The Beggars delight as it was sung at the Theatre-Royal. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A27262 of text R35745 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B1698). 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. 2 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 A27262 Wing B1698 ESTC R35745 15554947 ocm 15554947 103708 2248505163

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A27262) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 103708) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1582:39) The Beggars delight as it was sung at the Theatre-Royal. 1 broadside. Printed for J. Dean, London : 1684. Two lines of music at head of text. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English. eebo The beggars delight, as it was sung at the Theatre-Royal. [no entry] 1684 1 340 0 0 0 10 0 0 2941.18 F The rate of 2941.18 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The BEGGARS Delight , As it was SUNG at the Theatre-Royal .

COurtiers , Courtiers , think it no harm , that silly poor Swains in Love should be ; For Love lies hid in Raggs all torn , as well as in Silks and Bravery : For the Beggar he loves his Lass as dear , as he that has thousands thousands , thousands , He that has thousand pounds a year . II. State and Title are pittiful things , a lower State more happy doth prove , Lords and Ladies , Princes and Kings , with the Beggar hath equal joys in Love ; And my pritty brown Cloris upon the Hay , hath always as killing , killing , killing , Hath always as killing Charms as they . III. A Lord will purchase a Maiden-head , which perhaps , hath been lost some years before , A Beggar will pawn his Cloak and his Trade , content with Love , to lye and live poor : Our eager Embraces in Coal-Sheds , are always more pleasing , pleasing , pleasing , Then theirs that are dull in Downy ▪ IV. Our Cloris is free from Patches and Paint , complexion and Features sweetly agree , Perfections which Ladies often do want , is always intail'd on our Pedegree : Sweet Cloris in her own careless Hair , is always more taking , taking , taking , Then Ladies that Towers and Pendents do wear . V. A Dutchess may fail , created for sport , by using of Art , and changing of things , Tho' she were the Idol and Goddess o' th Court , the joys & the pleasure of Don , Prince , or Kings : Yet Cloris in her Old Russet Gown , she 's sound , she 's sound , she 's sound , And free from the Plague and Pox of the Town . FINIS .

London , Printed for J. Dean ; 1684.