A new ballad, intituled, a warning to youth shewing the lewd life of a merchants son of London, and the misery that at the last he sustained by hes riotousnesse. The tune is, the Lady Darcy. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A52883 of text R218166 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing N560). 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. 4 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 A52883 Wing N560 ESTC R218166 99829783 99829783 34226 2240871797

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A52883) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 34226) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2010:04) A new ballad, intituled, a warning to youth shewing the lewd life of a merchants son of London, and the misery that at the last he sustained by hes riotousnesse. The tune is, the Lady Darcy. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) s.n., [London : 1690?] Verse - In London dwelt a merchant man. Imprint from Wing. Copy mounted. Reproduction of the original at the Harvard University Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo A new ballad, intituled, a warning to youth, shewing the lewd life of a merchants son of London, and the misery that at the last he sustained by hes r [no entry] 1690 1 540 1 0 0 0 0 0 18.52 C The rate of 18.52 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2005-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-03 Sampled and proofread 2006-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A new Ballad , Intituled , a warning to youth , Shewing the lewd life of a Merchants son of London , and the misery that at the last he sustained by his riotousnesse . The tune is , the Lady Darcy .

IN London dwelt a Merchant man that lest unto his son , A thousand pound in Land a year to spend when he was gone : With coffers cram'd with golden crowns , most like a Father kind , To have him follow his own steps and beat the self same mind . Thus every man doth know , doth know and his beginning see , But none so wise can shew can shew , what will his ending be . No sooner was his father dead , and closed in his grave , But this his wild and wanton son his mind to lewdness gave . And being but of tender years , sound out such company , Which prov'd his fatall overthrow and final misery . In gluttony and drunkenness , and filthy letchery , Of all the sins will soonest bring a man to misery . Within the Seas of wanton love , his heart was drownd so deep , A night he could not quietly without strange women sleep . And therefore kept them secretly , to seed his souls desire . Apparel'd all like gallant youths , in Pages trim attire : Their garments were of Crimson silk bedeckt with lace of gold , Their curied hair was white as milk most comely to behold : He gave then for their cognizance a purple bleeding heart ; In which two silver arrows seemd , the same in twain to part . Thus secret were his wanton sports , thus private was his pleasure , Thus Harlots in the shape of men , did waste away his treasure , O woe to lust and letchery , oh woe to such a vice , That buyes repentance all too late , and at too dear a price . Yet he repented not at all so wilfull was his mind , He could not see his infamy for sin had made him blinde ▪ But in his heart de●●●d a change of wanton pleasure so , That day by day he wishes still strang women for to know : And so discharging of his train , and selling of his Land , To travel into Countries strange he quickly took in hand : And into Antwerp speedily , thus all afflaunt he goes , To see the dainty Flemish girls and gallant Dutchland Froes . For still quoth he the Dutchland Froes , are kind to Englishmen , I le have my pleasure of those girls or never come again : And being arriv'd in Antwerp streets , he met a lovely Dame , That was a Widdows daughter dear of good report and same . Her beauty like the purple Rose so glistered in his eye , That ravisht with the same , he crav'd her secret company , But she like to an honest Maid by no means would consent , To satisfie his lustfull eye , as was his false intent .