A pleasant new song of the backes complaint, for bellies wrong, or, A farwell to good fellowship to the tune of A,B,C / [Edward Cutler] Cutler, Edward. 1622 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A19690 STC 6109 ESTC S1875 22857303 ocm 22857303 25821 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A19690) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 25821) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1790:13) A pleasant new song of the backes complaint, for bellies wrong, or, A farwell to good fellowship to the tune of A,B,C / [Edward Cutler] Cutler, Edward. 1 broadside : ill. By W.I., Printed at [Lond]on : [1622?] Date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Without music. Imperfect: faded, with loss of print. Reproduction of original in the Pepys Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Ballads, English. 2002-08 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A pleasant new Song , Of the backes complaint , for bellies wrong : Or a farwell to good fellowship . To the tune of A , B , C. GOod fellowes all to you I send , These verses which in loue I pend : Desiring you will compasse keepe , and bid farwell good fellowship . I once did beare a good fellowes name , And still am counted for the same : But now my vow is ingaged deepe , to bid farwell good fellowship . I haue beene of that ●ett so long , Till b●●ke complaines of bellies wrong : With great exclaimes in euery street , to make me leaue good fellowship . Me thinkes I oft doe heare it say , Mongst drunkards thou consumed away : Thy 〈◊〉 ●emory and witt , all wasted by good ●el●●ship . Of me thou takest but li●●le care , Though b●●lies and yet backe is bare : And 〈◊〉 winter will thee 〈◊〉 , vnles thou leaue good fellowship . Thou thinkest good fellowes be thy friends And what thou ha●t 〈◊〉 them thou spends : What 〈…〉 worke gainst all y ● weeke , comsumeth by good fellowship . But when that all thy money is gone , And score nor credit thou hast none : These friends from thee away will slipe , and farewe●l all good fellowship . When being gon , at thée they 'l laugh , T is bad to trust a broaken staffe : For feare thou fall in danger deepe , giue ouer in time good fellowship , For dayly doth attend the same , Too sisters , call'd begery , and shame : Whose hands & hearts full fast are knit , and ioyned to good fellowship . Besides deseases that doth flow , From drunkennes as many know : Who be their smart , haue felt the whipe that followeth good fellowship . Surfetes , dropsies , and diuers paines , Ach of the head , b●each of the braines : Like festred ●i●●oile , foule and déepe , attendeth on good ●e●lowship . Ten thousand misseries alacke , Fail●s both on bodie and on backe : As ancient writters , large haue write , to warne vs from good fellowship . The second part , wherein is declared , The backes complaint , hath the bellie reformed : To bid farwell good fellowship . To the same tune . THis sad complaint when I did heare Uewing my back , I see it was beare ▪ And cheifest cause I knew of it , was kéeping of good fellowship . Being much moued at the same , A solemne oath then did I frame : This hainious wrong , for to aquite , to bid farwell good fellowship . And therefore here I bid farwell , To that which once I lou'd to well : Henceforth I will in compasse keepe , therefore farwell good fellowship . Farwell all such as take delight , To drinke and go●sell day and night : Their sole sicke healths , & healthles whiff and causes the ●a●e good fellowship . Farwell all such that dayly vse , Themselues and others to abuse : I● using all that they do ●eete , with them to keepe good fellowship . Farwell all such that well are knowne , To haue a charge to keepe at ho●e : As wife , and child , yet from them flitt and fly out to good fellowship . Farwell good fellowes more and lesse , No tongue is able to expresse , The wofull wants that dayly hitte , on them that kéepe good fellowship . Some that were famous throw all parts , For workmanship and skill in Arts : Hath beggery cought vpon the hippe , for kéeping of good fellowship . So●e that haue had possessions store , Lands , goods , and cattell , few had more : But lands , & goods , oxe , horse , and sheepe , were wasted by good fellowship . Many examples are dayly séene . Of such that haue good fellowes beene , Bacchus braue souldiers , stout and stiffe , which now lament good fellowship . And to conclud the sin is such , The wise man sayes , none shall be ritch Except he shun that bitter sweete , which drunkards call , good fellowship . Then learne this vice for to refraine , The onely cause of griefe and paine : Least yee like me in sorrow sit , lamenting of good fellowship . Per me Edward Cuker . FINIS . Printed at London by W. I.