85 Some time a good fellow thou hast been, And sparedst not thy gold and fee, Therefore Ile lend thee forty pence, And other forty if need bee. And ever, I pray thee, John o' the Scales, To let him fit in thy companee: For well I wot thou had ft his land, And a good bargain it was to thee. 90 Up then spake him John oʻthe Scales, All wood he answer'd him againe : Now Christs curse on my head, hee fayd, But I did lose by that bargaine. 95 And here I proffer thee, heire of Linne, Before these lords so faire and free, By a hundred markes, than I had it of thee. 100 I drawe you to record, lords, he said. With that he gave him a gods pennèe : Now by my fay, fayd the heire of Linne, And here, good John, is thy money. 105 And he pull'd forth three bagges of gold, And layd them down upon the bord : All woe begone was John o' the Scales, Soe fhent he cold say never a word. He He told him forth the good red gold, He told it forth with mickle dinne, And now Ime againe the lord of Linne. Sayes, Haye, thou here, thou good fellowe, Forty pence thou didst lend me: Ard forty pounds, I will give thee. 115 Now welladay! fayth Joan o'the Scales : Now welladay! and woe is my life! Now Ime but John o'the Scales bis wife. 120 Now fare thee well, fayd the heire of Linne ; Farewell, good John o' the Scales, said hee : Good John o' the Scales Ile come to thee. XII. THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER. This excellent old song, the subject of which is a compariJon between the manners of the old gentry, as ftill fubfifing in the times of Elizabeth, and the modern refinements affected by their fons in the reigns of her fuccefors, is given from an ar: çient black-letter copy in tbe Pepys' collection, compared with another printed among fome miscellaneous.“ poems and songs" in a book intitled, "Le Prince d'amour." 1669. Avg А N old song made by an aged old pate, estate, poor at his gate ; With an old lady, whose anger one word asfwages; nor pages, But kept twenty old fellows with blue coats and badges; Like an old courtier, &c. With an old study fill’d full of learned old books, his looks, With an old buttery hatch worn quite off the hooks, And an old kitchen, that maintain'd half a dozen old cooks; Like an old courtier, &c. With an old hall, hung about with pikes, guns, and bows, With old swords, and bucklers, that had born many Ihrewd blows, And an old frize coat, to cover his worship's trunk hose, And a cup of old sherry, to comfort his copper nose; Like an old courtier, &c. With With a good old falhion, when Chriftmasse was come, Tocall in all his old neighbours with bagpipe, and drum, With good chear enough to furnith every old room, And old liquor able to make a cat speak, and man dumb, Like an old courtier, &c. With an old falconer, huntsman; and a kennel of hounds, That never hawked, nor hunted, but in his own grounds, Who, like a wise man, kept himself within his owa bounds, And when he dyed gave every child a thousand good pounds; Like an old courtier, &c. But to his eldest son his house and land he assign’d, Charging him in his will to keep the old bountifull mind, To be good to his old tenants, and to his neighbours be kind : But in the ensuing ditty you shall Hear how be was in clin'd; Like a young courtier of the king's, Like a Rourishing young gallant, newly come to his land, stand; With a new-fangled lady, that is dainty, nice, and spare, · Who never knew what belong d to good house-keeping, or care, Who buyes gaudy-color'd fans to play with wanton air, And seven or eight different dressings of other womens 1 hair; Like a young courtier, &c. With a new-fashion'd hall, built where the old one stood, Hung round with new pictures, that doe the poor no good, With a fine marble chimney, wherein burns neither coal nor wood, And a new smooth shovelboard, whereon no victuals neer stood; Like a young courtier, &c. With a new study, stuft full of pamphlets, and plays, five days, Like a young courtier, &c. With a new fashion, when Christmas is drawing on, Itone; Like a young courrier, &s X With |