%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> [Come buy this new Ballad, before you doe goe: /] If you raile at the Author, I know what I know. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1628-1628 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/22/2018 36205

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S114838 2 Ile tell you but so [unknown] I'll Tell You But So [To the same Tune.] [unknown] To the Same Tune IT is an old saying, / that few words are best, THere be many Women / that seeme very pure, but I know what I know. but I know &c. 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: 31 [Come buy this new Ballad, before you doe goe: /] If you raile at the Author, I know what I know. Come buy this new Ballad, before you do go: If you rail at the Author, I know what I know. Printer the Assignes of Thoma[s Symcocke.] 1628-1628

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IT is an old saying, that few words are best, And he that sayes little, shall live most at rest: And I by experience doe finde it right so, Therefore ile spare speech, but I know what I know. Yet shall you perceive well, though little I say, That many enormities I will display: You may gusse my meaning, by that which I show, I will not tell all, but I know etc. There be some great climbers, compos'd of ambition, To whom better-borne men doe bend, with submission: [P]roud Lucifer climbing, was cast very low, Ile not slay these men, but I know etc. There be many Foxes that goe on two-legges, They steale greater matters then Cocks, Hennes, and Egges, To catch many Guls in Sheepes cloathing they goe, They might be destroy'd, but I know etc. There be many men that Devotion pretend, And make us beleeve, that true Faith they'le defend:
Three times in one day to Church they will goe, They cozen the world, but I know etc. There be many rich men, both Yeomen and Gentry, That for their owne private gaine hurt a whole Countrey, By closing free Commons, yet they'le make as though Twere for common good, but I know etc. There be divers Papists, that to save their Fine, Come to Church once a moneth, to heare Service Divine, The Pope gives them power, as they say, to doe so, They save money by't too, but I know etc. There be many Upstarts that spring from the Cart, Who gotten to th'Court, play the Gentlemans part: Their fathers were plaine men, they scorne to be so, They thinke themselves brave, but I know etc. There be many Officers, men of great place, To whom if one sue for their favour and grace, He must bribe their servants, while they make as though They know no such thing, but I know etc.
THere be many Women that seeme very pure, A kisse from a stranger they'le hardly endure, They are like Lucretia, modest in show, I will accuse none, but I know etc. Likewise there be many dissembling men, That seeme to hate Drinking and Whoring, yet when They meet with a Wench, to the Taverne they'le goe, They are civill all day, but I know etc. There be many Batchelors, that to beguile Beleeving kind Lasses, use many a wile, They all sweare that they love, when they meane nothing so, And boast of these trickes, but I know etc. There's many an Usurer, that like a Drone Doth idly live upon his moneys Lone, From Tens unto Hundreds his money doth grow: He sayes he doth good, but I know etc. There be many Gallants that goe in gay Rayment, For which the Taylor did never receive payment, They ruffle it out with a gorgeous show, Some take them for Knights, but I know etc.
There be many Rorers that swagger and rore, As though they in th'warres had be seven yeeres and more, And yet they never lookt in the face of a Foe: They seeme gallant Sparkes, but I know etc, There's many, both Women and Men, that appeare With beautifull Out-sides, the Worlds eyes to bleare: But all is not Gold that doth glister in show, They are fine with a Pox, but I know etc. There's many rich Trades-men who live by Deceit, And in Weight and Measure the poore they doe cheat, They'le not sweare an Oath, but indeed, I, and No, They truely protest, but I know etc. There be many people so given to strife, That they'le goe to L[a]w for a two-penny Knife: The Lawyers nere aske then, why they doe so, He gets by their hate, but I know etc. I know there be many will carpe at this B[all]et, Because it is like sowre Sawce to [their Pallet:] But he, shee, or the[y,] let me tell ere [I goe,] If they speake [against this Song,] I know w[hat I know.
Finis.] Printed by the Assignes of Thoma[s Symcocke.]