To a pleasant new tune call'd A pot of good ale This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06094 of text R185085 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1317G). 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 B06094 Wing T1317G ESTC R185085 53299316 ocm 53299316 180043 2240859007

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Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06094) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180043) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2811:10) To a pleasant new tune call'd A pot of good ale [1] p. s.n., [London : 1696?] Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Taxation -- Great Britain -- Humor -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo To a pleasant new tune call'd A pot of good ale [no entry] 1696 1 307 2 0 0 0 0 0 65.15 D The rate of 65.15 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To a Pleasant New TUNE CALL'D A Pot of Good Ale . GOOD people , what ! will you of all be bereft ? Will you never Learn Wit , whil'st a penny 's left ? W' are all like the Dog in the Fable betray'd ; To let go the Substance , and snap at th' Shade . These Specious Pretences , And Foreign Expences . ●o war for Religion will wast all our Chink : It 's Snipt , and it 's Clipt ; And it 's Spent , and it 's Lent , 'Till it 's gone ; 'till it 's gone , to th' Devil , I think . We pay for our New-born , and pay for our Dead : We pay if we are Single , and pay if we Wed , Which shews our unmerciful Senate don't fail , To begin with the Head , and Tax down to th' Tail . We pay through the Nose . For Subjecting our Foes ; Yet for all our Expences , get nothing but Blows . Abroad we are Defeated ; At Home we are Cheated . And th' End on 't , the End on t , The Lord above knows . We 've parted with all our old Money , to shew Ho we foolishly hop'd , for a plenty of New , But might have remember'd when 't comes to a Push A bird in the Hand , is worth two in the Bush . We now like poor Wretches , Are kept Shut , under Hatches At ●ack , and at Manger , like Beast in the Ark Since our Burgesses and Knights , Makes us pay for our Lights ; Why shou'd we , Why shou'd we , be kept in the Dark . FINIS .