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1.454 S1874 1 The Merchant of Emden The Rich Merchant Man The Merchant of Emden A Wedded wife there was,/ I wis of yeeres but yong, The cucking of a Scold,/ The cucking of a Scold,/ Which if you will but stay to heare/ The cucking of a Scold. Pepys 1.454 STC 6100 G. P[urslowe c.1630] Woodblock 1: under title and tune, above column 1: 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.: 81 x 45 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: 454 The Cucking of a Scould. The Cucking of a Scould. The Cucking of a Scold. 1/2 sheet folio, 270 x 170 cropped top, left and right edges, damaged surface, uneven inking Printer G. P. 1630 Printed at London by G.P. Weinstein: STC initials

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A Wedded wife there was, I wis of yeeres but yong, But if you thinke she wanted wit, Ile sweare she lackt no tongue. Just seventeene yeeres of age, This women was no more, Yet she would scold with any one, From twenty to threescore. The cucking of a Scold, The cucking of a Scold, Which if you will but stay to heare the cucking of a Scold. As nimble as an Eele, This womans tongue did wag, And faster you shall have it runne, Then any ambling Nag. But without mighty wrong, She would not shew her skill. But if that she were moved once The sport was not so ill. The cucking etc. Each man might quickl[y] know. When as the game begun B ut none could tell you for his life, What time she would have done. She was a famous Scould, A dainty Scould in graine, A stouter Scould was never bred Nor borne in Turne-gaine Lane. The cucking etc. Upon a time it chanc'd, And she did thus alledge, A neighbours maid had taken halfe Her dish-clout from the hedge: For which great trespasse done, This wrong for to requite, She scolded very hansomely, Two daies and one whole night. The cucking etc. Which something did molest The neighbours round about: But this was nothing to the fits That she would thunder out.
B ut once, the truth to tell, Worse scolding did she keepe, For waking of her little Dog, That in the Sun did sleepe. The cucking, etc. Six winter dayes together, From morning eight a clocke, Untill the evening that each one Their doores began to lock: She scolded for this wrong, Which she accounted great, And unto peace and quietnesse No man could her intreat. The cucking, etc. So that this little Devill, With her unquiet tongue, Continually both far and neere, Molested old and yong. But yet soone after this, She made a greater brawle, Against the Constable, that did But pisse against her wall. The cucking, etc. She cal'd him beastly knave, And filthy Jacke for this, And said that every Cuckold now Against her wall must pisse: And in most raging sort, She rail'd at him so long. He made a vow he would revenge This most outragious worng. The cucking, etc. And first of all behold, He clapt her in the Cage, Thinking thereby her devillish tongue, He would full well asswage. But now worse then before, She did to brawling fall. The Constable and all the rest She vildly did miscall. The cucking, etc. Thus night and day she sent Such brawling from her drest, That ner'a neighbour in the towne Could take one houres rest. Which when the Justice knew, This judgement than gave he, That she upon a cucking stoole Should justly punisht be. The cucking, etc. Upon three market dayes, This penance she should bide, And every thing fit for the same. The Officers did provide: An hundred Archers good, Did first before her goe, A hundred and five nimble shot Went next unto the Roe. The cucking, etc . An hundred armed men Did also follow there: The which did guard the gallant Scould With piercing Pikes and Spears: And trumptes sounding sweete
In order with them comes A company most orderly, With pleasant Phifes and Drums. The cucking, etc. And forty Parrats then, On sundry pearches hie, Were carried eke before the scould, Most fine and orderly And last of all a mighty wispe Was borne before her face. The perfect tokens of a Scould Well knowne in every place. The cucking, etc. Then was the Scould her selfe. In a wheele-barrow brought. Stripped naked to the smocke, As in that case she ought: Neats tongues about her necke Were hung in open show; And thus unto the cucking stoole This famous Scould did goe. The cucking, etc. Then fast within the chaire She was most finely bound, Which made her scold excessively, And said she should be drown'd. But every time that she Was in the water dipt, The drums and trumpets sounded, brave For joy the people skipt. The cucking, etc. Six times when she was duckt Within the water cleare. That like unto a drowned Rat, She did in sight appeare. The justice thinking then To send her straight away, The Constable she called knave, And knav'd him all the day. The cucking etc. Upon which words, I wot, They duckt her straight againe A dozen times ore head and eares: Yet she would not refraime, But still revil'd them all. Then to't againe they goe, Till she at last held up her hands, Saying, Ile no more doe so. The cucking etc. Then was she brought away, And after for her life, She never durst begin to scould With either man or wife. And if that every Scould Might have so good a diet, Then should their neighbours every day Be sure to live in quiet, The cucking of a Scould, The cucking of a Scould Which if you will but stay to heare The cucking of a Scould.
FINIS Printed at London by G. P.