A new Song, called
Jacke Doves Resolution, by which he doth show,
That he cares not a rush how ere the world goe.
To the tune of, To drive the cold winter away.
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TO all my good Friends, these presents I send,
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yet neyther to beg nor to crave,
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For though some have store, and I am but poore,
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Ime content with that little I have;
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And Ile nere for my want, turne Sycophant,
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(though many there be that doe so)
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But Ile honest bee, love them that loves mee,
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and care not how ere the world goe.
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And though fortune frowne, Ile not cast my selfe downe
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but mildly beare what doth fall;
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Care will make me but worse, and nere fill my purse,
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but the day may come will mend all,
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Then tis but a folly, for that to be sorry,
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which must be whether I will or no;
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But impatience in rest, then Ile hope for the best
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and care not how ere the world goe.
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For why should a man care, or drowne in despaire,
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though his fortunes be nere so unkind?
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Why should I be sad, for what I nere had,
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or foolishly trouble my mind?
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O no I doe hate, to pine at my fate,
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there is none but fooles will doe so,
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Ile laugh and be fatte, for care kils a Catte,
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and I care not how ere the world goe.
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To sigh and to waile, what will it prevaile,
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or any whit better my fare,
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When a little good mirth, mongst friends, is more worth,
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and better then a great deale of care;
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Then Ile cheere up my selfe, for content is great wealth
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let sighing and sorrowing goe,
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Ile laugh and be merry, with a cup of old Sherry,
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and care not how ere the world goe.
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Though many a Chuffe, hath more then enough,
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why should I repine at their blisse?
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If I am content with what God hath sent,
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I thinke I doe not amisse:
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Let others have wealth, so I have my health,
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and money to pay what I owe,
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Ile laugh and be merry, sing downe a downe derry,
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and care not how ere the world goe.
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Ile make much of one, for when I am gone,
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then whats all the world unto mee?
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Ile not be a slave, to that which I have,
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but mongst my friends let it flee,
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And least there rise debate, about my estate,
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when my heads laid full low,
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Or some knaves circumvent it, to whom I nere meant it
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Ile spend it, how ere the world goe.
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The second part, To the same tune.
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SOme Men doe suppose, to goe in brave Cloathes,
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doth purchase a great deale of respect;
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Though I am but poore, I run not on score,
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I thinke my selfe honestly deckt:
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Let others goe brave tis my owne that I have,
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and I thinke they can not say so.
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And I like that I weare, though it cost not so deare,
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and I care not how ere the world goe.
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Ide rather goe meane, then be like to them,
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which living in pompe and state,
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Maintaine all their braverie, with private knaverie,
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getting gold at any rate:
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Such conscience professe, but use nothing lesse,
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deceiving the world with a show,
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But the time it may com[e] will pay such knaves home.
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but I care not how ere the world goe.
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Your delicate Cates, your Hippocrites eates,
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and Wine of the best doe drinke
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Much money they spend, but to little end,
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and nere on their end they thinke:
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Low Shrubbes be secure, when Cedars endure
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all stormes and tempests that blow,
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Let others rise high, but so will not I,
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for I care not how ere the world goe.
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For ambitions best sceane, is but a fine dreame,
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which for a time tickles the minde,
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And the hap of an houre, with such envy may lowre,
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as may turne all ones hope into winde,
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Then worse then before, they may sigh and deplore
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to see themselves cast off so low,
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When I all the while, doe sit and smile,
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and care not how ere the world goe.
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The flattering Curres, which fawne upon furres,
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and hang on the Noble-mans becke,
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That crouch at their heele, whilst their bounty they feel
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professing all love and respect,
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Yet when they doe fall, they runne away all,
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but I hate to dissemble so
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What I doe for my part, shall come from my heart,
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and I care not how ere the world goe.
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Ile wrong none not I, but if some through envy,
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doe wrong me without a cause,
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Or if me they disdaine, Ile slight them againe,
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and reckon not of it two strawes:
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Dissembling I scorne, for I am free borne,
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my happinesse lies not below,
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Though my words they want art, I speake from m[y] hear[t]
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and I care not how ere the world goe.
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