If sicknesse Come, this Physick take it from your heart will set it, If feare incroach, take more of it, your heart will soon forget it: _Apollo_ and the Muses nine, doe take it in no scorne, There's no such stuffe to passe the time, _as the little Barly-Corne_. Twill make a weeping Widdow laugh, and some incline to pleasure; Twill make an old man leave his staffe and dance a youthfull measure: And though your clothes be nere so bad, all ragged, rent, and torne, Against the Cold you may be clad _with the little Barly Corne_. Twill make a Coward not to shrinke, but be as stout as may be, Twill make a man that he shall thinke. that _Jone's_ as good as my Lady: It will inrich the palest face, and with Rubies it adorne, Yet you shall thinke it no disgrace, _this little Barly Corne_. Twill make your Gossips merry, when they their liquor see, Hey, we shall nere be weary, sweet Gossip, here's to thee: Twill make the Country Yeoman the Courtier for to scorne, And talk of Law suits ore a Can, _with this little Barly Corne_. It makes a man that write cannot to make you large Indentures, When as he reeleth home at night, upon the watch he ventures: He cares not for the Candle light that shineth in the horne, Yet he will stumble the way aright, _this little Barly-Corne_. Twill make a Miser prodigall, and shew himselfe kind hearted Twill make him never grieve at all, that from his Coyne hath parted: Twill make a Shepheard to mistake his Sheepe before a storme: Twill make the Poet to excell, _this little Barly-Corne_. It will make young Lads to call most freely for their Liquor, Twill make a young Lass take a fall, and rise againe the quicker: Twill make a man that he shall sleepe all night profoundly, And make a man what ere he be _goe about his businesse roundly_. Thus the Barly-Corne hath power even for to change our nature, And make a Shrew within an houre, prove a kind-hearted creature: And therefore here I say againe let no man tak't in scorne, That I the vertues doe proclaim _of the little Barly-Corne_. Printed in London for E. B. [Footnote 73: For tune, see Appendix.] [Footnote 74: ? Sneak.] [Footnote 75: William Evans, a Welshman in the service of Charles I. He was 7 ft. 6 in. high and at a masque at Whitehall drew Sir Jeffrey Hudson out of his pocket. There used to be a bas-relief over Bull's Head Court in Newgate Street, of "The King's Porter and Dwarf."]