%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The good Fellowes Complaint: / Who being much grieved strong Licquor should / In paying a Farthing a Pot for Excise. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1647-1647 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/22/2018 36113

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R177516 2 Raged and torne and true Old Simon the King Ragged and Torn and True To same Tune Old Simon the King To Same Tune COme hither my jovall Blades, / and listen unto my Song, THe Shoomaker and the Glover, / the Taylor and the Weaver, [Oh] fie upon this Excise, / ['tis pity] that ever 'twas paid, / [It makes] good Licquor to rise, / [and p]ulls downe many a Trade. [with variation] Oh fie upon this Excise, / that ever it first was paid, / It makes good Licquor to rise. / and pulls downe many a Trade. [with variation] 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: 23 The good Fellowes Complaint: / Who being much grieved strong Licquor should / In paying a Farthing a Pot for Excise. The good Fellow's Complaint: Who being much grieved strong Liquor should In paying a Farthing a Pot for Excise. Printer Iohn Hammond 1647-1647

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COme hither my jovall Blades, and listen unto my Song, [?]u that of severall Trades, [?] have borne the burthen long: [?] So long as the Patentees, [?] in England kept on foot, [?]ome Knaves got by there feese, [?] the Devill and all to boote: [O] fie upon this Excise, ['tis pitty] that ever 'twas paid, [It makes] good Licqour to rise, [and p]ulls downe many a Trade. [?] it first began, [?]ce to crosse the Seas, [?] English man, [?]en the same disease: [?]egot it at first, [?] then to maintaine, [?] an old Duch woman nurst, [?]s't in the Cradle of Spaine, [O fie upo]n this Excise, [that ever i]t first was paid, [It makes go]od Licqour to rise, [and pu]lls downe many a Trade. [?] Companion for Warre, [?]lls a whole Kingdom with care, [?]owes whereever they are, [?]ar a great part for their share: [?] never should grieve me much, [?]hough more Excises were,
The thing I onely grutch, is that of Ale and Beere: I never would vex nor pine, whatever you say or thinke, To dubble the price of Wine, for that I seldome drink. But fie, etc. However it came to passe, that drinke is growne so deare, The Tradesman is the Asse, which must the burthen beare, What though the Brewer pay, mine Hoast payes him againe, Whilst that good Fellowes they, do all the losse sustaine: O fie upon this Excise, that ever it first was paid, It makes good Licqour to rise, and pull downe many a Trade. The Blacksmith which doth get, his living through the fire, And being throughly het, to drinke heel' then desire, He calls to another man, with him to spend his groat, For't was not a peny Can, could squench the sparke in's throat. Oh fie upon this Excise, pitry that ever 'twas paid, It makes good Licqour to rise, and pulls downe many a Trade.
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THe Shoomaker and the Glover, the Taylor and the Weaver, When they meet one another, they go to drinke together: But for the od Farthing losse, the Taylor deepely swore, Hee'd ne're layes his Leggs acrosse, to worke for Ale-wives more, Oh fie upon this Excise, that ever it first was paid, It makes good Licqour to rise. and pulls downe many a Trade. If any Good Fellow doth want, and calls for a pot on trust, Now Charity's growne so scant, that out of the door he thrust: The Brewer he must be paid, the Hostis she will not score, Yet drinke is smaller made, then't was is times before, O fie upon this Excise, pitty that ever 'twas paid, It makes good Licqour to rise, and pulls downe many Trade. The Tinker which doth ring, his Kettle through the Towne, He merrily us'd to sing, the Tune of Malt's come downe, But what is the meaning of this, which grieves me at the heart,
To see how good Ale is, for two pence sold a Quart: O fie upon this Excise, pitty that ever 'twas paid, etc. No marvell the female Sex, so much do scould and brawle, They'le never cease to vex, tell that good Licqour fall: I heard an Old Woman to say, who'd never a Tooth in her head, See'd liv'd this many a day, onely with Ale and Bread: With that she began to weepe, and sadly thus complaine, Her pention would never keepe her, till'th pay day comes againe: O fie upon the Excise, pitty that ever 'twas paid, etc. Good Fellowes both great and small, then pray that warres may cease, That no Excise at all, may be in the time of peace: For now to conclude in the end, and cast up the reckoning eaven, Considering what they spend, they loose a full pot in seven: O fie upon this Excise, pitty that ever 'twas paid, It makes good Licqour to rise, and pulls downe many a trade.
Printed at London by John Hammond, and are to be sold over-against Saint Andrews Church in Holborne. Finis.