'Tis money makes a man: or, The good-fellows folly. Here in this song good fellow that mayst find, how money makes a man, if thou'rt not blind? Therefore return e're that it be too late, and don't on strumpets spend thy whole estate, for when all is gone, no better thou wilt be: but laught to scorn in all thy poverty. To a pleasant new tune: Bonny black Bess: or, Digby. / By J. Wade.

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'Tis money makes a man: or, The good-fellows folly. Here in this song good fellow that mayst find, how money makes a man, if thou'rt not blind? Therefore return e're that it be too late, and don't on strumpets spend thy whole estate, for when all is gone, no better thou wilt be: but laught to scorn in all thy poverty. To a pleasant new tune: Bonny black Bess: or, Digby. / By J. Wade.
Author
Wade, John, fl. 1660-1680.
Publication
[London] :: Printed for F[rancis]. Coles, T[homas]. Vere, J[ohn]. Wright, J[ohn]. Clarke,
[between 1674-1679]
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Broadsides -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
Money -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Ballads -- England -- 17th century.
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"'Tis money makes a man: or, The good-fellows folly. Here in this song good fellow that mayst find, how money makes a man, if thou'rt not blind? Therefore return e're that it be too late, and don't on strumpets spend thy whole estate, for when all is gone, no better thou wilt be: but laught to scorn in all thy poverty. To a pleasant new tune: Bonny black Bess: or, Digby. / By J. Wade." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B06565.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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