%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Destruction of Plain Dealing: / OR, / Poor Conscience cast out of Countenance by the unjust Practitioners of this present / Age; as, Clippers and counterfit Coiners, who strives to Wrong the Nation for private / Gain. 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 07/18/2021 37480

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R171757 1 O Desperate Folly, &c. [unknown] O Desperate Folly, etc. POor Conscience unregarded lies, / in sorrow and grief we find, Oh, cruelty, desperate cruelty, / Ne'er was the like before. [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: 127 2: 128 THE / Destruction of Plain Dealing: / OR, / Poor Conscience cast out of Countenance by the unjust Practitioners of this present / Age; as, Clippers and counterfit Coiners, who strives to Wrong the Nation for private / Gain. THE Destruction of Plain Dealing: OR, Poor Conscience cast out of Countenance by the unjust Practitioners of this present Age; as, Clippers and counterfeit Coiners, who strives to Wrong the Nation for private Gain. ?-? J. Deacon

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POor Conscience unregarded lies, in sorrow and grief we find, Her melting tears and mournful cries, there's few in this Age will mind; Good Conscience was never so slighted before, As now she is here, through the Nation all oe'r, We find she's rejected and kickt out of door; Oh, cruelty, desperate cruelty, Ne'er was the like before.
All kind of fraud a wickedness does every day abound, Thus righteous Laws we do transgress, and Conscience, alass, we wound, Nay stifle her likewise from telling the truth, Because that young Gallants and Ladies, forsooth, They scorn to be told of the sins of their youth; Oh, wickedness, desperate wickedness, What an Age we live in!
Some Men may sense and learning have, exceeding of common schools, Yet if they will not play the knave, they shall be accounted fools; We find that all sherking and sharping is made By Burmigem Coiners an absolute trade, Who by their false dealings goes richly array'd; Oh, wickedness, desperate wickedness. Ne'er was the like e'er known. Were we to search the Nation through, we should not find one in ten, Right honest, upright, just and true, no creature so false as Men, Who daily endeavour to sharp one another, The uncle, the cousin, the sister, the brother, Thus Conscience, there's 1000's will stifle & smo-ther, Oh, wickedness, desperate wickedness, Conscience is laid aside. Alas, the World is so unjust, and false in their dealings here; That one cannot another trust, as plainly it does appear; For let us look round us on every hand, And then to our grief we shall soon understand, There's nothing but sharping all over the land; Oh, wickedness, desperate wickedness, Conscience is laid aside.
The Clippers by their filing trade, does every neighbour bite; For half-crown peices they are made near seventeen pence too light; Tho' every Sessions those villains are try'd, And many to Tyburn on Sledges do ride, Yet others will not lay the calling aside; Oh, wickedness, desperate wickedness, Poor Conscience is still abus'd. Likewise those sharping villains coin, both Iron and perfect Brass, Which having wash'd and made it fine, it does for good Sterling pass; At length it falls into the hands of the Poor, Who has not a shilling to comfort them more, This must be a sorrow which troubles them sore; Oh, wickedness, desperate wickedness, Conscience is laid aside. Our very Farthings they did meet with counterfit Stamps, and they Did in the Nation thousands cheat, but now they have lost the day: The Vitlars flagons and pots went to wrack, When Mettle for coining those villains did lack, But faith now their calling is not worth a jack; Now Farthings, counterfit Farth[i]ngs, They will no longer go.
LONDON: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street.