Come buy this new ballad, before you doe goe: If you raile at the author, I know what I know To the tune of, Ile tell you but so. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A03140 of text S114838 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 1327). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A03140 STC 1327 ESTC S114838 99850061 99850061 15245 2240850282

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A03140) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 15245) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 871:14) Come buy this new ballad, before you doe goe: If you raile at the author, I know what I know To the tune of, Ile tell you but so. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed by the assignes of Thomas Symcocke, [London] : [1628-1629] In two parts, with woodcuts at head of each part. Publication date suggested by STC. Verse - "It is an old saying,". Reproductions of the original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo Come buy this new ballad, before you doe goe: If you raile at the author, I know what I know. To the tune of, Ile tell you but so. [no entry] 1628 2 865 6 0 0 0 0 0 69.36 D The rate of 69.36 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-04 Sampled and proofread 2002-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-05 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Come buy this new Ballad , before you doe goe : If you raile at the Author , I know what I know . To the Tune of , I le tell you but so .

IT is an old saying , that few words are best , And he that sayes little , shall liue most at rest : And I by experience doe finde it right so , Therefore i le spare speech , but I know what I know . Yet shall you perceiue well , though little I say , That many enormities I will display : You may gusse my meaning , by that which I show , I will not tell all , but I know &c. There be some great climbers , compos'd of ambition , To whom better-borne men doe bend , with submission : Proud Lucifer climbing , was cast very low , I le not stay these men , but I know &c. There be many Foxes that goe on two legges , They steale greater matters then Cocks , Hennes , and Egges , To catch many Guls in Sheepes cloathing they goe , They might be destroy 〈◊〉 but I know &c. There be many men that Deuotion pretend , And make vs beleeue , that true Faith they 'le defend : Three times in one day to Church they will goe , They cozen the world , but I know &c. There be many rich men , both Yeomen and Gentry , That for their owne priuate gaine hurt a whole Coun●rey , By closing free Commons , yet they 'le make as though T were for common good , but I know &c. There be diuers Papists , that to saue their Fine , Come to Church once a moneth , to heare Seruice Diuine , The Pope giues them power , as they say , to doe so , They saue money by 't too , but I know &c. There be many Upstarts that spring from the Cart , Who gotten to th' Court , play the Gentlemans part : Their fathers were plaine men , they scorne to be so , They thinke themselues braue , but I know &c. There be many Officers , men of great place , To whom if one sue for their fauour and grace . ●e must bribe their seruants , while they make as though They know no such thing , but I know &c.
The Second Part. To the same Tune .

THere be many Women that seeme very pure , A kisse from a stranger they 'le hardly endure , They are like Lucretia , modest in show , I will accuse none , but I know &c. Likewise there be many dissembling men , That seeme to hate Drinking and Whoring , yet when They meet with a Wench , to the Tauerne they 'le goe , They are ciuill all day , but I know &c. There be many Batchelors , that to beguile Beleeuing kind Lasses , vse many a wile , They all sweare that they loue , when they meane nothing so , And boast of these trickes , but I know &c. There 's many an Usurer , that like a Drone Doth idly liue vpon his moneys Lone , From Tens vnto Hundreds his money doth grow : He sayes he doth good , but I know &c. There be many Gallants that goe in gay Rayment , For which the Taylor did neuer receiue payment , They ruffle it out with a gorgeous show , Some take them for Knights , but I know &c. There be many Rorers that swagger and rore , As though they in th' warres had b● seuen yeeres and more , And yet they neuer looke in the face of a F●e : They seeme gallant Sparkes , but I know &c , There 's many , both Women and Men that appeare With beautifull Out-sides , the Worlds eyes to bleare : But all is not Gold , that doth glister in show , They are fine with a Pox , but I know &c. There 's many rich Trades-men who liue by Deceit , And in Weight and Measure the poore they doe cheat , They 'le not sweare an Oath , but indeed , I , and No , They truely protest , but I know &c. There be many people so giuen to strife , That they 'le goe to Law for a two-penny Knife : The Lawyers nere aske them why they doe so , He gets by their hate , but I know &c. I know there be many will carpe at this Ballet , Because it is like sowre Sawce to their Pallet : But he , shee , or they , let me tell ere I goe , If they speake against this Song , I know what I know .
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Printed by the Assignes of Thomas Symcocke .