The Roxburghe ballads . OH where are now those golden [Springs], [these . gold was counted [with] needless things?None loved his neighbour for a self [ish] end,But once and always stood his friend :But now through want times altered are,Each in himself a man of War : Trading being dead and money scant, Is the subject of this sad Complaint. 8 The time has been, that in this land,A mans word was as good as his band:The time is now as you may see,New Faith hath killd Old Honesty : 1 On the many ballads beginning In Summer-time, see pp. 274, 283, 570,745, 789, 790 of vol. vi., and the R
The Roxburghe ballads . OH where are now those golden [Springs], [these . gold was counted [with] needless things?None loved his neighbour for a self [ish] end,But once and always stood his friend :But now through want times altered are,Each in himself a man of War : Trading being dead and money scant, Is the subject of this sad Complaint. 8 The time has been, that in this land,A mans word was as good as his band:The time is now as you may see,New Faith hath killd Old Honesty : 1 On the many ballads beginning In Summer-time, see pp. 274, 283, 570,745, 789, 790 of vol. vi., and the Robin Hood Group in this vol. vii. ButPhancies Phoenix, Fancies Phoenix, is given on pp. 42-45, beginning Come,all you Bachelors, with Fancies Favourite = Come, come away, youmaidens fair, written by C. H., to the same tune. Query, the of vi. 323 ? The Tradesmans Complaint of Hard Times. 5 There is so much hatred one to th other,That there is none that loves his brother : Oh all good men of each degree, Learn
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