Subject (Topic): Drinking--Poetry--Early works to 1800 - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: [1685?]
Call Number:: 2000 Folio 6 5
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: Bad husband turn'd thrifty and Two-penny-worth of wit for a penny
Description:: BEIN 2000 Folio 6 5: Mounted to 30 x 42 cm, Place and date of publication from Wing., Verse - "All company-keepers come hear what I say"., and Wing says 2 settings for the British Library. In this setting the final word of the first line is 'wit'; the 'y' in 'penny' in under the 'o' of 'worth'; the text is in 3 columns, with 3 woodcuts above the first 2.
Publisher:: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-Street,
Subject (Topic):: Attitude change--Poetry--Early works to 1800, Ballads, English--England--Texts, Compulsive behavior--Poetry--Early works to 1800, and Drinking--Poetry--Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Two-penny-worth of wit for a penny, or, The bad husband turn'd thrifty : this man that wrought his own decay, and spent his money night and day : is turn'd to saving I do swear, there's few that with him can compare : and lives so civil in his ways, that all his neighbours give him praise, and does repent his wicked crime, and desires good fellows to turn in time : there's many a man runs himself clear out, when ale's in his head, then wit is out : to the tune of, Packingtons pound.