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What Lyfe is Best to lead in Citty or in towne; / In th[?]re, both witt and wealth Court getts us great Renown; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 59 1: 59 [What Lyfe is Best to lead in Citty or in towne;] [What Life is Best to lead in City or in town;] ?-?

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What Lyfe is Best to lead in Citty or in towne; In th[?]re, both witt and wealth Court getts us great Renown; The Country Keepes in health Bringes quietnes of mind Where wholsome ayre with exersice & pretty sportes we find; Wed and thou hast a bed of sollace and of Joye Wed not and have a rest without anoy The setled love is safe swete is the love at large, Thy Children are thy Comforters, no Children are no Charge, Youth Lusty is and getts, age honnord is and wise Then not to dye or be unborne is best by my advise These verses found I, thus placed on a wall For want of Ink, twas written, with a Coale, By one who since hath Chaungd his state of lyf, For living single, now hath gott a wife So that howere we men, think straung to mary It is our Cheif desyr, though long we tary Witness this party, who these lines hath penned which Doutles then was of another Mind But graunt, this tru, yt here is sayd of menn; Much more, in maydes and widowes I thinke then Yett lest I should prove tedious with my Rime Here will I End wishing, you a [good] husband in time IG
Dust is lighter then a fether, And the wind more light then ether But a womans fickle minde More, light then feather dust or wind An Epitaph on Edmund Sandford written in youth My sand still Rests, though lyfe doth passe, Fleete as the ford, parting my name, So parte remaines though Run my glass For what was sand is still the same Thus Death Di[?]s not all my trust For sand I was and now am dust