%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Joviall Crew: / OR, / Beggars-Bush, / In which a mad Maunder doth vapour and swagger, / With praiseing the Trade of a bonney bold Beggar. 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 08/31/2021 37395

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R227229 2 From hunger, and cold, &c. From Hunger and Cold From Hunger, and Cold, &etc. To the same Tune From Hunger and Cold To the Same Tune A Beggar, a Beggar, / A Beggar I'le bee WE do Things in season, / And have so much Reason, And therefore a Begger, a Begger I'le be, / For none hath a spirit so jocond as he. [with variation] And therefore a bonney bold Begger I'le be; / For none lives a life so happy as he. [with variation] British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 54 2: 55 The Joviall Crew: / OR, / Beggars-Bush, / In which a mad Maunder doth vapour and swagger, / With praiseing the Trade of a bonney bold Beggar. The Jovial Crew: OR, Beggar's Bush, In which a mad Maunder doth vapor and swagger, With praising the Trade of a bonny bold Beggar. ?-? W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood

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A Beggar, a Beggar, A Beggar I'le bee, There's none leads a Life so jocond as hee; A Beggar I was And a Beggar I am, a Begger Ile be, from a Begger I came: If (as it begins) our Trading do fall, I fear (at the last) we shall be Beggers all Our Trades-men miscarry in all their Affayrs, And few men grow wealthy, but Courtiers and Players A Craver my Father, A Maunder my Mother, A Filer my Sister, a Filcher my Brother, A Cauter my Unckle That car'd not for Pelfe; a Lifter my Aunt, a Begger myselfe; in white wheaten-straw, when their bellies were full, Then I was begot, between Tinker & Trul And therefore a Begger, a Begger I'le be, For none hath a spirit so jocond as he.
When Boyes do come to us, And that their intent is to follow our Calling, we nere bind them Prentice Soon as they come too't, We teach them to doo't and give them a staff, & a Wallet to boo't, We teach them their Lingua, to crave and to Cant, The devil is in them, if then they can want. If any are here, that Beggers will bee, We without Indentures will make them free. We begg for our bread, But sometimes it happens, we feast it with Pigg, Pullet, Conny and Capons, For Churches Affairs, We are no Men-slayers; we have no Religion, yet live by our Pra-yers But if when we begg, Men will not draw their purses, We charge & give fire, with a vally of curses The Devil confound your good worship we cry And such a bold brazen-fac'd Begger am I.
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WE do Things in season, And have so much Reason, we raise no Rebellion, nor never talk Trea-son. We Billet our mates At very low Rates, whilst some keepe their Quarters as high as the Gates With Shinkin ap Morgan, with Blew-cap, or Tege, We enter into no Covenant, nor League: And therefore a bonney bold Begger I'le be; For none lives a life so happy as he. We never do prate, In matters of State, For fear we should come to Hugh Peters his Fate Whilst Scripture unfolders, And Treason upholders, Have lost their heads, we keep ours on our shoulders Our Plots & our Projects, are never so tall To reach to the Top-mast of Westminster-hall And therefore a merry brave Begger I'le be, For none wears his Nodle so safely as he. For such petty Pledges, As Shirts from the Hedges, we are not in fear to be drawn upon Sledges But sometimes the Whip, Doth make us to skip, And then we from Tything to Tything do trip, For when in a poor housing-ken we do bib it We stand more in awe of the Stocks then the Gibbet: And therefore a merry mad Begger I'le be, For when it is night, to the Barn goes he.
We throw down no Alter, Nor ever do falter So much, as to change a Gold-Chain, for a Halter: Though some men do flout us; And others do doubt us, we nere go without forty peices about us; But many brave fellows are fine & look fiercer That owe for their Cloths to the Taylor and Mercer: And if from the Stocks I can keep out my feet, I fear not the Compter, Kings-bench nor the Fleet. Sometimes I do frame, Myself to be lame; and when a coach comes, I do hop to my game: We seldome miscarry, Yet never do Marry, By the Gowns Common-Prayer, nor the Cloak-Directory, But Harry & Mary (like birds of a feather) do nothing but kiss, laugh, & lye down together Like Piggs in the pease-straw, intangld they lie Till there they beget such a bold Rogue as I. To summe all in brief, We live by relief, And pray for King Charles, our Commander in chief: God bless all the Peers, The wise Over-seers, that they may consider the poore Cavaliers, For if they let them but lower to fall, The'l take our profession & begger us all: And then it will be but a folly for me, A merry soul'd, bonny bold Begger to be.
London, Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood.