The Country gentleman, or, The Happy life to an excellent tune, or, hey boys up go we : with allowance. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A34741 of text R30972 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C6531). 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. 3 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 2017 A34741 Wing C6531 ESTC R30972 11751725 ocm 11751725 48592 2240868789

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A34741) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48592) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1483:2) The Country gentleman, or, The Happy life to an excellent tune, or, hey boys up go we : with allowance. 1 broadside : ill. Printed for J. Clark, VV. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, London : [between 1655 and 1660] In verse. Caption title. Imprint date suggested by Wing. Illustrated with woodcuts. Reproduction of original in Harvard University Library. eng A34741 R30972 (Wing C6531). civilwar no The Country gentleman, or, The Happy life to an excellent tune, or, hey boys up go we : with allowance. [no entry] 1655 1 409 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Country Gentleman ; Or , the happy Life . To an excellent Tune , Or , Hey boys up go we .

With Allowance .

I Am a man of Wealth and Land , and Gold I have good store , A good Estate I now command , what can one wish for more ? I value not an hundred pound , to Tenants i 'le be kind , I 'le have my Hawk , and have my Hound and such delights will mind . To London I will not repair , here sweeter pleasures be , I live in a more healthy Ayr , and fairer Beauties see : I love the noise of Hey-ge-ho , the whistling at the Plough , The Baaing of the tender Yoe , and Lowing of the Cow . The morning Lark which shepherds love here sings by break of day ; And Nightingale in yonder Grove where Flowers perfume our way : Fair Siccamores to please the eye , and hinder too much heat , And Strawberries and Violets lye all round about our feet .

BEtimes we hear the huntsmans horn which loudly ecchoes round , And in a lovely Rosie morn how sweetly does it sound ! The drowsie sluggard strait gives ear , his golden Dreams are fled ; ( Except the Sick ) who e're did hear the Horn and lye a bed ? Intrigues of State here are not known , nor Beauties nice and coy , Each man well pleas'd with what 's his own his pleasures does enjoy : At night within his Wifes soft Arms the happy Swain does rest , And thus secure , and void of harms with Peace is alwaies blest . I hate the many Cheats and Knaves that lurk in London Town , whose restless heads like tumbling waves are rowling up and down : Ambitious Fops find little ease , let us Ambition shun , And mark how all our Flowers and trees are guilded by the Sun . The meanest Shepherd does enjoy some Milk-maid brisk and fair , And gets first night a thumping Boy , a lusty jolly Heir . Let painted Iilts avoid this place , for all our Nymphs so gay With only Dews do wash their face , and look divine as day . FINIS .

LONDON , Printed for J. Clark , W. Thackeray , and T. Passinger .