The miller of Essex, a new song, To the tune of, The miller of Mansfield. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B24421 of text R226783 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB 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 B26843 Wing M2067B Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.121.g.9[128] ocm99893696

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 eng Ballads, English -- 18th century. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 18th century. eebo The miller of Essex, : a new song, To the tune of, The miller of Mansfield. n/a 1700 1 314 4 0 0 0 0 0 127.39 F The rate of 127.39 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Miller of ESSEX , A New SONG , To the Tune of , The Miller of Mansfield . HOW happy a State did the Miller possess , Till he wish'd to be greater , which makes him ●ill less : On his Interest he vainly depends for Support , And he longs to be servily cringing at Court . And he longs to be , &c. What though he all Dusty and Whiten'd did go , He wou'd now be a Senator , Statesman , and Beau ; But the Dress of a Miller 's more suitable far Than aukwardly strutting in Garter and Star . Than aukwardly , &c. Though his Hands once so daub'd were not fit to be seen , He now on his Betters wou'd make them quite clean : A Palm more polite he is anxious to feel ; Gold in handling will stick to the Fingers like Meal . Gold in handling , &c. What , if when a Vote at Election he wants , He cribs without Scruple from other Men's haunts ; In this of right nob●e Example he brags , As he alway● made Interest from other Men's Bags . As he always , &c. But as by his Labour he 's help'd by the Great , He now would be mimicking Fools of the State , Whose Aim is alone their Coffers to fill , And all his Concern's to bring Grist to his Mill . And all his , &c. Then eat when you 're hungry , and drink when you 're d●y , And down when you 're weary , contented pray lye ; In the Morn rise up early to work and to sing ; If so happy a Miller , why wou'd you be King ? If so happy , &c. FINIS .