We can reap harvest from our barren ground. The bald parched hills that circumscribe our Tyne Are no less fruitful in their hungry mine. Their unfledged tops so well content our palates, We envy none their nosegays and their sallets. A gay rank soil like a young gallant grows And spends itself that it may wear fine clothes, 130 Whilst all its worth is to its back confined. Our wear 's plain outside, but is richly lined; Winter 's above, 'tis summer underneath, A trusty morglay in a rusty sheath. As precious sables sometimes interlace A wretched serge or grogram cassock case. Rocks own no spring, are pregnant with no showers, Crystals and gems grow there instead of flowers; Instead of roses, beds of rubies sweat And emeralds recompense the violet. 140 Dame Nature not, like other madams, wears, Where she is bare, pearls on her breasts or ears. What though our fields present a naked sight? A paradise should be an adamite. The northern lad his bonny lass throws down And gives her a black bag for a green gown. [_News from Newcastle_, if not Cleveland's, is infinitely more of a Clevelandism than any other attributed piece, either in the untrustworthy (or rather upside-down-trustworthy) _Cleaveland Revived_ or elsewhere. It first appeared as a quarto pamphlet, 'London. Printed in the year 1651. By William Ellis', and with a headline to the poem 'Upon the Coalpits about Newcastle-upon-Tyne'. This quarto furnishes the only sound text. It was reprinted very corruptly in _Cleaveland Revived_, _1660_, and thence in the editions of _1662_, _1668_, _1687_, and later. A collation of _1660_ is given. Title in _1660_ 'News from Newcastle, Or, Newcastle Coal-pits'. MS. Rawlinson Poet, 65 of the Bodleian has a version agreeing in the main with _1660_.] [Line: 1 has] hath _1660_, _MS._] [Line: 5 'obortive' _1668_.] [Line: 7 _1651_, later texts, and _MS._ 'No mines', which has no meaning without a stop or interjection.] [Line: 8 'nature's' _MS._] [Line: 10 'Heaven heats' _1660_. The mine is the womb of Semele warmed by the sun: the furnace the thigh of Jove heated by coal.] [Line: 11 her] the _1660_: its _MS._] [Line: 12 has] hath _1660_, _MS._] [Line: 15 'sin and mischief hence' _1660_: 'sin and mischief thence' _MS._] [Line: 16 Indies] India _1660._] [Line: 17 mines] times _MS._] [Line: 19 _1660_ 'so': _1651_ 'too', unconsciously repeating the 'too much' of l. 18.] [Line: 20 none] no _MS._] [Line: 22 Simply an adaptation of the earlier conclusion-- 'Should make men atheists and not women whores'. ] [Line: 23 Vesta's glowing] Vestals' sacred _1660_. shrine] shine _MS._] [Line: 29 trotting Whipster] Phoebus, of course.] [Line: 30 This] Our _1660_, _MS._]