FOLLY plainly made Manifest, BY An Extravagant Husband  
B●ing his kind Advice to all, of high or low Degree,  
Lest they in Poverty do fall, and bring themselves to misery.  
To the Tune of, I have a Mistress of my own.  
 

Bade Husbands now I pray draw near,  
and also hearken to my Ditty;  
Of evil company beware,  
for if you don't the more's the pity:  
For by the same we plainly see,  
some men do work their own undoing,  
And bring themselves to poverty,  
and their poor Families to ruin.   

For those that do delight in it,  
would certainly increase their trouble  
Beside they dullifie their wit,  
and add their sorrows ten times double  
For when that you have wasted all,  
they will certainly abuse you,  
When you in any troubles fall,  
they will utterly refuse you.   

I do remember formerly,  
when I used the trade of drinking,  
My wife and I could not agree,  
for my pocket that was shrinking:  
Daily I did take much pains,  
yet my folly overruled me,  
The Alehouse than received the gains,  
and in my trouble they did fool me.   

My Wife with tears persuaded me,  
but I afforded her no pity,  
But gave myself such liberty,  
I rambled thorough Town and City:  
Thus my wife and Children small,  
they might weep till they were weary,  
While I for Liquor freely called,  
with which I made my heart full merry   
 

THus my wife and children small,  
they had nothing to relieve them,  
When they to her for Bread did call,  
the had never a bit to give them:  
Then her sorrows they were great,  
she with tears did much lament it,  
To see her poor unhappy state,  
and knows not how to be contented.   

The Alewives kindness to him in a time of Trouble.  

At length I being out of work,  
they did much deride and flout me,  
And said that I was but a shark,  
and they had rather been without me:  
Thus when I did stand in need,  
all my former friends did slight me,  
Which made my very heart to bleed,  
I had nothing to delight me.   

But I made a vow therefore,  
in the heat of my vexation,  
I'll set a cross upon their door,  
and then i'll find my habitation:  
My life I will begin a new,  
what I do get i'll save together,  
The Proverb old is very true,  
a penny is good in rainy weather.   

All company I have forsaken,  
and Alehouses where I did lie at,  
And better courses I have took,  
which brings me to much peace & quiet;  
I'll be a Husband to my wife,  
and I will do my best endeavour,  
To have the Comfort of our life,  
and live in love like lambs togther.   

I very seldom had my health,  
beside the charge of my expenses,  
I often was beside myself,  
for drinking robbed me of my senses:  
I'll never do the like again,  
I will utterly refrain them,  
The Hostess she shall sit and Spin,  
for they are fools that will maintain them.   

Let all, bad husbands mend with speed,  
before old age doth overtake you,  
For when you most do stand in need,  
your feigned friends will quite forsake you  
When your youthful strength is past,  
you will be from them quite absented,  
Griefs and sorrows comes at last,  
then too late you may repent it.    
FINIS.   

Entered according to Order.   

Printed for I. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street.