Certain Elegant Poems Written by Dr Corbet |
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A proper new Ballad, intituled The Fairies farewel,
or God a mercy Will, to be sung or whistled, to
the tune of the Medow Brow by the learned,
by the unlearned to the tune of Fortune.
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A proper new Ballad, intituled The Fairies farewel, or God a mercy Will, to be sung or whistled, to the tune of the Medow Brow by the learned, by the unlearned to the tune of Fortune.
Farewell rewards and Fairies
Good housewives now may say,
For now fowle sluts in Dairies
Do fare as well as they;
And though they sweepe their hearths no lesse
Then maides were wont to doe,
Yet who of late for cleanlinesse,
Findes Six pence in her shooe?
Good housewives now may say,
For now fowle sluts in Dairies
Do fare as well as they;
And though they sweepe their hearths no lesse
Then maides were wont to doe,
Yet who of late for cleanlinesse,
Findes Six pence in her shooe?
Lament, lament old Abbies
The Fairies lost command,
They did but change Priests babies,
But some have chang'd your land
And all your children stolne from thence
Are now growne puritanes,
Who live as changelings ever since
For love of your demaines.
The Fairies lost command,
They did but change Priests babies,
But some have chang'd your land
And all your children stolne from thence
Are now growne puritanes,
Who live as changelings ever since
For love of your demaines.
At morning and at evening both,
You merry were and glad,
So little care of sleepe and sloath,
These pretty Ladies had,
When Tom came home from labour,
Or Cisse to milking Rose;
Then merrily went their Tabor
And nimbly went their Toes.
You merry were and glad,
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These pretty Ladies had,
When Tom came home from labour,
Or Cisse to milking Rose;
Then merrily went their Tabor
And nimbly went their Toes.
Witnesse those rings and roundelayes
Of theirs which yet remaine,
Were footed in Queene Maries dayes
On many a grassy plaine.
But since of late Elizabeth
And later James came in,
They never daunc'd on any heath
As when the time had beene.
Of theirs which yet remaine,
Were footed in Queene Maries dayes
On many a grassy plaine.
But since of late Elizabeth
And later James came in,
They never daunc'd on any heath
As when the time had beene.
By which we note the Fairies
Were of the old profession,
Their Songs were Ave Maries,
Their daunces were procession;
But now alas they all are dead
Or gone beyond the Seas,
Or further from Religion fled
Or else they take their ease.
Were of the old profession,
Their Songs were Ave Maries,
Their daunces were procession;
But now alas they all are dead
Or gone beyond the Seas,
Or further from Religion fled
Or else they take their ease.
A tell-tale in their company
They never could endure,
And who so kept not secretly
Their mirth was punisht sure.
It was a just and Christian deed
To pinch such black and blew;
O how the Common-wealth doth need
Such Iustices as you!
They never could endure,
And who so kept not secretly
Their mirth was punisht sure.
It was a just and Christian deed
To pinch such black and blew;
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Such Iustices as you!
Now they have left our Quarters,
A Register they have,
Who can preserve their Charters;
A Man both wise and grave.
A hundred of their merry pranks
By one that I could name,
Are kept in store; con twenty thanks
To William for the same.
A Register they have,
Who can preserve their Charters;
A Man both wise and grave.
A hundred of their merry pranks
By one that I could name,
Are kept in store; con twenty thanks
To William for the same.
To William Churne of Staffordshire,
Give laud and praises due;
Who every meale can mend your cheere,
With Tales both old and true.
To William all give audience,
And pray you for his Noddle;
For all the Fairies evidence,
Were lost if it were addle.
Give laud and praises due;
Who every meale can mend your cheere,
With Tales both old and true.
To William all give audience,
And pray you for his Noddle;
For all the Fairies evidence,
Were lost if it were addle.
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