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 But when I had silver and gold in my fist,

O then she would meet me and give me a kiss;

But now my money’s gone and my pockets empty,

See how the dissembler frowns upon me.

So now fellow-drunkards, you fee how I’m us’d,

When my money’s all gone then I am abus’d;

But now tor her sauce, I wiser shall be,

I will think on my wife and my family.

I’ll go home to my wife & children who are poor,

I us’d to abuse her and call her a whore;

The more I said to her, the more she did cry,

O what a filly drunkard and blockhead was I

But if I had been rul’d by my wife at the first,

I might have had silver and gold in my purse,

For to maintain my wife and children small,

But I prov’d a drunkard and ruin’d them all.

But now I’ll refrain, it’s high time to amend,

My money I’ll save, it will be my bell friend;

But to speak of the ale-wives, how oft I them fed,

While my wife & children were starving for bread.

Come all you drunkards take warning by me,

Your folly in time I would have you to fee;

And ail you in youth who’ve your time to begin,

Pray think of yourselves, let the landladies spin.

 

N city, town, & village, my fancy oft has mov’d,

A Phillis and a Chloe, I ev’ry where have lov'd,

But, tir’d with variety, to marriage I’m inclin’d,

Would fortune only grant me a partner to my mind.

Then I’d go no more a roving,

But constant as the dove,

My time I’d pass with such a lass,

In harmony and love.Then, &c.