%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Sure my Nurse was a witch, / OR, / The merry Night-wench. / Who when her child doth cry, merry to make him, / Doth sing unto it, Come take him beggar, take him. Guy, Robert University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1630 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/03/2008 20091

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1.204-205 S126227 2 Watton townes end Watton Town's End See the golding See the Golding IN Londons Citty faire, / a merry Nurse doth dwell, Come take him beggar, take him, / here take him beggar, take him, / He cryes and will not quiet be, / then take him beggar take him. [with variations in final stanza] THe giddy headed Shopkeeper / loues gadding here, and there, Come take him beggar, take him, / here take him beggar, take him, / He cryes and will not quiet be, / then take him beggar take him. [with variations in final stanza] first woodcut has caption: 'Catch him Beggar, / catch him, / Giue mee'm.' Pepys 1.204-205 Rollins (1) II:63-69; STC 12547.3 [G. Purslowe] for H. G[osson c.1630]. Woodblock 1: below title, above two columns and cast fleuron: On the left stands a man wearing all black, a hat with a feather, and holding a stick in his right hand. He wears a mustache and has a pouch hanging from a cord around his chest. His clothes are tattered and he wears only one boot. His left hand is outstretched to the woman and the child on his left. A very well-dressed woman wearing an ornate gown and an elaborate ruff and hair piece stands behind a young child. She holds something like a cord or a shawl in her hands that is attached to the back of a young girl in a dress and apron. Between the beggar and the woman is the caption: 'Catch him Beggar,/ catch him,/ Giue mee'm.': 97 x 130 Woodblock 2: below title, above first column: Four beggars stand in a group facing forward. They all wear extremely tattered jackets and pants and each carries a pack strapped to their back and a stick. Each of them wears a hat. The beggar furthest to the right is shown in profile and the beggar furthest to the left appears to be walking towards the group.: 62 x 88 Woodblock 3: below title, 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.: 81 x 42 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: 204 1: 205 Sure my Nurse was a witch, / OR, / The merry Night-wench. / Who when her child doth cry, merry to make him, / Doth sing unto it, Come take him beggar, take him. part::start ptitle::start Sure my Nurse was a witch, OR, The merry Night-wench. Who when her child doth cry, merry to make him, Doth sing unto it, Come take him beggar, take him. Sure My Nurse Was a Witch, or, the Merry Night Wench. Who When Her Child Does Cry, Merry to Make Him, Does Sing unto It, Come Take Him Beggar, Take Him. The second part. The second part. The Second Part. Guy, Robert 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 290 x 144 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 288 x 150 cropped top edge, creased, damaged surface, uneven inking cropped top edge, uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons Printer 1630 London, Printed for H. G. H. G. Weinstein: STC Weinstein lists I:204-205 under H. G. [Henry Gosson]. She notes STC lists H. G[osson]. BBTI and Plomer confirm Gosson's activity ca. 1630. ESTC lists H.G.

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I N Londons Citty faire, a merry Nurse doth dwell, The which for singing rarely all others doth excell. For alwaies she is merry, unto her baby young, Shee day and night, doth take delight in singing of this song, Come take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, He cryes and will not quiet be, then take him beggar take him. The bowsing pot companion that alwayes would be drinking; His credit nere respecting, but from all grace is shrinking, And apt unto all villany most wretched that can make him, If he will not reformed be come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him. The slothfull lazy sluggard that painefull labour hates, And loves for to be night and day, amongst his idle mates, Good counsell despising should from his sinnes awake him, If he will not reformed be come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him: Thus still she sings unto her childe, come take him beggar, take him.
The rooking bragging Rorer, that's in the Mercers bookes, Let him not thinke to pay his debts, with his lofty lookes. For if a Sergeant unawares should by the shoulders shake him, It quickly would increase his cares, come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him. Th[e] [Gall]ant that's adicted to d[?] womens beauty, In serving [?] Creator it makes him slack in duty: For being given to Venery, unlesse that grace awake him, It is the way to penury, come take him beggar take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him. The foolish swearing Gamester, he in that cursed vice Delights to play, still night and day at Tables, Cards, and Dice: In cursing, and in swearing. which makes his friends forsake him, And when al's lost, to jeere him. come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him.
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T He giddy headed Shopkeeper loves gadding here, and there, And of his businesse at home hath no respect and care: Still wasting, and consuming it quickly poore will make him If once he counter tenor sing, come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she singes unto her child, come take him beggar, take him. The young fantasticke scholler, so passing full of wit, Bred in the University and knowledge there did get: If so conceited proud he be as make his friends forsake him, And given unto ebriety. come take him begger take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar take him. The spruce and handsome Taylor, new fashions doth invent For making clothes, is paid with oathes which breeds his discontent: Great is his charge, and house-rent, which is the cause doth make him Be forc'd to breake, the truth to speake. come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him,
The joviall neate Shooe-maker is on the Tanners score By giving rust to galnts, a meanes to make him poore; And when he can no longer trust, unkindly they forsake him, Which grieves his heart, and breeds his smart, come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him. The nimble faire tongu'd Tapster, that cryes anon I come, By coring, and by scoring and trusting Jack and Tom , Dick , Daniel , Hodge , and Humphry , who kindly faire did speake him Till Brewer swore to trust no more, come take him beggar, take him, O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him. If ever I doe marry Ile have a yeoman man, To be his wife the country life my mind is bent upon; No other I can fancy, my husband for to make him A Tradesman he, is not for me; come take him beggar, take him. O take him beggar, take him, here take him beggar, take him, Thus still she sings unto her child, come take him beggar, take him.
London , Printed for H.G. FINIS . Ro . Guy .