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R469694 COlin by Promise being Oblig'd to pay, / Me such a Sum, betwixt and such a day: Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 90 THE POOR CLIENT'S / COMPLAINT / Done out of BUCHANNAN. THE POOR CLIENT'S COMPLAINT Done out of BUCHANNAN. ?-?

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COlin by Promise being Oblig'd to pay, Me such a Sum, betwixt and such a day: I ask'd it; he refus'd it; I addrest Aulus the Lawyer: He reply'd, it's best To Sue him at the Law. I'le make him debtor; Your Cause is good, there cannot be a better. Being thus advis'd away to Pete I trudge, Pray him, and pay him to bespeak the Judge: Engag'd thus far be't better be it worse I must proceed, and thus I do depurse. For Writing Summons, Signing, Signeting: With a red Plaster and a Paper Ring; For Summoning the Principal, and then For Citeing Witnesses to say Amen; For Executions (alias Indersations) For Tabling, Calling with Continuations: Next for Consulting Aulus and his Man; (For he must be Consulted now and than) For pleading in the Outter-house and Inner. From Ten to Twelve, then Aulus goes to Dinner: For Writing Bills, for reading them, for Answers More dubious then those of Necromancers. For Interlocutors, for little Acts. For large Decreets, and their as large Extracts: For Hornings, for discussing of Suspensions, Full Stuff'd with Lies and frivolous Pretensions: For Please your Lordship and such like Petitions, For raising and for serving Inhibitions. And for Comprysings, or Adjudications, For their Allowances for Registrations; With many other Acts and Protestations, Which may be Summ'd up in one word Vexations. Then unexpectedly upon a small Defect alledg'd, Colin Reduces all: We to't again, and Aulus doth disjoynt The Process, and debates it Point by Point; The Cause at length's Concluded, but not ended, This made me Wonder! Aulus he pretended, Decreets must not be given out at Randum, But most abide a serious Avisandum. Conform to course of Roll; when that will be Indeed I cannot tell, nor yet can he. Thus Aulus hath for Ten years space Extended The Plea, and further more I have Expended Vast Sums, to wit, for Washing, Lodging, Dyer, Yet seldom did I rest, or sleep in quiet. For Coal, for Candle, Paper, Pen, and Ink. And such like things, which truely one would think, Were unsignificant, but yet they're come In Ten Years space unto a pretty Sum. To Macers, Turn-keys, Agents, Catchpols, Petes, Servants, Sub-servants, petty Foggers, Cheats; For Morning-drinks, Four-hours, half-Gills at Noon To fit their Stomack for the Fork & Spoon, To which they go, but I poor man mean while Slip quietly to the Earl of Murray's *Isle. *OldKirk
We meet again at two, then to disgenst Their bellyful they'l have a Gill at least, Sometimes a double One; for Brandy-wine Can only end the War call'd intestine: For Mum, Sack, Claret, White-wine, Purl, Beer, Ale, (One he would have it new, another stale) Both must be pleas'd, for Pipes, Tobacco, Snuff, Tuist, Coffee, Tea, and a greasie Stuff Call'd Chocolet, Punch, Clarified Whey, With other Drinks, all which I duely pay: For Rolls, for Nackets, Roundabouts, Sour Kakes, For Cheshire-Cheese, fresh Butter, Cuckies, Bakes, For Panches, Saucers, Sheepheads, Cheats, Plack-pyes, Lamb-legs, Lamb kirnels, and Lamb Privities. Skait, Lobsters, Oysters, Mussels, Wilks, Neats Tongues. One he for Leeks, Beer, and Red-herring songs. This must be had. an other doth prefer Raw herring, Onions, Oyl, Spice, Vinegar. Rare Composition; and he's truly sorry It's not in Colpeppers Dispensatory: Fot Aples, Peers, Plumbs, Cherrys, Nuts Green-pease Dulce, Tangles, Purstain, Turnapes, Radishes, With fourty other Things, I have forgot, And I'm a Villain if I pay'd them not. Moreover my Affairs at Home sustain Both the emergent Loss, and cessant Gain: Aulus himself terms this a double loss, And I call him and it, a triple Cross: By all these means my Expences do surmount Near ten times, ten times Colin's first Account. And now e're that I wholly be bereft Of th' little Time and Money to me left, I'm at the length resolved thus to do, I'le shun my Debitor and Lawyer too: And after this I never will give credit Unto one Word, if either of them said it: You'l ask which of the two I'd rather shun, Aulus; it's he, it's he hath me undone, I've Words from both, yet sad Experience tells, That Colin gives, but Aulus dearly sells. Th' unwary Reader thinks perhaps that I Have pen'd a Satyre 'gainst the Faculty; those who by their accurate Debates Mantain our Rights and settle our Estates; Who do their very Lungs with pleading spend Us 'gainst Oppressors Stiffly to defend A gross mistake, for I'lle be sworn I do Admire their parts and their profession too I wish that Law and Lawyers both may thrive; And at the hight of Grander so arrive That in all good Mens Eyes they may appear Like Burnisht Gold both beautifull and clear That this may be: (and 'tis for this I pray) Rust must be scour'd off, Cobwebbs sweept away.
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