money and wit: Until they have spent all, they will nere quiet rest, But makes themselves worser then is any Beast. So they can have their fill of strong drink, they don't care Tho the belly and back do go empty and bare. Then take etc. I heard of a Prodigal swaggering young Heir, Who spent six hundred pound in less than two year: He capor'd and vapor'd, and took his delight;
He ranted in Taverns both day and night: But when all his Gold it was wasted and gone, O then he was slighted by every one. Then take etc. And thus you may see that bad Husbandry Will bring a Man at last unto beggary. For those that are Spend-thrifts, alwayes thred-bare be. With their cloaths all torn, a sad sight for to see: But those that are careful their mony to save, They doth maintain their Family gallant and brave. Then take etc. To conclude, I advise all good Fellows that are In time, of the main chance for to have a care. Take heed, and be saving of that which thou hast, It is not good in plenty for to make waste. Remember this Proverb, and bear it in mind, When Poverty comes, Friendship is hard to find. 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.