EBBA 21921
Magdalene College - Pepys
| Wit never ought, till it be bought; & then it is stark nought. / OR The Spendthrifts Recantation. / That spent his Means in such a wastful fashion / He sold his land & goods & let his mony fly, / Come fill us in ten dozen what care I / He neither cares for Children nor for Wife / So long as mony could be got he lives that life, / Now at the last that he has spent his store / He does repent his wastful life before; / He works & takes great pains now all his Life, / For to maintain his Children and his Wife; / He desires that he an example be to all / And every one take warning by his fall. | ||
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| Date Published | 1685-1688 | |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Conyers, at the Black-Raven / the first shop in Fetter-Lane next Holborn. / Where all Chapmen may be furnished with / all sorts of small Books and Ballads. | |
| License | This may be Printed, R. P. | |
| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys | |
| Page | 4.260 | |
| Location | Pepys Library | |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 4.260 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Wit never ought, till it be bought; & then it is stark nought. / OR The Spendthrifts Recantation. / That spent his Means in such a wastful fashion / He sold his land & goods & let his mony fly, / Come fill us in ten dozen what care I / He neither cares for Children nor for Wife / So long as mony could be got he lives that life, / Now at the last that he has spent his store / He does repent his wastful life before; / He works & takes great pains now all his Life, / For to maintain his Children and his Wife; / He desires that he an example be to all / And every one take warning by his fall. | The second Part |
| Tune Imprint | to the same Tune. | |
| First Lines | OF all spendthrifts in this Land / I am the worst you see | I rambled up and down / And I let my mony fly |
| Refrain | But if ever I do get money again / I will save some in store, / To keep better Cloaths upon my back / I never will go so poor. | But if ever I do get money again / I will save some in store, / To keep better Cloaths upon my back / I never will go so poor. |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?215 x 314 | |
| Condition | cropped right edge | |
| Ornament | vertical rules and cast fleurons | |