EBBA 36999
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| The World turn'd up-side down / OR, / Money grown Troublesome. / Shewing the vanity of youngmen, who spend their youthfull days in rioting and wantonness, which / is undoubtedly the High-way to want and Beggary, as you may plainly see in these following lines, wherein / the Extravagant doth not only lament his mispent time, but also gives advice to others, to prevent those mi- / series which befell him by his profuse spending till too late he sees his errour. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby in West=Smithfield. |
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| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(208.) |
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| Title | The World turn'd up-side down / OR, / Money grown Troublesome. / Shewing the vanity of youngmen, who spend their youthfull days in rioting and wantonness, which / is undoubtedly the High-way to want and Beggary, as you may plainly see in these following lines, wherein / the Extravagant doth not only lament his mispent time, but also gives advice to others, to prevent those mi- / series which befell him by his profuse spending till too late he sees his errour. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune of, Packingtons Pound. |
| First Lines | I Am a young blade that had money good store / But now by debauchery grown very poor |
| Refrain | But by Whoring and Drinking I now am undone, / And now I am laugh'd at, by every one. [with variation] |
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