A Fair Warning for PRIDE:
By a Foal which is lately said to come into the World with a Top=knot on its Head of several Colours,
at Chelcknom in Glocester-shire. Attested by several Persons of good Credit.
Tune of, Touch of the Times. Licensed according to Order.
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COme listen a while, and I here will unfold;
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A wonder as strange now as ever was told
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By persons of Credit the truth is well known,
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And therefore young Women and Lasses alone,
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I pray cast aside your invincible Pride,
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Since Heaven has pleas'd your strange Dress to deride;
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For now near a Village in Glocester-shire,
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A Mare brought a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear.
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For now give me leave here the truth to express,
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Young Women was never so proud in their Dress
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As they have been here in this Nation of late,
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In Ribbons they flourish and vaunt at that rate,
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With Top-knot and Tower, but Heaven will lowre,
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And will all your Pride and Vain-glory devour:
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Behold! near a Village in Glocester-shire,
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A Mare brought, etc.
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O Monstrous Women! why will you offend
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Your Maker, who many sad Judgements may send
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Upon the whole Nation, for your sin of Pride,
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Your Laces, nay, Towers and Top-knots beside:
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So Gawdy you are, when drest in your Hair,
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That good sober Christians you perfectly scare;
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The wrath of high Heaven you have cause to fear,
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A Mare brought a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear.
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I pray you is this not sufficient to show
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That God is offended to see how you go
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Like Anticks, in Ribbons of green, blew and red,
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As if a whole Millenors Shop on your Head:
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O make no delay, but straight cast them away,
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For why, your strange Mode is degraded this day:
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Now in a small Village in Glocester-shire,
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A Mare brought a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear.
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The Knot which this Creature brought into the world,
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Altho' it be Flesh, yet like Ribbons it Curl'd;
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Of several Colours, full seven indeed,
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And when they are handl'd they presently bleed:
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And likewise again, from the Head to the Main,
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The likeness of Ribbon is perfectly plain;
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Young Women you see how your Pride does appear,
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A Mare has a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear.
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In hundreds and thousands together they trowl
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From all parts and places to see this strange Foal
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Where e'ry Spectator with wonder is fill'd,
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The like of this Creature they never beheld:
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Young Women for shame, then strive reclaim,
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Or else the whole world must conclude you're to blame
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Let Modesty in your Apparel appear,
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A Mare has a Foal, etc.
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Most Gentry that this strange wonder hath seen,
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Resolves for the future themselves to demean;
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Young Women and Lasses it did so surprize,
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That they part with Towers and Top-knots likewise;
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And smite on their Breast, likewise vow and protest,
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Hereafter in Top-knots they'll never be drest,
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Like them may all Women now Decent appear,
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A Mare has a Foal, etc.
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'Tis said that this Monstrous Foal and its Mare,
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Will both be brought up here to Bartholomew-Fair,
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For to be expos'd to the view of the Town,
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O then your high Top-knots I hope will come down,
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Which lately increast, when you see at least,
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A Badge of your Pride on the Head of a Beast,
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Let Modesty in your Apparrel appear,
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A Mare has a Foal with a Top-knot, you hear.
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