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T195020 1 Such a parcel a Rogues in a Nation Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation O Happy Time! / 'Tis no more a Crime Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 95 USURER. / To the Tune of, Such a parcel a Rogues in a Nation. / By a Cabal of Young LADIES. USURER. To the Tune of, Such a parcel a Rogues in a Nation. By a Cabal of Young LADIES. 1710-1710

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O Happy Time! 'Tis no more a Crime T' impose Cheat and Rake for the Pelf now. With Freedom and Ease That at any rate Squeeze The Poor to Enrich my dear Self now. Coin is so scarce, And yields such a Price, Whatever I do ask they will give it; Fourty per Cent. Besides Annual rent, I must have for each Six-pence, believe it. Our DARIEN-Plot, And wise Govern'd-State Have so Banish'd the Root of all Evil; Made it so Scant, That all it do want, And gladly wou'd tick't even with the Devil. Peers are so vain With Liveries and Train, What Incomes they have, they do Squander; Upstarts get a Title, To help away their Little That they're all driv'n to me; then's no wonder. My Purse is at Call Both to Great and Small And their Strait is the Rule of the Bargain; If Credit's at stake What I please, I take; Once they're fix'd, let them go Complain then.
Some wise Heads smile Thinks this lasts short while Since I'm reacht both by Law and Decision. I've found a Trick That they can't me Nick; So I mock all their Threats and Derision. Beaues of the Town Do all cry me down, Swears this Trade's not for me but a Scoundrell; In spight of Fate, I'le make an Estate, Tho in end I should Barter Heav'n for Hell. Thus sings a Knight, Well known by his Sight, Far more by his Genteel Occupation; Which is all he can, Like a Hater of Man, To Enrich by the Straits of the Nation. What can a Lass, Make of such an Ass, Both hated o' GOD and scoff'd by Mankind now; Who's pleased with hell, Provided he'll tell Each Day Loads of Cash tho he's purblind now. Our Sex do Agree, When the Knight we see To treat him with a general Hiss then; All mock his Suite, As an Usurer Brute, And bid him his old Mother go Kiss then.