Fayre Warning,
OR, Happy is he whom other mens harmes Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
To the tune of
Packingtons pound.
THe World is orerun with enormous abuse,
Pure vertue and honesty do now decrease,
One vice on the neck of another pursues,
Tis growne to a custome that hardly will cease,
but blessed is he
who when he doth sée
such vices in others, reformed will be,
For happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
Then be well advisd whoever thou art,
By other mens danger their wayes to forsake,
And when thou seest any for his folly smart,
Then sée that good use of the same thou dost make:
and when thou dost sée
how bad others bée,
Say thou to thy selfe, here's example for mée.
O happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
If thou sée a man who is proud and ambitious,
Like
searing[?] Phaeton striue to aspire,
Presuming his Fated will be ever auspicious,
He boldly will clime till he can go no higher:
if fortune should frowne,
he may tumble downe,
Then héele be derided of every clowne,
Thus happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
If thou sée a Gentleman striue for the wall,
And hazard his life for a phantasie vaine,
This is the occasion of many a brawll,
But he thats a wiseman from that will refraine:
tis better giue place
to one thats more base,
Then hazard thy life in so desperate a case:
O happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
The second Part.
To the same Tune.
If thou sée a whoremonger passing at leasure,
Halfe fearfull his legs will drop off by the knées,
When every iustle may do him displeasure,
He hath béen so stung with y
e Turnbull-stréet Bées.
when thou séest his case,
beware of that place,
Which brings a man nothing but shame and disgrace:
O happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
If thou sée a man who hath béen an ill liuer,
By hanging himselfe, to kill body and soule,
Tis fit his example should make thée endeauour
That thy heart nere harbour a proiect so foule,
O what a vile shame
he brings on his name,
His children will after be twit with the same:
O happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
If thou séest a Iudge malefactors condemne
For rapine or murder, or such haynous acts,
Tis fit thou shouldst take an example by them,
Who must by the Law suffer death for their facts:
their wayes thou mayst flée,
because thou dost sée
The reason, and therefore they hanged must be:
O happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
If thou séest a drunkard come réeling 'ith' street,
And cutting crosse capers oft times through the durt,
Still ready to quarrell with all he doth méet,
Whereby he goe
[...] seldome to bed without hurt:
O then thou mayst think
comes[?] all this through drink;
Sare I from the
Alehouse[?] in good time will shrink.
O Happy is he whom other &c.
If thou sée a rogue to the Pillory brought
For periury or else some cousening feat,
To looke on his panishment thou mayst be taught
To liue more vprightly, and vse no deceit.
if thou loue thine eare,
then do not come there
To looke vpon him may make thée to feare.
O Happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
If thou sée a wealthy man grow very poore
By passing his credit for other mens debts,
Whereby he's constrayned to kéepe within doore
For feare lest a Sergeant ins clutches him gets,
be therefore aware
of this cruell snare:
By
suretiship[?] many men beggerd are:
But happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
Thus euery man who is willing to learn,
Of other mens follies may make a good vse,
And by their iust punishment he may return
From vice vnto vertue, reforming abuse,
the which if he can,
he is a blest man,
And thus Ile conclude with the same I began,
That happy is he whom other mens harmes
Can make to beware, and to shun Satans charmes.
M. P.
FINIS.
London, Printed for Richard Harper.