The Tapsters no more shall their Ticklers froth, No Coffee men blind us with their Ninny broth, Full measures of liquor shall pass through the Land, And men without money the same shall command; You'l say 'tis a wonder when this you do find, _And that you will sure when the Devil is blind_. Not onely the City shall find this welfare, But throughout the Country the same they shall share, No cheating and couzening tricks shall be us'd, For by such deceit we have all been abus'd; Those men who of late with _Duke Humphrey_ have din'd _With plenty shall flow, when the Devil is blind_. Then let us be merry and frolick amain, Since the golden world is returning again, We shall be all Gallants, as sure as a Gun, When this work is finisht that's hardly begun; Then Poets in both pockets Guinneys[F. 216] shall find, _And purchase estates when the Devil is blind_. FINIS. Printed for _F. Coles_, _T. Vere_, _J. Wright_ and _J. Clarke_. [Footnote 212: For tune, see Appendix, same as _The Leather Bottel_.] [Footnote 213: Licensed from 1663 to 1685.] [Footnote 214: Probably a contraction for _hector_ or bully.] [Footnote 215: Footpad.] [Footnote 216: Guineas were made from the gold from the West Coast of Africa, and were first coined in 1663, the African company having by charter the right of stamping an elephant on the coin.] [110.] Evermore when Maister _Hobson_[F. 217] had any busines abroad, his prentices wold ether bee at the taverne, filling there heads with wine, or at the dagger in cheapeside, cramming their bellies with minced pyes, but above al other times, it was their common custome (as London prentises use) to follow their maisters upon Sundays to the Church dore, and then to leave them and hie unto the taverne, which Maister _Hobson_ on a time perceving one of his men to doe, demanded at his comming home what the Preachers text was: Sir (quoth the fellow) I was not at the beginning; what was in the middle (quoth Maister _Hobson_) Sir, (qd the fellow) then was I asleepe: said Maister _Hobson_ againe, what then was the conclusion? then Replyed his servant, I was come, Sir, away before the end; by which meanes he knew well he was not there, but rather in some tippling house offending Gods majesty, and the lawes of the land. Therefore the next Sunday morning after, Maister _Hobson_ called all his servants together, and in the sight of many of his neighbors and their prentises, tooke a peece of chaulke, & chaulkd them all the way along to the Church derectly, which proved a great shame to his owne servants, but a good example to all others of like condition; after this was never the like mesdemenour used amongst them.