A comfortable & friendly Advice
For all the True-Hearted Subjects of
ENGLAND.
To the Tune of, Five Sails of Frigats bound for Maligo.
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C Hear up all true Subjects, and seen not to frown,
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But show your selves joyful, though trading is down,
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Serve God night and day, with a Heart just and free,
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And the Nation will after it soon happy be.
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O ne're seem amazed, nor murmuring stand,
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To see Trade and Traffick so down in the Land,
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But serve God, and keep his Commandements free,
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And the Nation will after it soon happy be.
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Likewise leave your swearing, your cursing and pride,
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And embrace you your Bibles, let them be your Guide,
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Read them and regard them, with a Heart good & free,
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And then you a happy sweet Kingdom shall see.
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Also there is Whoredom and Drunckenness too,
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Us'd much in this Kingdom, which makes many rue,
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But leave off such Sins, and you quickly shall see,
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That England a happy sweet Kingdom will be.
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For Sin's the main cause, we may all understand,
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Makes Trading so dead and decay'd in the Land,
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And the Lord sure is angry, our actions to see,
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But let's hearty Repent and we happy shall be.
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Then let me advise, both the Young and the Old,
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To leave wicked Vice, and on Scripture lay hold,
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And lay't in your Hearts, and you quickly shall see,
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The Lrod take your parts, and you happy will be.
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These Verses of mine, here which to you I write,
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Are truths of a certain, then follow them quite,
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And do as these Verses doth wish, and you'l see,
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That England a flourishing Nation will be.
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That is to serve God and to Honour King James ,
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Who will be a easer of these your Extreams,
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For his great care and goodness is for us amain,
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And will help famous England to Trading again.
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For his Ships are preparing and fit for the Seas,
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To out-Nations, bearing Englands Mercandize,
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God send them a prosperous Voyage o're the Main,
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Then England still flourish when they come again.
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Then follow your Labour, Boys stand to your stint,
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For there's Money a making, great store in the Mint,
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And you shall have share on't, if you'l careful be,
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And England a Flourishing Nation you'l see.
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The Wool Trade in England hath long been decay'd,
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But lately in London , a Contract was made,
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That none but by Lisence should follow it free,
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Then this a fine Flourishing calling will be.
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The poor Spinners that to the Wooll-Combers , do work,
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And by them was held down, as slaves to the Turk ,
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Yet soon shall they find a good comfort, and see
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That England a Flourishing Nation will be.
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So God save King James and the Peers of his Land,
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Lord prosper and keep them with thy Mighty Hand,
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That they the true Protestant Church may maintain,
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And God send good Trading in England again.
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So you that have heard these Verses I've penn'd,
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Pray love one another, take me as your Friend,
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And mind well their [Fruits] which is your just thing,
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Pray serve God Almighty and Honour your King.
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No more at this present, I mean to relate,
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But to all the Kings Subjects I this Dedicate,
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And what here is Printed, I hope you will find,
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E're long to be true, and so bear it in mind.
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FINIS.
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