%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Jolly Chair-Men. / OR, / An Excellent New Song in praise of their Employment, which is / to be Preferr'd before Coaches, for the ease of those that can- / not bare Jumbling. 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 06/28/2021 36739

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R227544 1 Here I Love, there I Love, &c. [unknown] Here I Love, There I Love, etc. COme listen well to a Jocular Song, / The which does to honest stout Chair-men belong, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 16 1: 16 The Jolly Chair-Men. / OR, / An Excellent New Song in praise of their Employment, which is / to be Preferr'd before Coaches, for the ease of those that can- / not bare Jumbling. The Jolly Chair Men. OR, An Excellent New Song in praise of their Employment, which is to be Preferred before Coaches, for the ease of those that cannot bare Jumbling. ?-? P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back

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COme listen well to a Jocular Song, The which does to honest stout Chair-men belong, Who Plys at St. Jamess and near to White-Hall. Where Gallants for Chair-men do commonly call. When Ladies of Pleasure, would visit a Friend, Why then for a Chair-man they hastily send, Who does the young Miss to her Gallant convey, Where they in their wanton Embraces may play. Whenever she lights of a Booty, O then, She's not ungrateful to honest Chair-men, But throws them a shilling for waiting a while, Of which she has earn'd by her labour and toyl. The Gallant whose Pockets are lined with Gold, He will all the Pleasures of Nature behold, The Chair-men are sent for to hoist them away, From Jilting, to Tennis-Court, Park, or the Play. Like Slaves through the street we run trudging together With this huffing Spark in our Cabbin of Leather, While thus he does Revel in Pleasure, perhap, He loses his Money but meets with a Clap, To houses of Pleasure we trudge on together, To carry the Sinners in Chairs made of Leather, Where the wit, and the money and vigour all spent, Full late they come Home, and as late they repent. But if this should happen 'tis nothing to us, You very well know that our Chair's ne're the worse, A Puritan Sister next way in our Chair, We carry indeed a kind Brother to hear. Chair, Chair, crys the Foot-man, away we all run, And happy are they that the Race have first won, Then in steps the Hector, claps hat upon knee, For none makes a Figure so modish as he.
This Foppish Young Spark in a garb shall appear, As if he was one of ten thousand a year, When may be he ha'n't so much Coin in his Purse, That for our hard Labour should satisfie us. With many a fat Gut, and damn'd heavy load, Like poor Beasts of Burthen we travel the Road, Away we trudge with him full many a score, His Carcass weighs much, but his sins do weigh more. We carry the Ladies who carry again, We take up both Sexes, they only the men; They are no great burthen, we run with a slight, Since women ye know for the most part are light. When Lady to Lady their visits do pay, We Chair-men have business enough for that day, Surrounded with Foot-men some less and some more, We carry his Honour to visit his Whore, There is not a Coach in the world can compare, With these Chairs of Leather, for why I declare, For Coaches o'er Kennels do roar it like Thunder, As if they would shake an Old sinner in sunder. For there is some Gallants has had 'em of late. And these cann't endure to be Jowl'd at that rate, A Chair then is call'd for to ride through the Town, The which are as easie as beds of soft down. To the Court and the Play-house we carry our fair, Crack'd, Sound, and unfound, and all sorts of Ware, We carry the Lacy, Proud, Gout, and the Pox, And live by the carrying of Jack in a Box.
FINIS. Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back.