%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Man's Felicity and Misery:/ Which is a good wife and a bad: or the best and the worst discours'd in/ a Dialogue betweene Edmund and Dauid. Parker, Martin University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1632 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/11/2008 20182

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1.392-393 S125328 1 I have for all good wives a song I Have for All Good Wives a Song KInd Cozen Dauid, prethee stay,/ Good newes to thee I will bewray, I haue the best wife that euer had man. [with variations] MY wife so cleanely is and neat,/ She adds a goodnesse to my meat, another edition at 4.91 Pepys 1.392-393 STC 19253 for F. Groue [1632]; Rollins (2) 1657 (July 16, 1632, IV, 281, Fran. Grove); Rollins (2) ?1671 (Mch. 20, 1638, IV, 412, Fran. Grove); Rollins (2) 1658 (Mch. 1, 1675, ii, 499). Woodblock 1: first 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 1: A bearded man stands with his right hand on his hip. He is dressed in a doublet with buttons, slops, ruff, hose, boots with spurs, and wears a hat with plumes and a brim. A cloak over his left shoulder conceals his left elbow and hangs behind him. He wears a sword belt and holds his left hand to his chest.: 85 x 66 Woodblock 2: first 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 2: A bearded aristocratic man stands with his hand extended. He wears a narrow brim with a plume, a cloak, a baldric, a doublet or jerkin, short breeches, hose and low shoes. He carries a dagger and sword on his hips.: 80 x 61 Woodblock 3: second 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 3 : 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. Her dark overskirt is elaborately decorated. : 82 x 53 Woodblock 4: second 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 4: An elderly aristocratic woman stands with her right arm extended. She wears a hat, a dress with full sleeves, decorated with stripes, and a tall necked underdress. : 83 x 46 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: 392 Man's Felicity and Misery:/ Which is a good wife and a bad: or the best and the worst discours'd in/ a Dialogue betweene Edmund and Dauid. Man's Felicity and Misery: Which is a good wife and a bad: or the best and the worst discours'd in a Dialogue betweene Edmund and David. Man's Felicity and Misery: Which Is a Good Wife and a Bad: or the Best and the Worst Discoursed in a Dialogue Between Edmund and David. The second part. The second part. The Second Part. Parker, Martin 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 274 x 150 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 276 x 150 torn bottom right corner, damaged surface cropped top edge, damaged surface cast fleurons cast fleurons 1632 London, Printed for F. Groue. F. Groue Weinstein: licensing info

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Edmund. KInd Cozen David, prethee stay, Good newes to thee I will bewray, Since last I saw thee I am married, Now things with me are better carried, I dare say that which few men can, I have the best wife that ever had man. David. I am right joyfull Cozen Ned, To heare that thou so well art sped, As thou maist thy good fortune blesse, I may curse thy unhappinesse: My torments none on earth can scan, I have the worst wife that ever had man. Edmund. My Wife for beauty beares the name, From all ith'Town from whence she came, For shape shee might a Lady be; And so all say that doe her see; Her middle I can easily span, Shee is the best Wife that e're had man. David. My wife so loathsome is to view, Shee every morning makes me spew, For person, Shee's scarce good enough To cry, Maids ha'ye any Kitchin-stuffe: She shineth like a Drippingpan, Oh she's the worst wife that ever had man. Edmund. My Wife is affable and meeke, To please my fancy shee doth seeke, My humour shee will never thwart, But does my will with all her heart, Wee use no words but Ned and Nan, Shee is the best Wife that ever had man.
David. My wife is obstinate and froward, Shee's sullen, peevish and untoward; Shee's glad at heart when she can finde Occasion to molest my minde; Shee'l have her will doe what I can, Oh she's the worst wife that ever had man. Edmund. My wife is carefull of her charge, She never romes abroad at large, Her businesse shee will ne're neglect, But brings all things to good effect; Shee's to her Babes a Pelican, O she's the best wife that ere had man. David. My wife among her gossips doth gad, As though nothing to doe she had, The children goe undrest all day, Unlesse I put on their aray: I'm faine to make what shift I can, For she's the worst wife that ever had man. Edmund. My wife's for constant chastity, Like Lucrece or Penelope: She is so wary in her carriage, That if a kisse would wrong her marriage, No one should get that favour than, For she's the best wife that ever had man. David. My wife is full of merry trickes, Shee hath been naught with five or sixe, If she can get me out o'th doore, Ere I returne shee'l play the whore, Shee'l say though I cant others can, Oh shee's the worst wife that ere had ma[n.]
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The second part. To the same tune:</hi></seg>
Edmund. MY wife so cleanely is and neat, She adds a goodnesse to my meat, I eat when I no stomacke have, Because tis done as I doe crave; In sicknesse she is my Physitian, For shee's the best wife that ere had man. David. My wife is such a beastly Slut, Unlesse it be an Egge or a Nut, I in the house dare nothing eat, For feare there's poyson in the meat, The Dogs doe licke both Dish and Pan, Oh she's the worst wife that ever had man. Edmund. My wife will weare no yellow hose, No wench can make her swell ith'nose, Shee knowes that I to her am just, And in my faith shee puts her trust; Sheele not be vext say what I can, For shee's the best wife that ever had man. David. If I upon a woman looke, My wife will sweare upon a booke, That she is certainly my whore, Though I nere saw the woman before. Shee'l claw her eyes out if she can, Oh she's the worst wife that ever had man. Edmund. My wife will never follow me, Goe where I will, at home stayes she, Though I from Morn till night doe rome, She smiling bids mee welcome home, This makes me haste home to my Nan, For shee's the best wife that ere had man. David. If I unto the Alehouse goe, To drinke a Jug of beere or so, Though nere so fast I thither hye,
My wife is there as soone as I; At me and my friends shee'l curse and ban, For she's the worst wife that ere had man. Edmund. If any friend comes home to me, My wife gives entertainment free, But out oth'doores she will not stirre, Unlesse I goe along with her, Shee scrapes and saves what ere she can, Oh she's the best wife that ere had man. David. My wife will at the Alehouse sit, And wast away both money and wit; Nay rather than shee'l liquor lacke, Shee'l sell the smocke from off her backe, Shee'l steale from me all that she can, Oh she's the worst wife that ere had man. Edmund. Kind Cozen David I am very sorry, To heare thee tell so sad a story, Marriage and hanging now I see, Goes, as they say, by destiny, I would thou couldst say as I can, I have the best wife that ever had man. David. I thanke you Cozen for your good will, Long may your blisse continue still, My crosse I must with patience beare, Till God or the Divell end my care. And thus I end as I began, I have the worst wife that ere had man. Author. You wives who have heard this discourse, Now shew who's better and who is worse, The best will freely buy this Song, The worst will shew she hath a tongue, The head's soone broken that is scald, And Jades will kicke if they be gall'd.
FINIS. M.P.
London, Printed for F. Grove.