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R31145 1 Let Mary live long Let Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long POor Innkeepers now, / all over the nation, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 127 THE / Inn-keeper's Complaint; / OR, THE / Country Victuallor's Lamentation for the Dearness of MALT, / Which hinder's their affording their Shot-Flaggons: concluding with a Hope / of seeing happy Days after this Royal Decent. THE Innkeeper's Complaint; OR, THE Country Victualler's Lamentation for the Dearness of MALT, Which hinders their affording their Shot-Flagons: concluding with a Hope of seeing happy Days after this Royal Descent. ?-? J. Blare

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POor Innkeepers now, all over the nation, make sad lamentation; We cannot allow, large measure of late; For the Malt here does rise. Beside double Excise, which grieve's us full sore: We can't sell large flaggons, We can't sell large flaggons, as we did before. Poor Inn-keepers they, do scarce take a penny, or two-pence of any, Sometimes in a day, Since trading is dead:
For the generous soul, Who did love a full bowl, great husbands they grow, Which ruin's our calling, etc. good people you know. 'Twas happy when we, had farmers and plowmen, rich grafters and yeomen, Who noble and free, would call in for ale; While in mirth they did roar, We could decently score, two flaggons for one: But now they'r grown saving, But now they'r grown saving, it cannot be done.
We then could afford, to keep a good table, alass! we were able To bring to the board, good bacon or beef, As a relishing bit, That all day they might sit, and business ply; Until their dear noses, Until their dear noses, was of a deep dye. At paying their shot, we hated all sneaking, without any speaking, A come-again-pot, we'd presently draw: Which would settle them in, To their drinking agen; this frequently made, Among the Inn-keepers, Among the Inn-keepers, a delicate trade. But Malt now is dear, with taxes and trouble, it make's the price double, And therefore I fear, Inn-keepers will break: Instead of coin'd plate, Heavy farthings of late, does plague us likewise: While no one collector, While no one collector, will take for excise.
In ten or twelve pound, the Maltsters unwilling, to take twenty shilling, He cry's he's not bound, to take no such sum: Thus a racket they make, When 'tis half that we take; (men down with their dust,) And if we refuse it, And if we refuse it, efaith we must trust. Though taxes are large, and silver be scanty, while farthings are plenty; Yet still we'll discharge our duty like men: Nay, and patiently wait For a flourishing state, when William our King, The Crown of old Lewis, The Crown of old Lewis, to England shall bring. A royal decent, our monarch is making, while Lewis is quaking; Then let us content ourselves for a while: We wall see happy days, Which our spirits will raise, and give France they'r bane, Then, then, the shot-flaggon, Then, then, the shot-flaggon, you shall have again.
Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge.