The father's wholsome admonition: or, A lumping pennyworth of good counsel for bad husbands To the tune of Grim king of the ghosts. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A40989 of text R215747 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F556). 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 2018 A40989 Wing F556 ESTC R215747 99827521 99827521 31941 2240885894

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A40989) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31941) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1847:9) The father's wholsome admonition: or, A lumping pennyworth of good counsel for bad husbands To the tune of Grim king of the ghosts. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Dea[con, J. Blare, J. Back, [London] : 1691?] Imprint from Wing. Verse - "My son if you reckon to wed,". Text printed in four columns, each headed by a woodcut. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The father's wholsome admonition: or, A lumping pennyworth of good counsel for bad husbands. To the tune of Grim king of the ghosts. Licensed accordin [no entry] 1688 2 529 14 0 0 0 7 0 1587.9 F The rate of 1587.9 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2007-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Father 's wholsome Admonition : OR , A Lumping Pennyworth of Good Counsel for Bad Husbands . To the Tune of Grim King of the Ghosts .

Licensed according to Order .

My Son if you reckon to Wed , and take your self to a kind Wife , Then then , let it never be said , but that you 'll reform your old Life : There 's many good pounds you have spent , the which you had reason to prize , But labour in time to repent , 't is good to be merry and wise . Be sure keep a penny in store . 't will help you when Friends they may fail ; For should you spend all , and grow poor , your Case you 'll have cause to bewail : In Troubles you 'll strangely be hurl'd , the which will your Senses surprize : But he that will thrive in this World must learn to be merry and wise . Perchance you may meet with a Friend , which doth to your Dealings belong , If with him a Tester you spend , this can do you no great wrong , And then to your Labour again , it being enough to suffice ; This care will your Houshold maintain , 't is good to be merry and wise .

There 's many a Woman well bred , has Marry'd a prodigal knave , So that the same day she was Wed 't were better she had gone to her Grave , her Lands and her Livings all sold , which caus'd Tears to flow from her Eyes , And likewise true friendship grew cold , then 't is good to be merry and wise Son , if a Rich Wife be thy Lot , be carefull and thrifty I pray , For Means is not so easily got , as it may be squander'd away : Be careful and always contrive those temporal Blessings to prize ; For he that is willing to thrive . must learn to be merry and wise . There 's some that are absolute poor , as well I can make it appear , Who will in strong Liquor spend more than some that has hundreds a year , And bring their poor Families low , and can't get wherewith to suffice ; But that Man would never do so , who learns to be merry and wise . The Workman that is a boon Lad , you 'll find his Condition is thus , If Trading shou'd chance to grow bad , he scarce has a Groat in his Purse , While he that both get , spend , and save , has always enough to suffice : Then Son if this Blessing you 'd have , then learn to be merry and wise . Thus Counsel which to you I give , 〈◊〉 prize it more dearer than Gold And then you in 〈…〉 and save som●… 〈…〉 There 's man● 〈…〉 when Fa●● 〈…〉 My Son 〈…〉 but le●… 〈…〉 Great 〈…〉 l

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