An excellent new song, called, The gentlemans resolution. For a pleasant country life. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03184 of text R227593 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3820). 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 B03184 Wing E3820 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[39] 99887419 ocm99887419 182125 2248541237

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03184) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182125) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[39]) An excellent new song, called, The gentlemans resolution. For a pleasant country life. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Printed for Charles Barnet., [London] : [1700] Place and date of publication from Wing. Verse: "Come, come, come, come, ... let us leave ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo An excellent new song, called, The gentlemans resolution. For a pleasant country life. anon 1700 1 587 1 0 0 50 0 0 8534.92 F The rate of 8534.92 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-02 Sampled and proofread 2009-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An excellent New SONG , Called , The Gentlemans Resolution . FOR A Pleasant Country Life .

I. COme , come , come , come , ... let us leave , .. Let us , let us leave the Town , come , come , come , come , Come , come , come , come , let us leave , .. Let us , let us , let us leave the Town , & in some lovly place Where Crouds and Noise , where Crouds and Noise Were never , never , never , never known , Re-sol — ve to spend our days , In pleasant , pleasant Sha — des , In pleasant , pleasant Shades upon the Grass At Night our selves we 'll lay , Our days in harmless sports shall pass , Our days in harmless sports , in harmless sports shall pass , Thus time shall sli — de away . II. Call , call , call , call , ... call the Coach , .. Call the , call the Coach away , call , call , call , call , Call , call , call , call , .. call the Coach , .. Call the , call the , call the Coach away , & let us go in time To Woods and Groves , to Woods and Groves , Let 's hurry , hurry , hurry , hurry , straight , Where Charm—ing Birds do Sing , Their Tuneful , Tuneful No — tes , Their Tuneful , Tuneful Notes does sound each day , There let us on the Ground Within each others Arms to lye , Within each others Arms , each others Arms to lye , And tumble o — n the Ground . III. What , what , what , what , .. is there in , .. Is there , is therein this Town , what what what what ? What , what , what , what , .. is there in , .. Is there , is there , is there in this Town but lewd Debauchery We Drink all night , we Drink all night , And tipple , tipple , tipple , tipple on , Till Bot — tles fly about , Then Whinnyard , Whinnyard's dra — wn , Then whinnyard , whinnyard's drawn & one 's ran thro' This is the Trade o' th' Town . Then let 's a Country life all live , Then let 's a Country life , a Country life all live Where Lewdness i — s not known . IV. Come , come , come , come , ... let us go , .. Let us , let us go with speed , come , come , come , come , ... Come , come , come , come , let us go , .. Let us , let us , let us go with speed & leave this nasty Town For wine and Punk , for wine and Punk , Does ever , ever , ever , ever make Us Ma — d by being Drunk , Then follow , follow Boy — s , Then follow , follow Boys , let 's goe while sound To Pleasure Night and Day , Where fresh young Country Maids are found , Where fresh young Country Maids , young Country Mai●● are sound To pass the ti — me away .

Printed for Charles Barnet .