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 eng Ketch, Jack, d. 1686 -- Poetry. eebo Jack Catch his Bridewel oration, or, A Word or two of advice to his friends n/a 1686 2 669 2 0 0 0 0 0 29.9 C The rate of 29.9 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
JACK CATCH HIS BRIDEWEL ORATION , OR A WORD OR TWO OF ADVICE TO HIS FRIENDS . GOod People all , observe what I shall tell ; My Name 't is known , some know my name too well ; For many I have fingered in my time , And made some 'gainst their Wills to Wrymouth climb ; Strong Hemp the mighty Engine of my Trade , Has got me Coyn , of which bad use I made , Yet money more than manners still I had , More luckless is my Fate , my Case more bad : Little I thought thus to be gaz'd upon ; What mean you Friends , thus to come Crouding on ? What though I 'm caught , who many caught before , It does not hinder but I may catch more ; What though more Sauce than Pigg brought me to this ? Come tell me which of You han't done amiss ; You Leer and Gape as if ye came to flout ; Poor Jack i' th Pens , who wou'd , but can't get out : Well , well my Neighbors , 't is not kindly done ; The case in time good folks may be your own , Or worse perhaps , the need that here I thump , May be a means to make some of ye jump : A dose of This , Friends , manag'd well by me , Will make you know the Squire o' th Triple-Tree : O● Miss , my Daughter , what are you come too ? Fie naughty Girl● has't nothing else to do ; Go get thee home , thou little staring fool , When I come out thou shalt to 'th Boarding-School ; I have no time to hear you whimper now ; Go , get ye home , and see what 's there to do , Go , let my Journymen have Tripes enow : And now good People I must tell you plain , Was I once out , I 'd ne'r come here again , Though 't is a Mansion I have had before , A Place where I have been in days of Yore , And you will say I might have warning ta'n , And not have tempted Fate to come again , But now I 'm in , your admonitions vain : Alack and Welladay , what must I do ? Speak Friends , a word of Comfort , one or two , As I in such a case might do to you : No way but to submit ? No there is none ; Well , well my Friends , no more it shall be done , And Reason too , since there is no other way , I was a Coxcomb e'r to disobey . Thus haughty Jack you see will bate his Pride Rather than be a Tennant to St. Bride : Then learn by me all you that stomach it , All you that grumble as you thought not fit , To your Superiors freely to submit , Least I put in and nimbly tye the String , Which may perhaps too late Repentance bring , And you a Tune that does not please you Sing ; But I have said enough to you , and now I will go think what else I have to do ; But stay , I had forgot , I 've more to say ; You that are Servants hasten home I pray , And stand not loitering here , lest in the end , It be your lot in this place to be pen'd ; And you that are not , mind your business too , For here I 'm sure you little have to do , Say Jack Catch told you that , and so Adeu .

This may be Printed ,

R. P. January the 14th . 1685.

LONDON , Printed for D. M. 1686.