%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Here begins a pleasant song of a Mayden faire,/ To purchase her desire, her Coine she did not spare,/ And shee most freely parted with her money/ To a Youngman, the which shee call'd her dearest Honey. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1630 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/15/2007 20112

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1.244-245 S126235 1 a pleasant new tune A Pleasant New Tune ALL haile to thee my onely sweeting,/ I thinke this is a happy meeting: Thy company is better farre than money. [with variations] THou shalt haue what thou wilt require,/ For to fulfill thy hearts desire, Pepys 1.244-245 Rollins (1) II:157-161; STC 22920.9 for H. Gosson [c.1630]. Woodblock 1: below title, above first column: A well-dressed man looks to the left, wears a round hat, and wears an ornate robe or cape with short sleeves attached. Below his cape or robe he wears an ornate jerkin or doublet and slops. He wears hose and black shoes. In his left hand he holds a scroll. His right arm is bent at his side and he holds his hand at shoulder height. : 78 x 58 Woodblock 2: 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.: 83 x 45 Woodblock 3: below title and cast fleuron, to right of cast fleuron, above first column: 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. His hands are folded on his right hip, and he leans to the right with his weight on his left leg.: 76 x 34 Woodblock 4: below title and cast fleuron, to left of cast fleuron, 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 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: 244 1: 245 Here begins a pleasant song of a Mayden faire,/ To purchase her desire, her Coine she did not spare,/ And shee most freely parted with her money/ To a Youngman, the which shee call'd her dearest Honey. Here begins a pleasant song of a Mayden faire, To purchase her desire, her Coine she did not spare, And shee most freely parted with her money To a Youngman, the which shee call'd her dearest Honey. Here Begins a Pleasant Song of a Maiden Fair, to Purchase Her Desire, Her Coin She Did Not Spare, and She Most Freely Parted with Her Money to a Young Man, whom She Called Her Dearest Honey. The second part, The second part, The Second Part, 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 254 x 160 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 257 x 166 uneven inking torn left and bottom edges, creased, holed, damaged surface, uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons 1630 London, Printed for Henry Gosson. Henry Gosson Weinstein: STC

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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 8/15/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant advice economics/trade marriage sex/sexuality trickery/deceit 8/15/2007 Checker Jessica C. Murphy rechecked transcription, updated metadata 07/10/2006 Checker Eugene Hart Ballad Checked, xml created 2006 Transcriber Kathryn Dolan original transcription 8/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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A LL haile to thee my onely sweeting, I thinke this is a happy meeting: I long desired to see my dearest honey, Thy company is better farre than money. Kind Mistresse I am your debtor, And hang me if I prove a fleeter, I will remaine your deare and onely honey I love your company, and I love your money. I have five hundred pound, I know it, On thee my sweeting I will bestow it, Because I take thee as my dearest honey, Good company is better farre than money. It joyes my heart to heare your motion, Five hundred pounds is a good portion, I will remaine your onely sweet and honey, Yet I desire to see this summe of money. Then walke with me to yonder mountaine, Where money flowes like to a fountaine, Thou shalt not want for meanes my deerest hony Good company is better farre than money. Then let us goe as thou hast spoken, Ile take thy favour as a token, I love thee as my deare, my sweet, my honey, Thy company is good and so is money.
Then let us now no longer tarry, But goe unto the Church and marry, Looke here is gold and silver store my honey, But company is better farre than money. Sweet heart, I freely yeeld unto it, The Priest and Clearke will quickely doe it: Yet there's no hast, my dearest honey, Thou hast my company and I thy money. For money thou shalt have it plentie, If thou lacke one pound, Ile fetch thee twenty, Because thou callest me thy dearest honey, Good company is better farre than money. Oh that is spoken very kindly, I know thy minde, Ile fit thee finely, I will continue still thy dearest honey, I love thee well, and so I doe thy money. My Boy, Ile have thee of the fashion, It will be for thy commendation. Thou shalt have gallant sutes, my dearest honey, And with the bravest thou shalt spend thy mony. Sweet heart I want a gallant Gelding, That to my pleasure may be yeelding, And with the bravest he, Ile roare and swagger, So long untill I cannot goe but stagger.
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T Hou shalt have what thou wilt require, For to fulfill thy hearts desire, Thou shalt not want for any thing my honey, Good company is better farre than money. Now I must here declare my Ditty, To all, both Countrey, Towne, and Citie, Of a youngman and his deare onely honey, And how he spent away his Lasses money. Give roome, here comes our new sprung gallant For to devoure his wenches talant, He having got the treasure of his honey, He bravely fals to spending of her money. Come Vintner bring's both Sacke and Claret, And for the rest I will not spare it, I have a Lasse that cals me her deare honey, She loves my company and I love her money. Come on my Blades, be blith, and merry, Wee'l have a quart or two of Sherry, Drinke round about and I will pledge my hony Because she'llowes me alwaies store of money. Thus he continues in his pleasure, And she repents her selfe at leasure, Her treasure being wasted on her honey, She wish'd that she had wisely kept her money.
His company she now repenteth, And to some other she relenteth, Complayning alwayes of her dearest honey, And sayes that shee hath spent away her money. Nay more she sayes, he stole a Jewell, And for the same she holds him cruell, Her mayden-head departed with her money, Thus was she coozened with her onely honey. He gave her earnest on condition, But it is now a great suspicion, That she doth now repent her former bargaine Her belly is a token of regarding. All you that doe delight in pleasure, You see what followeth at leasure, This youngman coozened his dearest honey, Thus company doth cause the want of money. And thus to end my merry Dittie, Here's many Lasses in Towne and Citie, That do complaine likewise of their sweet hony, And say they lost their company and money. All you yong Maydes, by me be warned, Lest you [by] false youngmen be harmed Be careful in the choosing of your honey, Unlesse you [l]ose your mayden-heads and mony.
London, Printed for Henry Gosson. Finis.