Sidebilder
PDF
ePub

THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER.

A

N old fong made by an aged old pate,

Ofan old worshipful gentleman, who had a greate
efate,

That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate,
And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate;
Like an old courtier of the queen's,
And the queen's old courtier.

With an old lady, whofe anger one word affwages;
Hee every quarter paid his old fervants their wages,
And never knew what belong'd to coachmen, footmen,
nor pages,

But kept twenty old fellows with blue coats and badges; Like an old courtier, &c.

With an old fludy fill'd full of learned old books, With an old reverend chaplain, you might know him by 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 fwords, and bucklers, that had borne many fhrewd blows,

[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER.

A

N old fong made by an aged old pate,

Ofan old worshipful gentleman, who had a greate
efate,

That kept a brave old houfe at a bountiful rate,
And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate;
Like an old courtier of the queen's,

And the queen's old courtier.

With an old lady, whofe anger one word affwages; Hee every quarter paid his old fervants their wages, And never knew what belong'd to coachmen, footmen,

nor pages,

But kept twenty old fellows with blue coats and badges; Like an old courtier, &c.

With an old fludy fill'd full of learned old books, With an old reverend chaplain, you might know him by 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,

bows,

and

With old fwords, and bucklers, that had borne many

fhrewd blows,

And an old frize coat, to cover his worship's trunk hofe, of old fherry, to comfort his copper nose; Like an old courtier, &c.

And a cup

With a good old fashion, when Christmaffe was come, To call in all his old neighbours with bagpipe, and drum, With good cheer enough to furnish 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 wife man, kept himself within his own bounds,

And when he dyed gave every child a thousand good pounds;

Like an old courtier, &c.

But to his eldest fon his house and land he affign'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 enfuing ditty you fhall hear how he was inclin'd;

Like a young courtier of the king's,
And the king's young courtier.

Like a flourishing young gallant, newly come to his land,

Who keeps abrace of painted madams at his command, And takes up a thousand pound upon his father's land, And gets drunk in a tavern, till he can neither go nor fland;

Like a young courtier, &c.

With a new-fangled lady, that is dainty, nice, and spare, Who never knew what belong'd to good house-keep

ing, or care,

Who buyes gaudy-color'd fans to play with wanton air, And feven or eight different dreffings of other womens hair;

Like a young courtier, &c.

Withanew-fashion'd hall, built where the old one flood, 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 fmooth fhovelboard, whereon no victuals neer flood;

Like a young courtier, &c.

With a new fludy, ftuft full of pamphlets, and plays, And a new chaplain, that fwears fafter than he prays,

« ForrigeFortsett »