%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The POET'S Dream: / OR, The Great Out-Cry and Lamentable Complaint of the LAND against / BAYLIFFS and their DOGS. / Wherein is Expressed their Villanous-Out-rages to Poor Men. With a True Description of their Knavery, and Debauch'd / Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the View of all People; 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 07/05/2021 36924

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R236109 1 Sawny, &c. Sawney Will Never Be My Love Again Sawny, etc. AS I lay slumbering in a Dream, / Methoughts the World most strangely went; And that's the cause that the Land complains. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 41 The POET'S Dream: / OR, The Great Out-Cry and Lamentable Complaint of the LAND against / BAYLIFFS and their DOGS. / Wherein is Expressed their Villanous-Out-rages to Poor Men. With a True Description of their Knavery, and Debauch'd / Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the View of all People; The POET'S Dream: OR, The Great Outcry and Lamentable Complaint of the LAND against BAILIFFS and their DOGS. Wherein is Expressed their Villainous Outrages to Poor Men. With a True Description of their Knavery, and Debauched Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the View of all People; ?-? R. Smart

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AS I lay slumbering in a Dream, Methoughts the World most strangely went; The Bayliffs on High Seats was seen, to Rule instead of a Parliament: They pluckt true Justice from the Throne, Erecting Laws was made of their own, And burthen'd the Poor till they made them groan, And that's the cause that the Land complains. Their Parliament-House was an Ale-Wives Bench, Fix'd in a Street that is termed Old; Their Speaker was an a Play-House-Wench, Both Whore and Thief, and a Devilish Scold: She'd guzzel Brandy, Wine, or Ale, And then she'd at her Neighbours Rail, And send for the Bayliffs to have them to Jayl, And that's the cause that the Land complains. Methoughts a mighty Hunting-Match, was made by Bayliffs and their Currs: Poor Men was the Deer they strove to catch, The Houses plac'd in the Room of Furrs. The Suburbs-Round it was their Park, The Bayliffs Yell, the Dogs did Bark, The Poor kept as close as Noah in the Ark; And that's the cause that the Land complains. Then Shepherd and his Dog wheel'd up t'th' right, And Thunder'd by a Cursed Lane: And there the Villains wrought their Spight, For by them once was a Poor Man slain. They Swear before they'l ever lack, They'l go to Hell a-Pick-a-Pack, And thus poor Debtors they go to rack; And that's the cause that the Land Complains. Their's Cursing-Will, and Damme-Jack, And Robbing-Turners Alive agen; And Paunchgut-Tom, (a Hellish Pack) With Perjur'd-Dick, and Bawdy-Ben, Which formerly on Earth did Dwell, And now they are Return'd from Hell, And doth against our Laws Rebell; And that's the cause that the Land Complains. When I awaked from my Dream, Methoughts the World turn'd upside down; And in great haste I Writ this Theam, For the Bayliff-Dogs of our Town: Who for their Prey each Hour do wait, Like Death at every Poor Man's Gate, And brings the Realm to a Dismal Fate; And that's the cause that the Land Complains. When Poor Men are out of Employ, And have not a Farthing in the World; The while their Wives and Children Cry, There's many are in a Prison hurl'd: Men are Enticed by the Bums, Who Swear they ne'r will Pay their Summs, Thus Poor in Flocks to the Taylor comes; And that's the cause that the Land Complains.
The Tally-Man Curmudgeon keeps A Bayliff and his Dog to Bite; If in their Books Men ever Creeps, They quickly Swear they'l have their Right: So soon as e're they do Back-slide, The Torturing-Jayl they must Abide, Then Toby and his Dogs Employ'd; And that's the cause that the Land Complains. When Rogues are at Old-Bayly Burn'd, And that their Pilfering Trades do Fail; From Thieves to Bayliffs-Dogs have Turn'd, To Plague and Hurry the Poor to Jayl: How like Kid-Nappers all the Day, In every Corner they Survey, And quaff whole Bouls when they get their Prey; And that's the cause that the Land Complains. Ten Groat's the Fees, and a Crown the Arrest, And Three Round 000's for a Writ beside; Thus Laws are Broken, and Poor Men Opprest, Such Racking-Torments they must abide: And while the Prisoner sends for Bail, They tope the Brandy, Beer, and Ale, And makes him Pay, or they have him to Jayl: And that's the cause that the Land Complains. For Twenty-Shillings, Ten, or Five, They'l put a Man to a Cursed Charge; Or Run him to Jayl they'l soon Contrive, Where other Bills are Exprest at Large: The Jayl-Fees many are bound to Rue, The Garnish, Bed, and Turn-Key too, Expects an Unexpected Due: And that's the cause that the Land Complains. Your Moor-field-Mobbs, and Whetston-Whores, Has Bayliffs and their Dogs for Friends; When Lustful Youth Pays Venus Scores, Those Spunging-Pimps the House Attends. If Cullies Fight in a Drunken-Fit, Away goes Tobys-Dog for a Writ, Thus many Falls in the Bayliffs-Pit; And that's the cause that the Land Complains. 'Tis Seldom a Bayliff or his Dog, Is ever known for to go to Church; As soon as they Hear the Word of God, They Leave the Parson in the Lurch: They Swear they'l come to Church no more, They lay their Sins to Adams Score, And Jaunts to Moorfields to a Whore; And that's the cause that the Priest Complains. Thus I Conclude and I end my Song, Desiring that you wou'd be Content; There's Christian-Peers that may Right our Wrong, When Heaven yeilds us a Parliament: I hope True Reason will Plead our Cause, While they'r Erecting Wholsome-Laws, They'l keep us from the Crocodills-Paws, And cease the Poor of the Lands Complaints.
FINIS. LONDON, Printed for R. Smart, in Salisbury-Court.