%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The cunning Age./ OR/ A re-married Woman repenting her Marriage,/ Rehearsing her Husbands dishonest carriage./ Being a pleasant Dialogue between a re-married Woman, a Widdow, and a young Wife. Cart, John University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1625 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/01/2007 20194

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1.412-413 S1854 1 The Wiuing Age Whoop! Do me no harm good man The Wiving Age Good morrow, kind Gossip, why whither so fast?/ I pray stay a while, I know ther's no haste, O this is a hasty Age,/ O this is a hasty Age. [with variations] BUt stay, who comes yonder? 'tis well ye I tarry'd:/ My kinswoman Katherin, she lately was mary'd, Oh fie on this coozening Age,/ O fie on this, &c. [with variations] Pepys 1.412-413 STC 4687 [G. Purslowe] for J. Trundle [c.1625] (Ass'd by M. Trundle to the ballad partners 1 jn. 1629); Rollins (2) 451 (June 1, 1629, IV, 213). Woodblock 1: below title, above first column, to right of cast fleuron: 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.: 82 x 44 Woodblock 2: below title, above second column, to left of cast fleuron: A lady stands with her body facing forward and her head looking to her right. In her right hand, she holds a large feather fan. The lady wears a stiff ruff and a necklace or chain. Her full skirt and the front of her dress are decorated with a row of large flowers. : 81 x 53 Woodblock 3: below title, between cast fleurons, above first 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 43 Woodblock 4: below title, between cast fleurons, above second column: A very well-dressed lady, noblewoman, or queen, wears an ornate, very highly decorated dress, with different patterns for her overskirt and underskirt. She has an elaborate stomacher and very elaborate puffed sleeves. She wears around her neck an elaborate ruff and holds in her right hand a scepter and in her left hand an orb or other round object. On her head she wears an elaborate headpiece, possibly a crown, out of which rise several large, long plumes or feathers. : 83 x 48 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: 412 1: 413 The cunning Age./ OR/ A re-married Woman repenting her Marriage,/ Rehearsing her Husbands dishonest carriage./ Being a pleasant Dialogue between a re-married Woman, a Widdow, and a young Wife. The cunning Age. OR A re-married Woman repenting her Marriage, Rehearsing her Husbands dishonest carriage. Being a pleasant Dialogue between a re-married Woman, a Widdow, and a young Wife. The Cunning Age. Or a Remarried Woman Repenting Her Marriage, Rehearsing Her Husband's Dishonest Carriage. Being a Pleasant Dialogue between a Remarried Woman, a Widow, and a Young Wife. The Second Part. The Second Part. The Second Part. Cart, John 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 270 x 168 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 272 x 173 cropped right edge, uneven inking uneven inking vertical rules and cast fleurons vertical rules and cast fleurons 1625 Printed at London for Iohn Trundle. John Trundle 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 9/1/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Marriage advice marriage trickery/deceit 9/1/2007 Checker Jessica C. Murphy rechecked transcription, still cannot figure out that word in column 4 (hetroclite?), updated metadata, ESTC ID entered from bl.uk 7/23/2007 Checker Katy Trumbull Ballad Checked, xml created 6/15/2006 Transcriber Jessica C. Murphy Original Transcription 8/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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Widdow. G ood morrow, kind Gossip, why whither so fast? I pray stay a while, I know ther's no haste, And let's chat a while of some things that are past; I heare say y'are married since I saw you last; O this is a hasty Age, O this is a hasty Age . Mar. Woman. 'Tis true, I am marry'd, which hath beene my bane, But if that I were now a Widdow againe, I so would continue; but griefe is in vaine, I must be contented to sing this sad straine, Oh fie on this coozening Age, Oh fie on this etc. Wid. Oh, doe you so quickly your bargaine repent, And yet you thought long e're about it you went? If marriage bring trouble, in time Ile prevent All future unquietnesse, and be content To shun such a coozening Age, To shun etc. Mar. Wo. Oh, woe is me, Gossip, that e're I was borne, I marry'd a Boy, that now holds me in scorne, He romes among Whoores both evening and morne, While I sit at home, like a creature forlorne. Oh, this is a coozening Age, Oh, etc. Wid. Oh, who would imagine that such a young Lad, That scarce was worth twelve pence with al that he had, Should wed a rich woman, and use her so bad? I trust I shall never be so doting mad, To match in this coozening Age, etc.
Mar. Wo. The griefe that I suffer can hardly be told, Among Whores and Knaves he consumeth my gold, And if I reproove him, he tels me I scold, I dare not dispose of mine owne as I would. Oh fie on this doting Age, Oh fie on the doting Age. Wid. Well, by your example I warning will take, With no Skip-jacke boy a match I will make; Two Sutors I have, but I both will forsake, For some that are fond, as they brew let them bake; I'le take heed of this cunning Age, I'le take heed of this cunning Age. Mar. Wo. Well, doe so, good Gossip, and so Fare you well, My goodly new husband will curse me to hell: Old John, (God be with him) my neighbours can tell, Did never in's life give me mouthfull of ill. Oh fie on this doting Age, Oh fie on this doting Age. Wid. There is an old Proverbe, that oft hath bin try'd, Set a Beggar on horse-back, to'th Gallowes heel ride; So, wed a young Boy, hee's so puft up with pride, They'l marry rich Widdowes, to scoffe and deride. Oh this is a coozening Age, O this is a coozening Age.
FINIS. John Cart.
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Married Woman. B Ut stay, who comes yonder? 'tis well that I tarry'd: My kinswoman Katherin , she lately was mary'd, Shee had better gone to the Church to be bury'd, With her now, I doubt, things are otherwise carryd, She curseth this coozening Age, She curseth this coozening Age. Young Wife. What Cousin and neighbour, are you met together? 'Tis well that I hapned so luckily hither, I long have desired to talke with you either; Come, stand not i'th street, let's go travel somwhither Oh fie on this coozening Age, Oh fie on this etc. Both to the young Wife. Well, how dost thou like of thy Husband, good Kate ? We heare of a certaine th'art marry'd of late With a wealthy old widdower, to better thy state, Who loves thee as deare as the Turtle his mate: That's rare in this coozening Age, That's rare etc. Yong Wife. Oh woe is me, Cousin that ever 'twas done, A beggarly slave my affection hath wonne; He brag'd of his riches, whereof he had none, But five little Children, foure Girles, and a Sonne, Oh fie on this coozennig Age, Oh fie on this etc. When he came a wooing, he borrow'd a Cloake, And Rings to his fingers, my love to provoke; The divell a word of his Children he spoke, But now we are marry'd, I find that hee's broke, Oh fie on this coozening Age, Oh fie on this etc. Besides, hee's so jelous, that if I but looke On any Yong-man, hee'l be sworne on a booke, That I make him Cuckold by hooke or by crooke; This doting suspition no woman can brooke. Oh fie on this doting Age, etc.
Mar. Wom. It seemes then, good Kate, we are both alike sped, Ill fortune had we, with such Husbands to wed: For if all be true that heere thou hast sed, I would either we, or our Husbands were dead. Oh fie on this coozening Age, Oh fie on this coozening Age. Wid. Your speeches will make me still willing to tarry, Sith Widdowes and Batchelors both doe miscarry; Yet 'tis said in London , that when we doe bury Our Husbands, next moneth we are ready to marry: Oh this is a lying Age, Oh this is etc. Nay more, to abash us, the Poets o'th times, Doe blazon us forth in their Ballads and Rimes, With bitter invective satyricall lines, As though we had done some notorious crimes. Oh this is a scandalous Age. Oh this is etc. I would I the Poet could get in my clutches, He were better write ballads against the Arch-dutches: There is one moe ballad that sorely us touches, The hetro[?] Singer, that goes upon Crutches, Doth roare out the Wiving Age, Doth roare out etc. But 'tis no great matter, let Knaves say their worst, And swell with foule envy until they doe burst. I keepe you so long, I shall make you be curst, I could find in heart to stay still, if you durst: Oh now comes the parting Age, Oh now comes the parting Age.
FINIS.
Printed at London for John Trundle .