%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> [Alas poore Scholler] / whither wilt thou goe / OR / [st]range altrations which at this time be / there's many did thinke they never should see 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 09/10/2018 36109

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1 halloo my fancy [unknown] Halloo my Fancy [?] a melancholly stupor / Alone but my selfe [Alas] poore scholar wither wilt thou goe Manchester Central Library Blackletter Ballads Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 57 [Alas poore Scholler] / whither wilt thou goe / OR / [st]range altrations which at this time be / there's many did thinke they never should see [Alas poor Scholar] whither wilt thou go OR strange alterations which at this time be there's many did think they never should see ?-?

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[I]n a melancholly studdy None but myselfe [M]e thought my muse grew muddy after seven yeares readinge and costly breedinge [I] felt, but could find noo pelfe Into learned raggs [Ive] rent my plush and sattin [a]nd now am fitt to begg [in] Hebrew Greeke and lattin [I]nstead of Aristotle would I had got a patten [Alas] poore scholler wither will thou goe [Cam]bridge now I must leave thee And follow fate [Colled]ge hopes doe deceave me [I] oft expected To have beene elected [But de]sert is reprobate [Ma]sters of Colledges [Have] noe common graces [And th]ay that have fellowships [have] but common places [And those] that schollers are [they] must have handsome faces [Alas] poore scholler wither wilt thou goe
I have bowed I have bended And all in hope One day to be befreinded I have preached, I have printed whatere I hinted To please our english pope I worshipt towards the east but the sun doth now forsake me I finde that I am falinge the Northerne winde doth shake me would I had beene upright for bowinge now ill breake me Alas poore scholler wither wilt thou goe. At greate preferment I aimed wittnes my silke But now my hopes are maimed I looked lately To live most stately And have a dairy of bel ropes milke But now alas myselfe I must not flatter Bygamy of steeples is a laughing matter Each man must have but one and Curates will growe fatter Alas poore scholler wither wilt thou goe