The poor clients complaint Buchanan, George, 1506-1582. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08584 of text R469695 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B5292A_VARIANT). 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. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B08584 Wing B5292A_VARIANT ESTC R469695 61296887 ocm 61296887 180475 2240867446

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08584) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180475) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2831:8) The poor clients complaint Buchanan, George, 1506-1582. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Scotland : 1698-1700?] Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Ballads, Scots -- 17th century. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo The poor client's complaint [no entry] 1698 2 905 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. 2013-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-05 Sampled and proofread 2013-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE POOR CLIENT'S COMPLAINT COlin by Promise being Oblig'd to pay , Me such a Sum , betwixt and such a day : I ask'd it ; he refus'd it ; I addrest Aulus the Lawyer : He reply'd , it 's best To Sue him at the Law . I 'le make him debtor ; Your Cause is good , there cannot be a better . Being thus advis'd away to Pete I trudge , Pray him , and pay him to bespeak the Judge : Engaged thus for better and for worse I must proceed , and thus I do depurse . For Writing Summons , Signing , Signeting : With a red Plaster and a Paper Ring ; For Summoning the Principal , and then For Citeing Witnesses to say Amen ; For Executions ( alias Indorsations ) For Tabling , Calling with Continuations : Next for Consulting Aulus and his Man ; For he must be Consulted now and than : For pleading in the Outter-house and Inner . From Ten to Twelve , then Aulus goes to Dinner : For Writing Bills , for reading them , for Answers More dubious then those of Necromancers . For Interlocutors , for little Acts , For large Decreets , and their as large Extracts . For Hornings , for discussing of Suspensions , Full Stuff'd with Lies and frivolous Pretensions : For Please your Lop. and such like Petitions , For raising and for serving Inhibitions . And for Comprysings , or Adjudications , For their Allowances for Registrations ; With many other Acts , and Protestations , Which may be Summ'd up in one word Vexations . Then unexpectedly upon a small Defect alledg'd , Colin Reduces all : We to 't again , and Aulus doth disjoynt The Process , and debates it Point be Point ; The Cause at length's Concluded , but not ended , This made me Wonder ! Aulus he pretended , Decreets must not be given out at Randum , But most abide a serious Avisandum . Conform to course of Roll ; when that will be Indeed I cannot tell , nor yet can he . Thus Aulus hath for Ten years space Extended The Plea , and further more I have Expended Vast Sums , to wit , for Washing , Lodging , Dyer , Yet seldom did I rest , or sleep in quier . For Coal , for Candle , Paper , Pen and Ink. And such like things , which truely one would think , Were unsignificant , but yet they 're come In Ten Years space unto a pretty Sum. To Macers , Turn-keys , Agents , Catchpols , Petes , Servants , Sub-servants , petty Foggers , Cheats ; For Morning-drinks , Four-hours , half-Gills at Noon To fit their Stomack for the Fork & Spoon , To which they go , but I poor man mean while Slip quietly to the Earl of Murray's Old Kirk . Isle . We meet again at two , then to desgeast Their bellyful , they 'l have a Gill at least , Sometime a double One ; for Brandy-wine Can only end the War call'd Intestine : For Mum , Sack , Claret , White-wine , Purl , Beer , Ale , ( One he would have it new , another stale ) Both must be pleas'd , for Pipes , Tobacco , Snuff , Tuist , Coffee , Tea , yea and a greasie Stuff Call'd Chocolet , Punch , Clarified Whey , With other Drinks , all which I duely pay : For Rolls , for Nackets , Roundabouts , Sour Kakes , For Cheshire-Cheese , fresh Butter , Cuckies , Bakes , For Panches , Saucers , Sheepheads , Cheats , Plack-pyes . Lamb-legs , Lamb kirnels , and Lamb Privities . Skait , Lobsters , Oysters , Mussels , Wilks , Neats Tongues , One he for Leeks , Beer , and Red-herring longs . This must be had , an other doth prefer Raw herring , Onions . Oyl , Spice , Vinegar . Rare Composition ; and he 's truly sorry It 's not in Colpeppers Dispensatory : For Aples , Peers , Plumbs , Cherrys , and Green-peese Dulce , Tangles , Purslain , Turnapes , Radishes , With fourty other Things , I have forgot , And I 'm a Villain if I pay'd them not . Moreover my Affairs at Home sustain Both the emergent Loss , and cessant Gain ; Aulus himself terms his a double loss , And I call him and it , a triple Cross : By all these means my Expence doth surmount Near ten times , ten times Colin's first Account . And now e're that I wholly be bereft Of th' little Time and Money to me left , I 'm at the length resolved thus to do , I 'le shun my Debitor and Lawyer too : And after this I never will give credit Unto one Word , tho either of them said it : You 'l ask which of the two I 'd rather shun , Aulus ; it 's he , it 's he hath me undone , I 've Words from both , but sad Experience tells . That Colin gives , but Aulus dearly sells . FINIS .