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1.380-381 S5115 2 Where is my true Loue Where is My True Love the same Tune the Same Tune YOu Batchelors that braue it / So gallant in the street, Behold me a married yong man. [with variations] ALacke wherefore lament you, / your happy wedded state? Now you are a married young man. [with variations] Pepys 1.380-381 STC 15186.5 A. M[athewes c.1630] Woodblock 1: below title, between cast fleurons, centered above columns one and two: An ornately dressed woman stands facing forward with her left hand placed by her hip and her right hand holding a feather fan that dangles by her right hip. She wears a gown with a wide skirt and her dress has a high, ornate ruff or collar. She wears her hair up and a hat with a brim, and the bodice of her gown is cut away between collar, sleeves, and ribcage to reveal her bare breasts and nipples.: 90 x 53 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: 380 1: 381 The Lamentation of a new married man, briefely declaring the / sorrow and griefe that comes by marrying a young wanton wife. The Lamentation of a new married man, briefely declaring the sorrow and griefe that comes by marrying a young wanton wife. The Lamentation of a New Married Man, Briefly Declaring the Sorrow and Grief That Comes by Marrying a Young Wanton Wife. The second Part to the same Tune. / An answere sent to the young marryed Man, / Written most friendly by his gentle Wife Nan. The second Part to the same Tune. An answere sent to the young marryed Man, Written most friendly by his gentle Wife Nan. The Second Part to the Same Tune. An Answer Sent to the Young Married Man, Written Most Friendly by His Gentle Wife Nan. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 277 x 135 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 277 x 177 cropped bottom edge, creased, damaged surface, uneven inking cropped right edge, torn, uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons Printer A. M. 1630 London printed by A. M. Weinstein: STC initials

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YOu Batchelors that brave it So gallant in the street, With Muske and with Rose-water, Smelling all so sweet: With Shooes of Spanish leather, So featly to your feete, Behold me a married yong man. Before that I was wedded, I lived in delight, I went unto the dancing Schoole, I learn'd at Fence to fight: With twenty other pleasures, That now are banisht quite, I being a married young man. When I lived single, I knew no cause of strife, I had my heart in quiet, I led a pleasant life: But now my chiefest study Is how to please my Wife, I being a yong married man. Quoth she, You doe not love me, To leave me all alone, You must goe a gadding, And I must bide at home, While you among your Minions, Spend more then is your owne: This life leades a married man. Do you thinke to keepe me So like a drudge each day, To toyle and moyle so sadly, And la[m]e me everyway? Ile have a mayd, bir Lady, Shall worke while I doe play, This life leades a married man. Then must I give attendance Upon my Mistresse heeles: I must wait before her, While she doth walke the Fields. Shee'l eate no meate but Lobsters, And pretty Grigs and Eeles: This life, etc. Then must I get her Cheries, And dainty Kather'n Peares: And then she longs for Codlings, She breedeth Child she sweares: When God knowes tis a Cushion That she about her beares: This life, etc. She must have Rabbet suckers, Without spot or specke: I must buy her Pescods At sixteene groates the Pecke: She must have Egs and white wine, To wash her face and necke: T[h]is life leades a married man.
If once to passe it commeth, That she is brought to bed, Why then with many dainties She must be dayly fed: A hundred toyes and trifles Comes then within her head: This life, etc. Against that she is Churched, A new Gowne she must have: A dainty fine Rebato About her necke so brave: French bodies, with a Farthingale, She never linnes to crave, This life, etc. Abroad among her Gossips Then must she dayly goe: Requesting of this favour, A man must not say no, Lest that an unkind quarrell About this matter grow: This life, etc. To Offerings and Weddings, Abroad then she must prance, Whereas with lusty Youngsters This gallant Dame must dance: Her Husband must say nothing, What hap soever chance: This life, etc. And then there is no remedy, She must goe to a Play, To purge abounding Choller, And drive sad dumps away: She tarries out till midnight, She sweares she will not stay: This life, etc. When home at last she commeth, To bed shee gets her soone, And there she sleepes full soundly, Till the next day at noone, Then must she eate a Cawdle With a silver spoone: This life, etc. Therefore my friends be warned, You that unwedded be, The troubles of a married man You doe most plainely see, Who likes not of his living, Would he would change with me, That now am a married man. Where I was wont full often Good company to keepe, Now I must rocke the Cradle, And hush the Childe asleepe: I had no time nor l[e]asure Out of my doores to p[ee]pe, Since I was a married young man.
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ALacke wherefore lament you, your happy wedded state? Therein you shew great folly, repentance comes to late. To make your selfe a mocking-stock, with every scoffing mate, Now you are a married young man. In youth, doe well remember, your mind was all on pride: Deceiving sport and pleasure, your lavish thoughts did guide: 'Tis time such foolish fancies should now be layd aside, Now you are etc. When you lived single, your time you vainely spent: Unto unlawfull pastime, your yongling wits were bent: But now you must learne wisdome, discredit to prevent: Sith you are, etc. An alas to estimation, longs to a single life: What were you but a skip Jacke, before you had a wife, A mate for every mad-cap, a stirrer up of strife, Till you were a married young man. A Wife hath won you credit, a wife makes you esteem'd. An honest man through marriage, now are you surely deem'd,
And you shall find at all times, a wife your dearest friend, Now you are etc. Then is it right and reason, your wife should pleased be: It is a happy houshold, where couples doe agree: It doth delight the Angels, such concord for to see, Then blest is the maried young man. If I doe blame your gadding, it is for love be sure: Bad company doth alwayes ill counsell still procure. The man that will be thrifty, must at his worke endure, While he is a married young man. This works his Commendations, amongst the very best: The chiefe men of the Parish, his quaintance will request: And then he shall be called to office with the rest, When he is a married young man. He shall be made a Headborough, unto his credit great, At what time all neighbours, his friendship will intreat, And then it is most decent, he should goe fine and neate, When he is a married young man.
Then bareheaded unto him, a number dayly flocks: To helpe him by his office, from many stumbling blocks: Then comes he to be Constable, and set knaves in the stocks: Thus riseth a married young man. His wife shall then be seated in Church at her desire, Her Husband he is sideman, and sits within the Quire, Then he is made Churchwarden, and placed somewhat higher: Great joy to a married young man. Then seeing all this credit by marriage you doe finde, Unto your wife tis reason, you should be good and kinde: And sometimes waite upon her, according to her minde: As best fits a married young man. If freindly you goe with her to walke out of the Towne, Why then you may have pleasure, to give her a greene Gowne: To have so great a favour, some men would give a crowne, Which is not a married young man As for the Peares and Apples; you give me in the street, The Cheries or the Codlings, for pretty women meet, At night I give you kindly a thousand kisses sweet: Great joy to a married yong man. An hundred other pleasures, I doe you then betide: In bringing forth your Children, great sorrow I doe bide. For twenty Gownes and Kirtles, the like would not be tride, By any fine yong married man. Why should you scorne the Cradle, I tell you sir most plaine, There is not any pleasure, but sometimes breedeth paine. If you will not be troubled, why then good sir refraine To play like a married young man.
FINIS. London printed by A.M.