%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The witty VVesterne Lasse. / OR / You maids that with your friends whole nights haue spent / Beware of back-fallings; for feare of the event. Guy, Robert University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1631 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/07/2008 20144

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1.304-305 S126244 1 the begger boy The Beggar Boy The Beggar Boy SWeet Lucina, lend me thy ayde, / thou art my helper, and no other, I feare I shall dye, / alacke, and welly. [with variations; not cols 1-2: stanzas 1 and 4] SOme tradsman there I will deceiue, / by my modesty and cariage I feare I shall dye, / alacke, and welly. [with variations] Pepys 1.304-305 STC 12547.9 [M. Flesher] for F. Coles [1631?]; Rollins (2) 2979 (Sept. 5, 1631, IV, 260, Fran. Coles & partners); Rollins (2) ?2905 (Jan. 16, 1640, IV, 295, Henry Gosson). Woodblock 1: first 1/2 sheet, over column 1 : A lady stands facing towards her right. In her right hand, she holds a large feather fan (or a branch?). The lady wears a large stiff ruff and a necklace or chain. Her full skirt (supported by a french farthingale?) and the front of her dress is decorated with a row of large flowers. : 78 x 56 Woodblock 2: first 1/2 sheet, over column 2: A bearded gentleman with a decorated cape or cloak draped over his shoulders faces to his right. He wears a wide-brimmed hat with a feather, and has a sword sheath appearing below his cape. His hose are tied with ribbon garters, and he wears low shoes. His left arm is held out behind him, and his right hand emerges from the neckline of his cloak. Behind him, two plants are visible.: 74 x 50 Woodblock 3: second 1/2 sheet, over column 3: A bearded man stands with his right hand on his hip. He is dressed in a doublet, slops, hose, boots, and wears a hat with plumes and a brim. A cloak over his left shoulder conceals his left arm and hangs behind him. His doublet has a broad collar, and projecting shoulders. He wears a sword belt and stands on uneven terrain .: 80 x 63 Woodblock 4: second 1/2 sheet, over column 4: A lady stands facing towards her right. She holds her right hand extended. The lady wears a large stiff ruff and a necklace or chain. Her full skirt (supported by a french farthingale?) and the front of her dress is decorated with a row of large flowers. : 81 x 57 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: 304 1: 305 The witty VVesterne Lasse. / OR / You maids that with your friends whole nights haue spent / Beware of back-fallings; for feare of the event. The witty Westerne Lasse. OR You maids that with your friends whole nights have spent Beware of back-fallings; for feare of the event. The Witty Western Lass. Or You Maids That with Your Friends Whole Nights Have Spent Beware of Back-fallings; for Feare of the Event. The second part, The second part, The Second Part, Guy, Robert 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 248 x 140 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 248 x 146 cropped bottom edge, creased, damaged surface, uneven inking cropped top and bottom edges, damaged surface, uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons 1631 London printed for F. Coles. F.Coles Weinstein: licensing info

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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 6/7/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant family/procreation infidelity sex/sexuality trickery/deceit vice 6/7/2008 Checker Charlotte Becker transcription checked, metadata updated, XML 7/24/2007 Checker Eugene Hart Ballad Checked 2005 Transcriber Megan Arch Ballad Transcribed 7/21/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The witty Westerne Lasse.</hi></seg> <seg n="2" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">OR</hi></seg> <seg n="3" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">You maids that with your friends whole nights have spent</hi></seg> <seg n="4" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">Beware of back-fallings; for feare of the event.</hi></seg> <seg n="5" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">To the tune called, The begger boy.</hi></seg>
SWeet Lucina, lend me thy ayde, thou art my helper, and no other, Pitty the state of a Teeming maide, that never was wife, yet must be a mother By my presage it should be a boy, that thus lyes tumbling in my belly, Yeild me some ease to cure my anoy, and list to the griefes I now shall tell ye. I was beloved every where, And much admired for my beauty, Young men thought they happy were, who best to me could shew their duty, But now alacke, paind in my back, and cruell griping in my belly, Doe force me to cry, O sicke am I, I feare I shall dye, alacke, and welly. In stead of mirth now may I weepe, and sadly for to sit lamenting, Since he I loved, no faith doth keepe, nor seekes no meanes for my contenting, But all regardlesse of my mone, or that lyes tumbling in my belly, And into Swethland now is gone, he left me to cry, alacke, and welly.
It doth the Proverbe verifie, folly were it to complaine me, Those that desired my company, scornfully now disdaine me, Wanting his sight, was my delight, and cruel gripings in my belly, Doe force me to cry, O sicke am I, I feare I shall die, alacke, and welly. Thus am I to the world a scorne. my dearest friends will not come nie me, Shall I then for his absence mourne, that for his dearest doth denie me, No, no, I will not do so, with patience I my griefe will smother, And as he hath cozened me so will I by cunning gull another. Incontinent to Troy nouant, for my content, Ile thither hie me, Where privately, from company, obscurely Ile lye where none shall discry me, And when I am eased of my paine, and cruell gripings in my belly, I for a maid will passe againe, and need not to cry alacke, and welly.
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The second part, To the same tune.</hi></seg>
SOme tradsman there I will deceive, by my modesty and cariage And I will so my selfe behave, as by some tricke to get a mariage, And when I am maried, I will so carry it, as none shall know it by my belly, That ever I have formerly had cause to cry, alacke and welly. And if he be a husband kind Ile true and constant be unto him, Obedient still he shall me find, with good respect Ile dutie owe him. But if he crabbed be, and crosse, and basely beat me backe and belly, As Vulcans Knight, Ile fit him right, and scorne to cry alacke and welly. A secret friend Ile keepe in store. for my content and delectation, And now and then in the Taverne rose, with joviall Gallants men of fashion, Sacke, or Claret, I will call for it, Ile scorne to want or pinch my belly, But merry wil be in company, no more will I cry and alacke welly.
And if I cannot to my minde a husband get that will maintaine me, Ile shew my selfe to each man kinde, in hope that it some love will gaine me. But yet so wary I will be, Ile shun from ought that may wrong my belly Through misery, to cause me cry, as formerly alacke and welly. Had he I loved but constant proved, and not have beene to me deceitful. No subtil Sinon should have moved me to those courses hateful. But since he proves false so to me, not pittying that is in my belly, No more I wil grieve, but merry wil be, and cry no more alacke and welly. With resolution firmely bent, Ile cast off care and melancholy Sorrow and griefe, and discontent, to fret and vex it is but a folly, Or seeke by woe to overthrow, or wrong the first fruits of my belly, No, no, no, Ile not doe so, no more I will crie, alacke and welly.
FINIS. Robert Guy. London printed for F Coles.