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1.137 S5125 1 Dainty Thou come to me Dainty Thou Come to Me ALl you that Fathers be,/ looke on my miserie, Pepys 1.137 STC 17915.5 for H. G[osson c.1630] (part one entered to ballad partners, 24 de. 1624; part two assigned by M. Trundle to ballad partners 1 Jn. 1622) {i.e. STC believe that I:137 is the second part of I:334}; Rollins (2) 2006 (June 1, 1629, IV, 213). Woodblock 1: centered above first column, below title: A bearded man wears an ornate doublet or jerkin and slops or pantaloons. He wears a tall hat with a brim and a large, elaborate ruff. Both hands are folded on his right hip, and he leans to the right with his weight on his left leg.: 74 x 36 Woodblock 2: below title, centered above second column: An old woman stands facing forward, her right arm extended and in her right hand she holds an object. She wears a full-skirted, ornate dress and a cord with tassles falls from her waist. She wears ornate, puffed sleeves and her bodice is elaborately embroidered. Her hair is pulled back into a bun or bonnet.: 83 x 43 Woodblock 3: : A religious figure stands facing forward and looking to his left. He wears an elaborate robe that hangs to the floor, and a short cape or skirt drapes from his shoulders. He wears a kind of hat or cap typical of clergy. His left hand is held in front of him and points to the right, and he holds his right hand by his hip. In his right hand he holds a scroll or other roll of paper. A row of buttons is visible on the right of his bodice, he has wide sleeves, and several decorative folds are visible in the skirt of his robe.: 72 x 29 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 137 A new Ballad intituled, The Old mans complaint against his wretched sonne, who to/ aduance his marriage, did vndoe himselfe. A new Ballad intituled, The Old mans complaint against his wretched sonne, who to advance his marriage, did undoe himselfe. A New Ballad Entitled, The Old Man's Complaint Against His Wretched Son, Who to Advance His Marriage, Did Undo Himself. 1/2 sheet folio, ?originally right part, 277 x 157 cropped right edge, holed, uneven inking Printer 1630 Printed at London/ for H. G. H. G. Weinstein: STC, licensing info Weinstein lists I:137 under Henry Gosson. BBTI confirms Henry Gosson active ca. 1609, as does Plomer. ESTC lists H. G.

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/6/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Tragedy 8/6/2007 Checker Jessica C. Murphy metadata updated, ESTC ID S5125 entered 7/27/2007 Checker Gordon Batchelor xml created 1/14/2005 Transcriber Apri Medina original transcription 8/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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ALl you that Fathers be, looke on my miserie, Let not affection fond worke your extremitie: For to advance my sonne in marriage wealthily I have my selfe undone, without alt remedie. I that was wont to live uncontrouled any way, With many checkes and taunts, I am grieved every day. Alacke and woe is me, I that might late command, Cannot have a bit of bread, but at my childrens hand, Whiles I was wont to sit chiefe at the Tables end, Now like a serving-slave, must I on them attend: I must not come in place, where their friends merry be Lest I should my sonne disgrace with my unreverencie: My coughing in the night, offends my daughter in law, My deafenesse and ill sight doth much disliking draw; Fye on this doting foole, this crooked churle quoth she. The chimney corner still must with me troubled be, I must rise from my chaire, to give my children place: I must speake servants faire, this is my wofull case. Unto their friends they tell, I must not say they lie, That [they] doe keepe me here: even [of meere] charitie. When I am sicke in bed, they will not come me [n]ye
Each day they wish me dead, yet say Ile never die. O Lord and't be thy will, looke on my wofull case, No honest man before, ever tooke such disgrace, This was the old mans plaint everie night and day. With woe he waxed faint, but marke what I shall say. This rich and daintie paire, the young man and his wife, Though clog'd with golden coine yet led a grievous life. Seven yeers they married were and yet in all this space God gave them nere and heire, their riches to imbrace. Thus did their sorrow breed, joy was from them exil'd: Quoth she a hundred pound would I give for a child: To have a jolly child: of mine owne body borne; Full oft I am revil'd, of this my barren wombe. Much Physicke did she take, to make a fruitfull soyle, And with excesse thereof her body she did spoile. Full of griefe full of paine, full of ach grew she then, That she cryed out amaine, seeke me forth cunning men, That I my health may have, I will no money spare, But that which she did crave, fell never to her share. Alacke, alacke, she said, what torments live I in, How well are they apayd, that any case can win.
So that I had my health, and from this paine were free, I would give all my wealth, that blessed joy to see. O that I had my health, though I were nere so poore, I car'd not though I went begging form doore to doore. Fye on that muck (quoth she) it cannot pleasure me, In this my wofull case and great extremitie. Thus liv'd she long in paine, all comfort from her fled, She strangled at the last her selfe within a bed. Her husband full of griefe, consuming wofully, His bodie pin'd away, suddenly he did die, Ere thirteene yeares were past, died he without a Will, And by this meanes at last, the old man living still. Enjoy'd his land againe after such miserie: Many yeares after that, lived he most happily, Farre richer than before, by this meanes was he knowne He helpt the sicke and sore, the poore man overthrowne: But this was all his song, let all men understand, Those Parents are accurst, live on their childrens hand.
Finis.
Printed at London for H.G.