A BALLAD: -』 NOTING THE DIFFERENCE OF RICH AND POOR, IN THE WAYS OF A RICH NOBLE'S PALACE AND A POOR WORKHOUSE. To the Tune of the "Old and Young Courtier." In a costly palace Youth goes clad in gold; In a costly palace, when the brave gallants dine, They have store of good venison, with old canary wine, With singing and music to heighten the cheer; Coarse bits, with grudging, are the pauper's best fare. In a costly palace Youth is still carest By a train of attendants which laugh at my young Lord's jest ; In a wretched workhouse the contrary prevails: Does Age begin to prattle?—no man heark'neth to his tales. In a costly palace if the child with a pin Do but chance to prick a finger, strait the doctor is called in; In a wretched workhouse men are left to perish For want of proper cordials, which their old age might cherish. In a costly palace Youth enjoys his lust; Had children to stand by him, both friends and kinsmen too. In a costly palace Youth his temples hides sides; In a wretched workhouse Age's crown is bare, With a few thin locks just to fence out the cold air. In peace, as in war, 'tis our young gallants' pride, To walk, each one i' the streets, with a rapier by his side, That none to do them injury may have pretence; Wretched Age, in poverty, must brook offence. HYPOCHONDRIACUS. By myself walking, When as I ruminate On my untoward fate, Scarcely seem I Alone sufficiently, Black thoughts continually Dim cogitations Follow and haunt me, Fierce Anthropophagi, What scared St. Anthony, Hobgoblins, Lemures, Dreams of Antipodes, Troubling the fantasy, Causing confusions; Figments heretical, Scruples fantastical, Doubts diabolical, Abaddon vexeth me, Mahu perplexeth me, Lucifer teareth me Jesu! Maria! liberate nos ab his diris tenta→ tionibus Inimici. |