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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66705	Poor Robins hue and cry after Good House-Keeping, or, A dialogue betwixt Good House-Keeping, Christmas, and Pride shewing how Good House-Keeping is grown out of date both in city and country, and Christmas become only a meer name and not to be found by feasting in gentlemens houses but only by red-letters in almanacks : and how the money that should go to feast the poor at Christmas is spent upon the maintenance of Pride, with how many trades are maintained by Pride, and how many undone for want of Good House-Keeping.	Poor Robin.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1687 (1687)	Wing W3074; ESTC R12812	5,342	10

no Trenchers are foul Good-Housekeeping A very thrifty way like the man that starv'd his Cattle to save Provender Pride I 'le justifie it there has been more spent in excess at one Christmas then would maintain all my Children in fine Cloaths a whole Year after Christmas Your Children with a Murrain and who knows not that the Off-spring of Pride comes from the Lineage of Lucifer a goodly Pedigree indeed which if rightly considered Then Jack and Jill and John-a-Drones his Issue Would not be trapped thus in Gold and Tissue Then should Men be Honoured and Reverenc'd for their Bounty Liberality Good-Housekeeping and other Vertues befitting a Gentleman and not for a tawdry out-side For is it not a foolish vile mistaking To honour things that are a Taylors making Good-Housekeeping Well for all this Upstart Pride is now in such request I hope to see good days once more and Christmas come in fashion again and Cooks be employed in their Old Trade of Boyling Broiling Roasting Toasting Slicing Brewing Baking Frying Mincing Cutting and all to employ People in eating for a Cook is then a Man of great repute as being Monarch of the Marrow-Bones Duke of the Dripping-Pan Marquis of the Mutton Lord High Regent of the Spit and the Kettle Baron of the Gridiron and Sosle Commander of the Frying-Pan Christmas Now I 'le be judge by all the poor People in England if to spend two hundred Pound in good Housekeeping at Christmaas be not more becoming a Gentleman then to carry five hundred Acres of Land on his back in a Suit of Cloaths for which he gains no other praise but only to be said to be more Proud then wise Good-Housekeeping This Sin of Pride we find the English to have been formerly too much addicted unto as we may read in the Book called Eulogium set forth about the time of King Edward the Third The Commons saith that Author were Besotted in excess of Apparel in wide Surcoats reaching to their Loins some in a Garment reaching to their H●els close before and strouting out on the sides so that on the Back they make Men seem Women and this they call by a ridiculous name Gown Their Hoods are little tyed under the Chin and Button'd like the Womens but set with Gold Silver and Precious Stones Their Lirripipes reach to their Heels all jagged They have another Weed of Silk which they call a Paltock their Hose are of two Colours or Pied with more which with Latchets which they call Herlots they tie to their Paltocks without any Breeches Their Girdles are of Gold and Silver some with 20 marks their Shooes and Pattens are snowted and piked more then a Finger long crooking upwards which they call Crackows resembling the Devil's Claws which were fastned to the Knees with Chains of Gold and Silver and these saith my Author were Lyons in the Hall and Hares in the Field too fine for to fight Christmas But this Pride was only used by Rich men for Poor People could not go to the cost of it but now every Tom-Ladle and Jill-Flurt do so flaunt it with Towers Ribbons and other gew-gaws that you do not know Jack from a Gentleman nor Minks the Maid from her Lady or Mistress Good-Housekeeping I wish all Skip-Jacks who are of that proud humour were served as Sir Philip-Calthrop served one John Drakes of Norwich This Knight bought on a time as much fine French Tawney Cloth as should make him a Gown and sent it to the Taylors to be made John Drake coming to the Taylors and seeing the Knights Gown-Cloth lying there liking it well caused the Taylor to buy him as much of the same Cloth and Price to the same Intent and bad him make it of the same Fashion that the Knight would have his made of Not long after the Knight coming to the Taylors to take measure of his Gown perceiving the like Gown-Cloth lying there asked of the Taylor whose it was Quoth he it is John Drakes the Shooemaker who will have it made of the self-same fashion that yours is In good time said the Knight I will have mine made as full of Cuts as thy Shears can make it to which the Taylor agreed and in short space made them both up it being against Christmas Day but when John Drake saw his Gown so full of Cuts he began to swear at the Taylor for making his Gown in that sort I have done nothing quoth the Taylor but that you bad me for as Sir Philip Calthrop's is so have I made yours By my Latchet quoth John Drake I will never wear Gentlemans fashion again Christmas Indeed he was served right in his kind for Englishmen know not what fashion to follow as was well intimated by Doctor Bourd who painted for an Englishman a Proper fellow naked with a pair of Taylors Shears in one hand and a piece of Cloth on his Arm with these Rhimes I am an Englishman and naked I stand here Musing in my Mind what Garments I shall wear For now I will wear this and now I will wear that And now I will wear I cannot tell what All new Fashions be pleasant to me c. Pride Say what you will and do what you can yet still shall I be respected Do not you know that many will pinch their own bellies to maintain me and make Lute-strings of their Guts to clad their backs in Bravery and can you think that those who will starve themselves to uphold me will feast others for the name of good Housholders surely your over-feeding hath made you forgetfull how many young Worthies will pawn their Honesty to maintain their Finery and to make their Tail fine will make use of their Tail although they be whipped for it at the Carts Tail. Good-Housekeeping Indeed Pride and Leachery are two fit Companions and both equally destructive to Good-Housekeeping to maintain which two Vices Good-Housekeeping is laid aside and Christmas grown quite out of date nay they cannot afford so good a Fish Dinner as was at the Counter-Scuffle Eels boyl'd and broil'd and next they bring Herring that is the Fishes King And then a Courtly Poul of Ling and Mustard Pride Ha ha ha I had thought my costly Mistress Good-Housekeeping had my dainty Dame Christmas had been vanished away in a Fume of Tobacco or hurried out of England in a Coach for ever since they were known the other came to be invisible Hereupon Good-Housekeeping vanished away and Christmas became a meer Skeleton or shadow having little more left then the bare Title and Name with the thought whereof the Spits and Dripping-Pans in most Houses grow rusty and the Caldrons which used to be filled with Beef Pork and Mutton to feast Good Fellows now grow Canker'd upon consideration of which that those necessary utensils belonging to Good-Housekeeping might not be spoil'd for want of use the Author thought good to send a Hue and Cry after the said Good-Housekeeping as follows The Hue and Cry. Whereas an Ancient Reverend Late Worshipful Gentleman formerly a great retainer to Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen and much respected amongst the Honest Yeomen and wealthy Farmers of the whole Country known by the Name or Appellation of Good-Housekeeping hath by the sly insinuations and bewitched persuasious of an upstart Skip Jack called by his true name Pride but by his Friends and Adorers by the name of Decency and Handsomeness Most unjustly and unworthily hath justled persecuted and made to fly the said Good-Housekeeping from his Ancient Habitations and Places of residence together with his old friend Christmas with his four Pages Roast-Beef Minc'd-Pies Plumb-Pudding and Furmity who used to be his constant Attendants but now are grown so invisible they cannot be seen by poor People nor good Fellows as formerly they used to be These are therefore to desire will and require you if any Person can tell where this Good-Housekeeping doth reside that he will desire him personally to appear this Christmas in Noblemens Knights Gentlemens and Yeomens Houses as formerly he used to do whereby he will gain great Credit to all the aforesaid Persons and shall be Entertained with the Ringing of Bells Sounding of Trumpets Beating of Drums and Acclamations of all Good People And Fidlers shall strike up their Pipes and Play And every one for joy keep Holyday FINIS