The Roxburghe ballads . ly she yielded ;Now we will live in peace and love together,As the old Proverb goeth, Like birds of a feather. 56 Thus you may plainly see that time and leisure Many things brings to pass, therefore endeavour. Young men, prove constant still; maids, do not dissemble ; And then you need not fear for to live single. Printed for P. Broolcsby, at the Golden Ball, in West-Smithjield. [Black-letter. Woodcut, of shoemakers revelling, not re-engraved: see insteadp. 3o. For the tune, The Pensive Maid, beginning When Sol will castno light, is given in Second Naval Group. Date, be
The Roxburghe ballads . ly she yielded ;Now we will live in peace and love together,As the old Proverb goeth, Like birds of a feather. 56 Thus you may plainly see that time and leisure Many things brings to pass, therefore endeavour. Young men, prove constant still; maids, do not dissemble ; And then you need not fear for to live single. Printed for P. Broolcsby, at the Golden Ball, in West-Smithjield. [Black-letter. Woodcut, of shoemakers revelling, not re-engraved: see insteadp. 3o. For the tune, The Pensive Maid, beginning When Sol will castno light, is given in Second Naval Group. Date, between 1672 and 168|.For Postscript to p. 32, Aly child must haw a father, see p. 99.] 35 [Koxburghe Collection, III. 662 ; Douce Coll., III. 38 verso.] Cfte Gentle Crafts Complaint: or, €&e Jollp J£Jjoc=mafcers fjumble Petition ta tije (&ueen ana Parliament;rjottfi tfj£tr great fjopes of tfje &o&ancement of eari) ILeatfjer 2Traoe. Tune of, Now, comes on the glorious Year. [See vol. vi. pp. 617, 621.]. THE jolly Shoemakers, it is said, ha[ve] found a great decay of Trade,And lately have been sore dismayd, and in a dismal taking,Because the Leather was grown dear, and carried over sea, we hear ;But Gentle Craftsmen, never fear, youll still be brisk Shoemak[ingj. It is a noble ancient trade, no man on earth can it degrade,And must the Craft now be decayd, no, no, be not mistake[rs].Crispin and Crispianus too, the town of Feversham well knew,And likewise noble good St. Hugh, were all of them Shoemakers. 16 This craft was never held in scorn, Sir Thomas Eyer did it adorn, [Sir Simon. A Shoemakers son a Prince is born ; but now theyve undertaken, CP- send their grievance to our Queen, in hopes a draw-back to obtain,And the Parliament their case hath seen, theyll still be brisk Shoemakers. This is the substance of their state, much unwrought leather was of lateSent over, and the taxes great, made jolly hearts to ake, Sir. *^* We give another Shoemakers-Ballad, although of la
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